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The book is a mish mosh
It's too bad this book is a mish mosh and that neophytes in Chinese medicine are not going to know this. Some of the material is very standard and authentic, but a lot of it is the authors' own invention. So be careful with this. If you want the real deal, this is not the book you want. A better introduction to standard Chinese medicine is Kaptchuk's classic, The Web That Has No Weaver.

Excellent Guide to the Novice
I am a novice in the art of TCM and I do not speak or read chinese. This was an excellent guide for me in my studies in preparation to attend school for TCM and also how to get some practical benefit from my Chinese herbs. This was an Excellent Guide for the Novice.

An excellent introduction to the tenets of TCM
I recommend this book to all of my clients! With so much focus being placed on alternative therapies in health care, it staggers me that so much of the general public still thinks that acupuncture is for idiots acting as a human pincushion. While it is far from an instruction manual (which was never its intent), Between Heaven and Earth gives laypeople a simplified and elegant explanation of an ancient science. If you're looking for a definitive education in TCM, go to a university and get a degree. If you want an introduction to wellness through Chinese Medicine, read this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Alternative Therapies    2. China    3. Health/Fitness    4. Herbs    5. History    6. Materia medica, Vegetable    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Medicine, Chinese    9. Reference    10. Therapeutic use    11. Health & Fitness / Reference    12. Modern fiction   

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Delivered as promised and in great condition
It came a bit slower than expected (say 2 weeks, when I was expecting to get it in one), but overall I was very pleased with the transaction.

Easy Read that Explains How Policy is Made
I am taking a course in Health Policy and the Political System and opted to use this book instead of that recommended by my professor. This book examined all the important aspects of policy making - paying close attention to the political actors - and has helped tremendously in my understanding of the politics surrounding health policy.

Best book in print on the health policy process
I have used this book for a number of years now in a class I teach on the Politics of Health Policy (along with Kingdon's classic). It provides an excellent overview of how health policy is made and the politics around it, drawing on both the academic literature as well as recent policies. The second edition is heavily revised from the first and contains up to date examples. An excellent academic overview of the health policy process. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Health Care Delivery    2. Health Policy    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Medical policy    6. Politics    7. Public Policy - Social Policy    8. United States    9. Health systems & services    10. History / Europe / General    11. Medical / Health Policy    12. Medical-Health Care Delivery    13. Political Science-Public Policy - Social Policy    14. Political science & theory    15. USA   

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Excellent Book!!!
As physicians, we are used to prescribe and trust only on pharmacotherapy. This book gives you a medical approach to nutrition therapy to add effective counseling and a scientific approach to your patient's nutricional issues, in order to add a new therapeutical tool to your daily practice. �obese patients? it is just not enought to say "cut out haburgers, eat more salad" a problem-oriented anamnesis and special physical measurements must be done. Wanna know the diference between a diet for a COPD patient and one with arthritis? this book gives you the theoretical basis as well as the "for dummies" approach

Can't Live Without It
This book is the required text of my dietetics coursework time and time again and thus I use it extensively. At first I resented the very large and heavy book, but more and more I find myself turning to it for answers, even for things that aren't school-related. My university has a book rental program. Previously I'd only rented the book, but now, as I sit inbetween semesters, I find myself missing it terribly. The moment the bookstore opens I will be buying this book for keeps.
Krause's Food, Nutrition & Diet Therapy
This book was a big help when I studied for my test as a Registered Dietitian.I liked the way pro and cons of controversial issues were pictured. This book is great for any health professional. ... Read more

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

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Fascinating material
I used this book for one of my favorite classes in college on biotechnology.It will show you the cool side of science and all of the neat things you can do with biology and DNA.The level is low enough to where you only need a minimal background to understand it, basic biology classes and preferably genetics.After completing the book you should be excited about the future of biotech, and you will have some understanding about how it works.

Good introductory material for the technical
To those who are interested in the functional aspects of the DNA this is the right introductory stuff. It covers areas including basic molecular biology to commercial methods for manipulating the genes. Pretty useful for someone who's more interested in the technology than the biology!

