Download or read book Hippocrates Where Are You When We Need You written by Claude Albee Frazier and published by Warren H Green. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overkill written by Paul A. Offit and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful. Yet, surprisingly, despite clear evidence to the contrary, most doctors continue to recommend them. Modern medicine has significantly advanced in the last few decades as more informed practices, thorough research, and incredible breakthroughs have made it possible to successfully treat and even eradicate many serious ailments. Illnesses that once were a death sentence, such as HIV and certain forms of cancer, can now be managed, allowing those affected to live longer, healthier lives. Because of these advances, we now live 30 years longer than we did 100 years ago. But while we have learned much in the preceding decades that has changed our outlook and practices, we still rely on medical interventions that are vastly out of date and can adversely affect our health. We all know that finishing the course of antibiotics prevents the recurrence of illness, that sunscreens block harmful UV rays that cause skin cancer, and that all cancer-screening programs save lives. But do scientific studies really back this up? In this game-changing book, Dr. Paul A. Offit debunks fifteen common medical interventions that have long been considered gospel despite mounting evidence of their adverse effects, from vitamins, sunscreen, fever-reducing medicines, and eyedrops for pink eye to more serious procedures like heart stents and knee surgery. Analyzing how these practices came to be, the biology of what makes them so ineffective and harmful, and the medical culture that continues to promote them, Overkill informs patients to help them advocate for their health. By educating ourselves, we can ask better questions about some of the drugs and surgeries that are all too readily available—and all too heavily promoted.
Download or read book Privacy of Medical Records written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Misanthrope and Other Plays written by Jean-Baptiste Moliere and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Misanthrope * The Doctor in Spite of Himself * The Miser * The Would-Be Gentleman * The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin * The Learned Women * The Imaginary Invalid “The comedy,” Molière once quipped, “is excellent, and they who deride it deserve to be derided.” Written during the triumphant final years of Molière’s career, these seven works represent the mature flowering of his artistry and the most profound development of his vision of humanity. They are essential to appreciating the full genius of this greatest and best-loved French comic author. With an Introduction by Donald M. Frame and an Afterword by Lewis C. Seifert
Download or read book The Misanthrope and Other Plays written by Molière and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translates seven plays of Molière and comments upon the background of each dramatization.
Download or read book Leo Strauss on Plato s Protagoras written by Leo Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Seminar on Plato's Protagoras offers the transcript of Leo Strauss's seminar on Plato's Protagoras edited and introduced by the renowned scholar Robert Bartlett. In this dialogue, Socrates engaged with the sophist Protagoras. In the lectures, Strauss discusses Protagoras and the sophists in relation to the dialogue Gorgias in which Socrates engages with the meaning of rhetoric, all in light of Socrates' pursuit of the question "How ought one to live?" While Strauss regarded himself as a Platonist and published some work on Plato, including his last book, he published little on the dialogues. In these lectures Strauss treats many of the great Platonic and Straussian themes: the difference between the Socratic political science or art and the Sophistic political science or art of Protagoras; the character and teachability of virtue, its relation to knowledge, and the relations among the virtues, courage, justice, moderation, and wisdom; the good and the pleasant; frankness and concealment; the role of myth; and the relation between freedom of thought and freedom of speech"--
Download or read book Types of Farce comedy written by Robert Metcalf Smith and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hippocrates Now written by Helen King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Knowledge Unlatched programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. We need to talk about Hippocrates. Current scholarship attributes none of the works of the 'Hippocratic corpus' to him, and the ancient biographical traditions of his life are not only late, but also written for their own promotional purposes. Yet Hippocrates features powerfully in our assumptions about ancient medicine, and our beliefs about what medicine – and the physician himself – should be. In both orthodox and alternative medicine, he continues to be a model to be emulated. This book will challenge widespread assumptions about Hippocrates (and, in the process, about the history of medicine in ancient Greece and beyond) and will also explore the creation of modern myths about the ancient world. Why do we continue to use Hippocrates, and how are new myths constructed around his name? How do news stories and the internet contribute to our picture of him? And what can this tell us about wider popular engagements with the classical world today, in memes, 'quotes' and online?
Download or read book Life written by John Ames Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Stoic Six Pack 7 The Sophists written by Xenophon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stoic Six Pack 7 - The Sophists brings key primary and secondary sources together in one volume for a fully rounded understanding of this early, often misunderstood philosophical movement: The Sophists by Henry Sidgwick; Protagoras, Euthydemus and Gorgias by Plato; Memoirs of Socrates by Xenophon; Stoic Self-control by William De Witt Hyde and The Sophists - Biographical Sketches by William Smith.
