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