Subjects:  1. Ethics    2. Medical    3. Medical ethics   

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Excellent source of tasks to be applied in the doctor's office!
This book is an important guide who will assist the interested parties in identifying and to choose strategies for the stress management.

So much better than the Davis/McKay workbook!
I am a therapist and have been looking for decent stress management workbook for my clients. Eureka! I found it here. This book exceeded all expectations. It's excellent! The feedback from my clients is unanimous: Achieving the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection is extremely user friendly, with an uplifing positive approach. The exercises (over 70) are exceptional. My opinion is that the Davis/McKay book cannot hold a candle to this new stress management workbook. The world will be a better place for it. I give it my highest recommendation! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Alternative Therapies    2. Consumer Health    3. General    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health/Fitness    6. Nutrition    7. Family & Health    8. Health & Fitness / Alternative Therapies    9. Popular medicine   

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Great book
As a Shiatsu (3rd year)student, this book is so helpfull for me, that I am using it every day.
What a great book!
This is the definitive book on feng shue!It is not for people who are looking for fluff - this is serious, and well thought out.It has really worked to get me to focus on the important things in life and has helped in explaining the balance that we all need to have. I am now giving this book as a gift to people I care about!Thank you, Ms. Reichstein, for writing such a wonderful book.

You will be amazed !
We all love now to take care of our own health, right ?! Few of us understand, though, the Chinese medicine, unless you read a lot of books on same subject. And then you have to "digest" the information and apply it patiently to yourself. WE ALL ARE UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS. And the ones who will borrow or buy this book will prove to be the smart ones too. Not only that I would recommend this book to all of you who want to change your life for the better (and get rid of your daily pains) but this book --among the thousands written -- is an eye-opener to many other self-healing directions. Beware, at first you will say to yourself that you will need TIME and PATIENCE to go through it (which none of us HAVE anymore!), but you will feel smarter than any doctor in this world, after you assimilate the knowledge in this book. It is better than you imagined by its modest title. One of the best-kept secrets (until now !), trust me on this one. Good luck to all of you ! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Alternative Medicine    2. Alternative Therapies    3. China    4. Consumer Health    5. Diet / Health / Fitness    6. Health/Fitness    7. History    8. Medical    9. Medicine    10. Medicine, Chinese    11. Traditional medicine & remedies   

Subjects:  1. Child Nutrition    2. Child Nutrition Disorders    3. Children    4. General    5. Handbooks, manuals, etc    6. Medical    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Nursing - General    9. Nutrition    10. Pediatrics    11. Health & Fitness / Nutrition    12. Nursing & Ancillary Services   

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A masterpiece of social research
Margaret Lock discusses how organ transplant interests fostered the notion of brain death in North America and Japan. Until recently, Japan did not accept brain death as a sufficient criterion of death, even when the Japanese had all the technology and medical skills to carry out organ transplantation. By contrasting the muted discussion about brain death in North America with the heated, well informed public debates in Japan, Lock makes readers uncomfortable. Are people declared brain dead in America really dead, or do neurologists simply assume that they are dead to allow transplantation to take place? When does death occur anyway; is it a process or an event? Should physicians determine death with technological guidelines, or should death be defined by the people who are the most implicated, like relatives? Lock does not provide easy answers to those questions but her exhaustive research indicates how a different consensus about brain death emerged in the East and the West.Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Brain death    3. Ethics    4. Japan    5. Medical / Nursing    6. North America    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. Surgery - Plastic & Cosmetic    10. Transplantation of organs, tis    11. Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.    12. Anthropology    13. Death & dying    14. History of medicine    15. Medical anthropology    16. Social Science / Anthropology / General    17. Transplant surgery   

Editorial Review

"The key to successful weight loss doesn't require magic, grit and determination, or the moral character of a saint. It's much simpler," asserts Jane Kirby, R.D., in Read more

Reviews (16)

Simplistic
Dieting for Dummies is a simplistic look at diets. Just skimming through the book you can get an idea of how to get on a diet, by cutting calories and all. The book is set up in an easy to read fashion (like other Dummy books) A good overview of dieting.

Full of contradictory information
This book may be useful if you have only a modest amount to lose and know very little about weight loss.In that case, the advice here -- fill up on vegetables, don't skip meals -- may help you reach your goal.But, for anyone who has a more serious weight problem, this book may do more harm that good.
This book is great
I am really learning a lot about my eating habits and better choices/ways to eat from this book. It's easy to read and has an easy to follow format that is addictive in itself.I'm making life changes and this book was right on time to help me in that pursuit. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Diet / Health / Fitness    2. Diet/Nutrition    3. Low-calorie diet    4. Medical    5. Nutrition    6. Nutrition And Diet    7. Nutrition And Public Health    8. Reducing diets    9. Weight Loss    10. Diets & dieting   

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Harvey Cushing - A Life in Surgery
The book is a good read, particularly to those interested in medicine and more particularly, medical history. The book is well written, informative and holds ones attention amazingly well. Although I have never read Michael Bliss (author) before, I will certainly be looking out for him in the future. I very much recommend reading the book.

