Medicine Quest
Medicine Quest

Author: Mark J. Plotkin

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780140262100

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In Medicine Quest, Mark Plotkin moves beyond the Amazon rainforests of his classic Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice to describe the ongoing race to find new medicines for intractable diseases such as AIDS,cancer, diabetes, and tuberculosis in far-flung places all over the world. While highlighting the unlikely marriage of natural products, indigenous wisdom, and biotechnology, Plotkin details discoveries that are producing stunning results in the laboratory: painkillers from the skin of rainforest frogs, anticoagulants from leech saliva, and antitumor agents from snake venom. An entertaining and educational weave of medicine, ecology, ethnobotany, history, exploration, and adventure, Medicine Quest will thrill scientists, naturalists, and armchair explorers, and heighten our appreciation for the inexhaustible therapeutic potential of our natural world.

U.S. National Library of Medicine
U.S. National Library of Medicine

Author: Jeffrey S. Reznick

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439661316

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The US National Library of Medicine, on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, has been a center of information innovation since its beginnings in the early 19th century. The world's largest medical library and a federal government agency, it maintains and makes publicly available a diverse and world-renowned collection of materials dating from the 11th to the 21st centuries, and it produces a variety of electronic resources that millions of people around the globe search billions of times each year. The library also supports and conducts research, development, and training in biomedical informatics and health information technology, and it coordinates the National Network of Libraries of Medicine that promotes and provides access to health information in communities across the United States. As the library anticipates its third century of public service, this book offers a visual history of its development from its earliest days through the late 20th century, as the institution has involved generations of visionary leaders and dedicated individuals who experienced the American Civil War, the world wars, the Cold War, and the dawn of the information age.

The Finest Traditions of My Calling
The Finest Traditions of My Calling

Author: Abraham M. Nussbaum

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0300211406

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"Patients and doctors alike are keenly aware that the medical world is in the midst of great change. We live in an era of continuous healthcare reforms, many of which focus on high volume, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This compelling, thoughtful book is the response of a practicing physician who explains how population-based reforms are diminishing the relationship between doctor and patients, to the detriment of both. As an antidote to stubbornly held traditions, Dr. Abraham M. Nussbaum suggests ways that doctors and patients can learn what it means to be ill and to seek medical assistance. Drawing on personal stories, validated studies, and neglected history, the author develops a series of metaphors to explore a doctor's role in different healthcare reform scenarios: scientist, technician, author, gardener, teacher, servant, and witness. Each role shapes what physicians see when they encounter a patient. Dr. Nussbaum cautions that true healthcare reform can happen only when those who practice medicine can see, and be seen by, their patients as fellow creatures. His memoir makes a hopeful appeal for change, and his insights reveal the direction that change must take."--Jacket flap.

Good Medicine
Good Medicine

Author: Carol L. Roberts

Publisher:

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780977931620

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Filled with the latest thinking on traditional, holistic and alternative care, "Good Medicine" represents a change in approaching illness and attaining optimal health. This authoritative and easy-to-understand book offers a new perspective on how human beings are put together, integrating the physical body and the spirit within.

The Truth about Big Medicine
The Truth about Big Medicine

Author: Cheryl L. Brown

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781442231603

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This title drills deeply into the broken American health care industry--demonstrating how the medical industry's self-serving interests have run afoul of safe care. Written by passionate experts in multiple relevant fields, this book shows readers how the system works, why it works this way, how it harms and often kills people and how we can fix it.

Searching For The Best Medicine: The Life And Times Of A Doctor And Patient
Searching For The Best Medicine: The Life And Times Of A Doctor And Patient

Author: Arthur Bank

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9814425524

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This book describes the life and times of a physician-scientist over the last half-century. Part One is about the author's struggle with colon cancer and the lessons he learnt from the experience; Part Two is about his life growing up, the pretzel bakery, his family, being educated at Bronx Science, Columbia College, Harvard Medical School, and his medical training at the Boston City Hospital and the NIH. Part Three, the major portion of the book, describes the author's experiences as a practicing physician and hematologist at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center over 40 years. It also presents his views on what it takes to be a good doctor and to practice good medicine. Part Four is about medicine today, the crisis in medical care and in obtaining affordable health insurance in the United States, and potential solutions to these problems. And finally, it also describes the author's views on how changes in America over the past few decades have transformed our society from that of the meritocracy as known in the early days to that of the present society dominated by financial considerations.