"The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anaesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health. It modifies the conventional rags to riches portrait of John Snow by synthesising fresh information about his early life from archival research and recent studies. It explores the intellectual roots of his commitments to vegetarianism, temper ..."
The Placebo Response How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health by HowardBrody, Daralyn Brody Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2001 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-093297-8, ISBN: 0-06-093297-X
"Could a tiny sugar pill actually hold the secret to a miracle cure? In his well-researched new book, Dr. Howard Brody, a family practice physician and university professor, brings forward an intriguing, and provocative, premise about the healing effect of placebos, the much-maligned fake cure of popular lore. Brody asserts that while placebos themselves have no medical value, time and again real illnesses and pain have been diminished b ..."
Te Future Of Bioetics(1st Edition) (b 2009) by Howard T. Brody, Azarin V. Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-537794-1, ISBN: 0-19-537794-X
"Bioethics, born in the 1960s and 1970s, has achieved great success, but also has experienced recent growing pains, as illustrated by the case of Terri Schiavo. In The Future of Bioethics, Howard Brody, a physician and scholar who dates his entry into the field in 1972, sifts through the various issues that bioethics is now addressing--and some that it is largely ignoring--to chart a course for the future. Traditional bioethical concerns ..."
Hooked(1st Edition) Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry (Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities) by Howard T. Brody Paperback, 382 Pages, Published 2007 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-5219-7, ISBN: 0-7425-5219-5
"For decades, medical professionals have been betraying the public's trust by accepting various benefits from the pharmaceutical industry. Drug company representatives and doctors alike have promulgated creative rationalizations to portray this behavior positively, as if it really serves the interest of the public. In Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry, Howard Brody claims that we can neither understa ..."
"Helping coaches and players streamline their learning systems, improve their performance, and further their understanding and enjoyment of the game, this book provides an entertaining and enlightening look at the physics behind how to use a racquet to change the speed and direction of a tennis ball. Distinguishing the science from the folklore and myth, it makes the physics of tennis understandable to players of all skill levels. Import ..."
"Bruce F. Murphy described her best-known creation, Dr. Basil Willing, as follows:
“Willing is a child of immigrants, a World ... Brett Halliday, McCloy's (by then) ex-
husband, penned the introduction to the 1965 collection of her short stories, The
..."
"Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors The ..."
"In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the ..."
Dusty Reflections of Wrestling's American Dream by Dusty Rhodes, HowardBrody 264 Pages, Published 2012 by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-61321-244-8, ISBN: 1-61321-244-5
"Douthit; Janie Engle; Terry Funk; Sheldon Goldberg; “Superstar” Billy Graham;
Mike Graham; Senator Richard Green; Jimmy Hart; “Playboy” Gary Hart;
Monsignor Laurence Higgins; Sir Oliver Humperdink; Jerry Jarrett; Wanda
Jenkins; Connie Jones; Paul Jones; Nikita Koloff; Captain Lewis; Dean Miller;
Black Jack Mulligan; Michael O'Brien; Rikki Nelson; “Diamond” Dallas Page;
Reggie Parks; David Qualls; Harley Race; Nickla Roberts; Randy ..."
"'Today, there exists a robust body of work connecting narrative theory and practice with medical theory, practice, teaching, and research. Taken together, what is particularly interesting about these works is that they portray narrative healthcare as both a philosophy of care and a set of skills - ' John D Engel, Lura L Pethtel and Joseph Zarconi, in the Preface This inspiring collection of narrative portraits details the career paths ..."
The Placebo Response How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health by HowardBrody, Daralyn Brody 336 Pages, Published 2011 by Harper Collins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-201355-2, ISBN: 0-06-201355-6
"How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health Howard
Brody, Daralyn Brody ... Janice M. Kiecolt-Glaser and Robert Glaser, “
Psychoneuroimmunology and Health Consequences: Data and Shared
Mechanisms,” ... I was assisted in preparing this section by teaching materials
provided by my colleague at Michigan State University's College of Human
Medicine, Dr. Kathryn Lovell."
"There is a famous advertisement in many tennis magazines that points out that
the ball never touches that very expensive, hightech tennis racket. The ball only
touches the strings. That is why this book will start by discussing the strings. 1.1
Strings and Stringing What tension should you string your racket at? Should it be
50 pounds? Or 55? Or 62? Or 73? How can you determine what tension is
optimum for a racket, a style of play, ..."
Swimming with Piranhas Surviving the Politics of Professional Wrestling by HowardBrody Published 2009 ISBN-13: 978-1-55490-867-7, ISBN: 1-55490-867-1
The Future of Bioethics by HowardBrody 272 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-970328-9, ISBN: 0-19-970328-0
"whose chair, Ian McWhinney, is one of the most philosophically well-read leaders
of academic family medicine. McWhinney had for a long time been interested in
the initial, “real” reasons patients came to see the doctor, as distinct from the
diagnoses made by the physician at the conclusion of the encounter. Among the
younger faculty he recruited to his department were many whose major interest
was in quantitative research and educa ..."
The Future of Bioethics by HowardBrody 272 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-045216-2, ISBN: 0-19-045216-1
"BMJ 318:253–6, 1999. Jones JW, McCullough LB, Richman BW. Ethics of
boutique medical practice. J Vasc Surg 39:1354–5, 2004. Jonsen AR. Ethics, the
law, and the treatment of seriously ill newborns. In: Doudera AE, Peters JD, eds.
Legal and ethical aspects of treating critically and terminally ill patients. Ann
Arbor, MI: AUPHA Press, 1982:236–41. Jonsen AR. Watching the doctor. N Engl
J Med 308:15315, 1983. Jonsen AR Beating up bioe ..."
"For a while it looked as if the little girl was going to do better, but then she had a
bout of diarrhea in June. Dr. William R. Rogers of Berners Street treated her, and
she was better after about five days. This morning Mrs. Lewis had to send for Dr.
Rogers again. The same diarrhea was back, he said—pale or green, slimy,
watery, offensive-smelling stools. Now the baby was also vomiting, unable to
keep down food or medicine.1 The L ..."
"BIHR, PR HUN 6, cited in Galbraith, JSEY, 18. A signature is a vague indicator of
literacy, but “it is usually taken to show the ability to read fluently and to write
laboriously”; Digby and Searby, Children, School and Society, 3. 10. Sims, “
Family history”; Leaman, “John Snow MD,” 803; S. Snow, JSEMP, 23. However, a
search of the marriage register covering 1750 to 1812 for All Saints North Street
by Ms. Davison of BIHR found no e ..."