Fasting-And Eating-For Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In March of 1999 my 40 year old wife was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. I had read Dr. Fuhrman's book a year before and remembered that this disease could be treated with fasting. I read the book again and then convinced my wife to read it. We were seeing a rheumatologist after the initial diagnosis...

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Eating Positive: A Nutrition Guide And Recipe Book for People With HIV/Aids (Haworth Medical Information Sources) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book quality shows in the variety of recipes for varing ailments though not limited to HIV infection. Unfortunately, it is not geared for island residents/living as the ingredients are not easily accessible here.Click Here to see more reviews about: Eating Positive: A Nutrition Guide And Recipe...

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The Irritable Heart: The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The book has some serious methodological flaws. Wheelwright has apparently chosen his subjects with care -- each winds up being dislikable, or is proven to be a liar. Wheelwright is disingenuous about his purposes, and condescends to the veterans in a coy way.When it comes to the evidence, he has already...

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Learning from Medical Errors: Clinical Problems Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Learning from Medical Errors is a concise overview with pointed advice and learning points by two physicians who have been on the 'front lines', and not from the 'Ivory tower' kind. Each case scenario leads you through the case, and the debriefs the clinician and then brings up actual cases from live...

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A Clinician's Guide to Medical and Surgical Abortion Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book fills an important gap in medical literature. It is a comprehensive review of modern abortion care. It is an essential book for every medical library and for every abortion provider.Click Here to see more reviews about: A Clinician's Guide to Medical and Surgical AbortionPresenting a comprehensive,...

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Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary: Typhus and Tunisia (Rochester Studies in Medical History) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The book is beautifully written, first of all. Dr. Pelis is able to do for medical biography what few others are able to and that is contextualize the person she's writing about not just in his own time and place but in his intellectual field as well (and the book contains an excellent history of the...

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Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Normal at any Cost is a cautionary tale of doctors' attempts to control children's height through medical intervention. For more than half a century, in order to curtail growth in tall girls and to enhance growth in short boys, doctors have resorted to unorthodox, unproven, poorly understood hormone...

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Inhuman Research: Medical Experiments in German Concentration Camps Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Alfred Pasternak's monumental work, "Inhuman Research" is an extraordinary accommplishment. The author has gleaned extremely difficult to obtain data on this sad period in human history, and has presented it very effectively: "shocking" is a masterpiece of understatement. Only someone who has either...

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Wants, Wishes, and Wills: A Medical and Legal Guide to Protecting Yourself and Your Family in Sickness and in Health Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)My mother-in-law lost her battle against ovarian cancer in December. If only my husband and I had this book when she was diagnosed! It contains so much helpful advice that could have made the past two years less of a nightmare. The book has great information on clinical trials and hospice. It also would...

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What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The obvious problem this author has is that if you have not given birth or are not thinking about it, you may not be that interested in the topic. Actually, Caton does quite a good job of showing how debates about use of anesthesia in childbirth tie in to larger cultural debates about medicine, progress,...

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Handbook of Microbiological Quality Control in Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices (Pharmaceutical Science Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Handbook of methods for microbiological quality control in pharmaceutical and medical devicesClick Here to see more reviews about: Handbook of Microbiological Quality Control in Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices (Pharmaceutical Science Series)Microbiologists working in both the pharmaceutical and medical...

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The Golden Wand of Medicine: A History of the Caduceus Symbol in Medicine (Contributions in Medical Studies) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Two serpents twined about a staff, the Caduceus, is now very widely accepted as the symbol of medicine. Dr Friedlander traced the provenance and evolution of the symbol back through the ancient mythologies in which it was born, disentangling its usage and the line of its development from that of the...

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Hospital Preparation for Bioterror: A Medical and Biomedical Systems Approach (Biomedical Engineering) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is simply one of the finest, thorough, and comprehensive collections to date for Hospital Preparedness for Bio-terrorism. A multitude of issues are discussed related to bio terrorism and how hospitals and disaster relief agencies SHOULD prepare. I am extremely glad that this information is...

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Curriculum Development for Medical Education: A Six-Step Approach Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Six step approach systematically guides the process of problem identification,needs assessment, writing goals and objectives, educational strategies, implementation process, and getting worthwhile evaluation and feedback. Based upon Johns Hopkins Internal Medicine model but substantial utility for all...

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Ludwik Hirszfeld: The Story of One Life (Rochester Studies in Medical History) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Where we come from and what drives us is a question that is asked often, but Hirszfeld did much to turn it into a science, among other things in his life "The Story of One Life: Ludwik Hirszfeld" is a republishing of the famed geneticist's autobiography with added content from editors Marta A. Balinska...

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Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy (Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"the contents and layout are excellent" -Professor Eric E. Klein, Washington University School of MedicineSee also: Adaptive Radiation Therapy (Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy)Click Here to see more reviews about: Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy (Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy)Get...

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Cancer in Dogs & Cats: Medical & Surgical Management Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I highly recommend this book for all veterinary students due to its thoroughness and most of all because it is current (or as current as one can be in the field of oncology). It reads well and provides a great number of well thought out illustrations and pictures.Plus, it highlights the major systems...

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