- The Embryogenesis of the Human Skull
- Robert Shapiro
- Franklin Robinson
- Hardcover 1980
- Epidemiology of Neurologic and Sense Organ Disorders
- Leonard T. Kurland
- John F. Kurtzke
- Irving D. Goldberg
- Hardcover 1973
- Human Aspects of Biomedical Innovation
- Edited by Everett Mendelsohn
- Edited by Judith P. Swazey
- Edited by Irene Taviss
- Hardcover 1971
- Infant, Perinatal, Maternal, and Childhood Mortality in the United States
- Sam Shapiro
- Edward R. Schlesinger
- Robert E. L. Nesbitt, Jr
- Hardcover 1968
- The Integrity of the Body
- F. M. Burnet
- Hardcover 1962
- Intrinsic Factors
- Anand B. Karnad
- Dr. W. B. Castle (1897-1990), who played a major role in the emergence of hematology as a scientific discipline in the first half of this century, was instrumental in establishing the world-wide reputation of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory and the Harvard Medical Unit at Boston City Hospital. In the first comprehensive biography of Castle, Anand Karnad highlights the golden age of medicine and hematology in Boston.
- Hardcover 1997
- Language and Experience
- Barbara Landau
- Lila R. Gleitman
- If learning depends upon sensory experience, then how do children with sensory handicaps manage to learn? In Language and Experience Barbara Landau and Lila Gleitman confront this problem head on as they attempt to describe and explain the remarkable ability of blind children to learn language without essential difficulty.
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1988
- Loss and Restoration of Regenerative Capacity in Tissues and Organs of Animals
- L. V. Polezhaev
- Bruce M. Carlson
- Hardcover 1972
- The Lost Reform
- Daniel S. Hirshfield
- Hardcover 1970
- Magnesium and Man
- Warren E. C. Wacker
- Magnesium and Man provides the physician with a brief yet comprehensive overview of magnesium as a biochemical agent in human metabolism and disease. The first half of the book introduces techniques of measurement as well as the role of magnesium in normal biochemistry and physiology. The remaining chapters discuss magnesium squarely in the context of human disease: neonatal deficiency, thyroid disease, kidney disease, malignant osteolytic disease, alcoholism, and cirrhosis.
- Hardcover 1980
- Marriage and Divorce
- Hugh Carter
- Paul C. Glick
- Hardcover 1970
- Mathematical Analysis of the Electrical Activity of the Brain
- Edited by M. N. Livanov
- Edited by V. S. Rusinov
- Hardcover 1968
- Medical Malpractice
- Patricia M. Danzon
- How often are patients seriously injured through faulty medical care? And what proportion of these people receive compensation for their injuries and suffering? This is the first book that tries to answer these questions in a careful, scholarly way.
- Hardcover 1985
- Medical Malpractice on Trial
- Paul C. Weiler
- Hardcover 1991
- Medical Problem Solving
- Arthur S. Elstein
- Lee S. Shulman
- Sarah A. Sprafka
- Hardcover 1978
- The Medical Triangle
- Eli Ginzberg
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992
- Medicine Worth Paying For
- Edited by Howard Frazier
- Edited by Frederic Mosteller
- While there has been no end of studies of our health care system and proposals for changing it, there have been few credible studies of the risks and benefits of widely used medical treatments. Howard Frazier and Frederick Mosteller, leading figures in the field of medical technology assessment, attempt to distill the methods and knowledge base of their highly specialized discipline, with particular reference to medical innovations.
- Hardcover 1998
- Mental Disorders/Suicide
- Morton Kramer
- Earl S. Pollack
- Richard W. Redick
- Ben Z. Locke
- Hardcover 1972
- Metabolic Homeostasis
- Nathan B. Talbot
- Robert H. Richie
- John D. Crawford
- Illustrated by Edith S. Tagrin
- Paperback 1959
- Mobilizing against AIDS, Revised and Enlarged Edition
- Eve K. Nichols
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback
- The Molecular Control of Blood Cells
- Donald Metcalf
- Hardcover 1988
- The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited
- George E. Vaillant
- In this updated version of his landmark study on alcoholism, George Vaillant returns to the same subjects, but with the perspective gained from fifteen years of further follow-up.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1995
- The New Medicine and the Old Ethics
- Albert Jonsen
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992
- New Pathways in Medical Education
- Edited by Daniel Tosteson
- Edited by S. Adelstein
- Edited by Susan Carver
- This book describes efforts made at Harvard Medical School during the past to reorient general medical education. Harvard's New Pathway has received national attention since its inception—including a multipart special on PBS’s Nova—because it offers a radical restructuring of the traditional medical school curriculum.
- Hardcover 1994 / Paperback
- Older Veterans
- Edited by Terrie Wetle, Ph.D
- Edited by John Rowe, M.D
- Hardcover 1985
- Organ Transplants
- MGH Transplant Team
- H.F. Pizer
- Hardcover 1991
- Particles in Our Air
- Edited by John Daniel Spengler
- Edited by Richard Wilson
- Generated by the use of fossil energy, respirable-sized particles pose a major threat to our environment and health. In this book the hypothesis that fossil fuels are the primary culprit is examined in detail, including the nature, generation, and transport of particulate air pollution.
