Environmental medicine

Table of Contents: “…Genetic, environmental and infectious causes of cancer. 58. Environmental carcinogenesis / David H. …”


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Heredity and social problems, by Burlingame, Leonas Lancelot, 1876-1950

Table of Contents: “…Heredity and medical problems : Pathogenics ; Medical economics and genetic differences ; The heredity of pathological traits: heredity and cancer, hereditary diatheses ; Social responsibilities of medicine ; The cultist problem ; Some responsibilities of socialized medicine -- Heredity in insanity and crime : Heredity and psychoses ; Huntington's chorea ; Mongolism ; Amaurotic idiocy ; Epilepsy ; Endocrine psychoses ; Schizophrenia: Incidence, association with other diseases, heredity of schizophrenia, fertility of schizophrenics, social control ; Manic-depressive psychoses: Etiology, incidence, severity, duration, social control ; Crime ; Variety of antisocial acts ; Heredity in crime ; Social control of crime -- Heredity in education and government : Mental limitations ; Special abilities ; Individual interests ; Special skills ; Personality difficulties ; Finding talent ; Subsidizing talent ; Nature and objectives of government ; Genetic adaptation ; Social adaptations ; Genetic functions of government.…”


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Respiratory care : principles and practice

Table of Contents: “…Chaudhary, Arthur Taft, and Shelley C. Mishoe -- 47. Lung cancer / Maha Farhat -- 48. Neuonatal and pediatric respiratory disorders / Sherry Barnhart -- Sect. …”


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Chicken soup for the soul : think positive : 101 inspirational stories about counting your blessings and having a positive attitude by Canfield, Jack, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Bridge -- 22. The gift of brain cancer / Tom Schumm -- 23. Eleven minutes / Heather Gallegos -- 24. …”


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The Fletch collection

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Handbook of medical image processing and analysis

Table of Contents: “…Quantitative image analysis for estimation of breast cancer risk / Martin J. Yaffe, and Norman F. Boyd -- 24. …”


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Abrams' angiography : interventional radiology

Table of Contents: “…Barnett -- Interventional pain procedures for cancer pain / Phillip C. Phan, Allen W. Burton -- Intradiskal electrothermal therapy (IDET) and its role in spinal pain management / Jeffrey A. …”


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Hodgkin lymphoma

Table of Contents: “…Mauch, and Richard T. Hoppe -- Second cancers after treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma / Flora E. van Leeuwen, Anthony J. …”


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Maternity and pediatric nursing by Ricci, Susan Scott

Table of Contents: “…Benign disorders of the female reproductive tract -- 8. Cancers of the female reproductive tract -- 9. Violence and abuse -- Unit 3. …”


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Foundations in microbiology : basic principles by Talaro, Kathleen P., Chess, Barry

Table of Contents: “…Specific immunity: the adaptive line of defense -- (An overview of specific immune responses -- Development of the immune system) -- Lymphocyte maturation and the nature of antigens -- (Specific events in B-cell maturation -- Specific events in T-cell maturation -- Characteristics of antigens and immunogens) -- Cooperation in immune reactions to antigens -- (The role of antigen processing and presentation -- B-cell responses -- Monoclonal antibodies: useful products from cancer cells) -- T-cell responses -- (Cell-mediated immunity (CMI)) -- A classification scheme for specific, acquired immunities -- (Defining categories by mode of acquisition) -- Immunization: methods of manipulating immunity for therapeutic purposes -- (Artificial passive immunization -- Artificial active immunity: vaccination -- Development of new vaccines -- Routes of administration and side effects of vaccines -- To vaccinate: why, whome, and when?).…”


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The encyclopedia of aging : a comprehensive resource in gerontology and geriatrics

Table of Contents: “…AB and other amyloids -- Abilities -- Abstract thinking -- Abuse -- Accidents -- Active life expectancy -- Activities -- Activities of daily living -- Activity theory -- Adaptation -- Adaptive capacity -- Adipose tissue -- Adult day care -- Adult development -- Adult education -- Adult foster care -- Adult protective services -- Advanced Glycation end products -- Advance directives in health care: living wills and durable power of attorney -- Advocacy for nursing home reform -- Affect balance scale -- Affect and mood -- African-American aged -- Age conflicts -- Age discrimination -- Age grading and grouping -- Age identification -- Ageism -- Age norms -- Age segregation -- Age status -- Age stereotype -- Age stratification -- Aging network -- AIDS: data from the national AIDS behavioral surveys -- AIDS/HIV in older adults -- Alameda County Study -- Alcoholism -- Alcohol use -- Alliance for Aging Research -- Alzheimer's Association -- Alzheimer's disease: clinical -- Alzheimer's disease: genetic factors -- Alzheimer's disease: special care units -- Ambulatory care -- American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging -- American Association of Retired Persons -- American College of Health Care Administrators -- American College of Healthcare Executives -- American Federation for Aging Research -- American Geriatrics Society -- American Health Care Association -- American Society on Aging -- Americans with disabilities act -- Animal and plant aging models -- Antibodies -- Anxiety -- Aphasia -- Apolipoprotein E -- Architecture -- Arthritis -- Arts -- Asian and Pacific Islander American elders -- Assessment -- Assisted living: a residential model of long-term care -- Assisted suicide -- Association for Gerontology in Higher Education -- Atherosclerosis -- Attention -- Attitudes -- Auditory perception -- Australian longitudinal study of ageing -- Autobiographical memory -- Autoimmunity -- Autonomy and aging -- Baltimore longitudinal study of aging -- Behavioral medicine -- Behavior modification -- Bereavement -- Berlin aging study -- Biofeedback -- Biography -- Biological aging theories -- Biological rhythms -- Blood -- Board and care homes -- Body composition -- Bone -- Brain imaging -- Cancer -- Cancer control and aging -- Carbohydrates -- Cardiovascular system -- Caregiver burden -- Caregivers of chronically ill elders -- Caregiving -- Cartilage -- Case management. -- Case mix in long-term care -- Cautiousness -- Cell aging in vitro -- Cell aging in vivo -- Cell morphology -- Cell transformation -- Centenarians -- Central nervous system (brain and spinal chord) -- Cerebrovascular disease. -- Channeling demonstration -- Chromatin -- Chromosome and breakage -- Clinical EEG: cognitive changes -- Clinical memory testing: external validators -- Clinical memory testing: instrument review -- Clinical psychology -- Cognitive processes -- Cognitive processes: dementia -- Cognitive therapy -- Cohort analysis -- Cohorts -- Collagen -- Collagen and Elastin -- Communication disorders -- Communication: processes and issues -- Communication technologies and older adults -- Community needs assessment -- Community psychology -- Competence -- Compliance: taking prescribed medications -- Comprehensive assessment -- Compression of morbidity/disease postponement -- Computed tomography: cognitive changes -- Concept learning -- Congressional committees -- Connective tissues -- Consumer issues: the mature market -- Continuing care retirement community -- Continuity theory -- Continuum of care -- Coping -- Coresidence -- Cornell medical index: age-related symptomatology -- Cornell study of occupational retirement -- Coronary-prone behavior -- Counseling psychology -- Creativity -- Crime (against and by the elderly) -- Critical theory and critical gerontology -- Cross-cultural research -- Cross-linking -- Cytogerontology -- Databases -- Day care for adults -- Day hospitals -- Death -- Death anxiety in the elderly -- Dehydroepiandrosterone -- Deinstitutionalization -- Delirium -- Delusions -- Dementia -- Demography -- Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) -- Depression -- Developmental psychology -- Developmental tasks -- Deviance throughout the life course -- Diabetes mellitus -- Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders -- Diet restriction -- Disability -- Discourse memory -- Discrimination -- Disease postponement -- Disengagement -- Disruptive behaviors -- Divorce -- DNA -- Doctor-patient relationship -- Drug interactions -- Drug misuse and abuse -- Drug reactions -- Duke longitudinal studies -- Dysphagia -- Dysphasia -- Early retirement -- Economics -- EEG/Electroencephalogram -- Elastin -- Elder abuse and neglect -- Emphysema -- Employee Retirement Income Security Act -- Employment -- Endocrine system -- Energy and bioenergetics -- Entitlement -- Environmental psychology -- Enzymes -- Epidemiology -- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission -- Established populations for epidemiological studies of the elderly -- Estrogen replacement therapy -- Ethics -- Ethnic associations -- Ethnicity -- Euthanasia -- Evaluation of programs and practice -- Event history analysis -- Everyday memory and aging -- Evolutionary theory -- Exchange theory in aging -- Exercise -- Expertise and age -- Eye: clinical issues -- Eye: structure and function -- Falls. -- Family -- Federal budgeting and expenditures -- Federal Council on the Aging -- Feeding behavior -- Filial responsibilities -- Financial planning: legal aspects -- Financial planning: social aspects -- Flies -- Foster grandparent program -- Foundations -- Framingham Studies of Heart Disease -- Free radical mechanisms in brain aging -- Free radicals -- Friendship -- Frontal lobe dysfunction -- Functional age -- Functional brain imaging: Single Photon Emission Tomography (SPET) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) -- Functional disability -- Future trends -- Gastrointestinal system -- Gender -- Gene expression -- Generational equity -- Generations -- Generativity -- Genetic heterogeneity -- Genetic programming -- Genitourinary system -- Geographic mobility -- Geriatric assessment units: their rationale, history, process, and effectiveness -- Geriatric/Gerontological nursing -- Geriatric health -- Geriatric psychiatry -- Geriatric research, education, and clinical centers -- Geriatrics -- Gerontocracy -- Gerontological education and training -- Gerontological Society of America. -- Gerontology -- Goteborg longitudinal study -- Grandparent-grandchild relationships -- Gray Panthers -- Graying of hair -- GRECC -- Grief -- Group membership -- Group psychotherapy -- Guardianship/Conservatorship -- Hair -- Halstead-Reitan Battery -- Health and retirement survey -- Health assessment -- Health beliefs -- Health care: organization, use, and financing -- Health care policy in the United States -- Health maintenance organizations -- Health promotion -- Hearing -- Hearing loss -- Heart -- Heart disease -- Hemispheric specialization -- Hip fracture -- Hispanic elderly -- Home and community-based care -- Home equity conversion -- Home health care -- Homelessness -- Homemaker services -- Home modifications -- Homeostasis -- Homosexuality -- Hormone replacement therapy: estrogen -- Hormones -- Hospice -- Hostility -- Housing -- Human aging study -- Human factors for older adults -- Humanities and the arts -- Humor -- Hyperoxygenation -- Hypertension in the elderly -- Images of aging in the media -- Immune cells -- Immunizations -- Implicit memory -- Income distribution: effects of government policies -- Incontinence -- Individual differences -- Individual retirement account -- Industrial gerontology -- Inflation impact -- Information-processing theory -- Injury. -- Institutionalization -- Intelligence -- Interference -- Intergenerational relationships -- Intergenerational stake hypothesis -- International Association of Gerontology -- International Federation on Ageing -- International gerontology -- International perspectives -- International Psychogeriatric Association -- Interviewing -- Introversion -- Invertebrate models -- Ions -- Isolation -- Isomerization -- Journalism and aging -- Kansas City studies of adult life -- Knowledge utilization -- Korsakoff's syndrome -- Langley Porter studies of aging -- Language comprehension -- Language production -- Law -- Learned helplessness -- Learning -- Legal services -- Leisure -- Leisure programs -- Levels of processing -- Lewy body disease -- Liability and risk -- Licensed nursing -- Life course -- Life cycle -- Life events -- Life expectancy -- Life extension -- Life review -- Life review: reminiscence -- Life satisfaction -- Life span -- Lipids -- Lipofuscin -- Living arrangements -- Living wills -- Locus of control -- Loneliness -- Longevity: societal impact -- Longitudinal data sets in aging -- Longitudinal research -- Longitudinal retirement history survey -- Longitudinal studies: Europe -- Longitudinal studies of aging -- Longitudinal study of aging -- Longitudinal study of generations -- Long-lived human populations -- Long-term care -- Long-term -- care assessment -- Long-term -- care insurance -- Long-term memory -- Loss -- Low vision -- Luria-Nebraska neuropsychological battery -- MacArthur community study of successful aging -- Magnetic resonance imaging -- Magnetic resonance spectroscopy: applications to the study of membrane and energy metabolism -- Malnutrition in the elderly -- Marital satisfaction -- Marital status -- Marriage -- Mature market -- Media -- Medicaid -- Medicaid waiver programs -- Medicare -- Membranes -- Memory and memory theory.…”


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The surgery of Master Henry de Mondeville : written from 1306 to 1320 by Mondeville, Henri de, active 14th century

Table of Contents: “…The treatment of ulcers -- Treatment of bites and stings -- The treatment of fistulas -- The treatment of cancerous ulcers --…”


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Psychopathology of childhood and adolescence : a neuropsychological approach

Table of Contents: “…Cognitive disorders: central nervous system cancers (anaplastic medulloblastoma) / Corey D. Anderson and Robert W. …”


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New directions in conservation medicine : applied cases of ecological health

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence estuary : a case study of cancer and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons / Daniel Martineau.…”


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Medical microbiology : a guide to microbial infections : pathogensis, immunity, laboratory diagnosis and control

Table of Contents: “…Enteritis; polyneuropathy; gastritis; peptic ulcer disease; gastric cancer / J.M. Ketley and A.H.M. van Vljet -- Vibro, mobiluncus, gardnerella and spirillum. …”


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Rosdahl's textbook of basic nursing.

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: PART A UNIT 1 The Nature of Nursing Chapter 1 The Origins of Nursing Chapter 2 Beginning Your Nursing Career Chapter 3 The Healthcare Delivery System Chapter 4 Legal and Ethical Aspects of Nursing unit 2 Personal and Environmental Health Chapter 5 Basic Human Needs Chapter 6 Health and Wellness chapter 7 Community Health Chapter 8 Transcultural Healthcare UNIT 3 Development Throughout the Life Cycle chapter 9 The Family Chapter 10 Infancy and Childhood Chapter 11 Adolescence Chapter 12 Early and Middle Adulthood Chapter 13 Older Adulthood and Aging Chapter 14 The End of Life: Death, Dying, Grief, and Loss unit 4 Structure and Function Chapter 15 Organization of the Human Body Chapter 16 The Integumentary System Chapter 17 Fluid and Electrolyte Balance Chapter 18 The Musculoskeletal System chapter 19 The Nervous System Chapter 20 The Endocrine System Chapter 21 The Sensory System chapter 22 The Cardiovascular System chapter 23 The Hematologic and Lymphatic Systems chapter 24 The Immune System Chapter 25 The Respiratory System Chapter 26 The Digestive System Chapter 27 The Urinary System chapter 28 The Male Reproductive System Chapter 29 The Female Reproductive System unit 5 Nutrition and Diet Therapy Chapter 30 Basic Nutrition Chapter 31 Transcultural and Social Aspects of Nutrition Chapter 32 Diet Therapy and Special Diets PART BUNIT 6 The Nursing Process Chapter 33 Introduction to the Nursing Process Chapter 34 Nursing Assessment Chapter 35 Nursing Diagnosis and Planning chapter 36 Implementing and Evaluating Care Chapter 37 Documenting and Reporting UNIT 7 Safety in the Healthcare Facility Chapter 38 The Healthcare Facility Environment Chapter 39 Emergency Preparedness Chapter 40 Introduction to Microbiology Chapter 41 Medical 42 Infection Control chapter 43 Emergency Care and First Aid unit 8 Client Care Chapter 44 Therapeutic Communication Skills Chapter 45 Admission, Transfer, and Discharge chapter 46 Vital Signs Chapter 47 Data Collection in Client Care Chapter 48 Moving and Positioning Clients chapter 49 Beds and Bed Making Chapter 50 Personal Hygiene chapter 51 Elimination Chapter 52 Specimen Collection Chapter 53 Bandages and Binders Chapter 54 Heat and Cold Applications chapter 55 Pain Management chapter 56 Preoperative and Postoperative Care Chapter 57 Surgical 58 Special Skin and Wound Care Chapter 59 End-of-Life Care unit 9 Pharmacology and Administration of Medications chapter 60 Review of Mathematics chapter 61 Introduction to Pharmacology Chapter 62 Classification of Med ications Chapter 63 Administration of Noninjectable Medications Chapter 64 Administration of Injectable Medications PART C Unit 10 Maternal and Newborn Nursing Chapter 65 Normal Pregnancy Chapter 66 Normal Labor, Delivery, and Postpartum Care Chapter 67 Care of the Normal Newborn Chapter 68 High-Risk Pregnancy and Childbirth Chapter 69 The High-Risk Newborn Chapter 70 Sexuality, Fertility, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases UNIT 11 Pediatric Nursing Chapter 71 Fundamentals of Pediatric Nursing Chapter 72 Care of the Infant, Toddler, or Preschooler Chapter 73 Care of the School-Age Child or Adolescent Chapter 74 The Child or Adolescent With Special Needs UNIT 12 Adult Care Nursing Chapter 75 Skin Disorders Chapter 76 Disorders in Fluid and Electrolyte Balance Chapter 77 Musculoskeletal Disorders Chapter 78 Nervous System Disorders Chapter 79 EndocDisorders chapterapter 80 Sensory System Disorders Chapter 81 Cardiovascular Disorders Chapter 82 Blood and Lymph Disorders Chapter 83 Cancer Chapter 84 Allergic, Immune, and Autoimmune Disorders Chapter 85 HIV and AIDS Chapter 86 Respiratory Disorders Chapter 87 Oxygen Therapy andCare chaptery CareChapter 88 Digestive Disorders Chapter 89 Urinary Disorders Chapter 90 Male Reproductive Disorders Chapter 91 Female Reproductive Disorders UNIT 13 Gerontologic Nursing Chapter 92 Gerontology: The Aging AdultChapter 93 Cognitive Impairment in the Aging Adult UNIT 14 Mental Health NursingChapter 94 Psychiatric NursingChapter 95 Substance Use Disorders UNIT 15 Nursing in a Variety of SettingsChapter 96 Extended CareChapter 97 Rehabilitation Nursing Chapter 98 Home Care Nursing Chapter 99 Ambulatory NursingChapter 100 Hospice Nursing PART DUNIT 16 The Transition to Practicing Nurse Chapter 101 From Student to Graduate Nurse Chapter 102 Career Opportunities and Job-Seeking Skills Chapter 103 Advancement and Leadership in Nursing Bibliography Glossary Index Appendix A: Key English-to-Spanish Healthcare Phrases Appendix B: Key Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in Healthcare Appendix C: Medical Terminology: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes Commonly Used in Medical Terms.…”


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Handbook for rural health care ethics : a practical guide for professionals

Table of Contents: “…A patient without insurance refuses testing and treatment for cancer and will not tell his family -- Disclosing health care information to family. …”


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Understanding medical surgical nursing

Table of Contents: “…Nursing care of patients with cancer / Lucy L. Colo and Janice L. Bradford -- 12. …”


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Breaking bad. The complete second season by Gilligan, Vince, Porter, Dave (Composer)

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Sustainable harvest and marketing of rain forest products

Table of Contents: “…Martin. 25. The National Cancer Institute's Plant Collections Program: Update and Implications for Tropical Forests / Douglas C. …”


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