Amputation
The common causes of gangrene, plus how to prevent and treat it Gangrene is often associated with World War I soldiers and surgery patients in the days before antibiotics. It's still around today, although modern medicine means 21st-century ... [... more]
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Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. González-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of modern medicine. While this illuminating work mainly ... [... more]
Random House |
Harris Coulter
The Origins of Modern Medicine: J. B. Van Helmont to Claude Bernard The Conflict Between Homeopathy and the American Medical Association AIDS and Syphilis . . . the Hidden Link Hardcover, 132 pages Divided Legacy, Volume I The Patterns Emerge ... [... more]
Random House |
David Macey
When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher since the end of World War II. His powerful studies of the creation of modern medicine, prisons, psychiatry, and other methods ... [... more]
Random House |
Elizbeth Cohen Van Pelt
The first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing. A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord's struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation ... [... more]
Random House |
Wendy Moore
The vivid, often gruesome portrait of the 18th century pioneering surgeon and father of modern medicine, John Hunter. In the gothic horror story, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the house of the genial doctor turned fiend is reputedly based on the home of ... [... more]
Random House |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
If you fall into the gray zone between health and disease but your physician can't find anything wrong ... if you have an illness for which modern medicine can offer no cure ... if your medical treatments are "working," but you still don't feel [... more]
Random House |
Wayne Biddle
From the ravages of the Ebola virus in Zaire to outbreaks of pneumonic plague in India and drug-resistant TB in New York City, contagious diseases are fighting back against once-unconquerable modern medicine. Public concern about infectious ... [... more]
Random House |
Jeanne Achterberg
Combining the practices of the earliest healers with the latest data from modern medicine, this comprehensive work shows how the systematic use of mental imagery can help patients through painful events. click for more> Jeanne Achterberg and ... [... more]
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