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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining capitalism's toxic creep into the land, our bodies, and our thinking. When she receives a dermatological diagnosis of extreme sensitivity-thin skin-Jenn Shapland considers just how thin the barrier is between herself and the world, and how deeply vulnerable we all are to our surroundings. As she becomes aware of the impacts her tiniest choices have on...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xviii, 344 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Chinese medicine has a long history in the United States, with written records dating back to the American colonial period. In this intricately crafted history, Tamara Venit Shelton chronicles the dynamic systems of knowledge, therapies, and materia medica crossing between China and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Chinese medicine, she argues, has played an important and often unacknowledged role in both facilitating...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xvii, 473 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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-- Named a -- cells. The discovery of cells—and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem—announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer’s dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID pneumonia—all could be reconceived as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived...
Author
Language
English
Description
"For more than four decades, between 1969 and 2010, the remote former mining town of Trinidad, Colorado was the unlikely crossroads for approximately six thousand medical pilgrims who came looking for relief from the pain of gender dysphoria. The surgical skill and nonjudgmental compassion of surgeons Stanley Biber and his transgender protege Marci Bowers not only made the phrase "Going to Trinidad" a euphemism for gender confirmation surgery in the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains." --Kathy Reichs A brilliant blend of science and crime, A TASTE FOR POISON reveals how eleven notorious poisons affect the body--through the murders in which they were used. As any reader of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring-and popular-weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. It can be slipped into a drink, smeared onto the tip...
Author
Publisher
Hunter House
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
vii, 280 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dangerous drug interactions and common drug-induced illnesses are a hidden epidemic in the USA-possibly throughout the world-where unqualified use and abuse of prescription drugs is becoming commonplace and many doctors prescribe multiple meds because they don't have the time to fully diagnose. In the United States alone known adverse drug interactions cause death, injury or hospitalization to more than 2 million people yearly, and this could be the...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xx, 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel traces the careers of two brilliant young doctors—Sigmund Freud, neurologist, and William Halsted, surgeon—showing how their powerful addictions to cocaine shaped their enormous contributions to psychology and medicine. When Freud and Halsted began their experiments with cocaine in the 1880s, neither they, nor their colleagues, had any idea of the drug's potential to dominate and endanger their lives....
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"No real account of black women physicians in the US exists, and what little mention is made of these women in existing histories is often insubstantial or altogether incorrect. In this work of extensive research, Jasmine Brown offers a rich new perspective, penning the long-erased stories of nine pioneering black women physicians beginning in 1860, when a black woman first entered medical school. Brown tells the stories of these doctors from the...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Madame Restell is a sharp, witty Gilded Age medical history which introduces us to an iconic, yet tragically overlooked, feminist heroine: a glamorous women's healthcare provider in Manhattan, known to the world as Madame Restell. A celebrity in her day with a flair for high fashion and public, petty beefs, Restell was a self-made woman and single mother who used her wit, her compassion, and her knowledge of family medicine to become one of the most...
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