1. Encyclopedia of Cancer: A
Guide to Cancer and its Treatments
This e-book is a unique and invaluable source of information
for anyone touched by cancer. This collection of over 450 entries provides
in-depth coverage of specific cancer types, diagnostic procedures, treatments,
cancer side effects, and cancer drugs. In addition, entries have been included
to facilitate understanding of common cancer-related concepts, such as cancer
biology, carcinogenesis, and cancer genetics, as well as cancer issues such as
clinical trials, home health care, fertility issues, and cancer prevention.
This encyclopedia minimizes medical jargon and uses language that laypersons
can understand, while still providing thorough coverage that will benefit
health science students as well. The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer contains over 200 full-color
illustrations, photos and tables. Eleven illustrations of various body systems
can be found in the front matter of the book, and these can help the reader to
understand which cancers may affect which organs, and how the various systems
interact. This e-book contains 1451 printable pages.
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2.
Encyclopedia of Woman's Health
The Encyclopedia of
Women’s Health brings
together the knowledge and experience of professionals from a wide range of
fields including medicine, law, psychology, social work, demography, education,
epidemiology, dentistry, cosmetology, massage, nutrition, physical fitness,
history, and many others. This broad foundation allows us to explore women’s
health from a bio-psycho-social perspective, and to consider the many facets of
women’s health and the many factors that impact women’s health status. This
e-book is intended as a reference both for non-health professionals who wish to
have a more in-depth understanding of various topics, and for health
professionals searching for an introduction to fields outside of their own.
This e-book contains 717 printable pages full of informative and
knowledge-oriented contents.
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3. Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition
Keeping up to date on the
concepts and interrelationships between nutrient needs, dietary intake and
health outcomes is essential. This edition of the Encyclopedia of Human
Nutrition hopes to address these needs. This e-book contains four volumes and
2167 printable pages contributed by hundreds of experts in nutrition. The
material in the Encyclopedia is arranged as a series of entries in alphabetical
order. Most entries consist of several articles that deal with various aspects
of a topic and are arranged in a logical sequence within an entry.
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4.
Encyclopedia of Modern Optics
The purpose of this
Encyclopedia is to provide a resource for introducing optical fundamentals and
technologies to the general technical audience for whom optics is a key
capability in exploring their field of interest. Some 25 internationally
recognized scientists and engineers served as editors. They helped in selecting
the topical coverage and choosing the over 260 authors who prepared the
individual articles. The authors form an international group who are expert in
their discipline and come from every part of the technological community
spanning academia, government and industry. The editors and authors of this
Encyclopedia hope that the reader finds in these pages the information needed
to provide guidance in exploring and utilizing optics. This e-book contains
very-much content-oriented 2285 pages.
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5. Encyclopedia of Surgery
This Encyclopedia of Surgery
is a Guide for Patients and Caregivers and is a unique and invaluable source of
information for anyone who is considering undergoing a surgical procedure, or
has a loved one in that situation. This collection of 465 entries provides
in-depth coverage of specific surgeries, diagnostic tests, drugs, and other
related entries. The book gives detailed information on 265 surgeries; most
include step-by-step illustrations to enhance the reader’s understanding of the
procedure itself. This
encyclopedia minimizes medical jargon and uses language that laypersons can
understand, while still providing detailed coverage that will benefit health
science students. This
Encyclopedia contains
over 230 full-color illustrations, photos, and tables. This includes over 160
step-by-step illustrations of surgeries. These illustrations were specially
created for this product to enhance a layperson’s understanding of surgical
procedures. This e-book contains 569 pages.
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6. Encyclopedia of Trauma and Traumatic Stress Disorders
The Encyclopedia of
Trauma and Traumatic Stress Disorders is a compilation of trauma and stress
related terminology in the field of traumatic stress. Terms such as terrorism, 9/11, and fear became everyday topics
of discussion as bombings continued around the world from Madrid to London to
India. With so many undefined words now leading major discussions, a need arose
to define trauma and stress-related concepts in one volume—hence The Encyclopedia of
Trauma and Traumatic Stress Disorders. The entries in this encyclopedia address
all areas of extreme stress and trauma and innovative treatment approaches, as
well as everyday definitions in a clear, non-technical language. This reference
book can be a guide to a better understanding of the many medical and psychological
effects trauma has on individuals and that traumatic experiences are not just
labeled and put aside, but rather folded into the information in this book.