The best biography of Cushing
Harvey Cushing's life and achievements deserved the very best of a literary recounting and this is it. Previous biographies (including Fulton's "classic") of Cushing, the Father of Neurosurgery, were uniformly dull or disappointing. Michael Bliss has now written the very best Cushing biography and has undoubtedly set the standard for years to come. It is extremely readable despite being detailed in both the technical aspects of neurosurgery and also Cushing's private life. Cushing himself won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of William Osler and this work is at least as good.

Excellent Biography of America's Pioneer in Neurosugery
It is a strange mystery why a man of such accomplishments and medical innovation in the history of neurosurgery, the American pioneer in fact, is not more well known in popular culture. Dr. Harvey Cushing has to be one of the most fascinating, complex and astounding medical personalities in the last century. He became the first of American medical men to be an international leader in this special field. Harvey was part of a long line of medical men, his great grandfather, grandfather and father were all competent physicians. A Yale graduate, later attending Harvard Medical and working at John Hopkins, he paved the way, as he called "The Northwest Passage", in the area of brain tumour surgery, his OR innovations, insistence on sterile working conditions, the use of clips to prevent excessive bleeding and the diagnosis of brain tumours, were all devised and applied by him, having operated on over 2000 patients with brain tumour related illnesses during his long career. This man takes the term "workaholic" and takes it to an entirely new level. A tireless researcher, recorder, bibliophile, surgeon and prolific writer, his drive and obsession for work and life, set the precedent for future surgeons. A truly remarkable individual.
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Subjects:  1. 1869-1939    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Cushing, Harvey,    7. History    8. Medical - General    9. Neurosurgeons    10. Surgery - Neurosurgery    11. United States    12. Biography & Autobiography / Medical    13. Biography: general    14. History of medicine    15. Medicine | History of Medicine    16. Neurosurgery    17. USA   

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Fluid & Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy
Where was this book when I was in undergraduate school? Now that I am teaching nursing I have found it very useful in that it has given me a rare opportunity to present a very complex and hard to understand block ofmaterial is a manner much easier for students to understand. It is packedwith easy to understand pictures, diagrams, and graphs that help teach theconcept in a way that is "reader friendly". The illustrations areunbelievable and a great tool used by the author to present the ideas tothe reader. I have even had requests from the Occupational Therapy facultyat our college to use the book for their lectures as well.. Great Job ! Iwould highly recommend it to anyone, whether a staff nurse or a facultymember at a university or college...

A must have for nurses!!
Great reading, good use of colors, structure and humor to get the point across.A nice change from dry textbook review.I found this a valuable refresher on fluid and electrolyte imbalances.Effects on EKG's, ABGinterpretation made easy. IV therapy TPN therapy,Everything!! THANK YOUTHANK YOU!!

very clear and concise with great examples
This study book is a must for anyone who needs to understand about fluid shifts and electrolyte imbalances. I am a R.N.nursing student and I found this book to be invaluabe in explaining a complex subject. I highlyrecommend it! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Body fluid disorders    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Nursing - Assessment & Diagnosis    5. Nursing - General    6. Nursing - Reference    7. Nursing Practice    8. Nutrition    9. Water-Electrolyte Imbalance    10. Water-electrolyte imbalances    11. nurses' instruction    12. Pharmacology    13. Physiology    14. Renal medicine   

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Great book, if it didn't fall apart!
I am very dissapointed with the poor spiral binding on this book, (4th edition)! As a dietetic student, I don't have much money to spend on books as it is. As much as this one is priced, the publishers could have put a higher quality binding on it, (or made it a paperback, like previous editions). Pages are falling out constantly, especially since it the type of book you refer to all the time.

Great resource!
This is an incredibly helpful tool.It's well organized, concise, and easy to use.A great reference for RD's and other health professionals.

Nutrition and Diagnosis-Related Care
Excellent resource for any dietitian, it was a life saver during my dietetic internship and has continued to be a valuable resource to me in my private practice.It is simple, easy to use and accurate-allows you toquickly assimilate and implement care for numerous disorders.I highlyrecommend it to any dietetic intern or student. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Diet Therapy    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Nursing - Assessment & Diagnosis    5. Nutrition    6. Dietetics & nutrition   

Editorial Review

"Alan's brain got run over by a speedboat," Cathy Crimmins writes. "Thatlast sentence reads like a bad country-western song lyric, but it's true. It wasa silly, horrible, stupid accident." And so begins the harrowing tale of afamily vacation gone awry when a speedboat collides with her husband's smallcraft, changing their lives forever. Crimmins (Read more

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I laughed, I cried, and then I recommended it to everyone.
My wonderful husband had a brain anuerysm in 1992. I recommend this book to anyone, even if they don't know a soul with a brain injury. It's tragic, it's hysterically funny, it's soooo very real. The best book out there, on what life is like, for a family member, after a brain injury.

harrowing and real
Having read several brain injury survivor memoirs, I was initially reluctant to read one written by a family member of a survivor - how could they possibly understand the experience? But Cathy Crimmins shows us 'the other side' - how the survivor can challenge everyone's tolerance with their suddenly bizarre, unsavoury, often hostile, and sadly unintended new behaviour and limitations. She doesn't sanitise the ordeal, but rather just tells it as she endured it. I'd love to read a companion book by her husband Alan (the brain injury survivor she writes about), for a look at how different the worlds of survivor and carer can be. And how about a sequel Cathy?

