Authors
- Mary Shaffer
- Bernard Seyre
Dewey code: 616.835
List Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00
Review Death of a Disease: A History of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis / Rutgers University Press:"As we move toward the global eradication of polio, historical accounts of the program such as this become more important than ever. From the perspective of the World Health Organization, this book is invaluable as an easy-to-read historical account of the successful battle against polio. "—Dr. David L. Heymann, executive director of communicable diseases, World Health Organization "The Death of a Disease accurately portrays the inspiring fifty-year global effort to eradicate polio. As the `endgame' approaches, all mankind has good cause to celebrate this noble vision. "—Donald Burke, M. D. , professor of international health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a campaign for the global eradication of polio. Today, this goal is closer than ever. [+]Fewer than 1,300 people were paralyzed from the disease in 2004, down from approximately 350,000 in 1988. In The Death of a Disease, science writers Bernard Seytre and Mary Shaffer tell the dramatic story of this crippling virus that has evoked terror among parents and struck down healthy children for centuries. Beginning in ancient Egypt, the narrative explores the earliest stages of research, describes the wayward paths taken by a long line of scientists—each of whom made a vital contribution to understanding this enigmatic virus—and traces the development of the Salk and Sabin vaccines. The book also tracks the contemporary polio story, detailing the remaining obstacles as well as the medical, governmental, and international health efforts that are currently being focused on developing countries such as India, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Niger. At a time when emerging diseases and the threat of bioterrorism are the focus of much media and public attention, this book tells the story of a crippling disease that is on the verge of disappearing. In the face of tremendous odds, the near-eradication of polio offers an inspiring story that is both encouraging and instructive to those at the center of the continued fight against communicable diseases.
Publication date: 2001-04-15
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $55.00
Price: $214.19
Review Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicine / University Of Chicago Press:In Ways of Knowing, John V. Pickstone provides a new and accessible framework for understanding science, technology, and medicine (STM) in the West from the Renaissance to the present. Pickstone's approach has four key features. First, he synthesizes the long-term histories and philosophies of disciplines that are normally studied separately. Second, he dissects STM into specific ways of knowing—natural history, analysis, and experimentalism—with separate but interlinked elements. Third, he explores these ways of knowing as forms of work related to our various technologies for making, mending, and destroying. And finally, he relates scientific and technical knowledges to popular understandings and to politics. Covering an incredibly wide range of subjects, from minerals and machines to patients and pharmaceuticals, and from experimental physics to genetic engineering, Pickstone's Ways of Knowing challenges the reader to reexamine traditional conceptualizations of the history, philosophy, and social studies of science, technology, and medicine.
Publication date: 1982-07
Dewey code: 616.396
Price: $39.50
Review Kwashiorkor (Nutrition Foundations' Reprints) / Academic Press:
Creator: Steve Taylor
Publication date: 1995-06-02
Dewey code: 664
List Price: $80.95
Price: $72.96
Review Phase Transitions in Foods (Food Science and Technology) (Food Science and Technology) / Academic Press:Assembling recent research and theories, this book describes the phase and state transitions that affect technological properties of biological materials occurring in food processing and storage. It covers the role of water as a plasticizer, the effect of transitions on mechanical and chemical changes, and the application of modeling in predicting stability rates of changes. The volume presents methods for detecting changes in the physical state and various techniques used to analyze phase behavior of biopolymers and food components. This book should become a valuable resource for anyone involved with food engineering, processing, storage, and quality, as well as those working on related properties of pharmaceuticals and other biopolymers. Key Features* Contains descriptions of nonfat food solids as"biopolymers"which exhibit physical properties that are highly dependent on temperature, time, and water content* Details the effects of water on the state and stability of foods* Includes information on changes occuring in state and physicochemical properties during processing and storage* The only book on phase and state transitions written specifically for the applications in food industry, product development, and research* No recent competition.
Creator: Charles F. Stevens
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-07
Dewey code: 613
List Price: $168.00
Price: $64.99
Review Annual Review of Neuroscience 2004 (Annual Review of Neuroscience) / Annual Reviews:
Creator: Vilas Ganjanan Gaikar
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-03-01
Dewey code: 660.63
List Price: $199.95
Price: $184.63
Review Biotransformations and Bioprocesses (Biotechnology and Bioprocessing Series) / CRC:From the laboratory to full-scale commercial production, this reference provides a clear and in-depth analysis of bioreactor design and operation and encompasses critical aspects of the biocatalytic manufacturing process. It clarifies principles in reaction and biochemical engineering, synthetic and biotransformation chemistry, and biocell and enzyme kinetics for successful applications of biocatalysis and bioprocess technologies in the food, chiral drug, vitamin, pharmaceutical, and animal feed industries. Studying reactions from small to supramolecules, this reference provides an abundant display of end-of-chapter problems to sharpen understanding of key concepts presented in the text.
