Subjects:  1. Analysis    2. Biotechnology    3. Life Sciences - Biochemistry    4. Mathematics    5. Nucleic acids    6. Polymerase chain reaction    7. Quantitative genetics    8. Science    9. Science / Biotechnology    10. Science / Chemistry / General    11. Science/Mathematics    12. Set Theory    13. Chemistry - General   

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BURTON ROSE AGAIN IS EXCELLENT
FOR RESIDENT AND FELLOWS AS STAFF TOO, THE FIFTH EDITION OF BURTON ROSE IS EXCELLENT, COVERING BASIC CONCEPTS AS WELL AS ALL THE RECENT RESEARCH MEDICAL NEWS IN FHE FIELDOF FLUID AND ACID BASE PHYSIOLOGY.IT SHOULD BE RECOMENDED FOR PRIVATE AND PUBLIC MEDICAL LIBRARY.

Outstanding text, but consider "The essentials" for a lighter read
No doubt, this is a terrific textbook and is a great resource for Nephrology fellows, ICU fellows and general physiologists.However, for the med student or housestaff who would like to digest the basics of renal electrolyte handling and acid-base homeostasis, I'd like to recommend "Renal Pathophysiology the Essentials" by B.D. Rose and H.G. Rennke (ISBN: 0683073540). It is from 1994 and may lack some of the molecular details, but is an even more "readable" text.

The best in its field
I found this book to be very useful in understanding the subject of acid base and electrolyte disorders. I recommend it for all physicians especially those working in emergency room, intensive and cardiac care units. In fact it is very helpful for all doctors working in the different clinical fields. It is simple and easily digested. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Acid-Base Imbalance    2. Acid-base imbalances    3. Biochemistry    4. Kidney Diseases    5. Kidneys    6. Medical    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Medical Biochemistry    9. Nephrology    10. Nutrition    11. Pathophysiology    12. Water-electrolyte imbalances    13. Diseases & disorders    14. Medical / Internal Medicine    15. Pharmacology    16. Renal medicine   

Reviews (47)

A very good guide to using juice for
I found this book to be one of the better sources of information regarding fasting. It takes a subject that is somewhat taboo and breaks it down into simple and understandable terms. I think it's worth reading even if you don't want to practice what is being discussed. It never hurts to understand what is going on even if you don't want to do it. I will tell you this, I have followed this book and a few others and have made tremendous gains. Not in weight but in my health. One of the benefits that can't be touted enough is the true feeling of being in control of your own body. Once you get that feeling you lose this sense of helplessness and understand that your health is your own responsibility.
a bit flawed but great
I read the good Doctor's book Eat to Live and then bought China Study which he talks a lot about in this book.Then I bought this book being curious after reading a few other books on fasting and this book wins hands down though I do feel he's being overly cautious about doing long fasts of more than 5 days without medical supervision to protect himself as people have been doing long fasts for centuries without medical supervision and doing just fine and since finding a Doctor in even a large community is rare indeed one is left to do this on their own.
Your choice.
Nature's way.
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Subjects:  1. Diet / Health / Fitness    2. Diet Therapy    3. Diets - General    4. Diets - Special Conditions    5. Fasting    6. Health & Fitness    7. Health/Fitness    8. Therapeutic use    9. Personal & public health   

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Marvelous book - a nutrition bible!
Definitely a must-have for those seeking higher learning in the field of nutrition. Covers in-depth individual topics on different vitamins and minerals as well as specific disease conditions.

A "must have" for Nutrition Graduate Students
This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date textbook on nutrition available!The 9th edition has 115 (one hundred fifteen) chapters and multiple sections of an Appendix, updated by 169 authors in 10 countriesand from many scientific disciplines.Nutrition science has an extremelybroad scope with relevance to all basic and applied biologic sciences,medicine, dentistry, dietetics, nursing, pharmacy, public health and publicpolicy.In one very thorough edition (approx 2,000 pages), this textsucceeds at integrating Nutrition science into practical knowledge.Foraround $100, the price equals 20 cents per page ... making it anextraordinary value!ENJOY :)