Good overview but lacks technical rigor
I am currently using this book for a course in Molecular Biotechnology taught through the chemistry department.Although the book covers a wide range of biotechnology fields, from manipulation of gene expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes through human gene therapy, it does so in asomewhat shallow and repetitive way.I have also seen clearer and moreconcise diagrams covering similar topics in other biochemistry books, andthere is a paucity of in-depth coverage in any particular area.This isnot necessarily the authors's fault, however, arising from the plethora ofinformation found in the biotechnology field.If someone wants a broadreview of molecular biotechnology, this is a decent book, but if you wantto focus on a specific area within biotechnology, look somewhere else. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biotechnology    2. Genetic Engineering    3. Life Sciences - Biology - Molecular Biology    4. Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics    5. Medical    6. Microbiology    7. Molecular Biology    8. Science    9. DNA   

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Wonderful; couldn't put it down
This book does a wonderful job of bringing the story of the world's first HUMAN heart-transplant to life--and for those of us who might be in the medical field--some insight, down the road, of what must have driven other heart surgeons.Remember, the University of Mississippi's James Hardy?Did you know that he used a Baboon's heart--and implanted it into a human?Later, in the 1980's, did you know Dr. Bailey (Loma Linda) used a baby baboon's heart and put it into "Baby Fae"?Remember this?Heart surgeons have been plagued by the Prima Donna syndrome for years--and justifiably; however, this book UNDOES history's fame on Christan Barnard and makes him out to be a fame-driven, and ultimately, sorrowful individual stripped of his fellowship in the American College of Surgeons--while making the American surgeons (Drs. Shumway, Lower, Stinson, Kantrowitz) the real heroes of the heart transplant.I couldn't put this book down. . .and you won't be able to either.Christian Barnard's greatest achievment to science was NOT the heart transplant:it was his discovery of the cause of intestinal atresia, and the help his work in transplantation led the American's to re-define the definition of death from "heart" death to "brain-dead."The hero of the heart transplant is Richard Lower and Norman Shumway.Simply outstanding reading.

The Great Race
For those who lived through the sixties, the space race was a thrilling and defining endeavor.Few who remember it, however, will have forgotten another race that captured people's imaginations at the same time, the race to get a human heart transplanted.Maybe, like the space race, it was overhyped and exaggerated, but like the space race, the competition was a sensation that had serious aspects and effects on the future.In _Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart_ (Putnam), Donald McRae has told an important story, the exciting tale of pioneers competing on the frontiers of medicine, with the losers making lasting contributions and the winner descending into a tragic chaos fueled by fame.
A Medical Page Turner
Many of us remember the news of the first heart transplant, done, of all places, in South Africa.But only those on the inside knew that several physicians were on the brink of reaching this medical mile stone.Donald McRae describes four physicians working diligently toward the first human heart transplant. The efforts, creativity, egos and motivations of these doctors lay the background to this fascinating medical story.It reads like a medical research timeline, interwoven with facts and factoids about the major players involved.
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Consumer Health    3. Diet / Health / Fitness    4. Diseases - Heart    5. Heart    6. Heart surgeons    7. History    8. History Of Medicine    9. Medical    10. Medical - General    11. Organ Transplantation    12. Surgery - Thoracic    13. Transplant surgeons    14. Transplantation    15. Biography & Autobiography / Medical   

Subjects:  1. Diet    2. Diets - General    3. Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Nutrition    6. Nutrition Physiology    7. Science    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Dietetics & nutrition    10. Non-Classifiable   

Subjects:  1. Bioinformatics    2. Biotechnology    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Medical informatics    6. Reference    7. Applications of Computing    8. Biomedial Informatics    9. Health Informatics    10. Medical / Administration    11. Medical Computing    12. Medical equipment & techniques   

Reviews (11)

Out of Date?
This five year old PDR Family Guide to Nutritional Supplements, first edition, Dec. 2001, is an excellent consise book and easy to read. However it is out of date when compared with PDR Health on-line. To get started this book is good. To get the latest information from PDR one has to go on-line and combining the two can be confusing. I'll not order until the second edition is released.

