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Emerging Infectious Diseases Respiratory system
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Emerging Infectious Diseases Respiratory systemEmerging Infectious Diseases Respiratory system

'A meticulous dissection of the threats from infectious disease, and our responses to them. The book offers an unusually clear account of how perception of biological reality is shaped by society and culture. Essential reading for plotting the territory between panic and pandemic.' - Jon Turney, Author of The Rough Guide to the Future 'Emerging Infectious Diseases and Society is an engrossing account of the historical underpinnings of the idea of emerging disease, and a trenchant dissection of the ways in which it is put to social and political use today.
 
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Tags: disease, Diseases, Infectious, Emerging, dissection, Emerging, account
Textbook of Physical Diagnosis: History and Examination
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Textbook of Physical Diagnosis: History and Examination

The new 4th Edition of this one-of-a-kind, humanistic text has been thoroughly updated to reflect the most current standards of physical diagnosis. Its core philosophy approaches the patient as a person suffering from disease, rather than an entity in which disease manifests. All chapters have been reviewed and revised, with an all-new chapter on nutrition that shows readers how to apply nutritional principles to the practice of medicine. New color images replace many old black-and-white images, and more than 200 NEW color photographs of pathological conditions enhance this Edition.
 
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Tags: color, disease, images, Edition, medicine
ACC Atlas of Pathophysiology
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ACC Atlas of PathophysiologyACC Atlas of Pathophysiology

Featuring 450 large full-color illustrations, this comprehensive atlas shows how more than 200 disorders can disrupt the human body's equilibrium. It is designed to help healthcare professionals visualize disease processes, understand the rationales for clinical interventions, and explain to patients how diseases develop and progress.
 
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Tags: clinical, interventions, rationales, understand, disease, Pathophysiology, Atlas, processes
Antibiotics: The Perfect Storm
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Antibiotics: The Perfect StormAntibiotics: The Perfect Storm

Antibiotics are truly miracle drugs. As a class, they are one of the only ones that actually cure disease as opposed to most drugs that only help relieve symptoms or control disease. Since bacteria that cause serious disease in humans are becoming more and more resistant to the antibiotics we have today, and because they will ultimately become resistant to any antibiotic that we use for treatment or for anything else, we need a steady supply of new antibiotics active against any resistant bacteria that arise.
 
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Tags: disease, resistant, bacteria, Antibiotics, antibiotics, Antibiotics, disease
Practical Occupational Medicine
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Practical Occupational MedicinePractical Occupational Medicine

The second edition of Practical Occupational Medicine bridges the gap between day-to-day clinical practice, concerned primarily with diagnosis and treatment of disease, and occupational health practice which is concerned with the prevention of work-related disease and the management of ill health in relation to the workplace.
 
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Tags: health, practice, concerned, Medicine, Occupational, Medicine, Practical, disease