Clinical & Internal Medicine

For those with any form of liver disease, this concise, practical guide from a trusted expert will help you take care of your liver and your health...

For those with any form of liver disease, this concise, practical guide from a trusted expert will help you take care of your liver and your health...

From time to time in the field of healthcare, an exciting new development emerges to challenge and potentially transform thinking and behaviour. Th...

Histoplasmosis is a fungal disease that is widely endemic in much of the world. In the central United States, including the broad reaches of the Oh...

This authoritative work provides a thorough overview of the COVID-19 pandemic that swept the globe in 2020, devoting particular attention to its im...

Highlighting American cultural and political contexts, this book provides an in-depth assessment of the breadth and magnitude of the United States'...

In 1882, Robert Koch discovered the TB bacillus, signaling a redirection of medical thinking from the trial and error guesswork of individual exper...

The conquest of scurvy by James Cook during his three famous circumnavigations of 1768-1780 was a product of Cook's character, of his leadership, a...

For the first time, the sad story of America's uranium miners and the duplicity of our government is revealed. This expert study examines, in micro...

This collection of translations of some of Koch's important essays represents an important first. It includes three of his essays on anthrax, three...

Now completely revised and updated! The ultimate guide to taking care of your feet.Written by leading experts with decades of experience in podiatr...

Now completely revised and updated! The ultimate guide to taking care of your feet.Written by leading experts with decades of experience in podiatr...

Antiblackness and Global Health offers a major new account of the 2014-2016 West African Ebola crisis and a radical perspective on the racial polit...

In 2013, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, Myositis. My immune system had suddenly turned on me and was attacking all my muscles, it was ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

Diseases of the heart are the leading cause of death in the Western world. Health professionals and the general public alike eagerly watch advances...

The authors explore the history of man's thoughts about hepatic structure, function, and disorders, both chronologically and thematically. The firs...

Media reports on environmental cancer are frequent and frightening. Public policy—and public spending—reflect widespread concern over the presence ...

This biography probes the unusual mind, the dramatic life, and the outstanding scientific work of Danish-born immunologist Niels Jerne (1911–1994)....

Why do we sleep? How much sleep do we really need? What causes sleep apnea, narcolepsy, and insomnia—and what can be done about these sleep disorde...

Millions of people—many of them younger than we care to believe—are living in the aftermath of a heart attack, and it is vital for them to learn ho...

Gout has fascinated medical writers and cultural commentators from the time of ancient Greece. Historically seen as a disease afflicting upper-clas...

Teddi Mervis lost her fight with cancer when she was 12 years old. Beginning with the diagnosis of her brain tumor, the story tells of her three-ye...

Written by a practicing ophthalmologist, this book explains the eye and how it develops and functions—or can malfunction, especially as we age—and ...

Presenting a cutting-edge theory for using humor in psychotherapy, counseling, and clinical intervention, this volume brings together a group of ou...

This multidisciplinary analysis links epidemiologic, cultural, social, and medical analyses of cancer prevention, detection, and care. The contribu...

This book is . . . a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected it...

This well-referenced volume is a unique and comprehensive resource for physicians, nurses, and other health professionals dealing with cardiovascul...

Sickle cell disease is a complex disease with a genetic mutation producing a wide variety of manifestations. It is of great public health importanc...

Richard B. Welbourn, a retired endocrine surgeon who has written two books on the subject, has compiled the definitive history of the new and advan...

Vaccines represent the greatest achievements of one area of science for increasing our health and well-being. This collection of papers represents ...

Hypoxia and Cold includes basic research, state-of-the-art technology and theory, practical applications, clinical problems and real-life situation...

A systematic approach to the role that the family can and should play in improving health care management. The concept of working with families tow...

Neoplasias (tumors) are uncontrolled and progressive new growths of tissue. Frequently physicians caring for patients with neoplastic diseases are ...

Syringobulbia offers neurologists a thorough discussion of the disease and the literature on it-- brought up to the present. In addition, the book ...

The increase in new medical technology and experimental treatments has made the study of medical ethics essential for practitioners on all levels. ...

Is cancer a systemic disease? Does regional nodal metastases instigate distant metastasis or promote failure at the primary site? These are just tw...

The presentation of new, emerging concepts of the pathogenesis and management of acute Myocardial Infarction is the unprecedented objective of this...

Written by a single author and authority in the field, The Clinical Marker hCG addresses several sensitive areas of clinical tests for the marker h...

Aspects of cancer and cancer therapies; long-term adjustments of renal donors and recipients; community life (including support facilities and home...

A cross-disciplinary approach to the complex problems of obesity.