- Paperback 1996
- The Pathway for Oxygen
- Ewald R. Weibel
- It is rare for one book to be both a first-rate classroom text and a major contribution to scholarship. The Pathway for Oxygen is such a book, offering a new approach to respiratory physiology and morphology that quantitatively links the two.
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback
- The Physiology of Hemostasis
- Derek Ogston
- Hardcover 1983
- The Physiology of Physical Stress
- Carleton B. Chapman
- Elinor C. Reinmiller
- Hardcover 1974
- Politics, Science, and Dread Disease
- Stephen P. Strickland
- Hardcover 1972
- Population Policy Reconsidered
- Edited by Gita Sen
- Edited by Adrienne Germain
- Lincoln C. Chen
- Paperback
- The Postnatal Development of the Human Cerebral Cortex, Volume 8, The Cortex of the Six-Year-Old Child
- J. LeRoy Conel
- Hardcover 1967
- Power and Decision
- Edited by Gita Sen
- Edited by Rachel C. Snow
- Paperback
- Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion
- Harry Harris
- Hardcover 1975
- Prenatal Screening, Policies, and Values
- Edited by Elena Nightingale
- Edited by Susan B. Meister
- Paperback 1987
- Principles of Dental Public Health
- James Morse Dunning
- Hardcover 1986
- Private Choices and Public Health
- Tomas Philipson
- Richard A. Posner
- Hardcover
- The Process of Neurologic Care in Medical Practice
- Thomas H. Glick, M.D
- Hardcover 1984
- The Profit Motive and Patient Care
- Bradford Gray
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- Psychosomatic Aspects of Gynecological Disorders
- Alfred O. Ludwig
- Benjamin J. Murawski
- Somers H. Sturgis
- Hardcover 1969
- Public Health and the State
- Barbara Rosenkrantz
- Public Health and the State constitutes both a fine piece of social history and an ideal model for evaluating our current definition of public health. Rosenkrantz perceptively traces the development of the Massachusetts State Board of Health--established in 1869 as the first state institution in the United States responsible for preventing unnecessary mortality and promoting all aspects of public health.
- Hardcover 1972 / Paperback
- Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630-1822
- John B. Blake
- Hardcover
- The Red Cell - Production, Metabolism, Destruction
- John Harris
- Paperback
- Reflexes and Motor Integration
- Judith P. Swazey
- Hardcover 1969
- Resistance to Tuberculosis
- Max B. Lurie
- Hardcover 1965
- The Retina
- John E. Dowling
- Hardcover
- Rheumatic Fever and Streptococcal Infection
- Benedict F. Massell
- This is a historical review of the development of our knowledge of the clinical picture, etiology, pathogenesis, and prevention of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease over the past four centuries.
- Hardcover 1997
- Science with a Human Face
- Edited by Robert Dorfman
- Edited by Peter Rogers
- Paperback 1997
- Selected Papers on the Pathogenic Rickettsiae
- Edited by Nicholas Hahon
- Hardcover 1968
- Self-Interest and Universal Health Care
- Larry Churchill
- Hardcover 1998
- Sex, Contraception, and Motherhood in Jamaica
- Eugene B. Brody
- Hardcover 1981
- The Sickled Cell
- Stuart J. Edelstein
- Hardcover 1986
- Social Medicine in Eastern Europe
- E. Richard Weinerman
- Hardcover 1969
- Speed Culture
- Lester Grinspoon
- Peter Hedblom
- Hardcover 1975 / Paperback
- The Story of Blindness
- Gabriel Farrell
- Hardcover 1956
- Studies on the Piriform Lobe
- F. Valverde
- Hardcover 1965
- Teaching Comprehensive Medical Care
- Kenneth R. Hammond
- Hardcover 1959
- They Never Want to Tell You
- David Bearison
- They Never Want to Tell You transcends the negative metaphors and clichés of life-threatening disease, to give voice to the culture of cancer and to the behavior and attitudes of those who function within that culture-as patients, medical professionals, family, and friends.
- Hardcover 1991
- Toward the Conquest of Beriberi
- Robert R. Williams
- Hardcover 1961
- The Training of Good Physicians
- Fremont J. Lyden
- H. Jack Geiger
- Osler L. Peterson
- Hardcover 1968
- Trends and Variations in Fertility in the United States
- Clyde V. Kiser
- Wilson H. Grabill
- Arthur A. Campbell
- Hardcover 1968
- Tuberculosis
- Anthony M. Lowell
- Lydia B. Edwards
- Carroll E. Palmer
- Hardcover 1969
- Variation, Senescence, and Neoplasia in Cultured Somatic Cells
- John W. Littlefield
- Hardcover 1975
- Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Michael Hume
- Simon Sevitt
- Duncan P. Thomas
- Hardcover 1970
- Welfare Medical Care
- Charles H. Goodrich
- Margaret C. Olendzki
- George G. Reader
- Hardcover 1970
- Western Diseases
- Edited by H. C. Trowell
- Edited by D. P. Burkitt
- Hardcover 1981
- The White Cell
- Martin J. Cline
- Hardcover 1975
- Your Good Health
- Edited by William Bennett
- Edited by Stephen Goldfinger
- Edited by Timothy Johnson
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1989