Must-Have Nutrition Text!
This is one of the most comprehensive and valuable textbooks in the field of nutrition, covering major topics in basic and clinical nutrition.The 9th edition combines the two 8th edition volumes and includes new chapters. Topics covered in new chapters include alternative nutrition therapies,vegetarian diets, regulating food and dietary intakes and food labeling anddietary supplement legislation.I recommend this text for anyone in thefield of nutrition and it is especially essential for anyone in a graduatenutrition program.If you are to buy one nutrition text, this should beit! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Nutrition    4. Pathophysiology    5. Public Health    6. Dietetics & nutrition    7. Medical / Nutrition   

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Review from a polio survivor
As a polio survivor who was caught up in the epidemic of 1952, I would highly recommend this book to anyone who had polio or was involved in the search for a solution.My mother was one of the regional directors for the Mother's March in the 1950's and is now reading the book.It is very well written and pulls no punches highlighting both positive aspects of this decades long effort and the petty politics and personalities that accompanied it.

Polio
I am a survivor of the polio epidemic of the mid forties.This is an excellent account of those days and of the people who ultimately conquered this disease and saved the lives of thousands from its ravages.

Fascinating and informative
Mr. Oshinsky's book is a well written, well researched history of the United States' struggle with poliomyelitis and the race to a vaccine. This book is a page turner, right up there with the most entertaining fiction. Oshinsky's combination of historical accounts and narration style make this book engaging for any lay person. He objectively tells us about Salk and Sabin, the two scientists whose killed- and live-virus vaccines, respectively, changed the natural course of polio and brought it close to eradication. Oshinsky also details the crucial work of many other researchers without whom the polio vaccines would never have existed, and also the important work of the National Foundation that worked tirelessly, raising money and supporting researchers; this organization is now the March of Dimes. I read this book on vacation in Puerto Rico, and I could barely put it down. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in history of vaccines, polio, or just medical innovation. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. History    2. History: American    3. Infectious Diseases    4. Medical / Nursing    5. United States - 20th Century    6. American history: from c 1900 -    7. History / United States / 20th Century    8. History of medicine    9. History, American | Since 1945    10. USA   

Reviews (269)

Hysterical
Mary Roach has taken what could be a morbid and rather depressing subject and elevated it to sheer reading pleasure.I thoroughly enjoyed this book, both for the factual information about cadaver donation and for her wry sense of humor in the face of her subjet matter.Various topics are covered, including lab dissection, crash testing, plastination, cremation, water reduction and a host of other options for human remains that I can honestly say I never knew existed.The French did some experiments with guillotine execution that are in a class all by themselves.Highly recommended reading.

Great Audio Book--Just Not During Lunch!
You can imagine what a surreal experience it was to listen to this book on CD while on a house cleaning job...scraping goo off the stove while listing to the description of body putrification after death.
Hilarious, yet you still learn something
I thought this book was great.I, for one, could not put it down and finished it in a matter of 2 days (and I'm not a person who reads just for fun very often).Anyone in the medical field will appreciate it, and also those who are not.My mother even thought it was funny.I totally recommend it! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Dead    2. Forensic Medicine    3. History    4. Human dissection    5. Human experimentation in medicine    6. Medical    7. Medical Research    8. Medicine (Specific Aspects)    9. Research    10. Science    11. Death & dying    12. History of specific subjects   

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An informed and informative addition
Enhanced with the inclusion of 14 color photographs, 2 color maps, 36 black/white photographs, and 13 line drawn illustrations, "Skin: A Natural History" by Nina G. Jablonski (Head of the Department of Anthropology at The California Academy of Sciences) is a thoroughly "reader friendly" and scholarly introduction to the biological and cultural functions of human skin. "Skin" addresses such questions and issues as how and when human skin came to look, fell, and function as we know it today; why we turn pale when anxious but red when we are embarrassed or angry; why touch is one of the fundamentally important senses of the body and relates to every aspect of human life; what is the real purpose of fingerprints; skin as a canvas for self-expression; the effects of aging, environmental stress, insect bites, burns, and diseases upon skin; advancing medical technologies relevant to skin issues, and so much more. Surveying more than 300-million-years of evolutionary development as it relates to the skin of homo sapiens, "Skin" addresses the critical role skin plays in human health (including processing sunlight for Vitamin D), the role of melanin in protecting us from the sun's rays, and the advances toward to the creation of artificial skin, gene therapies, reversing the aging process of skin, and other fascinating issues related to our skin. "Skin: A Natural History" is an informed and informative addition to medical school, academic library, and Anthropological Studies collections, as well as a very highly recommended study for non-specialist general readers with an interest in the biology and sociology of skin issues. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - General    2. Beauty & Grooming - General    3. Beauty & Grooming - Skin    4. Fashion & Grooming    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health/Fitness    7. History    8. Life Sciences - Zoology - Mammals    9. Medical / Nursing    10. Physiology    11. Skin    12. Body art & tattooing    13. Social & cultural anthropology    14. Social Science / Anthropology / General   

Subjects:  1. Biomedical Engineering    2. Biomedical materials    3. Biotechnology    4. Family & General Practice    5. General    6. Life Sciences - Biology - General    7. Medical    8. Medical / Nursing    9. Medical instruments and appara    10. Medical instruments and apparatus    11. Science/Mathematics    12. Biochemical Engineering    13. Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical   

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What about soy allergies?
I found this book to be a good read, and generally helpful.
Fuel the Revolution
This book will set you straight about what is healthy and what is not.All other nutrition advice that I have come across is weak and ineffective.I am buying this book as well as Eat to Live for everyone I know and meet; month by month as I can afford.Do the same for there is no gift comparable to the gift of health.

The Greatest Diet on Earth
This is one book that no parent(s) or "potential" parent(s) should be without. It talks about "to be" mothers and the foods they eat can affect their childs development before they are even conceived.
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Subjects:  1. Children    2. Consumer Health    3. Diet / Health / Fitness    4. Diet therapy for children    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health - General    7. Health and hygiene    8. Health/Fitness    9. Healthy Living    10. Nutrition    11. Parenting - General    12. Health & Fitness / Healthy Living   

Reviews (8)

Excellent source!!!
This a great book for understanding fluids and electrolytes!!! Couldn't get better and easier than this!!!!

Wonderful book.Got an A on my test!
This is a wonderful book.Fluid & Electrolytes is a very complex subject and this book was able to simplify and reiterate important topics. The book went over essential topics such as electrolyte imbalances, acid-base imbalances, fluid shifts and made it interesting to learn all at the same time.I highly recommend this book to nursing students.

Incredibly boring!
This entire series of "Incredibly Easy" books should be called "Incredibly Boring"!I've found all of them to be useless in keeping my attention or in helping me to remember.There is nothing memorable about anything in these books. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Body fluid disorders    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Nurses' Instruction    5. Nutrition    6. Pathophysiology    7. Water-Electrolyte Balance    8. Water-Electrolyte Imbalance    9. Water-electrolyte imbalances    10. Medical / Nursing / Medical & Surgical    11. Nursing    12. Physiology   

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So much information, but with an analysis that makes the point!
This is a must read for understanding American medicine.It actually has a straightforward point of view in its focus on the autonomy and status of the medical profession and the distinguishing feature in the evolution of health care institutions.The role of the medical profession in health care is unique in our society and this books historically follows how the profession has used its position to counter capital enterprise and public programs to meet pressing social needs.He makes clear that the development of valid scientific theories and their applicating into effective treatments was critical to affirming the control of physicians.Otherwise the political disputes over licensing and accreditation could not have succeeded.Obviously the emergence of HMO's and other health insurers represent the latest source of conflict.Again this work presents the issues clearly and objectively.

Excellent book
I highly recommend this book to anyone in the health care industry or anyone interested in the history of American medicine.
Great history of American medicine
For anyone interested in the healthcare as a profession or area of study, I can't recommend this book highly enough. Despite the 20 years since its publication, Paul Starr's Pulitzer prize winner is still relevant today and in retrospect his projections made of the future of healthcare in America are surpisingly prescient. Read more

Subjects:  1. History    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Medical care    4. Physicians    5. Public Health    6. Social medicine    7. Sociology    8. Sociology - General    9. United States    10. Public health & preventive medicine    11. USA   

Subjects:  1. Biotechnology    2. Instruments & Supplies    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Reference    6. Emergency services    7. Medical equipment & techniques    8. Purchasing & supply management    9. Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs    10. c 1990 to c 2000   

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Finally No More Diets!
I love this book. I'm actually still doing the exercises in the book. I believe there are almost 90 exercises. Geneen requires you dig deep. The first few days of doing the work, I was a mess. I have used food to not deal with my emotions for so many years, that it actually brought me back to my emotional self as a teenager. My first diet started when I was 15 at 102 pounds! I had went over that 100 pound mark then, started my first diet, and never dealt with my emotions after that unless it involved food. I'm almost 40 years old now and thought this vicious cycle would never end. The more I dieted and deprived myself, the more I weighed in the end.
Don't waste your time or money
This book is not what I expected.It's more of a "workbook" instead of a book to read.I was thoroughly disappointed.

A Life-Transforming Experience
Having struggled with an eating disorder for the past 10 years of my life, I was certain that I would never have a healthy relationship with food again.But, then a good friend gave me Geneen's book, and I have not looked back since on those doubtful thoughts.This is a truely incredible program that, when followed and supplemented with Geneen's books "When Food Is Love" and "Feeding the Hungry Heart", can and will take the word "diet" out of your vocabularly forever.I have never felt better about myself and have never actually lost weight while still eating anything I wanted. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Diet / Health / Fitness    2. Diet/Nutrition    3. Eating Disorders - General    4. General    5. Neuropsychology    6. Diets & dieting    7. Health & Fitness / Weight Loss   

Reviews (24)

Good Book!
One of my favorite things is this book tells of which I love to see goes into practice for this country is the Chinese tradition where the doctor pays the patient if he gets sick and the patient pays the doctor if he stays healthy.With that alone there could be a great change in how doctors in this country treat their patients.They just wouldn't be puppets to the drug companies.Many interesting things covered in this book about the FDA, vitamins, Calcium and modern medicine.

Great Book
This book is very informative, with extremely useful advice.I strongly believe that the use of calcium as outlined in the book will help the body heal itself.I have a question for the registered nurses who have discounted this book:How can you sleep at night knowing that everyday you go to work you pump into your patients highly toxic medications, which has deadly side effects??I'm sure you all know that drugs covers up the symptoms and does absolutely nothing for the underlying cause of the illness.Please stop being hypocrites.

Watch Your Food
The book, Death By Diet is an excellent book. It is full of very basic down to earth information on our relationship between the food we eat and the health of our body. All adults should read this book and learn from it. If we followed the recommendations in this book we would have healthier bodies. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Diet / Health / Fitness    2. Health/Fitness    3. Nutrition    4. Nutritionally induced diseases    5. Calcium    6. Minerals in nutrition   

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Old fashioned fortran, strong bias on Monte Carlo
There is a very strong bias to MC methods in the book. What they have to say about Molecular Dynamics methods is not really new, most of it is virtually copied from the classic by Allan/Tildesley, and many MD techniques which they consider "advanced" (such as cell list methods, verlet tables, etc.) are shifted to one of the many appendices. They do not talk about ghostparticles for instance or give a detailed account of parallelized algorithms which is really state-of-the art today.
Excellent text for beginners in simulation
Its an excellent book for those who are just beginners in MC & MD simulations. everything is very clearly explained with lot of examples and some related unsolved problems. the text explores this topic indetails with advanced chapters in later sections. Good for anybody int hsi field be it in materials science, physics or related fields.

Perfect for New Grad Students
This book is how I bootstrapped my way into being a molecular simulationist.Anyone who can program in some language can get started writing simple routines for the basic MD and MC simulations.Read more

Subjects:  1. Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical    2. Computer Engineering    3. Computer Simulation    4. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    5. Intermolecular forces    6. Mathematical Physics    7. Mathematical models    8. Molecular Chemistry    9. Molecules    10. Quantum Theory    11. Science    12. Science/Mathematics    13. Atomic & molecular physics    14. Computer modelling & simulation    15. Materials science    16. Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical   

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Diets - General    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health/Fitness    6. Nursing - Nutrition    7. Nutrition    8. Medical / Nursing / Nutrition   

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Medical Technology    2. Biomedical Materials    3. Chemistry - General    4. Family & General Practice    5. General    6. Medical    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Polymers in medicine    9. Textiles & Polymers    10. Plastics & polymers technology    11. Technology / Textiles & Polymers   

Subjects:  1. Anatomy    2. Ethics    3. Forensic Medicine    4. History    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Dissection    8. History of medicine    9. Medical / General   

Reviews (176)

REQUIRED READING!!
I just finished this book and must say it has had a profound effect on the way I look at health, nutrition and the information we are spoonfed on a daily basis.I will never again eat dairy and will always question where the latest and greatest research findings came from and who funded them!This book should be required reading for every single American person today!Why the information in this book is not front page news speaks volumes about the influence agricultural lobby groups have on government, science and the media.

