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Psychology

Diagnosed with Alzheimers or Another Dementia

Swaffer Kate, Low Lee-Fay

ISBN: PB: 9781742576442, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, September 2016
272 pp., 23.4x15.3 cm

Dementia is never one person's illness. Its ripples spread wide, enveloping family, touching friends and bumping up against professional services and care. Dementia can be cruel – hard for those affected and sometimes even harder for care partners. W...

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Genetics

Life's Blueprint The Science and Art of Embryo Creation

Shilo Benny

ISBN: HB: 9780300196634, Yale University Press, October 2014
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 71 colour illus.

In the span of just three decades, scientific understanding of the formation of embryos has undergone a major revolution. The implications of these new research findings have an immediate bearing on human health and future therapies, yet most nonscie...

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Gynecology

Public Health

Rhetoric of Pregnancy

Seigel Marika

ISBN: HB: 9780226071916, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 17 line drawings

It is a truth widely acknowledged that if you're pregnant and can afford one, you're going to pick up a pregnancy manual. From "What to Expect When You're Expecting" to "Pregnancy for Dummies", these guides act as portable mentors for women who want...

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Genetics

Technology & Engineering

Genentech The Beginnings of Biotech

Smith Hughes Sally

ISBN: PB: 9780226045511, ISBN: HB: 9780226359182, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, April 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit,...

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History

Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911 The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease

Summers William C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300183191, Yale University Press, January 2013
192 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 black&white illus.

When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactions of three different national powers: Chinese, Japa...

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Sign Language

Public Health

In Our Hands Educating Healthcare Interpreters

Swabey Laurie, Malcolm Karen

ISBN: HB: 9781563685217, Gallaudet University Press, February 2012
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 8 figures

Deaf Americans have identified healthcare as the most difficult setting in which to obtain a qualified interpreter. Yet, relatively little attention has been given to developing evidence-based resources and a standardized body of knowledge to educate...

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Genetics

Philosophy

Creating a Physical Biology The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology

Sloan Phillip R., Fogel Brandon

ISBN: PB: 9780226767833, ISBN: HB: 9780226767826, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 9 halftones, 11 line illus.

In 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl G. Zimmer, and quantum physicist Max Delbruck published "On the Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene Structure", known subsequently as the "Three-Man Paper". This seminal paper adva...

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Gynecology

Ethics in Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine A New Framework

Strong Carson

ISBN: PB: 9780300182989, Yale University Press, November 2011
258 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Advances in reproductive and perinatal medicine have given rise to difficult ethical issues. Do all women have the right to choose whether to reproduce? What is the moral status of the fetus during various stages of gestation and what obligations do...

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Media Studies

Neurology

Field Guide to a New Meta-Field Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide

Stafford Barbara Maria

ISBN: PB: 9780226770550, ISBN: HB: 9780226770543, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
368 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 80 halftones

Barbara Stafford is a pioneering art historian whose research has long helped to bridge the divide between the humanities and cognitive sciences. In "A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field", she marshals a distinguished group of thinkers to forge a ground...

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