Biography: science, technology and medicine

Things Only a Nurse Like Me Will Tell You offers an honest view of the Health-Care System today from the perspective of Cindy Altman, a highly skilled and respected Registered Nurse.

Dorothea Dix was almost forty years old when she discovered that people, especially poor people, with mental illness were "e;confined in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

Bradley Carlsons muscular dystrophy causes brutal leg cramps that leave him crumpled on the floor.

Allan Fredrickson grew up in Southwestern Manitoba, Canada and attended the college of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota.

Autobiography of Jee Sun Kim.

Breath of Lifetells the story of a volunteer ?

By describing a surprisingly large number of medical problems that began to emerge in his late sixties and the medical care he got for them, Mr.

After forty years as an electronics engineer, Jim Snell had a stroke that ended his career but not his life.

Young Negro boy, what will you do when time makes you a man?

In life sometimes we feel like we cannot make it because of the obstacles we face in our everyday life.

It's not just a job.

Get the inside scoop on the U.

An 'Odyssey' is described as any extended journey.

The book is first in English language highlighting the memoirs of a world renowned powder metallurgist .

Rick Kahle, wonderful husband and father of a beautiful five-year-old daughter was struck down in his third Lupus attack.

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School nurses serve on the front lines of the everyday struggle for our childrens health, yet they are often perceived as little more than glorified dispensers of bandages.

Manic Episodes and the Dark Side draws the reader in with an autobiographical sketch of a misspent youth, then plunges into the terror of bipolar illness.

The health care system remains in crisis, and its hurting the overall economy.

Have you ever been far away from city lights and noticed the stars like diamonds in the sky?

A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother-and-child health in the developing world.

A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother-and-child health in the developing world.

A hopeful memoir that shares the author's voyage of discovery as a mother, wife, and physician in underserved communities in northern Ontario.

A hopeful memoir that shares the author's voyage of discovery as a mother, wife, and physician in underserved communities in northern Ontario.

The story of the end-of-life experience of a palliative care physician who helped thousands of patients to die well.

The story of the end-of-life experience of a palliative care physician who helped thousands of patients to die well.

In her incredibly productive lifetime (1883-1974), American-born ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice earned the admiration of ornithologists and naturalists in far distant lands.

A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother and child health in the developing world.

A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother and child health in the developing world.

Once people encounter the natural world and become aware of its intricacy, fragility, beauty, and significance, they will recognize the need for conservation.

Once people encounter the natural world and become aware of its intricacy, fragility, beauty, and significance, they will recognize the need for conservation.

Nursing has come a long way since the days of Florence Nightingale.

ABOUT THE BOOK 1806: Chemistry lectures were all the rage in fashionable London, and not only for men.

THIS BOOK IS A PERSONAL JOURNEY FROM INDIA, VIA SCOTLAND, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, AUSTRALIA, SOLIMON ISLANDS, SAUDI ARABIA AND BACK TO SCOTLAND.

The true story you are about to read is an attempt by the writer to balance the unplanned, deep challenges faced when thrown into the legal and medical arenas.

A gripping and fascinating tale about a boy who grows up in the rural south and endsup as a heart surgeon and then leader of a major medical center in a big city.

This book is about all the information Kyle learned over his 31 years of interest in solar power.

He and his team are sent to Cairo in 1979 to plan the modernization of Egypts phone service.

This book portrays life inside a General Motors factory in the 1970s.

As a practicing physician of internal and geriatric medicine at a major urban teaching hospital, I take care of frail older patients and see a lot of dying.

Are you contemplating a career in the medical field; an M.

Ippy Ever After is a story of courage and determination against all the odds.

This issue of Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Mimi Mahon, features subject topics such as: Understanding Children's Involvment in Medical Decision Making; Symptom Management at End of Life; Assessing respiratory distress when the patient can't self-report; Barriers to Palliative Care, Legislative Issues; End Stage Liver Disease: Symptoms & Practice Implications; Dying children: Creating opportunities out of a "e;Last Chance?

This is a designer s story from the Golden Age, of Firebirds and Moonmen.

This is the story of a patient with Stage III breast cancer who chose treatment using complementary and alternative methods over conventional medical therapy.

CEREBRAL CIRCUS gives authentic insight into neurological training and research, told in the age-old scenario of the unpolished country boy versus the city slicker.

The idea of writing my lifetime memory during my childhoodtime and adulthood period goes back to the last twentyyears.

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As a mom dealing with my son's diagnosis and treatments has been a rough road.