On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine

On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine
New York University Press | 2008-03-01 | ISBN: 0814776019 | 400 Pages | PDF | 1.6MB

"Rasmussen, who has taught life sciences and medicine at UCLA and other universities, examines amphetamine as a case study on the place drugs occupy in our culture and our fantasies (of miracle cures and elixirs). The story begins with chemist Gordon Alles’s creation of amphetamine in 1929 and continues through its use for weight loss, attention deficit disorders and today’s crystal meth craze. Smith, Kline & French (now GlaxoSmithKline) bought the rights for use of the drug and marketed it to treat depression. During WWII, British and American soldiers developed an amphetamine appetite as RAF medics distributed wakey-wakey tablets to bomber crews. At the book’s core is an outstanding chapter, Bootleggers, Beatniks and Benzedrine Benders, describing how Benzedrine inhalers, available without a prescription, could be cracked open for a totally new kind of amphetamine experience, exerting a potent influence on music and literature, from Charlie Parker to Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Rasmussen has mined magazines, books and newspapers in addition to extensive explorations through U.K. and American archives. He concludes by calling for strong and immediate action to curb the widespread, dangerous use and abuse of amphetamines, emphasizing treatment and harm reduction (like needle exchange) rather than punishment, and better regulation of the pharmaceutical industry."


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Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980 (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980 (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
Rutgers University Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0813545277 | 288 pages | PDF | 1.6MB

Fit to Be Tied provides a history of sterilization and what would become, at once, socially divisive and a popular form of birth control. Utilizing first-person narratives, court cases, and official records, Rebecca M. Kluchin examines the evolution of forced sterilization of poor women, especially women of color, in the second half of the century and contrasts it with demands for contraceptive sterilization made by white women and men. She chronicles public acceptance during an era of reproductive and sexual freedom, the shift away from sterilization and how it influenced many aspects of American life.


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The DOs: Osteopathic Medicine in America

The DOs: Osteopathic Medicine in America
The Johns Hopkins University Press | 2004 | ISBN: 0801878349 | 264 pages | PDF | 1.6MB

Overcoming suspicion, ridicule, and outright opposition from the American Medical Association, the osteopathic medical profession today serves the health needs of more than thirty million Americans. The DOs chronicles the development of this controversial medical movement from the nineteenth century to the present. Historian Norman Gevitz describes the philosophy and practice of osteopathy, as well as its impact on medical care. From the theories underlying the use of spinal manipulation developed by osteopathy's founder, Andrew Taylor Still, Gevitz traces the movement's early success, despite attacks from the orthodox medical community, and details the internal struggles to broaden osteopathy's scope to include the full range of pharmaceuticals and surgery. He also recounts the efforts of osteopathic colleges to achieve parity with institutions granting M.D. degrees and looks at the continuing effort by osteopathic physicians and surgeons to achieve greater recognition and visibility.


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Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness: Toward an Integrative Model

Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness: Toward an Integrative Model
Springer | 2010 | ISBN: 1441956700 | 300 pages | PDF | 3.7MB

Memes are bits of information that are replicated and passed on across individuals and generations. Memes arose when the human brain acquired the capacity to imitate others and supplement the genes as a means of providing information to the developing individual. Memes, unlike genes, have evolved rapidly in the course of human history and form the building blocks of culture. Unlike genes, memes can be stored outside of the organism in the form of written language, recordings, and in the digital form that can be replicated and transmitted without intervening human brain, like computer viruses. They imbue the environment of the developing individual with nurturing as well as noxious material, all ready to infect the receptive, plastic brain.

Mental health and illness are the results of interaction among genes and memes that infect the developing individual as elements of culture: family, subculture, and counter-culture. Experiences of stress and nurturance also enter the brain in the form of memes. Many mental illnesses can be conceptualized as a stress-induced exacerbation and recrudescence of dormant noxious memes that infected the individual early in life.