This e-book contains 400 printable pages.
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7. Pocket Atlas of
Human Anatomy: Based on the International Nomenclature
This globally recognized pocket atlas can be used as a
comprehensive illustrated dictionary of anatomical structures with standardized
Latin and English terminology. At the same time it is an excellent atlas of
anatomy in its own right, with illustrations by a prize-winning medical artist.
Packed with time-saving, succinct information, it is a must for all students
and practitioners of the medical sciences. This new edition contains the most
recent update of the "Nomina anatomica"
by the Committee on International Nomenclature. This e-book contains 510 pages.
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8. Encyclopedia of Women’s Reproductive
Cancer
The Encyclopedia of Women’s Reproductive
Cancer is
designed to answer the questions about reproductive cancer, and includes the
most up-to-date information on cancers of the ovary, vagina, vulva, and uterus
that may affect a woman during her lifetime. It has been designed as a guide
and reference to a wide range of subjects important to the understanding of a
woman’s reproductive health. This e-book contains 321 pages.
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9. Encyclopedia of
Sleep and Sleep Disorders
According to the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research of the
National Institutes of Health, 70 million American adults suffer from some kind
of sleep disorder. Disorders such as sleep apnea have been linked to an
increased likelihood of stroke, hypertension, or heart failure. It is now
documented that sleep deprivation can facilitate mistakes or incidents at work;
mood swings; an increased chance of obesity; and, drowsy driving, a serious
condition often associated with traffic accidents and fatalities. In recent
years the number of sleep disorder practitioners has grown substantially, and
researchers have made breakthroughs in understanding sleep, why it's crucial to
general health and what disrupts it.” The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Sleep
Disorders, Third Edition" examines the key terms, conditions, remedies,
long-term health consequences, and advances that have been made in sleep
health, sleep research, and sleep disorder diagnosis and treatment. Topics
covered in this title include: Accidents; Biological clock; Diet and sleep;
Elderly and sleep; Infant sleep; Melatonin; Narcolepsy; Obstructive sleep apnea
syndrome; Restless leg syndrome; Surgery and sleep disorders; and, more. This
e-book contains 369 pages.
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10. Encyclopedia of Women's Health
Women's health is a
multifaceted subject, and the up-to-date reference book requires considerable
social awareness in addition to wide-ranging clinical knowledge. The
Encyclopedia of Women's Health meets this challenge by bringing together an
impressive array of experts on topics from reproductive issues to
gastrointestinal illnesses. This skilfully edited
volume, informed by current health issues and health-care realities, offers
readers practical information, historical aspects, and future directions, all
meticulously researched and conveniently presented. This e-book contains 792
pages.
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11. Encyclopedia Of
Children's Health: Infancy Through Adolescence – 4 Volumes Set
The
Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health, with articles by medical writers and
health-care professionals and an editorial board of pediatricians with academic
affiliations, has more than 600 alphabetically arranged, signed entries,
ranging in length from 500 to 4,000 words. Half of the entries cover topics
affecting children from conception through age 4, and the rest discuss topics
affecting children from 5 to 18 years of age. This e-book contains 2000 pages.
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12. Pocket Atlas of Human Anatomy
Professor
Feneis designed the anatomic picture dictionary as a
reference book that provides illustrated short descriptions of anatomic terms
in accordance with the valid international nomenclature. The brief and clearly
written text segments were set opposite concise figures of equal educational
value—a graphic task that Professor Spitzer managed to solve brilliantly. This
e-book contains 510 printable pages.
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13. The Human Body: An Introductin to
Structure and Function
This exceptional resource
offers a broad review of the structure and function of the human body.
Each chapter is dedicated to a particular organ system, providing medical and
allied health students and professionals with quick and comprehensive coverage
of anatomy and physiology.
Features:
- All concepts are reinforced by detailed overviews at the beginning of each
chapter, and summaries at the end
- In-depth information on cell-biology, genetics, and human evolution provides
a conceptual framework for understanding the human body
- Detailed text complements 271 full-color illustrations to help readers
visualize and grasp complex subjects
- Key sections on how antioxidants and active substances in plants affect the
digestive system
First year medical students and allied health professionals will benefit from
the text’s extensive scope and clear presentation. Knowledge of the human
body’s structures and functions is essential for every level of practice, and
this indispensable guide is a definitive encyclopedia on the subject. - This
e-book contains 722 pages.