Download or read book The Lycanthropy Files Box Set written by Cecilia Dominic and published by AIBHS. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you like hair-raising mysteries, complex characters, and stories that blend science and magic, then you'll love Cecilia Dominic's Lycanthropy Files series. Save 40% when you read the entire series in this limited time box set. Book One - The Wolf's Shadow (originally published as The Mountain's Shadow) Life as she knew it is over. At the next full moon, the real trouble begins… Epidemiologist Joanie Fisher can’t catch a break. After her lab burns to the ground, her boss simultaneously fires her and ends their affair. And though she’s inherited her grandfather’s multimillion-dollar estate, Joanie’s shocked to discover the property comes infested with werewolves. Confronted by a ruggedly handsome shifter who begs her to continue her cutting edge research into the wolves’ physical changes, Joanie unearths a sinister conspiracy that puts her own life in danger. And as she pushes hard to find the cure, shadowy figures will do anything to make sure she never develops a treatment… including resorting to murder. Can Joanie end the wolfish disease before she’s next on a killer’s list? Book Two - Long Shadows Her secret nature has the supernatural world thirsty for her blood. Can she unleash her inner wolf before enemies hound her to her death? Lonna Marconi never wanted any of this. Struggling to accept her new form as a werewolf, she’s desperate to maintain her normal life as a social worker and part-time PI. But when her heightened senses reveal her boss’s devious plans, she flees her pack and heads to the mountains to escape capture. Unable to ditch the hunters on her tail by the time she finds her friends, Lonna fights tooth and nail to protect her kin. And when she awakens from a tranquilizer in the arms of a handsome wizard, she’s terrified to discover that she’s lost her hidden beast… and her only chance of survival. Can she claw her way out before evil claims her life? Book Three - Blood's Shadow The disease has teeth…but the cure could be deadly. As Investigator for the Lycanthrope Council, Gabriel McCord went above and beyond his official title to keep werewolf kind out of the public eye. Now he has a new challenge as the liaison to the Institute for Lycanthrope Reversal, advocating for humans turned werewolf against their will. The Institute’s controversial “treatment” is generally accepted – until one of the project’s scientists is found murdered at his desk. The suspect list is long: purists who believe lycanthropism is a non-returnable gift; wolf-borns who want the cure for their own; and the ethereal Selene Rial, an Institute psychologist who’s lost her most precious possession to a secret society dedicated to the annihilation of werewolves. If Gabriel fails to solve this case, the fragile peace between wizards and lycanthropes could shatter, and his friends’ lives could be ruined. But even if he succeeds, he has to face the consequences of his heart being pulled in a dangerous direction – a woman whose secrets could destroy them both. Bonus novella - A Million Shadows Witches, werewolves, and murder - oh, my! Former model and heartbreaker Kyra Ellison is accustomed to making trouble, not being on the receiving end. When she’s kicked out of her family’s Ozarks cabin where she's been taking refuge - okay, hiding - after a wicked ancient syndrome wrecked her old life, she's forced to go to Salem, Massachusetts. Yes, that Salem, where a murder, witches with secrets, and handsome billionaire make danger irresistible. Kyra finds she's not the only one with secrets and skeletons in her family closet, but some are more deadly than others. A confrontation with ancient danger and a new foe forces her to choose between the old life she's been craving and the new love that might make everything worth it in the end.
Download or read book The Collected Dialogues of Plato written by Plato and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1961-10-01 with total page 1770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the writings of Plato generally considered to be authentic are here presented in the only complete one-volume Plato available in English. The editors set out to choose the contents of this collected edition from the work of the best British and American translators of the last 100 years, ranging from Jowett (1871) to scholars of the present day. The volume contains prefatory notes to each dialogue, by Edith Hamilton; an introductory essay on Plato's philosophy and writings, by Huntington Cairns; and a comprehensive index which seeks, by means of cross references, to assist the reader with the philosophical vocabulary of the different translators.
Download or read book The British drama a collection of the most esteemed tragedies comedies operas and farces in the English language written by British drama and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Doctor in Spite of Himself and The Bourgeois Gentleman written by Molire and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1987 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a modern translation of Moliere's plays about a wife's revenge on her brutish husband and a wealthy merchant who aspires to be a fine gentleman
Download or read book The Works of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plato the Teacher written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