In this book, Hoyle Leigh discusses the concept of genetic and memetic evolution, with emphasis on how mental disorders can arise from the gene-meme interaction. Specific examples of gene-meme interactions resulting in anxiety and depression are discussed, and a new genetic-memetic model for diagnosing mental illness is proposed. Dr. Leigh then offers comprehensive strategies for treatment of mental illness that include broad-spectrum and specific meme-oriented therapies. Following that is a discussion of specific major psychiatric syndromes and their gene and meme-oriented therapies, leading to a final discussion about future challenges in psychiatric memetics.

The book is organized in two major sections. The first, "Genes, Memes, Culture, and the Individual," devotes eight chapters to the nature of biological and environmental inheritance, including characteristics of relatives and characteristics of groups, genes and memes as units of inheritance, evolution of the human brain, imitation as a shortcut to learning, memes as replicators of information, and culture as the repository of meme stores. The second section, "Mental Illness," applies current knowledge about memes to mental illness and psychiatric practice both broadly and in specific clinical contexts. Chapters in this section cover genes and mental illness, the relation between stress and memetic infusion ("vulnerable brain"), the genetic-memetic model of mental illness, a diagnostic scheme for a memetic multiaxial model of mental illness, memetic diagnosis, memetic therapies, memetic prevention, and specific mental syndromes such as anxiety, depression, bipolarity, OCD, psychosis, and substance abuse.

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ABC of Practical Procedures (ABC Series)

ABC of Practical Procedures (ABC Series)
BMJ Books | December 21 2009 | 144 pages | English | ISBN : 1405185953,1405185950 | PDF | 6.7MB

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The ABC of Practical Procedures is a fully illustrated guide to the core skills and procedures all those at the frontline of care need to know.
With over 280 full colour illustrations, every stage of each procedure is illustrated with colour step-by-step photographs as it is being performed. Covering key competencies such local anaesthesia, blood taking, and thoracic drain and central venous catheter insertions, each practical procedure is accompanied with useful hints and tips for key learning.

This new ABC provides a guide to performing the most common practical procedures undertaken by healthcare professionals including junior doctors, nurses and paramedics. It is also ideal for the needs of the Foundation Programme, for all trainee doctors and medical students.

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ABC of One to Seven, Fifth Edition (ABC Series)

ABC of One to Seven, Fifth Edition (ABC Series)
BMJ Books | November 23 2009 | 168 pages | English | ISBN : 1405181052,1405181051 | PDF | 5.5MB

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The ABC of One to Seven is a practical guide to the management of common physical and emotional problems of early childhood. New chapters include the prevention and management of obesity, behavioural and emotional problems, ADHD, autism, the child with fever, and changes in access to medical and social services.
Including the latest NICE guidelines and advice on when to refer and how to manage the problem afterwards, each chapter provides relevant websites and resources for health workers.

The ABC of One to Seven and the companion book, ABC of the First Year, have become standard guides for general practitioners, trainee doctors, medical students, midwives, nurses and health visitors. They are indispensible reference books for family doctor surgeries, emergency and outpatient departments, wards and libraries.

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ABC of Complementary Medicine, 2nd Edition (ABC Series)

ABC of Complementary Medicine, 2nd Edition (ABC Series)
BMJ Books | July 28 2008 | 64 pages | English | ISBN : 140513657X,1405136570 | PDF | 5.5MB

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This revised and updated edition of the ABC of Complementary Medicine offers an authoritative introduction to complementary therapies.
Taking an independent standpoint, neither promoting nor disparaging complementary therapies, this second edition includes the latest information on efficacy of treatments and provides a new emphasis on patient management. The ABC of Complementary Medicine is an invaluable guide to any doctor who encounters complementary medicine in clinical practice.

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ABC of Skin Cancer (ABC Series)

ABC of Skin Cancer (ABC Series)
BMJ Books | May 2 2008 | 80 pages | English | ISBN : 1405162198,1405162197 | PDF | 2.7MB

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The ABC of Skin Cancer is designed to boost GP confidence in the diagnosis and referral of skin cancer, focusing on differential diagnosis and common pitfalls. In line with the latest NICE guidelines in the UK, this book outlines best practice management in primary care, whilst also covering the Australian perspective on this cancer. Chapters on non-surgical treatment and prevention are also included.
This new highly illustrated title in the successful ABC series provides a concise, factual and practical overview of skin cancers and pre-cancerous lesions for general practitioners, junior doctors and medical students.

