Medicine

Arthritis is usually considered a disease of older adults, but nearly 300,000 children in the...

In just a half century, humanity has made an astounding leap in its understanding of...

While it may seem that debates over euthanasia began with Jack Kervorkian, the practice of...

Why do we age? Is aging inevitable? Will advances in medical knowledge allow us to...

Millions of people each year decide to participate in clinical trials--medical research studies involving an...

This year, six million Americans--most of them women--will go to their doctors, complaining of an...

Principles of Drug Therapy, Second Edition provides comprehensive coverage of current drug therapy in neurology...

Until now, those in need of information on infectious diseases had to choose between encyclopedic...

This is the only book written by someone working in the field that deals with...

This concise, lucid textbook provides a basis for understanding the function of the respiratory system...

This book addresses the biological effects of the reasonably large number of classes of compounds...

This book explores the many prospects, challenges and ethical questions that surround the engineering of...

On the forefront of modern scientific innovation, Cloning, Gene Expression and Protein Purification: Experimental Procedures...

In this groundbreaking volume, Dr. Mary McGowan draws on her years of clinical experience in...

Raising a child with a neuromuscular disorder can be a overwhelming experience for even the...

Informed consent - as an ethical ideal and legal doctrine - has been the source...

The is the third edition of a text that surveys the drugs used to treat...

Over the last two decades, scientific articles on schizophrenia have doubled in number, and prophecies...

What could quantum mechanics have in common with the philosophical musings of the ancient Greeks?...

Psychosocial issues are integral to all genetic counseling interactions. They include counselees' beliefs about the...

This text provides the most comprehensive treatment of the design and analytic issues involved in...

Statistical analysis typically involves applying theoretically generated techniques to the description and interpretation of collected...

For years, psychiatry has operated without a unified theory of behavior; instead, it has spawned...

Sir William Osler (1849-1919), one of the world's most influential physicians at the turn of...

Several general principles have emerged from the study of human transcription factors. First, germline mutations...

Although AIDS was originally viewed as a disease afflicting only homosexual men and intravenous drug...

The internationally acclaimed story of Hannah's Heirs now resumes in this updated paperback edition with...

In this unique book, Grace Christ relates the powerfully moving stories of eighty-eight families and...

The first textbook on the subject, this is a practical, clinically comprehensive guide to ethical...

A succinct, single-authored text and atlas of bone marrow pathology, this book is based on...

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy combines new scholarship with hands-on science to bring...

This widely used text provides a clear and critical summary of research approaches to the...

Over ten years have passed since Oxford University Press first published Contributions to Neuropsychological Assessment,...

Every day, in magazines and books, on TV and the radio, we are flooded with...

Expanded to cover the Bush administration and the beginnings of the Clinton administration, this exploration...

In recent years, virtue theories have enjoyed a renaissance of interest among general and medical...

This work presents a systematic analysis of the psychological phenomena associated with the concept of...

Despite persistent warnings from the medical profession about the health risks involved in cigarette smoking,...

With continued progress in mapping and sequencing of the human genome, and increasing recognition of...

In the early 1980s, the National Institutes of Mental Health sponsored the Epidemiologic Catchment Area...

Volume II details the development of medicine among the early Indo-European peoples--Greeks, Indians, and Persians....

Chemical contaminants and other forms of indoor pollution have recently raised serious concern among occupational...

This concise, practical manual offers invaluable guidance for both professional and lay use in determination...

This highly acclaimed book deals with all the key kidney, ureter and bladder problems likely...