I use it in my healing practice, and nursing practice
Note:First of all, there are 2 natural remedy PDRs, one for Nutritional rRemedies and Supplements, and another specifically for Herbal Remedies.You will NOT find herbal info in the nutritional PDR, nor nutritional supplements in the Herbal PDR.
Brim Full of Information
Tired of getting your supplement information from the vitamin shop clerk? This is state of the art stuff. Finally here is a book that both the lay person and the physician can safely turn to. The author has no axe to grind. He neither overstates nor understates, but is carefully objective in his presentation and allows the evidence to speak for itself. Dr. Hendler brings to his subject an open mind, wide ranging intelligence, and a rigorous training in all of the relevant disciplines. He refuses to be a shill either for entrenched medical orthodoxy or starry eyed alternative approaches. The result is a cornucopia of information. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Drug Guides    2. Handbooks, manuals, etc    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Minerals in human nutrition    6. Nutrition    7. Vitamins    8. Vitamins in human nutrition    9. Dietetics & nutrition   

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How to empower health care consumers

Huge but a litle simplistic
Sub-Title: Implications for Providers, Players, and Policy-Makers --,Citizen participation, Consumer satisfaction, Evaluation, Health & Fitness, Health Care Administration, Health Care Delivery, Health Care Issues, Health Policy, Health planning, Health/Fitness, Medical / Nursing, Patient Compliance, Patient satisfaction, Health systems & services, Medical / Administration, Personal & public health, Medical ==If your interests or profession lies in any area of health care this is a book that you almost have to have. In its almost 1,000 pages nearly every aspect of health care coverage is discussed. The format of the book includes some 200 pages written by Professor Herslinger followed by some 72 articles written by some 93 participants in a conference she held. As you would expect, the quality of the papers vary greatly. ==There are also a few reasons to disagree with some of Professor Herslingers basic thesis. She seems to believe that health insurers would compete in a fair market place to provide care to anyone. This is simply not true. If an insurance company can pre-select to eliminate giving any coverage at all to the sicker or more risky patients, it is to their benefit. An AIDS patient, with a requirement for expensive drugs can be folded into the coverage written for a large group, but an individual policy would have to be very expensive, or simply not written at all. The coverage of such patients is covered with what I think are unrealistic assumptions. ==The book presents a series of views that are just a bit simplistic, but which are forming a part of the national debate on health care. The information is needed if only to be aware of the discussion.

Thoughtful Contribution
In Consumer-Driven Health Care, Regina E. Herzlinger, a leading health care thought leader and a professor at the Harvard Business School, provides a thought-provoking look inside a new, powerful force slowly transforming America's dysfunctional health care industry. Consumer-Driven Health Care builds on her popular 1997 book Market-Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America's Largest Service Industry.
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Subjects:  1. Citizen participation    2. Consumer satisfaction    3. Evaluation    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health Care Administration    6. Health Care Delivery    7. Health Care Issues    8. Health Policy    9. Health planning    10. Health/Fitness    11. Medical / Nursing    12. Patient Compliance    13. Patient satisfaction    14. Health systems & services    15. Medical / Administration    16. Personal & public health    17. Medical   

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Don't bother with this one........
Don't waste your money- so many better books available today- Great textbook and reference
I will not resell this on after class!I will use this one forever!Great book, easy to read and follow. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Diet therapy    4. Diets - General    5. Health/Fitness    6. Medical    7. Nursing - LPN&LVN    8. Nutrition    9. Dietetics & nutrition    10. Medical / Nursing / LPN & LVN   

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Required reading
"Top 1000" reviewer Timothy W. Lieder wrote (see his uninformed review below) that he only read half of this book and that Reich recommended "more orgasms". I seriously doubt that Timothy W. Lieder even read a quarter of the book.
A deeply thought-out and provacative book
This is my first exposure to Reich, and what he has to say is more relevant today than ever.It's easy to be misled by the title and think its about having more sex, but nothing could be further than the truth. Heexplores the direct relationship between neuroses (and most of society is neurotic to varying degrees as a result of being raised in an authoritarian manner) and the inability to surrender completely to the the full bio-energetic pleasure of complete orgasm.If you have studied any Tantra you may be aware that what most of us call orgasm is only a genital sneeze, in terms of the possibility available.Thus, we are cut off from the totality of what we are and this is expressed in the energetics of our experience of orgasm, and ultimately, how we live our lives. He also explores the evolution of fascism under these constraints, and how it propogates itself through society.Frightening stuff, particularly in light of current world politics. All in all, a fascinating read, slowed only by old terminology. My only disappointment was the lack of exposition of his therapeutic techniques, other than it appears he is the first to use the breath in healing. This book will open your mind to new ways of thinking about the relationships between our selves, our culture and our politics.

