Medicine

Scholars exploring the history of science under the Nazis have generally concentrated on the Nazi destruction of science or the corruption of intel...

Any woman who has been examined by a gynecologist could tell Descartes a thing or two about the mind/body problem. Is her body an object? Is it the...

A mere "symbol" of medicine--the sugar pill, saline injection, doctor in a white lab coat--the placebo nonetheless sometimes produces "real" result...

Medicine in the twenty-first century will be very different from the medicine of today; scientific, technological, economic, and ethical conditions...

"Could I be sued?" The exploding number of malpractice lawsuits in recent years has brought this question to the mind of every clinician---the cons...

From about 1850, American women physicians won gradual acceptance from male colleagues and the general public, primarily as caregivers to women and...

Surgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. The combat with death is carried out in the operating room, where the intrepid su...

In April of 1979 the city of Sverdlovsk in Russia's Ural Mountains was struck by a frightening anthrax epidemic. Official Soviet documents reported...

In the latter part of the nineteenth century, women, who had hitherto been barred from medical schools, were gradually granted the freedom to study...

A case-focused Otolaryngology primer for trainees and practicing clinicians alike As disorders of the head and neck continue to become more prevale...

Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the pote...

This book offers individuals with a life-challenging condition an alternative to traditional healing methods. This is the definitive handbook for b...

As more therapists consider using coaching skills to diversify their practices, the need for information and advice from those who have successfull...

Science and the Quiet Art describes the experiments and the experimenters, shows how the tools of science have been applied to the study of disease...

"Rafael Campo is that rare and exotic hybrid," raved the Boston Globe, "a doctor-poet, with a sensualist point of view that leads him to explore......

The outcome of ten years' work, this book is a carefully planned study of brain dominance, aphasia, and other speech disturbances, and includes a d...

Professors Furley and Wilkie have provided a newly edited Greek text and a complete English translation with commentary of four of Galen's physiolo...

Why was there a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant? Why do some people get cancer and not others? Why is global warming happening? Why does one ...

American health care is in crisis because of exploding medical malpractice litigation. Insurance premiums for doctors and malpractice lawsuits are ...

The Family Nurse Practitioner provides essential guidance and information for understanding how to diagnose and manage typical (and some atypical) ...

The single most important public health problem facing physicians today may be the failure of patients to follow their prescribed treatment regimen...