Someone understands!
I ordered this book as a last chance - I had previously ordered and tried to understand many books that were way too technical.My husband too suffers from tramatic brain injury - this is this first book that I could relate to and know that I am not the only one going through this.It was amazing to me as Cathy describes her husband awakening from a coma and the things he first said - it could have been the same dialogue from my husband.An easy enough read, I have ordered several more copies for friends and family.Thank you for writing such a worthwhile book!!! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Brain damage    6. Case studies    7. Forman, Alan    8. Health    9. Medical - General    10. Mental Health    11. Patients    12. Personal Memoirs    13. Personality change    14. Specific Groups - Special Needs    15. United States    16. Biography: general    17. History of medicine    18. Psychology & Psychiatry / Mental Health   

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Subjects:  1. Diet Therapy    2. Endocrinology & Metabolism    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Obesity    6. Diseases & disorders    7. Medical / Nutrition    8. Metabolism    9. Paediatric medicine   

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Medical Technology    2. Geometrical optics    3. Imaging Systems    4. Medical / Biotechnology    5. Optics    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Applied optics    10. Biotechnology    11. Handbooks, manuals, etc    12. Imaging systems in medicine    13. Lasers in medicine    14. Medical    15. Medical imaging    16. Spectroscopic imaging   

Subjects:  1. Social Science    2. Social medicine    3. Sociology    4. Sociology - General    5. Anthropology    6. Public health & preventive medicine    7. Social Science / Sociology / General   

Subjects:  1. Health & Fitness    2. Health Care Delivery    3. Health/Fitness    4. Nutrition    5. Nutrition counseling    6. Psychology    7. Psychotherapy - Counseling    8. Dietetics & nutrition    9. Medical / Nutrition   

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First-Rate Introduction To E-Health
This is a great resource. I have taught a class in computers in health care for undergraduates seeking degrees in health care administration since 1985; I've spent an increasing amount of time on telemedicine and e-health topics. Read more

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Allied Health Services - Medical Technology    3. Communication In Medicine    4. Communication systems    5. Health Care Administration    6. Health Care Delivery    7. Health Care Issues    8. Medical    9. Medical / Nursing    10. Medical informatics    11. Medicine    12. Research    13. Telecommunication in medicine    14. Telemedicine    15. Hospital administration & management    16. Medical / Administration   

Editorial Review

If you eat it, you'll find information on it here. This 2001 fifth edition of the popular Read more

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Life Saver
This book is an educational tool on how to take care of your body with foods and nutrition.It shows how preventative measures that food and vitamins can do to your life.Read and live by it!

Don't buy this book if you are looking for a Calorie Counter
Don't buy this book if you are looking for a Calorie Counter. This book is a good reference for a Nutritionist or Professional Practitioner, but not for every-day use for diet management.
Fifth Edition, yet still incomplete.
I've used the Nutrition Almanac, Third Edition, for years. This 'new' addition has very few updates compared to the third. It feels like it's written by someone working strictly with Western Medicine, even though it does give a person direction to some Natural treatments for the listed ailments. Also the book does not go too deeply into describing any vitamin or mineral.
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Subjects:  1. Composition    2. Consumer Health    3. Food    4. Health    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health/Fitness    7. Nursing - Nutrition    8. Nutrition    9. Nutrition And Public Health    10. Reference    11. Tables    12. Dietetics & nutrition    13. Health & Fitness / Nutrition    14. Popular medicine   

Subjects:  1. Alternative Medicine    2. Complementary Therapies    3. Congresses    4. Consumer Health    5. Healing    6. Medical    7. Medicine, Chinese    8. Medicine, Chinese Traditional    9. Neuroscience    10. Medical / Neuroscience    11. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology   

Subjects:  1. Ability testing    2. Ethics    3. Health Care Delivery    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Medicine    7. Physicians    8. Professional ethics    9. Rating of    10. Medical / Ethics    11. Medicine | Ethics    12. Medicine: General Issues   

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Worth the price just for the chapter on supplements
This is a great book for people who want to work with athletes or coaches.It provides a thoroughly referenced summary on the principles of various topics in sports nutrition, followed by "practice tips" written by top sports dietitians.It really helps to know how to put the information into use. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Diets - General    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Non-Classifiable    5. Nonfiction    6. Nutrition    7. Sports Medicine    8. Dietetics & nutrition    9. Health & Fitness / Nutrition    10. Sports & Outdoor Recreation    11. Sports injuries & medicine   

Subjects:  1. Biotechnology    2. Chemistry - Analytic    3. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    4. Science    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Electronic devices & materials    7. Industrial chemistry    8. Science / Chemistry / Analytic