Creator: M.C.K. Khoo
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1996-07-31
Dewey code: 616.20046
List Price: $174.00
Price: $50.00
Review Bioengineering Approaches to Pulmonary Physiology and Medicine / Springer:
Publication date: 1999-09-30
Dewey code: 011
List Price: $60.00
Price: $50.50
Review Jewish Luminaries In Medical History / Oak Knoll Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-11-29
List Price: $44.95
Price: $50.38
Review Was essen wir morgen?: 13 Food Trends der Zukunft / Springer:Dieses Buch ist ein echter "Leckerbissen" für alle, die sich mit der Zukunft des Essens beschäftigen – und wer tut das nicht? Was die Autorin sich damit vorgenommen hat, beschreibt sie selbst so: "Theoretisch können wir tagtäglich unter einer fast unendlichen Vielfalt an Lebensmitteln und Kostformen frei wählen. Praktisch werden aber unsere alltäglichen Essentscheidungen von gesellschaftlichen Megatrends beeinflusst. Zudem verändern sich die individuellen Lebensgeschichten und adäquat dazu die Essstile. Mit meinem Buch möchte ich dem bewegten Lebensmittelmarkt Struktur geben und mit Hilfe von 13 Food Trends die zentralen Entwicklungschancen für Landwirtschaft, Lebensmittelverarbeiter, Gastronomie und Handel aufzeigen. Dabei sollen auch die KonsumentInnen auf den Geschmack kommen: Sie erhalten spannende Einblicke in die ‚essbare Konsumwelt‘ von morgen und eine profunde Orientierung für einen bewussten Lebensmitteleinkauf. ".
Creator: John W. Finley
Publication date: 1985-01-15
Dewey code: 664
List Price: $99.00
Price: $54.44
Review Digestibility and Amino Acid Availability in Cereals and Oilseeds / Amer Assn of Cereal Chemists:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-10-27
Dewey code: 571.7
List Price: $129.95
Price: $88.55
Review Endogenous and Exogenous Regulation and Control of Physiological Systems (Biomedical Engineering (Boca Raton, Fla.).) / CRC:From a biomedical engineering perspective, this book takes an analytic, quantitative approach to describing the basic components of physiological regulators and control systems (PRCs). In Endogenous and Exogenous Regulation and Control of Physiological Systems, the author provides grounding in the classical methods of designing linear and nonlinear systems. He also offers state-of-the-art material on the potential of PRCs to treat immune system ailments, most notably AIDS and cancer. The book focuses on certain "wet" physiological regulators, such as those using endocrine hormones as parametric control substances. Endogenous and Exogenous Regulation and Control of Physiological Systems includes simulations that illustrate model validations and the putative control of cancer and HIV proliferation. It explores novel, untried immunotherapies on the cutting-edge of PRC treatment and explores the latest technologies.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-01
Dewey code: 610.1
List Price: $73.50
Price: $50.34
Review The End of Modern Medicine: Biomedical Science under a Microscope / New York University Press:Proposes a radically reconfigured medical model that is both scientific and sccounts for mind-body interaction.
Creator: Greg L. Stoddart
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-09-02
Dewey code: 338.433621
List Price: $220.00
Price: $72.76
Review Health, Health Care and Health Economics: Perspectives on Distribution / Wiley:This book presents a record of the most important papers presented at the inaugural conference of the International Health Economics Association (1996). It is the first completely international perspective on the distribution of health care costs.
Authors
- Sue Rodwell Williams
- Bonnie S Worthington-Roberts
Publication date: 1999-09-03
Dewey code: 613.2
Price: $64.40
Review Nutrition Throughout the Life Cycle / McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math:This text presents an overview of the special nutritional issues common at the different periods of the life cycle. It stresses the impact of nutrition on quality of life at each stage of development and features the latest thinking on contemporary issues and current research.
Edition: 4
Publication date: 1997-12-04
Dewey code: 610.14
List Price: $314.50
Price: $98.19
Review Lexicography and Physicke: The Record of Sixteenth-Century English Medical Terminology (Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology) / Oxford University Press, USA:Medical practitioners of the sixteenth century had their own body of special terms, just like the doctors of this century. McConchie here examines medical terminology used in a selection of thirteen medical works published between 1530 and 1612, and compares it with the treatment of these words in the OED and other dictionaries of today. His study reveals errors, omissions, and biases that raise important questions for lexicographical tools in general.
