Alice Hamilton was first considered "subversive" during World War I, yet she lived to protest our involvement in Vietnam. She was America's foremost industrial toxicologist, a pioneer in medicine and in social reform, long-time resident of Hull House, pacifist and civil libertarian. She was Edith Hamilton's sister, and the first woman on the faculty of Harvard, though she retired--an assistant professor in the school of public health--ten years before women medical students were admitted. This legendary figure now comes to life in an integrated work of biography and letters
Using his observation of 1,000 children brought to the Stanford University Pediatric-Psychiatric Unit as a guide, Dr. Shirley illustrates his discussion of physical, mental, and emotional disturbances with case histories, thus presenting the relationships between physician and parent, and physician and child in dynamic form, and stressing the individual nature of each case.
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This volume brings together two previously unpublished works by the late George Scatchard. One of the most eminent physical chemists of this century, Scatchard, in collaboration with Edwin Cohn, had enormous influence on the development of protein chemistry
No detailed description available for "Thinking and Psychotherapy".
This book was undertaken at the persistent urging of colleagues who seemed to feel that the evolution of educational research, development, and teacher training efforts in medicine was a story that should be told before my memory and my files fell victim to the inevitable deterioration that accompanies the lengthening years.
No detailed description available for "The Training of Good Physicians".
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No detailed description available for "Psychological Appraisal of Children with Cerebral Defects".
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This book provides an overall view of mental health promotion--its underlying theory, typical practice, and problems of evaluation. Each of the papers focuses from its own vantage point on current efforts to maintain the mental health of all at an optimum level on a community-wide basis.
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.
No detailed description available for "Psychotherapy Versus Behavior Therapy".
No detailed description available for "Congenital Malformations of the Heart, Volume II: Specific Malformations".
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No detailed description available for "Functional Endocrinology from Birth through Adolescence".
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