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Born in California of Laotian (Hmong) parents, Lia suffers from epileptic seizures that began at age three months. As traditional…
Hmong medicine is not available, Lia's parents take her to American doctors. Neither parental love nor the doctors' sense of duty can transcend the cultural barriers and misconceptions that complicate Lia's medical care. 1997.By Suzanne Jurmain. 2010
Tells the story of the doctors and researchers who worked to track down the cause of yellow fever and find…
a way to eliminate the disease. Junior and Senior High. 2010.By Brian Goldman. 2010
Goldman shares his experiences of the witching hours at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. He introduces us to the kinds of…
patients who walk into an ER after midnight, but also reveals the heartbreaking side of everyday ER visits: adult children forced to make life and death decisions about critically ill parents, victims of sexual assault, and mentally ill and homeless patients looking for understanding and a quick fix. c2010.By Oliver W Sacks. 1985
Doctor Sacks discusses a wide range of neurological cases, touching on some of the deepest and strangest extremes of the…
human condition. There are patients with perceptual and intellectual aberrations and those who display abnormal mental powers. The curious details of the cases are lit up by Doctor Sacks' profound sympathy which enables us to enter the world of his patients. 1985. Uniform title: Man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical talesBy Carolyn Abraham. 2013
Explores the stunning power and ethical pitfalls of using genetic tests to answer questions of genealogy--by cracking the genome of…
her own family. Armed with DNA kits, the author criss-crosses the globe, taking cells from relatives and strangers, a genetic journey that turns up far more than she bargained for--ugly truths and moral quandaries. With lively writing and a compelling personal narrative, 'The Juggler's Children' tackles profound questions around the genetics of identity, race and humanity. 2013.By Christopher De Bellaigue. 2017
This absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam during the nineteenth and early…
twentieth centuries offers a game-changing assessment of the Middle East. Beginning his account in 1798, de Bellaigue demonstrates how the Middle East has long welcomed modern ideals and practices, including the adoption of modern medicine, the emergence of women from seclusion, and the development of democracy. With trenchant political and historical insight, de Bellaigue further shows how the violence of an infinitesimally small minority is in fact the tragic blowback from that modernization. This revolutionary argument, which completely refutes the misconception that Muslims live in a benighted state of backwardness, reveals the folly of Westerners demanding modernity from their Islamic neighbors. 2017.By Francis Eustache, Béatrice Desgranges. 2010
" [...] Véritable synthèse des connaissances actuelles - l'imagerie cérébrale y tient un rôle important - cet ouvrage permet de…
comprendre la mise en place progressive de la mémoire chez l'enfant comme ses modifications au cours du vieillissement. " -- 4e de couv. 2010.By Joshua D Mezrich. 2019
Surgeon Joshua D. Mezrich takes us inside the operating room to unlock the process of transplant surgery, a delicate, intense…
ballet requiring precise timing, breathtaking skill, and at times, creative improvisation. Mezrich examines centuries of medical breakthroughs, connecting this history with the stories of his patients and the ethical debates surrounding organ transplantation. 2019.By Chris Crowley, Henry S Lodge. 2006
If you're a woman preparing for the 30 years following menopause, it is possible for you to eliminate 70 percent…
of the decay and 50 percent of the injuries and illness associated with aging. And if that sounds too incredible to believe, you need this book. 2006.By Arnold van de Laar. 2018
Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery. From the…
story of the desperate man in seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, the author offers a wealth of fascinating insights into medicine and history via the operating room. What happens during an operation? How does the human body respond to being attacked by a knife, a cancer cell or a bullet? And, as technological advances continuously push the boundaries of what medicine can cure, what are the limits of surgery? 2018.By Oliver W Sacks, Christian Clerc. 1991
Ce livre permet de suivre, jusqu'à nos jours, le destin des rares survivants de la grande épidémie de maladie du…
sommeil (ou encéphalite léthargique) qui fit des ravages au cours de l'hiver 1916-1917. Il rapporte principalement les réactions observées après qu'ils furent "réveillés", en 1967, par la L-Dopa, un nouveau médicament aux effets remarquables. 1991.By Henri Rozenbaum. 1980
By Catherine D Lowes. 1998
Explains what menopause is and how to recognize its symptoms. Also shares ideas meant to help women to assess their…
health, alleviate the symptoms of menopause, and reduce their risk of osteoporosis and heart disease through diet, exercise and lifestyle. 1998.By Geraldine Brooks. 1995
Portrait of an oppressed class slowly achieving some liberation. During a six-year Middle East assignment, a Western journalist wears the…
veil and mixes with Muslims in a quest to understand women in the Islamic world. Brooks talked with fundamentalists and feminists, studied the Koran, witnessed surgical procedures to repair female genital mutilation, and gathered impressions of cultural traditions. 1995.By Desmond Stewart. 1967
An insight into the Islamic culture and empires from the sixth through the thirteenth century. During this period the Islamic…
world included Egypt, Persia, Arabia, and parts of India. 1967. (Great ages of man).By George Burns, Gérard Cuggia. 1983
By David Cohen, Suzanne Cailloux-Cohen. 1995
By Judith Larin. 2001
By Michel Salomon. 1981
By Rita Levi-Montalcini, Camille Marin. 1999