Publication date: 1982-07
Dewey code: 616.396
Price: $39.50
Review Kwashiorkor (Nutrition Foundations' Reprints) / Academic Press:
Publication date: 1985-01-14
Dewey code: 574.873282
Price: $139.00
Review Recombinant DNA Products: Insulin, Interferon and Growth Hormone / CRC:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-04-16
Dewey code: 610.94265909034
List Price: $115.00
Price: $51.27
Review Gentlemen, Scientists and Doctors: Medicine at Cambridge 1800-1940 (History of the University of Cambridge) / Boydell Press:This book offers the first full-length study of medical education at the University of Cambridge for nearly 70 years. Drawing on the extensive records in the university archives and contemporary periodical literature, it sets the development of the Cambridge medical school in the context of the history of medicine, science and higher education. The author begins with the preservation of the faculty in the face of early nineteenth-century attacks on privilege in medicine and higher education, presenting a detailed investigation of the reforms of the 1860s and 1870s which led to the creation of the laboratories in the experimental sciences such as physiology and pathology on which so much of the University's twentieth-century reputation was to rest, and of a clinical school which faded quickly and was soon forgotten. The second half describes the evolution of this reformed faculty into the model of academic medicine that we recognise and follow today. Nor are the students forgotten: their experiences of medical education at the University are illustrated with numerous quotations from periodicals such as Granta and the Magazine of the Cambridge University Medical Society. Dr MARK WEATHERALL was at Cambridge from 1986 to 1997, and held a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship for the year 1994-5; he is currently a SHD at the Whittington Hospital, North London.
Publication date: 1988-08
Dewey code: 016.616890924
Price: $49.95
Review Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist : A Bibliographical Study / St Pauls Bibliographies:
Creator: Marcela Lopez
Publication date: 1987-12
List Price: $10.00
Price: $101.76
Review Text & Concordance of Biblioteca Universitaria, Salamanca, Ms2262: Doctor Gomez de Salamanca, Propiedades del Romero (Medieval Spanish Medical Text Series.) / Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Limite:
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Death of a Disease: A History of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis, Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Kwashiorkor (Nutrition Foundations' Reprints), Phase Transitions in Foods (Food Science and Technology) (Food Science and Technology), Annual Review of Neuroscience 2004 (Annual Review of Neuroscience), Biotransformations and Bioprocesses (Biotechnology and Bioprocessing Series), Bioengineering Approaches to Pulmonary Physiology and Medicine, Jewish Luminaries In Medical History, Was essen wir morgen?: 13 Food Trends der Zukunft, Digestibility and Amino Acid Availability in Cereals and Oilseeds, Endogenous and Exogenous Regulation and Control of Physiological Systems (Biomedical Engineering (Boca Raton, Fla.).), The End of Modern Medicine: Biomedical Science under a Microscope, Health, Health Care and Health Economics: Perspectives on Distribution, Nutrition Throughout the Life Cycle, Lexicography and Physicke: The Record of Sixteenth-Century English Medical Terminology (Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology), Kwashiorkor (Nutrition Foundations' Reprints), Recombinant DNA Products: Insulin, Interferon and Growth Hormone, Gentlemen, Scientists and Doctors: Medicine at Cambridge 1800-1940 (History of the University of Cambridge), Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist : A Bibliographical Study, Text & Concordance of Biblioteca Universitaria, Salamanca, Ms2262: Doctor Gomez de Salamanca, Propiedades del Romero (Medieval Spanish Medical Text Series.)Top headlines: Southwest won't pay FAA fine by deadline: Southwest Airlines said Tuesday it will not pay a record $10.2 million fine by Friday, the deadline set by the Federal Aviation Administration. ›15:28 Arctic sea ice drops to 2nd lowest level: More ominous signs have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes. ›21:55 Making sense of the DNC for France: Waiting in a hot security line, Nicole Devilaine, a journalist covering the DNC for France 2 television, explains the challenge of reporting on the convention for her French audience. ›22:40 25 Aug, Mon Bush may create largest protected area: President Bush on Monday said he was considering creating two protected marine areas in the Pacific Ocean one of which would be the world's largest, covering an area almost as large as Alaska. ›23:45 25 Aug, Mon Indonesia's 'tree man' home after surgery: An Indonesian man dubbed the "tree man" because of gnarled growths on his body has returned from hospital after 13 pounds of warts were surgically removed, a doctor said. ›15:18 26 Aug, Tue Gustav death toll rises to 22: Gustav swirled toward Cuba on Wednesday after triggering flooding and landslides that killed at least 22 people in the Caribbean. 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