The author offers a compilation of personal anecdotes and reflections based on his forty-year career in medicine as he explores various aspects of his discipline, how it is practiced around the globe, the lives of patients, and how the body works.

Explores the mystery of the body, the fantastic way in which it works and its amazing ability to repair itself. The book relates dramatic tales offuturistic medicine taking place today, and how the body's own self-repairing instincts are being massively enhanced with new drugs and techniques.

A powerful, poignant and often hilarious play, The Waverly Gallery follows the final years of a grandmother's battle against Alzheimer's disease. The play explores her fight to retain her independence and the subsequent effect of her decline on her family, especially her grandson. Inspired by Lonergan's own grandmother, it's an ode to an extraordinary woman, and to the humor and strength of a family in crisis.Kenneth Lonergan once again shows himself to have one of the keenest ears of any working playwright. Also the screenwirter of the deeply funny Analyze This, he's known for his incisive humor and brilliant knack for capturing the heart and soul of human interaction.

Essays by Oliver Sacks, Jonathan Miller, Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel J. Kevles, & R.C. Lewontin explore forgotten and neglected aspects of the history of science.

"A kaleidoscope of creativity . . . unsentimental and sometimes unpredictable."-- Journal of the American Medical Association Founded just six years ago, Bellevue Literary Review is already widely recognized as a rare forum for emerging and celebrated writers--among them Julia Alvarez, Raphael Campo, Rick Moody, and Abraham Verghese--on issues of health and healing. Gathered here are poignant and prizewinning stories, essays, and poems, the voices of patients and those who care for them, which form the journal's remarkable dialogue on "humanity and the human experience." Danielle Ofri, MD , author of Incidental Findings and Singular Intimacies , is the editor in chief of Bellevue Literary Review . She lives in New York City.

Adds 21 new essays and drops some that appeared in the 1984 edition (first in 1978) to reflect recent scholarship and changes in orientation by historians. Adds entirely new clusters on sickness and health, early American medicine, therapeutics, the art of medicine, and public health and personal hygiene. Other discussions are updated to reflect such phenomena as the growing mortality from HIV, homicide, and suicide. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A wide perspective of biomedical issues, history, politics, and society affected by the Black Plague of 1348. The New "Professor Cantor's style is easy - no jargon. He is far beyond just knowing his period; he understands it and so he can explain, without oversimplifying, the variety and complexity of this great section of the... past."

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This unique book facilitates recognition and identification of the fetal abnormalities seen in ultrasound. It is the only resource that provides so much detail about all of the fetal abnormalities currently known. An easy-to-use organisation makes it simple for readers to locate the most reliable information available today. Enables readers to approach a given diagnostic challenge either by looking up its sonographic presentation, or by turning directly to the name of the syndrome that they believe is responsble. Lists the syndromes associated with any sonographic finding and provides guidance on its differential diagnosis. Cross-references to discussions of individual syndromes make it easy to locate further information on each condition. Explores the full range of syndromes that are known to cause malformationsin the fetus. Sonographic images are accompanied by concise discussions of prenatal diagnosis, differential diagnosis, detectability at various gestational ages, and common features. Cross-references point the way to other syndromes with similar sonographic characteristics. Examines sonographic findings that are potentially associated with chromosomal abnormalities, and discusses the issues that surround the management of these fetuses. Investigates the specific malformations and problems associated with monochorionic twins. Features over 582 crisp illustrations that depict the sonographic appearance of a full range of fetal abnormalities.

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In this ground breaking work, Langs turns to evolutionary biology, the fundamental theory of biological sciences, to derive a set of principles that deeply reform psychoanalytic theory and practice. In doing so he makes a profound announcement of the new field of Evolutionary Psychoanalysis and continues his long-standing project of expanding classical psychoanalysis by forging connections with other biological sciences.

Can we download our consciousness, and if so where should the backup be stored? Why is it that we can drive tired, but not drunk (when sleepiness has caused many more accidents)? What senses would we want to add if we could expand our perception? What types of crimes might we face in an era of neural implants? What would learning look like if humans could transmit thoughts across brains? How can we improve (/ruin) relationships, sex, and intimacy using cross-brain communication? And what can the business world do as it prepares for a world of mind reading? Those and other issues that are at the forefront of current neuroscience research are addressed in a sequence of comical and thought-provoking illustrations by Moran Cerf, professor of neuroscience and business. This graphical visualization of our future makes readers of all ages - kids and adults alike - laugh, and then think.

The Advances in Cancer Research series provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. This volume presents outstanding and original reviews on a variety of topics.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THRILLS -- I Funfairs and Thrills -- II Philobatism and Ocnophilia -- III Object Relationships and Anxieties -- IV Aggressivity and Auto-erotism -- V Love and Hate -- VI Reality Testing -- PART TWO: REGRESSIONS -- VII Object and Subject -- VIII Flying Dreams and the Dream Screen -- IX The Chronology of Ocnophilia and Philobatism -- X Progression for the Sake of Regression -- XI Regression in the Analytic Situation -- XII The Ocnophilic and Philobatic Bias of our Theory and Technique -- PART THREE: APPENDIX -- XIII Notes on Some Kindred Topics -- (1) Data on the History of Physical Thrills -- (2) Sublimation and Art -- (3) The Healing Power of Pure Water and Air -- (4) The Psychology of Motility -- (5) Water, Sand, and Words -- (6) The Three-act Drama in Sexuality -- (7) Pre-visual Material of Fantasy -- XIV Distance in Space and Time -- PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS -- Conclusions -- Index

"A valuable contribution to the growing literature of medical culture."—Gerald Weissman, New York Univ. Medical Center.