The MIT Press, January 1987. Paper Back. This book of readings offers compelling evidence that even in this age of advanced medical technology and large-scale bureaucracy, the essence of diagnosis, therapy, and management of illness continues to reside in the doctor-patient relationship. It brings together 17 articles published from 1927..... More
University of Chicago Press, May 1997. Paper Back. Edward Golub, distinguished researcher and former professor of immunology, shows that major advances in medicine are caused by changes in the way scientists describe disease. Bleeding, sweating, and other treatments we consider barbaric were standard treatments for centuries because they conformed to..... More
Oxford University Press, June 1988. Paper Back. Few subjects have generated so many newspaper headlines and such heated controversy as the treatment, or non-treatment, of handicapped newborns. In 1982, the case of Baby Doe, a child born with Down's syndrome, stirred up a national debate in the United States, while..... More
Univ of Alabama Pr, May 1982. Hardcover. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. More
University of Chicago Press, May 1992. Hardcover. Looking for the first time at the cut-price anatomy schools rather than genteel Oxbridge, Desmond winkles out pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas in reform-minded and politically charged early nineteenth-century London. In the process, he reveals the underside of London intellectual and social life in the..... More
University Alabama Press, June 2004. Hardcover. A history of the College of Community Health Sciences at The University of Alabama Employs first-hand accounts from college founders and early leaders to chronicle the institution's birth during the early 1970s, its developing relationships with The University of Alabama School of Medicine in..... More
University Alabama Press, August 2007. Hardcover. A scholarly narrative of UAB from its nascent beginnings through the mid 1990s. While the economy and culture of the post--World War II South changed from an era of material capital (e.g., cotton and iron ore) to a period of social capital (intellectual development..... More
Univ Pr of Kentucky, June 1993. Hardcover. More
Quinnipiac University Press, September 2013. Hardcover. Medicine's Michelangelo is a remarkable and first major biography of Frank H. Netter, MD, written by his daughter, Francine Mary Netter. She captures the character of the man and tells his life story using not only her remembrances but also Frank Netter's own autobiographical..... More
University of Chicago Press, April 1989. Trade Paperback. In the early nineteenth century, a group of German biologists led by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and Karl Friedrich Kielmeyer initiated a search for laws of biological organization that would explain the phenomena of form and function and establish foundations for a unified..... More
Johns Hopkins University Press, October 2000. Spiral Binding. Children who have been sexually abused can be very challenging patients whose needs include emotional, psychological, social and legal support, in addition to medical examination and treatment. This text and video offer a learning experience for medical professionals working in child sexual..... More
Bantam, October 1998. Trade Paperback. In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2017. Hardcover. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few..... More
Random House, October 2019. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews Although..... More
Micky Hades International, January 1976. Spiral Binding. {9' x 11'} Light green cardstock cover with black lettering. Black plastic spiral. [42 pages]. More
Vintage, March 2017. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life--but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that..... More
Zone Books, July 1999. Hardcover. The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But when we look into the past, our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien..... More
MIT Press, June 1983. Trade Paperback. "Abusing Science" is a manual for intellectual self-defense, the most complete available for presenting the case against Creationist pseudo-science. It is also a lucid exposition of the nature and methods of genuine science. The book begins with a concise introduction to evolutionary theory for..... More
Cambridge University Press, September 1986. Trade Paperback. This concise readable book explains, in language understandable to a wide audience, the author's somewhat controversial views about the possible origin of life. His major statement on the subject, 'Genetic Takeover' (published by the Press in 1982) attracted much publicity and acclaim. With..... More
Bantam, September 2013. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual..... More
Oxford Univ Pr, March 2006. Trade Paperback. Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology..... More
Random House Inc, April 2003. Trade Paperback. Here is bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's tenth and final collection based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine--exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific..... More
Zone Books, October 1992. Oversize Softcover. This volume of ZONE explores the ongoing convergence of what were once the distinct worlds of the machine and the organism. Incorporations, through essays, image-text projects, photographic dossiers, and philosophical and scientific articles, examines the increasing breakdown of the boundaries between biology and technology..... More
Harvard University Press, June 1957. Trade Paperback. For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter..... More
Routledge, September 1995. Trade Paperback. How desert dunes are formed, how they change, their environmental significance and the role of climate change - these issues are examined through extensive case studies drawn from South Africa, India, Northern Europe and Australia. More
