Download or read book Meaning Medicine and the placebo Effect written by Daniel E. Moerman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE WORDS OF MEDICINE written by Robert Fortuine and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of the medical vocabulary presented in topical (rather than dictionary) form. While most other books on medical words are arranged as dictionaries, rather than topically, and are much more selective in their presentation, this book entertains a comprehensive and historical approach to the subject. It is written primarily for physicians, biomedical scientists, and medical students, but should also appeal to anyone in the health professions or biological sciences with a 'feel' for medical history and the English language. It will also be useful to some teachers of English or linguistics. The idea of the book developed over at least a decade, and brings together for the author a lifelong interest in words, classical and modern languages, and the history of medicine. The purpose is not only to foster the more precise use of the language of medicine by doctors and biomedical scientists, but also to enhance their enjoyment of the vocabulary they use professionally on a daily basis. Readers will find that the book contains a wealth of knowledge and provides for some very pleasurable reading.
Download or read book Medical Meanings written by William S. Haubrich and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoyable for browsing, indispensable for research, Medical Meanings is a unique volume, one sure to please students, physicians, and word connoisseurs.
Download or read book The Amazing Language of Medicine written by Robert B. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the intriguing and often colorful stories of the medical words we use. The origins of clinical and scientific terms can be found in Greek and Latin myths, in places such as jungles of Uganda and the islands of the Aegean Sea, in the names of medicine’s giants such as Hippocrates and Osler, and in some truly unlikely sources. In this book you will learn the answers to questions such as: • What disease was named for an American space flight? • Do you know the echoic word for elephantine rumbling of the bowels? • What drug name was determined by drawing chemists’ notes out of a hat? • What are surfer’s eye, clam digger’s itch, and hide porter’s disease? This book can give you new insights into the terms we use every day in the clinic, hospital, and laboratory. Knowing a word’s history assists in understanding not only what it means, but also some of the connotative subtleties of terms used in diagnosis and treatment. The Amazing Language of Medicine is intended for the enrichment of physicians, other health professionals, students, and anyone involved in clinical care and medical science.
Download or read book Meaning and Medicine written by Hilde Lindemann Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chief aim of this resource is to rekindle interest in seeing health care not solely as a set of practices so problematic as to require ethical analysis by philosophers and other scholars, but as a field whose scrutiny is richly rewarding for the traditional concerns of philosophy.
Download or read book Placebo Effects The Meaning of Care in Medicine written by Pekka Louhiala and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a perspective on the concepts placebo and placebo effects, which has been missing so far: a detailed analysis of the history of the terms, their current use, suggested alternatives and the implications of the conceptual confusion. Everybody knows something about placebos and placebo effects. If, however, people are asked to define the concepts, the spectrum becomes wide. Does 'placebo' refer to an inert treatment or does it cover all elements of the patient-physician-interaction except for pharmacological or other physiological mechanisms? Furthermore, if, by definition, a placebo has no effect, what sense does it make to talk about a 'placebo effect'? Even in scientific literature the concepts ‘placebo’ and ‘placebo effect’ are used in many senses and often in a confusing way. While this book discusses many issues which keep puzzling physicians, it also covers the historical developments of the concepts of placebo and placebo effect as well as the conceptual confusion in the definitions. This book is intended for physicians, philosophers, psychologists and any other people interested in placebos, placebo effects and the physician-patient relationship.
Download or read book Meaning and Medicine written by Larry Dossey and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1992-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and controversial study of the central force that human consciousness exerts in health and illness, by the author of Recovering the Soul. Through numerous stories of his own patients, Dr. Dossey, a physician and leading spokesman for serious New Age thought, explores the role of meaning in well-being and mind-body interactions.
Download or read book Biosemiotic Medicine written by Farzad Goli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an interpretation of pharmaceutical, surgical and psychotherapeutic interventions based on a univalent metalanguage: biosemiotics. It proposes that a metalanguage for the physical, mental, social, and cultural aspects of health and medicine could bring all parts and aspects of human life together and thus shape a picture of the human being as a whole, made up from the heterogeneous images of the vast variety of sciences and technologies in medicine discourse. The book adopts a biosemiotics clinical model of thinking because, similar to the ancient principle of alchemy, tam ethice quam physice, everything in this model is physical as much as it is mental. Signs in the forms of vibrations, molecules, cells, words, images, reflections and rites conform cultural, mental, physical, and social phenomena. The book decodes healing, dealing with health, illness and therapy by emphasizing the first-person experience as well as objective events. It allows readers to follow the energy-information flows through and between embodied minds and to see how they form physiological functions such as our emotions and narratives.
Download or read book Merriam Webster s Medical Dictionary written by Merriam-Webster, Inc and published by Merriam-Webster. This book was released on 1995 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise guide to the essential language of medicine. More than 35,000 entries. Pronunciations provided for all entries. Covers brand names and generic equivalents of common drugs.
Download or read book The Language of Medicine written by Davi-Ellen Chabner and published by Elsevier Australia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the adapted edition, spelling follows Australian medical terminology conventions and Australian pronunciations are given. The free CD-ROM includes exercise and audio pronunciations, all of which are with an Australian accent.
Download or read book Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States written by Emily S. Wu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) originated from the traditional medical system in the Chinese civilization, with influences from the Daoist and Chinese folk traditions in bodily cultivation and longevity techniques. In the past few decades, TCM has become one of the leading alternative medical systems in the United States. This book demonstrates the fluidity of a medical ideological system with a rich history of methodological development and internal theoretical conflicts, continuing to transform in our postmodern world where people and ideas transcend geographic, ethnic, and linguistic limitations. The unique historical trajectories and cultural dynamics of the American society are crticial nutrients for the localization of TCM, while the constant traffic of travelers and immigrants foster the globalizing tendency of TCM. The practitioners in this book represent an incredible range of clinical applications, personal styles, theoretical rationalizations, and business models. What really unifies all these practitioners is not their specific practices but the goal of these practices. The shared goal is to strive for health, not just health in terms of the lack of illness but the ultimate health of achieving perfect balance in every aspect of the being of a person—physically, mentally, spiritually, and energetically.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Medicine and the Allied Sciences written by Alexander Duane and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taber s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary written by Clarence Wilbur Taber and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 2526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 55,000 alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of terms and phrases related to health science.
Download or read book The Meaning of Social Medicine written by Iago Galdston and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Explaining Epidemics written by Charles E. Rosenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of author's essays previously published individually
Download or read book Herbal Medicine written by Iris F. F. Benzie and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global popularity of herbal supplements and the promise they hold in treating various disease states has caused an unprecedented interest in understanding the molecular basis of the biological activity of traditional remedies. Herbal Medicine: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects focuses on presenting current scientific evidence of biomolecular ef
Download or read book Medicine in Search of Meaning written by Bill Bazan and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Medicine in Search of Meaning is a wonderful, self-reflective book that will help physicians rekindle their passion for medicine and the patients they serve during these times of tumultuous change in the delivery of health care. Bill has brought the business of
