Author: Max Nordau
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: degeneration
Number of Pages: 566
Published: 1993-11-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0803283679
ISBN-13: 9780803283671

Max Nordau was a famous writer, a practicing physician, a bourgeois examplar of enterprise and energy when his Degeneration appeared in Germany in 1892. He argued that the spirit of the times was characterized by enervation, exhaustion, hysteria, egotism, and inability to adjust or to act. Culture had degenerated, he said, and if criminals, prostitutes, anarchists, and lunatics were degenerates, so were the authors and artists of the era. Degeneration, and the controversy it aroused, served to define the fine de siècle. Its targets included Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Richard Wagn

Author: Jennifer I. Lim
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Keywords: second, degeneration, macular, related
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-10-18
List price: $329.95
ISBN-10: 0849372143
ISBN-13: 9780849372148

Addressing a major condition affecting millions worldwide, this source compiles the most practical and groundbreaking research on the etiology, assessment, and treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD). With full-color illustrations throughout, this reference explores research advancements that have resulted in novel therapies that offer sight saving, less destructive forms of treatment for exudative AMD, as well as strategies to prevent the progression of non-exudative AMD. With several new chapters and expansive amount of section updates, this source supplies the latest studies o

Authors:Frank G. Holz, Daniel Pauleikhoff, Richard F. Spaide
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: degeneration, macular, related
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2003-11-05
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 3540064931
ISBN-13: 9783540064930

Age-related macular degeneration is the most common cause for the loss of central seeing with humans beyond the age of 50 in the industrial nations. A triplication of the patients is expected in the next 25 years. Especially in the last couple of years the standard of knowledge regarding etiology, risk factors, diagnostics and therapy of this retina illness has substantially grown which is presented in this up-to-date multi-authored work. Apart from epidemiologically identified risk factors both the various pathophysiological aspects and clinical manifestations and angiographic characteristics

Authors:D. Virgil Alfaro, Peter E. Liggett, William F. Miele
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: textbook, comprehensive, degeneration, macular, related
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2005-10-26
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0781738997
ISBN-13: 9780781738996

A renowned group of retina surgeons presents promising new developments in age-related macular degeneration, with emphasis on the most significant advances in the past five years. Content addresses all aspects of management, including anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology; imaging of the macula in age-related macular degeneration; prevention measures and treatment; treatment; and future directions. Abundantly illustrated and superbly organized, this book serves as an excellent reference and textbook.

Authors:Lylas G. Mogk, Marja Mogk,
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: maximizing, sight, saving, guide, degeneration, complete, macular
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0345457110
ISBN-13: 9780345457110

The acclaimed book on macular degeneration—now completely revised and updated with cutting edge research and the latest developments in the field.More than fifteen million Americans have age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and the disease will strike 200,000 more people this year. It is the most prevalent cause of vision loss in the western world. Dr. Lylas Mogk, the founding director of the Visual Rehabilitation and Research Center of the Henry Ford Health System, has a unique professional and personal understanding of AMD. A doctor and loving daughter of a parent with this frightening

Authors:Betty Wason, Betty Watson, James J. McMillan,
Publisher: Hunter House Publishers
Keywords: vision, loss, positively, living, degeneration, macular
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0897932390
ISBN-13: 9780897932394

An upbeat, practical guide to living with severely limited vision, this primer has been designed to help those afflicted with this age-related eye condition. Type size is larger than average for easier reading.

Authors:Robert E. Anderson, Matthew M. LaVail, Joe G. Hollyf
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: advances, medicine, biology, experimental, degeneration, retinal, recent
Number of Pages: 458
Published: 2007-12-18
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 0387749020
ISBN-13: 9780387749020

The product of perhaps the most important research meeting in the field, this essential text outlines all the latest research in retinal degeneration. Culled from the proceedings of the International Symposium on the subject, the topics in this volume explore the etiology, cellular mechanisms, epidemiology, models and potential therapeutic measures for the blinding diseases of retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration. A must-read for researchers in the field.