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LANGE Q&A Pediatrics, 7 Ed

Mary Anne Jackson, Sara Viessman "LANGE Q&A Pediatrics, 7 Ed"
McGraw-Hill Medical | 2009 | ISBN: 0071475680 | 326 pages | PDF | 3,9 MB

More than 1,000 board-style questions build confidence, knowledge, and test-taking skills for the USMLE Step 2 CK and the pediatrics shelf exam
"I really like the format of the questions. I believe they are quite an accurate representation of the questions that appear on the boards" -- Joshua Lynch, DO Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Class of 2008
"I thought the questions were well worded. The conciseness [of the answer explanations] is one of the benefits of this book." -- Lisa A. Nowell, MD, Pediatric Resident, PGY-2, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian, Columbia University
There's no better way to prepare for the USMLE Step 2 CK and the pediatrics clerkship exam than LANGE: Q&A: Pediatrics. This board-format review offers outstanding coverage of high-yield topics in pediatrics and provides detailed explanations of both correct and incorrect answer choices.
Everything you need to excel on the exam:
* Questions are presented in board-style to prepare you for what you'll see on the actual exam
* Answers include detailed discussion and references to key textbooks and American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines
* Student reviewed for the most relevant content possible
* A complete practice test prepares you for the real thing
* Valuable test-taking tips give you the edge on exam day

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Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society

Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society
The University of North Carolina Press | 2009-11-15 | ISBN: 0807833487 | 224 pages | PDF | 1.8 MB

Nortin Hadler knows backaches. For more than three decades as a physician and medical researcher, he has studied the experience of low back pain in people who are otherwise healthy. Hadler terms the low back pain that everyone suffers at one time or another "regional back pain." In this book, he addresses the history and treatment of the ailment with the healthy skepticism that has become his trademark, taking the "Hadlerian" approach to backaches and the backache treatment industry in order to separate the helpful from the hype.




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Leslie Baumann - Cosmetic Dermatology: Principles and Practice, Second Edition

Leslie Baumann - Cosmetic Dermatology: Principles and Practice, Second Edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional | 2009-04-08 | ISBN: 0071490620 | PDF | 336 pages | 17.06 MB

THE ULTIMATE SOURCEBOOK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE SKIN AND ITS APPEARANCE
“A concise, well-written, and well-illustrated overview of the topic of cosmetic dermatology that will prove useful to all physicians who care for cosmetic patients.”—Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, reviewing the first edition
Cosmetic Dermatology offers complete coverage of the latest, most effective skin care agents and procedures. Spanning the entire spectrum of cosmetic dermatology, it takes you through the most current medications, cosmeceuticals, and procedures. Presented in full color, the book is firmly grounded in an evidence-based, clinically-relevant approach--making it perfect for use in everyday practice.
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Guidance on the efficacy of over-the-counter and prescription skin care products
Step-by-step review of must-know procedures
A focus on the newest drugs and topical agents
NEW! Expanded insights into laser treatments, varicose veins, and cosmeceuticals
NEW! More full-color clinical images in every chapter… 450 in all!
NEW! Significant revisions in every chapter to help you keep pace with the many fast-breaking developments in the specialty

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A Practical Manual of Renal Medicine: Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation

A Practical Manual of Renal Medicine: Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation By Kar-neng Lai
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company 2009-07-21 | 528 Pages | ISBN: 9812838716 | PDF | 10.5 MB

This manual provides practical and accessible information on all aspects of general nephrology, dialysis, and transplantation. It outlines current therapies in straightforward language to help readers understand the treatment rationale, and does not assume extensive knowledge of anatomy, biochemistry, or pathophysiology. Consisting of 33 chapters written by 31 experts from four continents, this volume covers all the practical tips in the emergency and long-term management of patients with electrolyte disturbance, acid-base disturbance, acute renal failure, common glomerular diseases, hypertension, pregnancy-related renal disorders, chronic renal failure, and renal replacement therapy. It is thus an essential source of quick reference for nephrologists, internists, renal fellows, and renal nursing specialists, and is also suitable for graduate students and research scientists in the field of kidney diseases.


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