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Book Synopsis Doctors and Discoveries by : John Simmons
Download or read book Doctors and Discoveries written by John Simmons and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of western medicine through the lives of its major contributors, profiling such well-known figures as Hippocrates and Louis Pasteur, as well as lesser-known scientists including Elle Metchnikoff and Samuel Hahnemann.
Book Synopsis The Doctors Book of Food Remedies by : Selene Yeager
Download or read book The Doctors Book of Food Remedies written by Selene Yeager and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of tips to help you boost immunity, fight fatigue, ease arthritis, and protect your health.
Book Synopsis Happy Accidents by : Morton A. Meyers
Download or read book Happy Accidents written by Morton A. Meyers and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century.
Download or read book Doctors written by Sherwin B. Nuland and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way. How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.
Book Synopsis Accidental Medical Discoveries by : Robert W. Winters
Download or read book Accidental Medical Discoveries written by Robert W. Winters and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the world’s most important and life-saving devices and techniques were often discovered purely by accident. Serendipity, timing, and luck played a part in the discovery of unintentional cures and breakthroughs: A plastic shard in an RAF pilot’s eye leads to the use of plastic for contact lenses. The inability to remove a titanium chamber from rabbit’s bone leads to dental implants. Viagra was discovered by a group of chemists, working in the lab to find a new drug to alleviate the pain of angina pectoris. A stretch of five weeks of unusually warm weather in 1928 played a role in assisting Dr. Alexander Fleming in his analysis of bacterial growth and the discovery of penicillin. After studying the effects of the venom injected by the bite of a deadly pit viper snake, chemists developed a groundbreaking drug that works to control blood pressure. Accidental Medical Discoveries is an entertaining and enlightening look at the creation of 25 medical inventions that have changed the world – unintentionally. The book is presented in a lively and engaging way, and will appeal to a wide variety of readers, from history buffs to trivia fanatics to those in the medical profession.
Book Synopsis Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries by : Meyer Friedman
Download or read book Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries written by Meyer Friedman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1675, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, an unlearned haberdasher from Delft, placed a drop of rainwater under his microscope and detected thousands of tiny animals in it. Leeuwenhoek proceeded to examine the microscopic activity of his spittle, teeth plaque, and feces, and as the result of his findings the field of bacteriology was born. Some two hundred years later, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Wurzburg, invited his wife to his laboratory, asked her to place her hand on an unexposed photographic plate, turned on an electric current, and showed this terrified woman a picture of the bones of her hand. And so came the discovery of the X-ray. This absorbing book is the first to describe these and eight other monumental medical discoveries throughout history, bringing to life the scientific pioneers responsible for them and the excitement, frustrations, and jealousies that surrounded the final achievements. Two distinguished physicians, Meyer Friedman and Gerald W. Friedland, have drawn on their many years of experience as well as on that of world-renowned antiquarian book dealers, physician collectors of old and new medical publications, and medical school professors to single out these medical breakthroughs from thousands of candidates, and, in several cases, to provide information never before available. Their engrossing stories of the ten most significant discoveries will be read with enjoyment by anyone fascinated by the mysteries of medicine.
Book Synopsis Source Book of Medical History by : Logan Clendening
Download or read book Source Book of Medical History written by Logan Clendening and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1960-01-01 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred and twenty-four selections survey the outstanding writings and discoveries in all aspects of medicine
Download or read book Breakthrough! written by Jon Queijo and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are you alive right now? Chances are, you owe your life to one of the remarkable medical discoveries in this book. Maybe it was vaccines. Or antibiotics. Or X-rays. Revolutionary medical breakthroughs like these haven’t just changed the way we treat disease, they’ve transformed how we understand ourselves and the world we live in. In Breakthrough! How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World, Jon Queijo tells the hidden stories behind history’s most amazing medical discoveries. This isn’t dry history: These are life-and-death mysteries uncovered, tales of passionate, often-mocked individuals who stood their ground and were proven right. From germs to genetics, the ancient Hippocrates to the cutting edge, these are stories that have changed the world–and, quite likely, saved your life.
Book Synopsis The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) by : Sherwin B. Nuland
Download or read book The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) written by Sherwin B. Nuland and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative of one of the key turning points in medical history.
Book Synopsis How Doctors Think by : Jerome Groopman
Download or read book How Doctors Think written by Jerome Groopman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2008-03-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong—with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can—with our help—avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses. How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with some of the country’s best doctors, and his own experiences as a doctor and as a patient. He has learned many of the lessons in this book the hard way, from his own mistakes and from errors his doctors made in treating his own debilitating medical problems. How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.