On the biological and social implications of "love making"
The book focuses on the function of orgasm as an important PART of "healthy" love making. The issues discussed are timeless and at the same time not given the proper importance in our everyday life. Why? The author gives his opinion which is informed by the biological, psychological and social scientific domain.Read more

Subjects:  1. Biotechnology    2. General    3. Medical    4. Orgasm    5. Psychoanalysis    6. Psychology    7. Psychology Of Sexuality    8. Sex (Psychology)    9. Sexual behavior   

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A complete and valuable tool
A comprehensive review of this book appears in the March-April 2002 issue of "Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology", Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 141.The book is an important part of a library for anyone engaged in technologies or products dependent on sterilization or disinfection.

There is no better book out there
I have used this book for many years and it never ceases to amaze me how comprehensive it is.This book covers all modes of microbiological control.This is a must have for all Quality Assurance and Quality Control Professionals in the Food, Pharmacetical and Allied industries. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Antiseptics    2. Biotechnology    3. Disinfection and disinfectants    4. Epidemiology    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Medical Microbiology    8. Microbiology    9. Preventive Medicine    10. Sterilization    11. Medical / Infectious Diseases    12. Medical equipment & techniques    13. Public health & preventive medicine   

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thumbs up on economic explanation
This text makes the controversies regarding the state of health care systems clear. The explanations on Medicaid and Medicare make sense. The history of Canada's national health care, pitfalls, advantages, etc. give one a place to start when designing a new system of our own.Alyce Huntsinger RN NNP ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Cost control    5. Economic aspects    6. Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues    7. Hospital Administration    8. Industries - General    9. Medical care    10. Medical economics    11. Medical policy    12. United States   

Subjects:  1. Analysis    2. Food Science    3. Life Sciences - Biochemistry    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Nutrition    7. Vitamins    8. Dietetics & nutrition    9. Food & beverage technology    10. Medical / Nutrition    11. Scientific equipment & techniques, laboratory equipment   

Subjects:  1. Athletes    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Diets - General    4. Exercise    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Nutrition    8. Nutritional aspects    9. Physical fitness    10. Physiological aspects    11. Sports Medicine    12. Medical / Sports Medicine    13. Sports injuries & medicine   

Reviews (56)

Interesting Overview of Processes
Interesting although dated, this overview takes a paternalistic look at major groupings of the reasons why the human body gives out.
Timely in our Culture
HOW WE DIE came into my life when I needed it most--as I faced the impending passing of my mother. Dr. Nuland's words were not only medical and accurate, they were also comforting. We need to know how to die, how to prepare for it, and how to recover from it. We live in a culture where dying is hidden away in hospitals and our lack of experience leaves us absolutely terrified. HOW WE DIE calms our fears, and even though words cannot take away the shock and sorrow of death, this book brings much needed and timely solace.

Read it for The One You Love
"How We Die" is not going to make you die any easier.
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Subjects:  1. Death    2. Death, Grief, Bereavement    3. Health/Fitness    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Pathology    6. Thanatology    7. Non-Classifiable   

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Harrowing but beautiful
Tayman's account of the leper colony on Molokai and its history is fascinating and brilliantly written.He clearly shows us the various characters involved over a century of "medical segregation" as he calls it. All in all many scholars have come to the conclusion that the isolation of the lepers prevented the further progress of the disease in Hawaii.The poor planning by the Board of Health made the victim's suffering more acute in the beginning of their isolation and the effects of this have lived on in the hearts of the Hawaiian people.

Great miniseries material
I would have never believed I would more than skim this book when I began it;what a surprise!It was like the most incredible miniseries imaginable. Unbelievable true stories of heroism and cruelty and larger than life characters.The author has a way of making you want to keep turning pages.Best book I've read in a long time.

Uneven

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Subjects:  1. Diseases    2. Hawaii    3. Hawaii - Local History    4. History    5. History: American    6. History: World    7. Infectious Diseases    8. Leprosy    9. Medical / Nursing    10. Molokai    11. Molokai (Hawaii)    12. Sociology Of Medicine    13. United States - State & Local - West    14. History / General   

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Excellent depth
This books gives in depth understanding of the Cryogenic refrigeration. Cryogenic Engineering
I'm cryogenic specialist and I'd like to read some new cryogenic literature ,because it help me in my job.