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14. Disordered Mind and Brain
It is about neural
basis of mental symptoms. This book presents an examination of the evidence
regarding the neural mechanisms of the seven major clusters of psychiatric
symptoms, and then examines the way in which mental symptoms occur within
several representative diseases, each characterised
by a particular profile of symptoms and time course. This book draws together
many of the strands of evidence that have been teased out by the techniques of
modern neuroscience, with the purpose of assembling a conceptual framework for
understanding the mechanisms by which mental symptoms are generated. Rather
than starting with the disease entities defined by Kraepelin
and his successors, we shall focus first on symptoms. This e-book contains 344
printable pages.
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15.
Illustrated Guide to the Human body: Cells and Genetics
This book is a concise, illustrated
guide to the anatomy, physiology, well-being, and disorders of human cells,
chromosomes, and genes. It has been written and illustrated specially
for students and laypeople interested in cell biology, medicine, health, and
hygiene. The subject is dealt with in clear steps, so that the reader can
steadily acquire a good overall understanding. Explanatory texts, diagrams,
illustrations, captions, and fact boxes are combined to help readers grasp
important information at a glance. A glossary of scientific and jargon words
defines medical terms in everyday language. A list of Web sites provides links
to other relevant sources of information, and the index enables quick access to
articles. This e-book contains 113 pages.
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16. Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and
Addictive Behaviour
This Encyclopedia of Drugs and Alcohol is an
amazing compendium of information on the effects of addictions at every level, and a team of experts put
together an intelligently organized, complete survey of drug and alcohol
addictions, and includes new and updated articles that address the exciting
frontiers that have opened up in the field of addiction studies. New brain
imaging techniques, an explosion of information about the human genome and its
relevance to health, excellent efforts at data collection to define the scope
and nature of the problem of addictions, and carefully designed studies aimed
at uncovering the statistical relevance of various prevention, diagnosis, and
treatment programs are all illuminating and igniting the process of
understanding addictions. This e book contains 1919 printable pages.
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13.
Diabetes Cookbook
for Dummies, 3rd Edition
Want to create healthy meals that are diabetic friendly? This revised and
updated third edition of Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies shows you how easy it can be to
manage diabetes through diet, including the latest information on diabetes
testing, monitoring, and maintenance, as well as delicious new recipes and nutritional information. This edition also includes a new section
that focuses on vegetarian dishes and a new chapter on encouraging a Type 1
diabetic child to eat properly.
·
Features changes in fat,
carbohydrate and protein recommendations that parallel the recommendations of
the American Diabetes Association regarding meal
plans
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Includes new ideas about
restaurant eating, including new menu items at fast food locations as well as revised tips on food shopping
and setting up the diabetic kitchen
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Offers 100+ new and
revised diabetic recipes
Complete with ways to involve children in meal planning and preparation, Diabetes
Cookbook For Dummies will
help you improve your diet and your health!
This e-book contains 387 pages
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25. Fitness and Wellness,
8th Edition
This e-book delivers full-color,
cutting-edge coverage of core concepts coupled with a wealth of resources
rivaling the most comprehensive texts. The succinct nine-chapter text offers
balanced coverage that concentrates on health-related physical fitness
components with up-to-date insight on wellness. In the Hoeger
tradition, an integral theme of the text is motivation and behavior
modification. The authors teach you how to take control of your personal
fitness, health, and lifestyle habits so you can make a constant and deliberate
effort to stay healthy–and realize your highest potential for good health. The
text is also integrated with CengageNOW™, powerful
interactive learning tools that provide you with pre- and post-tests, a
personalized study plan, labs, the personal change planner, and more. Colorful,
concise, and cutting-edge, FITNESS AND WELLNESS equips you with the most
up-to-date coverage and tools to take charge of your health–without the expense
of larger texts.
This e-book contains the following chapters:-
1.
Introduction
to Fitness and Wellness
2.
Assessment
of Physical Fitness
3.
Exercise
Prescription
4.
Evaluating
Fitness Activities
5.
nutrition
for Fitness
6.
Weight
Management
7.
Stress
Management
8.
