The medicine book
(Book)
Contributors:
Parker, Steve, 1952- editor.
Farndon, John, contributor.
Harris, Tim, contributor.
Hubbard, Ben, 1973- contributor.
Parker, Philip, 1965- contributor.
Farndon, John, contributor.
Harris, Tim, contributor.
Hubbard, Ben, 1973- contributor.
Parker, Philip, 1965- contributor.
Series:
Published:
New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2021.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First American edition.
ISBN:
9780744028362, 0744028361
Status:
Description
"How are illnesses diagnosed? What is cancer? Why are some pandemics so deadly? This book explores big questions like these, explaining the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine and helped us protect and promote our health. Written in plain English, The Medicine Book cuts through the jargon and is packed with explanations of the most important milestones in medical history, with step-by-step diagrams and witty illustrations that untangle knotty concepts. From ancient medical practices, such as herbal medications and balancing the humors, through groundbreaking work including Jenner's experiments with cowpox, which laid the basis for vaccination, The Medicine Book offers an engaging overview of medical history across the world all the way into the 21st century with gene manipulation, immunotherapy, and robotics and telesurgery. Covering the role that therapies and drugs have played in the human quest to treat and prevent disease, the establishment of hospitals and later international medical bodies, like the WHO, and medical science's response to new challenges, such as accelerated antibiotic resistance and COVID-19, The Medicine Book explains the stories behind each milestone development."--
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EVLD Avon Public Library
610.9 MED
Due May 17, 2024
EVLD Eagle Public Library
610.9 MED
On Shelf
EVLD Gypsum Branch
610.9 MED
On Shelf
Feb 27, 2024
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SSCL Bud Adult Nonfiction
610.9 MED
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Dec 2, 2021
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Physical Desc:
336 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language:
English
Notes
General Note
Includes index.
Description
"How are illnesses diagnosed? What is cancer? Why are some pandemics so deadly? This book explores big questions like these, explaining the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine and helped us protect and promote our health. Written in plain English, The Medicine Book cuts through the jargon and is packed with explanations of the most important milestones in medical history, with step-by-step diagrams and witty illustrations that untangle knotty concepts. From ancient medical practices, such as herbal medications and balancing the humors, through groundbreaking work including Jenner's experiments with cowpox, which laid the basis for vaccination, The Medicine Book offers an engaging overview of medical history across the world all the way into the 21st century with gene manipulation, immunotherapy, and robotics and telesurgery. Covering the role that therapies and drugs have played in the human quest to treat and prevent disease, the establishment of hospitals and later international medical bodies, like the WHO, and medical science's response to new challenges, such as accelerated antibiotic resistance and COVID-19, The Medicine Book explains the stories behind each milestone development."--,Amazon
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Parker, S., Farndon, J., Harris, T., Hubbard, B., Parker, P., & Snedden, R. (2021). The medicine book. First American edition. New York, NY, DK Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Steve Parker et al.. 2021. The Medicine Book. New York, NY, DK Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Steve Parker et al., The Medicine Book. New York, NY, DK Publishing, 2021.
MLA Citation (style guide)Parker, Steve, et al. The Medicine Book. First American edition. New York, NY, DK Publishing, 2021.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Introduction --|t Ancient and medieval medicine: prehistory to 1600.|t A shaman to combat disease and death: Prehistoric medicine --|t A healer of one disease and no more: Ancient Egyptian medicine --|t The balance of the doshas is freedom from disease: Ayurvedic medicine --|t We rebuild what fortune has taken away: Plastic surgery --|t First, do no harm: Greek medicine --|t A body in balance: Traditional Chinese medicine --|t Nature itself is the best physician: Herbal medicine --|t To diagnose, one must observe and reason: Roman medicine --|t Know the causes of sickness and health: Islamic medicine --|t Learned, expert, ingenious, and able to adapt: Medieval medical schools and surgery --|t The vampire of medicine: Bloodletting and leeches --|t Wars have furthered the progress of the healing art: Battlefield medicine --|t The art of prescribing lies in nature: Pharmacy --|t Teach not from books but from dissections: Anatomy --|t The scientific body: 1600-1820. The blood is driven: Blood circulation --|t A disease known is half cured: Nosology --|t Hope of a good, speedy deliverance: Midwifery --|t The harvest of diseases reaped by workers: Occupational medicine --|t The peculiar circumstances of the patient: Case history --|t To restore the sick to health as speedily as possible: Hospitals --|t Great and unknown virtue in this fruit: Preventing injury --|t The bark of a tree is very efficacious: Aspirin --|t Surgery has become a science: Scientific surgery --|t The dangerously wounded must be tended first: Triage --|t A peculiarity in my vision: Color vision deficiency --|t No longer feared, but understood: Humane mental health care --|t Training the immune system: Vaccination --|t Like cures like: Homeopathy --|t To hear the beating of the heart: The stethoscope |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Cells and microbes: 1820-1890.