Cryogenic Engineering
I'm cryogenic specialist and I'd like to read some new cryogenic literature ,because it help me in my job. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Engineering - Mechanical    3. Low temperature engineering    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Technology    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Mechanical engineering    8. Medical / Biotechnology   

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A history of America's best-kept secret
With a limited understanding of osteopathic medicine's roots, I set on a crash course to find an osteopathic medical history book similar to what a Kenneth Ludmerer's "Time to Heal" did for the history of medicine itself.And with Norman Gevitz's book, I was surely not disappointed.One would think that as a book recommended by the AOA and written by a osteopathic medical school professor, the book would be slanted.However, Gevitz does a great job at maintaining neutrality as a historian while demonstrating a certain degree of candidness, particularly about M.D./D.O. relations and the future of osteopathic medicine.Despite my ecstasy for this book, I do feel that there are certain portions of this book that can be further elaborated (reasoning behind the four-star rating).For example, I would like it if more material was included about osteopathic medicine between 1960 and today.Specifically, Gevitz seems to gloss over the political and social reverberations behind Henry Kissinger's monumental decision to admit D.O.s in the military as equals to M.D.s.Nevertheless, I thought the book was very well written and has definitely sparked an interest into one of this nation's best-kept secrets. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Health Policy    2. History    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Osteopathic Medicine    6. Osteopathy    7. United States    8. Chiropractic & osteopathy    9. Education / Elementary    10. USA   

Reviews (10)

I'm the author
I got a chuckle from a recent review by Seven Octaves. It was similar to a review in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Everyone wishes I had added a few hundred pages on their favorite subject. The book was written for medical students and nurses and pre-med students. I have been surprised at the acceptance by non-medical people. The idea was to provide what every young medical student or nurse or pre-med student should know. Salvarsan is of historic significance only. Erlich is important for his concept of the receptor that predicted antibiotics. The Bulletin reviewer would have preferred more on ancient medicine. I agree. But I would need a two volume work. It is being reprinted and will be available for a while. Thanks for all the nice, and not so nice, comments. Even the guy who thinks my writing is terrible.

Fine Book
Other reviewers have stated what this book is about, but I don't think this is quite a 5-star book however.Even though the title is "brief", he made no mention of all was the growth of plastic surgery following all the disfigured soldiers returning fromWW1.Paul Ehrlich's development Salvarsan didn't even get an entire page devoted to it.Some history on treatments for others diseases are lacking or absent.This book could have been really good if the author threw in a few hundred more pages, (easy for me to say) but it's still a fine reference.

The Return of Humanism in Medicine: Hope for the Future!
In this litigious time when physicians and all medical care workers tend to live under an umbrella of suspect brought on by the intervention of the media, vast lawsuits, big business (pharmaceutical companies) intervention, and computer access to data, there has occurred a response in the medical facilities to promote 'defensive medicine' to instruct the nascent students how to cope with the antagonistic world outside the halls of the teaching hospitals. This has resulted in less emphasis on the learning of the skills of the time honored Doctor-Patient relationship and in creating the aura that physicians dwell in glass dome sanctuaries of science: the quiet moments of sharing personal fears and concerns and relieving the pain in the souls of the patient and patients' families seem relics of the past house-call/caring-physician image. Michael Kennedy in his book A BRIEF HISTORY OF DISEASE, SCIENCE & MEDICINE has done more to rectify this widening gap between physician and patient than any volume I have read. This meticulously written, dignified yet very warm and honest look at medicine from the Ice Age to the era of molecular and genetic concepts for the present and the future reads more like a fascinating novel than an academic treatise. There are facts and histories discussed here which will enlighten not only the general public but also the men and women of medicine - from premed student to retired doctor. It is simply an amazing source of knowledge while simultaneously being an honest, no-holds-barred review of how we came to this point in healthcare. And if ever there were a time when this book was needed, it is certainly now. Read this fascinating tome and learn not only the extraordinary progress made in the mystery of disease and physical meanderings away from the 'normal', but at the same time see just how vulnerable is the scientist and physician in dealing with new aspects of the art of practicing medicine through time. Kennedy and his colleagues have added an important adjunct to the re-entry of humanism in the teaching of medicine at his alma mater: this book demonstrates that journey of commitment to resurrect the precious healing relationship between the doctor and those who approach him for succor. Read this book for a highly dignified history of medicine, for some amazing insights into disease process, and for reassurance the perhaps the return of the sanctity of healthcare delivery is a possibility. A fine and very important achievement, Dr. Kennedy!
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Subjects:  1. General    2. History    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing