A groundbreaking study on the relationship between mental and physical health. A stomach ache before a job interview is common enough--but how else can the mind affect the body? Can conditions like heart disease, cancer, asthma or arthritis be exacerbated, or relieved, by our own thoughts and feelings? Have you ever wondered why people get sick when they do? Does the mind reall...(展开全部)

THE BEST SICK DAY EVER and the animals in the zoo feature in this striking picture book debut. Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In Amos McGee’s case, all sorts of species, too! Every day he spends a little bit of time with each of his friends at the zoo, running races with the tortoise, keeping the shy penguin company, and even reading bedtime stories to the ow...(展开全部)

H.吉尔伯特•韦尔奇博士，达特茅斯医学院的资深教授，他的研究领域主要是探索医学界提倡尽早发现疾病所带来的问题。他的研究著作大部分围绕癌症筛查，特别是黑色素瘤、甲状腺瘤、肺癌、乳腺癌和前列腺癌。他在《洛杉矶时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《华尔街日报》、《美国医学联合会期刊》、《新英格兰医学期刊》等主流媒体和顶级学术期刊上发表多篇文章，并曾经接受多家主流电视台的采访。韦尔奇博士同样热衷于教育，他在达特茅斯卫生政策和临床实践研究所教授流行病学和生物统计学课程，并在达特茅斯学院教授卫生政策和临床研究。2004年，他作为访问科学家在世界卫生组织驻法国里昂的国际癌症研究所工作。2009年，他出版的第一本学术著作≪我该做癌症检查吗？也许不该，这就是为什么》被评为“天赐良书”。 丽莎•M.施瓦茨博士、史蒂芬•沃洛辛博士达特茅斯医学院的助理教授，研究领域包括如何提高与公众、...(展开全部)

The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who put the price of an AIDS pill up from $13.50 to $750 overnight to the children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish warehouse, the signs are all around. A system that was designed to drive innovation and patient care has been co-opted to drive profit. What drugs are being researc...(展开全部)

Nesse and Williams have written a lively discourse on the application of the principles of evolutionary biology to the dilemmas of modern medicine. Nesse, a physician and an associate professor of psychiatry, and Williams, a professor of ecology and evolution, provide a primer on Darwin's theory of natural selection. They explain that the functional design of organisms-e.g., ou...(展开全部)

Let's be honest--"at least briefly. Sometimes you just need a day.

A beautifully gruesome and strangely enthralling visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. Exquisitely detailed illustrations from some of the world’s rarest medical books form an unforgettable and profoundly human reminder of mankind’s age-old struggle with disease. This evocative overview, incorporating historic maps, charts, medical instruments and cas...(展开全部)