|t Let healthy blood leap into the sick man: blood transfusion and blood groups --|t Soothing, quieting, and delightful beyond measure: Anesthesia --|t Wash your hands: Hygiene --|t Medicine needs men and women: Women in medicine --|t All cells come from cells: Histology --|t They mistook the smoke for the fire: Epidemiology --|t A hospital should do the sick no harm: Nursing and sanitation --|t Disturbances at the cellular level: Cellular pathology --|t Make yourselves masters of anatomy: Gray's Anatomy --|t One must replace the scarring tissue: Skin grafts --|t Life is at the mercy of these minute bodies: Germ theory --|t A genetic misprint: Inheritance and heredity conditions --|t It is from particles that all the mischief arises: Antiseptics in surgery --|t The field of vital phenomena: Physiology --|t Defense against intruders: The immune system --|t A single mosquito bite is all it takes: Malaria --|t Vaccines, serums, and antibiotics: 1890-1945. --|t Solving the puzzle of cancer: Cancer theory --|t The darker shadow of the bones: X-rays --|t Viruses are alpha predators: Virology --|t Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious: Psychoanalysis --|t It must be a chemical reflex: Hormones and endocrinology --|t The action currents of the heart: Electrocardiography --|t Strings of flashing and traveling sparks: The nervous system --|t A peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex: Alzheimer's disease --|t Magic bullets: Targeted drug delivery --|t Unknown substances essential for life: Vitamins and diet --|t An invisible, antagonistic microbe: Bacteriophages and phage therapy --|t A weakened form of the germ: Attenuated vaccines --|t To imitate the action of the pancreas: Diabetes and its treatment --|t No woman is free who does not own her body: Birth control --|t Marvelous mold that saves lives: Antibiotics --|t New windows into the brain: Electroencephalography --|t Silent disease can be found early: Cancer screening |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Global health: 1945-1970. --|t We defend everyone's right to health: The World Health Organization --|t The artificial kidney can save a life: Dialysis --|t Nature's dramatic antidote: Steroids and cortisone --|t The quieting effect: Lithium and bipolar disorder --|t A psychic penicillin: Chlorpromazine and antipsychotics --|t Changing the way you think: Behavioral and cognitive therapy --|t A new diagnostic dimension: Ultrasound --|t All the cells had chromosomes: Chromosomes and Down syndrome --|t Death becomes life: Transplant surgery --|t A promising but unruly molecule: Interferon --|t A sensation for the patient: Pacemakers --|t The center of our immune response: Lymphocytes and lymphatics --|t The power to decide: Hormonal contraception --|t Asking for proof of safety: The FDA and thalidomide --|t A return to function: Orthopedic surgery --|t Smoking kills: Tobacco and lung cancer --|t Help to live until you die: Palliative care --|t Genes and technology: 1970 onward. --|t Randomize till it hurts: Evidence-based medicine --|t Seeing inside the body: MRI and medical scanning --|t Antibodies on demand: Monoclonal antibodies --|t Nature could not, so we did: In vitro fertilization --|t Victory over smallpox: Global eradication of disease --|t Our fate lies in our genes: Genetics and medicine --|t This is everybody's problem: HIV and autoimmune diseases --|t A revolution through the keyhole: Minimally invasive surgery --|t The first glimpse of our own instruction book: The Human Genome Project --|t Fixing a broken gene: Gene therapy --|t The power of light: Laser eye surgery --|t Hope for new therapies: Stem cell research --|t Smaller is better: Nanomedicine --|t The barriers of space and distance have collapsed: Robotics and telesurgery --|t Public health enemy number one: Pandemics --|t To reprogram a cell: Regenerative medicine --|t This is my new face: Face transplants. |
| 520 | |a "How are illnesses diagnosed? What is cancer? Why are some pandemics so deadly? This book explores big questions like these, explaining the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine and helped us protect and promote our health. Written in plain English, The Medicine Book cuts through the jargon and is packed with explanations of the most important milestones in medical history, with step-by-step diagrams and witty illustrations that untangle knotty concepts. From ancient medical practices, such as herbal medications and balancing the humors, through groundbreaking work including Jenner's experiments with cowpox, which laid the basis for vaccination, The Medicine Book offers an engaging overview of medical history across the world all the way into the 21st century with gene manipulation, immunotherapy, and robotics and telesurgery. Covering the role that therapies and drugs have played in the human quest to treat and prevent disease, the establishment of hospitals and later international medical bodies, like the WHO, and medical science's response to new challenges, such as accelerated antibiotic resistance and COVID-19, The Medicine Book explains the stories behind each milestone development."--|c Amazon | ||
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