medicine

Online Privacy and Health Care covers who has access to private health care information, trends in electronic health care records, health care privacy breaches and their effects, and health care privacy enforcement.

"What if someone told you that your liver pumped blood through your body? You'd think that person was crazy! Discover how thought about the human body has changed over the centuries."--.

A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.

In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.

Provides information about the causes, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of a variety of human diseases and disorders, organized within twenty-three subject categories, with an index, and an introductory history of the manual's first hundred years.

An overview of jobs in the fields of medicine and human services. Includes information on training, working conditions, and salary.

Presents thirty-five poems by late-twentieth-century American writer Amy Gerstler, featuring several different narrative voices including Cinderella's wicked sisters and a woman married to a bear, and addressing such topics as science, love, mourning, and the concept of an afterlife.

Examines the advances in medical science made possible by the use of microscopes, from the first studies of plants and insects to the eventual discovery of bacteria.