Book Synopsis Not for Doctors Only by : James Wasco
Download or read book Not for Doctors Only written by James Wasco and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1980 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stories of the Discovery of Vitamins by : Kun Yan
Download or read book Stories of the Discovery of Vitamins written by Kun Yan and published by . This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to know how germs were discovered? Who found the first antibiotic? Who first described blood circulation? How scientists discovered DNA, and insulin, etc...? If you are curious, then read this series. These are some of the stories about the most important medical discoveries ever made, which have saved millions and millions of lives. These extraordinary discoveries are not a simple matter of luck or talent; they are the results of tenacious hard work and never-ending curiosity. Like Louis Pasteur said, "Chance favors only the prepared mind." There are still many medical mysteries awaiting you to solve. You, as a young doctor, can make a difference and can save more lives. This book is about the discovery of vitamins. It is also about young people just like yourselves, who never gave up.
Book Synopsis Accidental Medical Discoveries by : Robert W. Winters
Download or read book Accidental Medical Discoveries written by Robert W. Winters and published by . This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fascinating anecdotes about the role of serendipity in the discoveries of over thirty important modern medicines
Download or read book Medical Firsts written by Robert E. Adler and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of medical discoveries-from the ancient Greeks to the present "Always help, or at least do no harm." Following this simple yet revolutionary idea, Hippocrates laid the foundation for modern medicine over two millennia ago. From the Hippocratic Oath to the human genome, from Pasteur's germ theory to the worldwide eradication of smallpox, Medical Firsts brings to life 2,500 years of medical advances and discoveries. Organized chronologically, the book describes each milestone in a vivid capsule history, making it a fascinating and wonderfully readable resource for anyone interested in medicine's past progress and future promise. Robert E. Adler, PhD (Santa Rosa, CA) has worked as a psychologist and science journalist. He writes about a wide variety of scientific and medical topics for New Scientist, Nature, and other publications and is the author of Science Firsts (0-471-40174-9).
Book Synopsis On Becoming a Doctor by : Tania Heller
Download or read book On Becoming a Doctor written by Tania Heller and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful and candid guide unveils the truth about medical school, residency, and the fascinating realities that await aspiring physicians beyond the classroom. On Becoming a Doctor provides an essential roadmap for your medical odyssey including: Comprehensive Guidance: Delve into the intricacies of medical school life and residency, as well as the challenges and rewards of being a doctor. Gain invaluable insights into the various medical specialties, allowing you to make informed decisions about your future career path. First-Hand Accounts: Written by seasoned medical professionals, this book provides authentic first-hand accounts of the rigors and triumphs experienced throughout medical training. Learn from their experiences and use their wisdom to navigate your own journey with confidence. Balancing Life and Work: Discover the secrets to maintaining a healthy work-life balance in the demanding world of medicine. On Becoming a Doctor offers practical tips on managing stress, fostering personal well-being, and nurturing a fulfilling personal life alongside a thriving medical career. Residency Success Strategies: Unravel the complexities of the residency application process and equip yourself with indispensable strategies to stand out in this highly competitive arena. Our expert advice will empower you to excel during your residency and launch a successful medical career. Patient Stories: Be inspired by heartwarming and insightful patient stories that illustrate the transformative power of compassionate healthcare. Learn how to provide exceptional patient care and forge meaningful connections with those you serve. Navigating Medical Challenges: From medical ethics dilemmas to emotional resilience, On Becoming a Doctor addresses the diverse challenges doctors encounter. Equip yourself with the tools to overcome obstacles and make a lasting impact on the lives of your patients. Thriving Beyond Residency: Beyond residency lies a vast landscape of opportunities. Learn about alternative career paths, research opportunities, and potential for leadership roles within the medical community. Unlock your potential and discover what lies ahead in your fulfilling medical journey. Empower yourself with knowledge, empathy, and resilience as you embrace the transformative journey of becoming a doctor. A perfect graduation gift for any aspiring medical professional!
Book Synopsis Making a Medical Living by : Anne Digby
Download or read book Making a Medical Living written by Anne Digby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A socio-economic history of medical practice from the first voluntary hospital to national health insurance.
Book Synopsis Hooray for Doctors! by : Tessa Kenan
Download or read book Hooray for Doctors! written by Tessa Kenan and published by Bumba Books (R) -- Hooray for. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctors know many things about health and the human body! By examining patients and prescribing medicine, doctors can find out what is making someone sick and how to make them feel better. Carefully leveled text and fresh, vibrant photos engage young readers in learning about how doctors serve their community. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions and a photo glossary help build nonfiction learning skills.