You've got to read this book!
I received this book as a gift. There are quite a few books on this subject on the market and this one is the best. I too could not put it down and finished it in 3 days. It's a huge book, a great resource that is well researched and written.. I have a few friends who've purchased this book and really loved it too. I can highly recommend this book.
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Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet in disease    3. Diets - General    4. Diseases - General    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health/Fitness    7. Healthy Living    8. Nutrition    9. Nutrition And Diet    10. Nutrition And Public Health    11. Nutritionally induced diseases    12. Dietetics & nutrition    13. Health & Fitness / Nutrition   

Reviews (6)

Very Good Treatment of a Little Known Subject
I generally agree with the other reviewers that this is an outstanding work, made all the more remarkable by the recognition that Hunter has remained so obscure to the general reader over the 200+ years since he lived and worked.Author Moore's writing style is engaging and straightforward, and the book is an easy and enlightening read.But I do have a couple of cavils.First, and even considering our two centuries' remove, there is a discernible remoteness or lack of intimacy in the description of Hunter and his activities, e.g., "he must have thought", "he probably knew", and so forth that is a bit off-putting until the reader is informed near the end of the book that Hunter's spiteful brother-in-law burned most of his papers, including correspondence with prized pupils like Jenner, after Hunter's death, inevitably depriving biographers of enriching details.I believe it would have been helpful if she explained this fact earlier in the work.Second, the book just cries out for illustrations.The sole "portrait" of Hunter is a small, almost cartoonish depiction, and Moore constantly--if inadvertently--teases the reader with references to the superb illustrators who worked for Hunter over the years, but does not include even one of their drawings; very frustrating.With these exceptions, readers who enjoy the work of physician-cum-historian Roy Porter will certainly feel right at home with this very entertaining book.

"He made surgery a science."
Wendy Moore's magnificent book, "The Knife Man," is a thoroughly researched account of the life and times of John Hunter, one of the most controversial and fascinating figures of the eighteenth century.Born in 1728 in Scotland, Hunter was the tenth child of humble farming parents.He was an indifferent student who preferred learning through observation and experimentation rather than by reading dusty texts.During his teenage years, John's father and six of his siblings died.This was not surprising during an era when "burials far exceeded baptisms."Matters were not helped by the use of such toxic "remedies" as bloodletting, purging, and blistering to cure the sick.Doctors never washed their hands or sterilized their instruments; if the disease didn't kill the patient, the physician's intervention would probably do the trick.
Very Good
This is a well written and enlightening biography of the great 18th century British physician-scientist John Hunter.Moore has done a real service by bringing Hunter before the reading public.Known largely to historians of medicine as an important figure in the history of surgery, Moore shows Hunter to be definitely that and much more.Hunter is also a remarkable personal story.An expatriate Scot and son of impoverished parents, largely uninterested in formal education as a youth, Hunter became the outstanding anatomist of his time under the tutelage of his older brother William and by virtue of his great natural talents.Similarly, he had relatively little in the way of formal medical education, though given the primitive state of medical theory and practice in his time, this was arguably an advantage.By the end of his life, he was perhaps the preeminent surgeon in Britain, enjoyed an international reputation as a scientist, and inspired a large number of students to pursue his brand of empirical, more scientifically oriented practice and research.Though Hunter's story is in some respects a lurid one, with the reliance on grave robbers for cadavers and the vicious professional rivalries characterizing some of his career, Moore does very well to show the essential nature of these events without letting them overpower the narrative.The most interesting aspect of the book is actually not Hunter's medical accomplishments, though these were very important, but Moore's description of his other achievements.Moore shows Hunter to be a profoundly important teacher who influenced a whole generation of British and American surgeons and physicians including important individuals like Jenner.Hunter's achievements as a biologist, particularly his work in anatomy, comparative anatomy, and what would become physiology, were substantial.Moore makes the good point that Hunter's achievements may have been unappreciated in part because credit for some of his achievements were attributed to his older brother and after John Hunter's death, appear to have been appropriated by his shameless brother-in-law.Hunter appears also to have been at the center of the British Enlightenment.His friendships included a number of notable British intellectuals like the great naturalist Joseph Banks and he was on good terms with individuals like Gibbon and Adam Smith.
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Subjects:  1. 1728-1793    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Great Britain    5. Historical - General    6. History    7. History Of Medicine    8. Hunter, John,    9. Medical - General    10. Science    11. Science/Mathematics    12. Surgeons    13. Science / General