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Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Physical Desc
xv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Diagnoses are often just educated guesses, and prognoses less certain still. There is a significant amount of uncertainty in the daily practice of medicine, resulting in confusion and potentially deadly complications. Dr. Steven Hatch argues that instead of ignoring this uncertainty, we should embrace it. By digging deeply into a number of rancorous controversies, from breast cancer screening to blood pressure management, Hatch shows us how medicine...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
ix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the story of an extraordinary girl living with an extremely rare brain malformation, and has overcome more obstacles in her short six years of life than most of us endure in a lifetime.
Author
Language
English
Description
When children are late in hitting developmental milestones, parents worry. And no delay causes more parental anxiety than late talking, which is associated in many parents' minds with such serious conditions as autism and severe intellectual disability. In fact, as children's speech expert Stephen Camarata points out in this enlightening book, children are late in beginning to talk for a wide variety of reasons. For some children, late talking may...
11) Cystic fibrosis
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Learn what cystic fibrosis is, how it effects the human body, and how it is treated.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 337 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Most new symptoms turn out to be minor issues, but if you have one, how worried should you be. The authors walk you through the most common symptoms and provide helpful, conversational guidance on what to do. Organized in a humorous, easy-to-access format and packed with practical information and expert advice, this book is an essential resource for your household. -- adapted from back cover summary.
14) Assembly
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
106 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? Assembly is a story about the stories we live within--those of race and class, safety...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Over thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses--anorexia, major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and bipolar disorder. Pathological is the gripping story of what it was like to live with those diagnoses, and the crippling impact each had on her life. It is also a rigorous investigation into the Diagnostic and Statistical...
16) The gene machine: how genetic technologies are changing the way we have kids--and the kids we have
Author
Publisher
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"A literary, historical exploration about the way in which our industrialized lives have made us sick--from diarist Alice James and the 19th century neuraesthenics to current day chronic and stress-related illnesses--that seeks to answer the question who gets sick, and why?"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"With unflinching honesty, Lara Parker, the Deputy Director for BuzzFeed, shares her day-to-day challenges of living, working, and loving with chronic pain caused by endometriosis in this raw, darkly humorous, and hopeful memoir. I wasn't ready to be completely honest about my vagina yet, and the world wasn't ready for that either. But I was getting there. I wanted the world to know that all of this pain I had been feeling...that it was related to...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xx, 363 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One in ten adults over 65 has some form of mild cognitive impairment or MCI--thinking problems that go beyond those associated with normal aging, but that fall short of the serious impairments experienced by people with Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias. This is the first book written specifically for individuals with MCI, for their loved ones, and for the health care professionals who treat them. Written by three clinicians and researchers...
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