A Healthy
Lifestyle Approach
9.
Relevant
Fitness and Wellness Issues
This e-book contains 321 pages
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26. Hand-book of Obstetrics and Gynecology
This
e-book contains two books viz: Hand-book of
Obstetrics and Gynecology containing 931
printable pages and another book, Gynecology Illustrated containing 436
printable pages totaling 1367 pages of this e-book. While explaining the
gynecological aspects and perspectives, these books include developments in
gynecological practice, including advances in medical treatment towards
contribution of basic knowledge and updated knowledge on this subject.
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27.Health for Life: Cure
Diabetes, Hypertension, More
The author writes: This book has been written for all those people who have
been asking me for information on how I accomplished curing my diseases so
quickly. That statement kind of bothers me. I
did not heal myself. God gave me a body
that was wondrously and fearfully made that was able to heal because I followed
the rules He originally set forth for healthy bodies. You can follow some
simple steps I have tried to set out here so that your body can heal according
to the marvelous work God performed in making you. I have written background
information on pH balances, nutrition, oxygen, water, etc to give you the
reasons for what I did and why you should do something similar. I have included
charts and tables in the back to help also. I hope the information is written
so it is easily understood and helps you. I have experienced the affects
firsthand and know it works. This e-book contains 51 pages.
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28.THE
WEIGHT LOSS MANUAL
Inside the pages of this book, we’ll give you all kinds of
tips and tricks toward successful weight loss. We’ll examine some common weight
loss myths and even give you some great recipes to try while you are on this
journey. This e-booklet contains 61 pages.
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Textbook of Surgery
The textbook of surgery is intended to both medical students
and surgical trainees. The book aims to provide an understanding of surgical
principles, with a few surgical conditions and basic surgical procedures,
including addressing the impact of scientific and technological advancement to
the surgical practice.
As with other surgical texts, the opening chapters address
"station-based" surgical care, from the elementary anesthetics,
nutrition, and postoperative care. The following chapters consist largely of
general surgery specialty, but unlike some other surgical texts, given the
attention to important topics in otolaryngology, orthopedics, neurosurgery and cardiothoracics.
The structure divides subjects by surgical specialty, a subdivision of each
chapter of pathology, which allows for easy navigation. Each condition is
broadly described in terms of clinical symptoms, etiology, diagnosis and
management, but without the reader feeling bogged down in too much detail.
Comparing this book Lecture Notes on Surgery is the main difference is that the
textbook of surgery much more detail about surgical treatment which both
descriptions and photos (pictures are everywhere in use) of a specific surgical
procedures and techniques that will probably Referring to a lecture
surgically-oriented students feeling left open Notes.
The conclusion is that the textbook of surgery with a comprehensive description
of the surgical specialties, both well written and well illustrated. The
additional surgical detail there is something special and I would recommend it.
This e-book contains 624 pages.
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CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION
Cardiac transplantation has evolved dramatically since its first human application in 1967. Since that time, as the chapters of this text collectively attest, significant progress in the areas of immunosuppression and surgical techniques have impacted substantially on posttransplant outcomes, so much so that transplantation is now considered to be the standard therapy for end-stage heart disease. Cardiac transplantation at Columbia–Presbyterian began in 1977. Since that time, the program has grown extensively and, as of January 2004, completed its 1542nd transplant.
This e-book contains 624 pages.
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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________Anesthesia Fact Book: Everything You
Need to Know Before Surgery
Despite the obvious fact that an anesthetic is an essential
part of any operation, you are likely to meet only briefly with the
anesthesiologist before surgery. Without more time to talk about your concerns,
you are still open questions: How will you know I'm asleep? Is it possible to
wake up during surgery? How do you monitor me during my surgery? What are the
potential complications I should know?
Written by a board-certified, experienced
anesthesiologists, anesthesia Fact Book provides a sense of control back in
your hands and make you a more informed and confident patient. Have to process
the answers to frequently asked questions about the anesthesia, it contains
important information about:
# How anesthesia works and how it differs from the dusk, spinal or epidural
anesthesia
# The credentials you should look in your anesthesiologist
# The most important questions you should be sure to ask before surgery
# The heart and respiratory monitors used during most operations
Supplied # The risks associated with anesthesia in a doctor's office
This e-book contains 237 pages.
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