Authors:Mike Magee, C. Everett Koop,
Publisher: Pfizer/Spencer Books
Keywords: health, populism, politics, power
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2005-10
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1889793175
ISBN-13: 9781889793177
Dr. Magee examines the mega trends that are changing our health care system, offering advice and solutions on how to fix the system.
Author: Andrew T. Weil M.D.
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: health, optimum, medicine, philosophy, healing, integrative
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-12-09
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0618479082
ISBN-13: 9780618479085
Dr. Andrew Weil’s groundbreaking handbook for people who want to take control of their lives and their health, Health and Healing presents the full spectrum of alternative healing practices, including holistic medicine, homeopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic, and Chinese medicine, and outlines how they differ from conventional approaches. The philosophical basis for his work in integrative medicine and optimum health, Health and Healing draws on Weil’s own vast clinical and personal experience, as well as on case studies from around the world.
Author: William Hersh
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: health, informatics, perspective, biomedical, information, retrieval
Number of Pages: 486
Published: 2008-11-06
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 038778702X
ISBN-13: 9780387787022
The third edition of this book will reach across disciplines and address the needs of not only those who study, evaluate, and purchase health information, but also computer and library/information scientists, information technology developers building databases, search engines, Web sites, and other systems for universities and hospitals who enthusiastically read the first two editions. The book is divided into three sections: Basic Concepts, State of the Art and Research Directories. Major changes to the this edition will include a new chapter in the State of the Art section on Digital Librar
Authors:Connie M. Weaver, Robert P. Heaney,
Publisher: Humana Press
Keywords: health, nutrition, human, calcium
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 1588294528
ISBN-13: 9781588294524
This comprehensive review of the state of our knowledge concerning calcium not only demonstrates its importance to human health, but also defines its many complex roles. The authors summarize the latest basic scientific information on the cellular and metabolic functions of calcium, explaining the leading techniques for accurately measuring its bioavailability, absorption, and kinetics, and showing that calcium deficiency is a major problem while calcium excess a rare one. They also examine the complex regulation of calcium absorption, distribution, and excretion, as well as the multiple inter
Author: World Health Organizatio
Publisher: World Health Organizatio
Keywords: weapons, guidance, chemical, biological, health, response, public
Number of Pages: 359
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9241546158
ISBN-13: 9789241546157
This second edition, like the first, analyses the public health aspects of the possible hostile use of biological or chemical agents. It describes how biological and chemical agents may endanger public health; provides the standard principles of risk analyses that Member States may undertake to prepare for the deliberate release of biological or chemical agents; and presents national and international laws, including their potential role in mobilizing international assistance and available sources of such assistance. Seven technical annexes cover chemical agents, toxins, biological agents, pri
Author: Mark Wlash
Publisher: Nelson Thorne
Keywords: health, care, series, nursing, foundations, carers, sociology
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $29.25
ISBN-10: 0748777172
ISBN-13: 9780748777174
This work considers the way in which societies and the individuals within them function. It demonstrates how sociological thinking can usefully explain clinical practice in the healthcare world. Using sociological thinking and methods, the reader is encouraged to question and understand healthcare experiences. It explores sociological approaches to healthcare issues and knowledge, the body and mental distress.
Author: Committee on Quality of Health Care in America In
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: health, system, safer, building, human, err
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 2000-04-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0309068371
ISBN-13: 9780309068376
Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. Reveals the truth of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception. Examines how surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided and handling medical mistakes. For policymakers, regulators, and clinicians.Book DescriptionExperts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That’s more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS--three causes that receive far more publ
