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This edition includes a NEW Epigenetics and Disease chapter along with. additional What’s New boxes. highlighting the latest advances in pathophysiology. Over 1,200 full-color illustrations and photographs depict the clinical manifestations of disease and disease processes — more than in any other pathophysiology text. EXTENSIVELY Updated content reflects advances in pathophysiology including tumor biology invasion and metastases, the epidemiology of cancer, diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, thyroid and adrenal gland disorders, female reproductive disorders including benign breast diseases and breast cancer, and a separate chapter on male reproductive disorders and cancer.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Very in depth look into how the body works."
"Good book."
"Slight highlighting ang cover aging signs, and what looks like a coffee stain."
"Product was just as described."
"Amazing book, informative."
"Torn up bindings."
"Very difficult to follow."
The 13th edition of Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology continues this bestselling title's long tradition as the world’s foremost medical physiology textbook . Emphasizes core information around how the body must maintain homeostasis in order to remain healthy, while supporting information and examples are detailed. "The 13th edition of Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology continues this bestselling title's long tradition as the world's foremost medical physiology textbook.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The text guides you through the figures and explains them well as it is teaching the subject making for a far better learning experience than others where they just have a description underneath the figure (in this textbook there is also a very brief description under the figure but mainly is described in the main part as you are reading). Here is the general outline (15 units broken down into 85 chapters): Unit 1 - Introduction to Physiology: The Cell and General Physiology. Unit 2 - Membrane Physiology, Nerve, and Muscle. Unit 3 - The Heart. Unit 4 - The Circulation. Unit 5 - The Body Fluids and Kidneys. Unit 6 - Blood Cells, Immunity, and Blood Coagulation. Unit 7 - Respiration. Unit 8 - Aviation, Space, and Deep-Sea Diving Physiology. Unit 9 - The Nervous System: A."
"I hope wrtings will be edited again."
"Very good, detailed explanations."
"Still Fantastic After All These Years."
"I'm great shape.. thank you!"
"a must have book for any serio use medical student!"
"It is a very complete text, as it talks about how we know certain things (talks about what experiments were done, etc."
Dependable, current, and complete, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 9th Edition is the perennially best-selling text that you’ll use long after your medical student days are behind you. High-quality photographs and full-color illustrations highlight new information in molecular biology, disease classifications, new drugs and drug therapies, and much more. Even though the book is definitely for the new generations, I am sure that it will be welcomed by senior pathologists trying to keep up with the times – I doubt that I am the only old timer eager to re-read it." They point out that for this edition, they have “gone one step further. They have added a chapter entitled The Cell as a Unit of Health and Disease at the very beginning of the book. This book is also a bestseller among medical and allied professionals, as evidenced from its very high rank on Amazon. Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California Vinay Kumar, MBBS, MD, FRCPath, Donald N. Pritzker Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology, Biologic Sciences Division and Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois;
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Minor text revisions. Minor text revisions. Minor text revisions. Minor text revisions. 859 → 959. p. 25 Right column, 3rd line: cycin CDK4 and cycline CDK6 → cyclin D-CDK4 and cyclin D-CDK6. p. 49 Left column, 16th line: cross-lins → cross-links. p. 55 Left column, 9th line: proteins This → proteins. This. p. 56 Left column, Figure 2-25 caption : FAAD → FADD. p. 58 Left column, 3rd line: Table 2-4). → Table 2-4. p. 67 Left column, 4th line: a proteins → proteins. p. 76 Table 3-3: α4β7 (CD49DCD29) → α4β7 (CD49dCD29). p. 81 Right column, 4th line: meshwork of of → meshwork of. p. 118 Left column, 3rd line: he → the. p. 118 Right column, 16th line: Glanzmann thrombasthenia). p. 150 Right column, Figure 5-10: Wrong location of the "primary storage" box in the center of the figure. p. 152 Left column, 14th line: Chapter 1 → Chapter 2. p. 156 Left column, 13th line: Fig. 5-15. p. 165 Left column, 19th line: genes All → genes. All. p. 168 Right column, 12th line: gene (2) → gene. (2). p. 171 Left column, 4th line: FRMP-mRNA → FMRP-mRNA. p. 171 Left column, 10th line: FRMP → FMRP. p. 190 Right column, Figure 6-5: ξ → ζ (not 'xi' chain, but 'zeta' chain). p. 208 Left column, 19th line from the bottom: Figs. 6-32. p. 224 Left column, 9th line: ( IV-S) → (IV-S). p. 266 Right column, last line: capable of capable of → capable of. p. 277 Figure 7-21B. 72.3 → ≥ 72.3, 17.1 → ≤ 17.1. p. 279 Left column, 19th line: genotoxic. as well as → genotoxic, as well as. p. 329 Right column, 12th line: Rb and p53 → p53 and Rb. p. 345 Right column, 4th line: Transmission and Dissemination of Microbes → How Microorganisms Cause Disease. p. 348 Left column, 15th line from the bottom: Burkholdaria → Burkholderia. p. 350 Right column, 5th line from the bottom: How Microorganisms Cause Disease → Host Damage. p. 353 Right column, 19th line: flow.. → flow. p. 368 Left column, 20th line from the bottom: die → die. p. 387 Left column, 10th line, inflammation cause → inflammation, cause. p. 397 Left column, 11th line, The → Pathogenesis. The (for editorial consistency). p. 398 Left column, Figure 8.54: Oblique → straight cutting line between A & B. p. 425 Left column, 18th line: a subsequent a post-use → a subsequent, post-use. p. 491 Left column, 3rd line: disorder , → disorder, p. 499 Left column, 5th line: matrice → matrix (or matrices). p. 500 Right column, 14th line: inflammatiion → inflammation. p. 514 Right column, 8th line from the bottom: Trousseau sign → Trousseau syndrome (which I think is better because Trousseau sign can also be used in hypocalcemia). p. 524 Right column, 26th line: [MMPs], → [MMPs]), p. 550 Right column, 4th line from the bottom: (see later) → (see later). p. 575 Right column, 14th line: Myxomas → Myxoma. Myxomas (for editorial consistency). p. 584 Left column, 10th line: organs,- the → organs, the (duplicated punctuation). p. 584 Left column, 11th line: T cells-, lymphocytes → T cells, lymphocytes (duplicated punctuation). p. 586 Left column, 11th line: NK to → NK cells to. p. 586 Right column, 23rd line from the bottom: so that is some → so that in some. p. 607 Right column, 25th line: M-CSF) chemokines → M-CSF), chemokines. p. 609 Table 13-8, 6th row, 2nd column: C30-; EB- → CD30-; EBV-. p. 609 Right column, Figure 13-26: Incorrect figure; figure 13-26 & 13-27 are switched. p. 629 Chapter Contents, 3rd column, 2nd line: Purpura and → Purpura (TTP) and. p. 630 Right column, 1st line: when sufficiently → sufficiently. p. 635 Right column, 7th line: O2 → O₂(subscript). p. 649 Right column, Table 14-6: incorrect spacing in the 3rd & 4th row. p. 660 Right column, 15th line from the bottom: is caused by → is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by (not concordant with 'also' in the next paragraph). p. 669 Right column, 6th line: The mainstem bronchus → The right mainstem bronchus. p. 675 Right column, 5th line from the bottom: Chapter 17 → Chapter 18. p. 678 Left column, 4th line: change → change. p. 679 Right column, 20th line from the bottom: most notable → most notably. p. 683 Left column, 1st line: IL13 → IL-13. p. 683 Left column, 2nd line: IL17 and IL9 → IL-17 and IL-9. p. 718 Left column, 4th line: Chapter 11 → Chapter 12. p. 749 Chapter Contents, 1st column, 5th line from the bottom: a missing line "Complications of Chronic Gastritis 766" (refer to the page 766). p. 749 Chapter Contents, 3rd column, 11th line: a missing line "Other Causes of Chronic Colitis 802" (refer to the page 802). p. 750 Left column, 4th line from the bottom: (17-1B) → (Fig. 17-1B). p. 794 Left column, 15th line from the bottom: Necator duodenale → Necator americanus. p. 794-795 Paragraph titles: Italicize species names in paragraph titles. (e.g., Schistosomiasis). p. 816 Left column, 19th line: oxyuriasis vermicularis → Oxyuriasis vermicularis or Enterobius vermicularis(case sensitive, italic). p. 816 Right column, 5th line from the bottom: outflow → outflow. p. 828 Left column, 14th line from the bottom: ( resulting → (resulting. p. 829 Right column, 4th line, 8th line, 15th line: absent bullets (●). p. 839 Right column, 30th line: diseases , → diseases, p. 848 Right column, 17th line from the bottom: severity) → severity): p. 854 Right column, 3rd line from the bottom: mechanisms → mechanisms: p. 863 Left column, 1st line: may be may → may be. p. 870 Left column, 5th line: Familial → familial. p. 875 Left column, 19th line: delta-gamma T cell → gamma-delta T cell. p. 876 Right column, 17th line: gallstones → gallstones: p. 892 Figure 19-12 caption, 3rd line: p16 sta occurs → p16 occurs. p. 894 Right column, 3rd line from the bottom: Trousseau sign, → Trousseau syndrome, (the same reason as mentioned above). p. 903 Left column, 18th line: composted of → composed of. p. 915 Left column, 12th line: (NSAIDs). p. 915 Right column, 23rd line from the bottom: dense also deposits → dense deposits. p. 934 Right column, 12th line: Fig. 20-32B. p. 943 Left column, 10th line from the bottom: aberration → aberrant. p. 946 Left column, 2nd, 5th, 26th line from the bottom: Ca2+ → Ca²⁺ (superscript). p. 946 Right column, 12th, 15th, 17th, 21st line: Ca2+ → Ca²⁺ (superscript). p. 961 Right column, 24th line from the bottom: bladde → bladder. p. 964 Right column, Table 21-2: absent indentation in the 2nd-6th row (from exophytic papilloma to carcinoma in situ). p. 969 Right column, 7th line from the bottom: adeno carcinomas → adenocarcinomas. p. 975 Right column, Table 21-5, 3rd row from the bottom: Insert "Sex Cord-Stromal Tumors" in a separate row, as they are not parts of germ cell tumors, but an independent entity. p. 982 Right column, 11th line from the bottom: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia → Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) (BPH is defined nowhere within the chapter 21.). p. 985 Left column, 3rd line: (RB, CDKN2A, → (RB, CDKN2A), p. 996 Right column, 2nd line from the bottom: Chapter 21 → Chapter 8. p. 997 Right column, 11th line: (VIN) → (classic VIN) (as a counterpart of the differentiated VIN in the next paragraph). p. 1021 Left column, 14th line from the bottom: de novo → de novo. p. 1031 Left column, 11th line from the bottom: thought that to be → thought to be. p. 1035 Left column, 6th line: there little → there is little. p. 1074 Right column, 13th line: in males → in males. p. 1115 Left column, 10th line: hyperosmolar hyperosmotic syndrome → hyperosmolar hyperglycemic syndrome (or state). p. 1115 Left column, 24th line from the bottom: diabetic macrovascular → diabetic microvascular. p. 1163 Right column, 6th line: common lymphocyte antigen → cutaneous lymphocyte antigen. p. 1164 Left column, 8th line: (hyperkeratotic and acanthotic). p. 1171 Left column, 19th line: Fig. 25-34A. p. 1171 Left column, 21st line: Fig. 25-34C. p. 1177 Right column, 6th line from the bottom: (or primary infection of the nails) → (or primary infection of) the nails. p. 1179 Chapter Contents, 2nd column, 14th line: 2 missing lines "Chondroma 1201" and "Chondrosarcoma 1202". p. 1182 Left column, 6th line from the bottom: RANK ligand, (RANKL) → RANK ligand (RANKL), p. 1189 Left column, 12th line from the bottom: and, when multiple, → and when multiple, p. 1207 Right column, 19th line from the bottom: during development → during development. p. 1218 Figure 26-49A: the absent arrow. p. 1222 Right column, 1st line: arcomas → sarcomas. p. 1222 Right column, 6th line: or(1;13) → or (1;13). p. 1242 Left column, 2nd line from the bottom: infancy.While → infancy. While. p. 1249 Left column, 23rd line: skeletal defects pigmented → skeletal defects, pigmented. p. 1294 Left column, 25th line from the bottom: FTLD-TPD → FTLD-TDP. p. 1300 Right column, 22nd line: innervat ed → innervated. p. 1304 Left column, 10th line: other that → other than. p. 1312 Right column, 23rd line from the bottom: Chapter 10), → (Chapter 10), p. 1327 Left column, 10th line: keratoepithelin.Some → keratoepithelin. Some. p. 1330 Left column, 14th line: open-angle glaucoma → open-angle glaucoma. p. 1336 Left column, 22nd line from the bottom: "designated by the nebulous term neovascularization elsewhere" → designated by the nebulous term "neovascularization elsewhere". p. 1337 Left column, 4th line from the bottom: detachment.. → detachment."
"Overall, pretty solid text."
"I know these days most of this info can be gotten online but the book is well organized and really helpful for me to review and understand the changes that occur in disease states."
"Great!"
"Excellent text."
"This book is like my bible as a Pathologists' Assistant student."
"must have source for med school, especially if you are expected to know pathology details."
"One of the best books ever."
Best Nursing Fundamentals & Skills
This edition includes a NEW Epigenetics and Disease chapter along with. additional What’s New boxes. highlighting the latest advances in pathophysiology. Over 1,200 full-color illustrations and photographs depict the clinical manifestations of disease and disease processes — more than in any other pathophysiology text. EXTENSIVELY Updated content reflects advances in pathophysiology including tumor biology invasion and metastases, the epidemiology of cancer, diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, thyroid and adrenal gland disorders, female reproductive disorders including benign breast diseases and breast cancer, and a separate chapter on male reproductive disorders and cancer.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Very in depth look into how the body works."
"Good book."
"Slight highlighting ang cover aging signs, and what looks like a coffee stain."
"Product was just as described."
"Amazing book, informative."
"Torn up bindings."
"Very difficult to follow."
Best Physiology
Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain and yet we know very little about how it works. "Enders’s wonder at the strange ways of the gut is matched only by her incredulity at the limited public knowledge on the subject." The New York Times "With a great sense of humor and ample enthusiasm, Enders explains everything readers did and didn’t want to know about their innards ... this book defies boring. "This primer is everything you ever wanted to know about the gut (and then some), chattily and accessibly written in a uniquely Millennial and matter of fact way. " Gut's probe into the human digestive system might be seen as an earnest younger sibling to Gulp , Mary Roach’s 2013 investigation into the same subject. The comparison isn’t meant as a slight; Enders swaps out Roach’s knowing wryness with a kind of puplike enthusiasm for the complex mechanisms that convert food into a body’s energy and waste without our even thinking about it."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Enders has a lively sense of curiosity and humor, and an endearing habit of anticipating readers' questions and answering them with great detail and patience. Perhaps the strangest was the blithe claim that salmonellosis in German eggs is caused by farmers buying cheap grain from Africa, where random turtles walk about in the fields pooping on seeds. Recently, Germany has spawned numerous European outbreaks of salmonellosis in the old-fashioned way: poorly regulated high-density factory farming with birds crammed into tiny, filthy cages."
"i was super exited to read it!But the content is too scientific and hard to read and understand."
"Giulia Enders answers questions you would not even ask your mother; what should a normal stool look like for example."
"I love this book, and have read, highlighted and written all over my hard copy."
"Full of facts and written (and translated !)."
"Loved this book."
"For those who want to know more about the part of our body that affects our health the most, this is a must read."
"I forced myself to read through the first chapter because this book has so many great reviews I thought I must be missing something."
Best Nosology
Now, along with your Slow Cooker, you can produce a range of stunning dishes with this Dash Diet Slow Cooker Cookbook: Prep-And-Go Easy And Delicious Recipes Made For Your Crock Pot To Cracked Weight Loss and Have a Better Lifestyle , a book which offers dozens of recipes including: Get a copy of Dash Diet Slow Cooker Cookbook and start experimenting in the kitchen with some fabulous ideas! Read Dash Diet Slow Cooker Cookbook TODAY and start experimenting in your kitchen with some fabulous ideas!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Dash Diet: Dash diet is very safe for our health."
"Many benefits of slow cooker have been mentioned in the book.The images are so tempting ,seeing the pictures you will definitely know how your dish would look once its been cooked."
"I really loved the book and this book will go to my collection of cookery books."
"This book is brilliant and the vast majority of the key lesson in this book.The Author has completed an awesome activity."
"The Dash diet primarily focuses on the intake of plants,fruits,vegetables,whole grains and low fat dairy products.It helps you decide weekly,monthly and thus yearly nutritional goals and achieve the results.Finally,you will find 100 dash diet slow cooker recipes which will support your dash diet journey.All the recipes are easy to make they are delicious,nutritional and good for health.All the ingredients are easy to find in your local market."
"Informative book,Dash diet means eating healthy food to prevent Hypertension in which now a days is a very common illness.It clearly explain the proper usage and the way on how to choice a good Slow Cooker device.Every meal has its own nutrition facts to be gather which are clearly define and the ingredients are easy to find.Well i will try some of the recipes here and hoping for the fruitful result.Good book."
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Best Embryology
With this fabulous recipe book, you can use an Instant Pot to improve the quality of food you eat, cut down on the time you spend in the kitchen and provide your family with amazing dishes, like:
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The recipes are amazing, with the beautiful pictures, as well as all the needed information about calories and nutritional value."
"This was a gift but I was told it had very good recipes."
"Now cooking for me is quick and easy with this instant pot cookbook."
"An interesting and useful book for the cook!"
"Love it, can’t picture cooking with out it."
"My family cannot start their day without marvelous pancakes I have once cooked from this instant pot cookbook, they are in love with them."
"It's hard for me as European to understand North American measurements, but this book provides the explanation for it which is great and makes my cooking time more effective and easy."
"As we are introducin. Examples include the following: From the introduction: "As we are introducing a very fast and healthy way of preparing meals at home, that does not requirements much time; and guess what, it offers hand free cooking.""
Best Immunology
In Super Immunity , world-renowned health expert and New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live Dr. Joel Fuhrman offers a nutritional guide to help you live longer, stronger, and disease free. “This book proves that eating high nutrient dense foods is the best path to building a super immune system, leading to a healthy long life with a “sound mind” and the recipes are superb.” (Dr. Rudy Kachmann, Neurosurgeon, Kachmann Mind Body Institute). “Super Immunity should be the book everyone is talking about. Super Immunity offers everybody the most sensible, most effective dietary approach to become and stay truly healthy.” (James Craner, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACP Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Reno, NV Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine). “ Super Immunity expertly yet succinctly combines the latest nutrition and scientific research, plus a handful of anecdotes from Fuhrman’s patients, into 170 pages of air-tight, irrefutable advice on how to get and stay healthy, even in an increasingly toxic and processed world.” (VegNews Magazine). Based on the latest scientific research, Super Immunity shows us how we can become almost totally resistant to colds, influenza, and other infections. Combining the latest data from clinical tests, nutritional research, and results from thousands of patients, Dr. Fuhrman proves that super immunity exists and is well within reach for those who choose it.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"In Super Immunity, Fuhrman outlines how certain foods including leafy green vegetables, mushrooms, onions, garlic, pomegranate, berries and seeds can improve our natural defenses. In addition to emphasizing immune-strengthening and cancer-fighting foods, Fuhrman outlines guidelines to help readers to adapt a Super Immunity diet. Fuhrman is not an advocate of a 100% raw diet, so the recipes include a combination of raw and cooked meals. However, because of the high fiber and water content of the meals, the diet is naturally low in calories, making it a perfect program for dieters who want to lose weight but also enjoy eating large meals. Here is an example of a day's eating on the Super Immunity Plan: Breakfast: Forbidden Rice Pudding (ingredients include black rice, soy or almond milk, dried apple, wild blueberries, cinnamon and vanilla). Lunch: Spinach Salad with Strawberry Sesame Vinaigrette, Tangy White Beans and Zucchini. Dinner: Raw snow peas, broccoli and carrots, Island Black Bean Dip, Braised Kale and Squash with pumpkin seeds. Dessert: Black Cherry Sorbet. Super Immunity includes recipes for both raw and cooked plant-based meals and will appeal to vegans as well as anyone interested in improving their health through a better diet. For those of us who prefer to eat a raw food diet here is a list of some of the raw food recipes included in this book: Cinnamon Apple Omega Milk. Detox Green Tea. Waldorf Blended Salad. Marinated Kale Salad. Rainbow Chopped Salad. Triple Treat Cabbage Salad. Golden Onion Morsels. Chunky Blueberry Walnut Sorbet. Coconut Carrot Cream Pie. Golden Delicious Truffles. Overall I found the book to be an enjoyable read and I picked up on a few key concepts that will no doubt improve my overall diet."
"Then I was diagnosed with Psoriasis and when I read how insidious the disease could become and the cancer causing drugs used in treatment, I knew I had to change."
"The top foods recommended to add to your diet are: - Kale, collards, mustard greens. - Arugula, watercress. - Most greens and cabbage. - Broccoli, brussel sprouts. - Carrots, tomatoes. - Onion, garlic. - Mushrooms. - Pomegranates. - Berries of all kinds. - Seeds (like sesame, flax, etc.). Some radical natural hygienist claim that the entire germ theory is a scam and that viruses never cause illnesses, but those claims are not supported by science. I've lived something close to the recommended lifestyle for over 12 years and although I occasionally got a cold, I've never had a flu in all that time and the more closely I followed the recommendations, the healthier I've become."
"Joel Fuhrman scores again with a readable encouraging book."
"I was skeptical when I purchased this."
"This book is a must for anyone seeking sound and lasting nutritional advice and good health."
"Just remember if you juice GREENS; make the finished green juice no more than 25% of the total juice volume."
"Loved this book."
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The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Jim Marrs is the author of Alien Agenda, Crossfire (which was consulted by Oliver Stone during the making of the movie JFK), and Rule by Secrecy. He is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters & Editors and is a former president of the Press Club of Fort Worth.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Best prescription - Take the red pill and read Ed Haslam's, Dr. Mary's Monkey, don't take two aspirin, and call someone in the morning... You'll need to."
"CIA engages virus researchers to "invent" a virus that can be used as a weapon."
"I'm not a JFK researcher and I was glad that this book was so much more interesting than I could have imagined."
"It is worthwhile to read this book along with Jim Garrison's book, On the Trail of the Assassins, which is about the JFK assassination by the C.I.A., by Cuban expatriates, and the subsequent cover-up by the Warren Commission, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Dallas Police Department, the Secret Service, and others."
"Dr. Mary's Monkey is a book that will change one's view of many subjects: polio vaccine, Mary Sherman's death, bio-medical research, and the Kennedy assassination."
"Great book!!!!."
"Really enjoying this book."
"I felt it was almost two books, biographical, literature combined but would read better separated entirely instead of within each chapter."
Best Anatomy
In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them. Roach delves into the many productive uses to which cadavers have been put, from medical experimentation to applications in transportation safety research (in a chapter archly called "Dead Man Driving") to work by forensic scientists quantifying rates of decay under a wide array of bizarre circumstances. There are also chapters on cannibalism, including an aside on dumplings allegedly filled with human remains from a Chinese crematorium, methods of disposal (burial, cremation, composting) and "beating-heart" cadavers used in organ transplants. Roach has a fabulous eye and a wonderful voice as she describes such macabre situations as a plastic surgery seminar with doctors practicing face-lifts on decapitated human heads and her trip to China in search of the cannibalistic dumpling makers.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Very interesting examination of death and what happens, or should happen, to our 'mortal coil' once we shuffle it off."
"Death is very much a part of life as this book will show you and also give you a good laugh along the way!"
"Love all her works, fascinating and written so that it is palatable to anyone."
"I bought this book after having been given the Mary Roach book - 'Packing for Mars'."
"An interesting read."
"Gave this as a gift, haven't gotten any complaints."
"STIFF: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. For anyone interested in the "messy" part of human science, this is the book for you. STIFF tells what happens to the human body after death whether that death is natural or not."
"Mary Roach is my favorite non fiction author and this is the first book I read by her."
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Building on the success of this book's first edition, Dr. Eric Hansen and Dr. Mack Roach have updated, revised, and expanded the Handbook of Evidence-based Radiation Oncology, a portable reference that utilizes evidence-based medicine as the basis for practical treatment recommendations and guidelines. 4 Stars Doody's Review for 1st Edition: "This is a "must-have" for any radiation oncology resident.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Most of us as residents always had difficulty gleaning the truly important bits of information and clinical trials from the standard rad-onc textbooks."
"Great book for oncology students!"
"It quotes the most important publications per tumor sites and also describes without digressions the therapeutic approach."
"As a Medical Physicist this book is a great, condensed resource for understanding the physician's side of things, especially when understanding prescribed dose, fractionation schemes and why PTV margins were chosen as they were."
"it's small than other textbooks and easier to understand in the daily routine."
"10 stars all the way."
Best Genetics
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A New York Times Notable Book. A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies —a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” ( Elle ). “A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” ( Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. "This is perhaps the greatest detective story ever told—a millennia-long search, led by a thousand explorers, from Aristotle to Mendel to Francis Collins, for the question marks at the center of every living cell. “With this fat, enthralling, juicy, scholarly, wonderfully written history of cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee vaults into that exalted company, inviting comparisons to the late physician and historian Lewis Thomas and the late palaeontologist and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould… What a story—full of quixotic characters, therapeutic triumphs and setbacks, and recent historical events—with all the hubris and pathos of Greek tragedy.” (Susan Okie, Washington Post). "It’s hard to think of many books for a general audience that have rendered any area of modern science and technology with such intelligence, accessibility, and compassion. “Mukherjee brings an impressive balance of empathy and dispassion to this instantly essential piece of medical journalism.” (Time). “A meticulously researched, panoramic history… What makes Mukherjee's narrative so remarkable is that he imbues decades of painstaking laboratory investigation with the suspense of a mystery novel and urgency of a thriller. “Riveting and powerful… Mukherjee’s extraordinary book might stimulate a wider discussion of how to wisely allocate our precious health care resources.” (San Francisco Chronicle). Add to their company Siddhartha Mukherjee: oncologist, researcher, and author of The Emperor of All Maladies (Scribner), a sweeping, erudite, and challenging ‘biography of cancer.’” (Elle magazine). “Sobering, humbling, and extraordinarily rich reading from a wise and gifted writer who sees how far we have come—but how much farther far we have to go to understand our human nature and destiny.” (Kirkus, starred review). "Mukherjee deftly relates the basic scientific facts about the way genes are believed to function, while making clear the aspects of genetics that remain unknown. He offers insight into both the scientific process and the sociology of science... By relating familial information, Mukherjee grounds the abstract in the personal to add power and poignancy to his excellent narrative." Mukherjee punctuates his encyclopedic investigations of collective and individual heritability, and our closing in on the genetic technologies that will transform how we will shape our own genome, with evocative personal anecdotes, deft literary allusions, wonderfully apt metaphors, and an irrepressible intellectual brio.” (Ben Dickinson, Elle). The story [of the gene] has been told, piecemeal, in different ways, but never before with the scope and grandeur that Siddhartha Mukherjee brings to his new history… he views his subject panoptically, from a great and clarifying height, yet also intimately.” (James Gleick, New York Times Book Review). The book is compassionate, tautly synthesized, packed with unfamiliar details about familiar people.” (Jennifer Senior, The New York Times). "[Mukherjee] nourishes his dry topics into engaging reading, expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories . [and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry. With a marriage of architectural precision and luscious narrative, an eye for both the paradoxical detail and the unsettling irony, and a genius for locating the emotional truths buried in chemical abstractions, Mukherjee leaves you feeling as though you've just aced a college course for which you'd been afraid to register -- and enjoyed every minute of it." He renders complex science with a novelist’s skill for conjuring real lives, seismic events.” (Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star Tribune). The Gene captures the scientific method—questioning, researching, hypothesizing, experimenting, analyzing—in all its messy, fumbling glory, corkscrewing its way to deeper understanding and new questions.” (Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel). The Gene is a story that, once read, makes us far better educated to think about the profound questions that will confront us in the coming decades.” (Ron Krall, Steamboat Today). But his sober warning about the future might be the book’s most important contribution.” (Kevin Canfield, San Francisco Chronicle). “Destined to soar into the firmament of the year’s must reads, to win accolades and well-deserved prizes, and to set a new standard for lyrical science writing. Thanks to Dr. Mukherjee’s remarkably clear and compelling prose, the reader has a fighting chance of arriving at the story of today’s genetic manipulations with an actual understanding of both the immensely complicated science and the even more complicated moral questions.” (Abigail Zuger, New York Times Science Section). “[The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene] both beautifully navigate a sea of complicated medical information in a way that is digestible, poignant, and engaging . I shook my head countless times while devouring it, wondering how the author—a brilliant physician, scientist, writer, and Rhodes Scholar—could possibly possess so many unique talents. “A brilliant exploration of some of our age’s most important social issues, from poverty to mental illness to the death penalty, and a beautiful, profound meditation on the truly human forces that drive them. Perhaps the most powerful lesson of Dr Mukherjee’s book [is]: genetics is starting to reveal how much the human race has to gain from tinkering with its genome, but still has precious little to say about how much we might lose.” (The Economist). But at a deeper level, the book is far more than a simple science history.” (Fred Bortz, Dalls Morning News). A well-written, accessible, and entertaining account of one of the most important of all scientific revolutions, one that is destined to have a fundamental impact on the lives of generations to come. Mukherjee opens with a survey of how the gene first came to be conceptualized and understood, taking us through the thoughts of Aristotle, Darwin, Mendel, Thomas Morgan, and others; he finishes the section with a look at the case of Carrie Buck (to whom the book is dedicated), who eventually was sterilized in 1927 in a famous American eugenics case.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The volume benefits from Mukherjee’s elegant literary style, novelist’s eye for character sketches and expansive feel for human history. Mendel was an abbot in a little known town in Central Europe whose pioneering experiments on pea plants provided the first window into the gene and evolution. Eugenics has now acquired a bad reputation, but Galton was a polymath who made important contributions to science by introducing statistics and measurements in the study of genetic differences. Many of the early eugenicists subscribed to the racial theories that were common in those days; many of them were well intended if patronizing, seeking to ‘improve the weak’, but they did not see the ominous slippery slope which they were on. Eugenics was enthusiastically supported in the United States; Mukherjee discusses the infamous Supreme Court case in which Oliver Wendell Holmes sanctioned the forced sterilization of an unfortunate woman named Carrie Buck by proclaiming, “Three generations of imbeciles are enough”. Another misuse of genetics was by Trofim Lysenko who tried to use Lamarck’s theories of acquired characteristics in doomed agricultural campaigns in Stalinist Russia; as an absurd example, he tried to “re educate” wheat using “shock therapy”. Mutations in specific genes (for instance ones causing changes in eye color) allowed them to track the flow of genetic material through several generations. The scientists most important for recognizing this fact were Frederick Griffiths and Oswald Avery and Mukherjee tells their story well; however I would have appreciated a fuller account of Friedrich Miescher who discovered DNA in pus bandages from soldiers. All these events set the stage for the golden age of molecular biology, the deciphering of the structure of DNA by James Watson (to whom the quote in the title is attributed), Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and others. Many of these pioneers were inspired by a little book by physicist Erwin Schrodinger which argued that the gene could be understood using precise principles of physics and chemistry; his arguments turned biology into a reductionist science. As a woman in a man’s establishment Franklin was in turn patronized and sidelined, but unlike Watson and Crick she was averse to building models and applying the principles of chemistry to the problem, two traits that were key to the duo’s success. The book then talks about early successes in correlating genes with illness that came with the advent of the human genome and epigenome; genetics has been very useful in finding determinants and drugs for diseases like sickle cell anemia, childhood leukemia, breast cancer and cystic fibrosis. Mukherjee especially has an excellent account of Nancy Wexler, the discoverer of the gene causing Huntington’s disease, whose search for its origins led her to families stricken with the malady in remote parts of Venezuela. The basic verdict is that while there is undoubtedly a genetic component to all these factors, the complex interplay between genes and environment means that it’s very difficult currently to tease apart influences from the two. The last part of the book focuses on some cutting edge research on genetics that’s uncovering both potent tools for precise gene engineering as well as deep insights into human evolution. There are a few minor scientific infelicities: for instance Linus Pauling’s structure of DNA was not really flawed because of a lack of magnesium ions but mainly because it sported a form of the phosphate groups that wouldn’t exist at the marginally alkaline pH of the human body. The book’s treatment of the genetic code leaves out some key exciting moments, such as when a scientific bombshell from biochemist Marshall Nirenberg disrupted a major meeting in the former Soviet Union. Nor is there much exploration of using gene sequences to illuminate the ‘tree of life’ which Darwin tantalizingly pulled the veil back on: in general I would have appreciated a bigger discussion of how DNA connects us to all living creatures. Its sweeping profile of life’s innermost secrets could not help but remind me of a Japanese proverb quoted by physicist Richard Feynman: “To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven."
"There are abundant scientific notions to satisfy any reader picking up the book to understand the real subject matter, but not in the general bland fashion of studies-and-conclusions that tend to lose many a lay people. From the notions of introns and exons to the polygenic nature of most phenotypes, the feedback from environment to gene mutation and the massive role played by non-gene factors in most our traits, the author uncovers a staggering number of interesting findings in a highly understandable manner. As professionals or parents seek to weed out certain deformities, there are genuine risks of us eliminating some important evolutionary traits mainly out of ignorance of how genes really work at this stage but also out of their possible other utilities in long future."
"But when it comes to genetics, surely the most significant (maybe the last) revolution of all, I am basically at a loss, bewildered and dumbfounded. Thus it is both a relief and pleasure to read and study this book to attain the very basic level of understanding of the subject."