The Mount Sinai Hospital was founded in 1852 as the Jews' Hospital in the City of New York, but more than a century would pass before a school of medicine was created at Mount Sinai. This work chronicles the development of the medical school from its origins in the 1960s to the current leadership.
`An intelligent and informed account of medical sociology. Simon Williams has produced an original and comprehensive sociological statement of the centrality of the body to an understanding of medicine, health and illness. His scope is impressive... It will shape future teaching and research in the field of health and illness' - Bryan S Turner, ......
"The volume includes classic readings as well as more up-to-date selections, and most are engaging, interesting, and easy to read. . . . The volume editors do a wonderful job of explaining concepts in easy-to-understand language and provide useful examples that students should be able to relate to. Undergraduates should find this a fun and ......
The authors of this well-written and uncompromising work are experts in the fields of biobehaviorial health, behavioural biology and addiction psychology. They review the severe problems caused by smoking and examine individual and public health approaches to reducing smoking and its attendant health problems. Cigarettes, Nicotine and Health is written in a scholarly yet accessible format that brings the latest work of these high calibre research experts to students and academics. This work will be of interest to students in drugs and health psychology courses, as well as nurses, psychologists and health promotion researchers. * a biobehavioral framework gives equal emphasis to psychosocial and biological factors * interdisciplinary scope provides a broad perspective from disciplines as diverse as social and cognitive psychology, behavioral pharmacology, physiology, epidemiology, history, medicine, and public health policy
Qualitative Health Psychology provides a unique focus on the role of qualitative research in health psychology. The book: examines the main theoretical perspectives underlying qualitative research in health psychology - discusses the practical issues involved in conducting qualitative research with different populations - considers a range of ......
A Cancer Victim Refuses Chemotherapy and Finds Tomorrow's Cures in Today's Scientific Laboratories
A cancer memoir detailing the search for biotherapies in cancer treatment, while encouraging others to research, question, and become self-advocates for their own treatments. This book endorses various molecularly based technologies, and is useful for those interested in cancer research, especially patients and their families, and physicians.
Based on years of studying and working with medical students, this book offers an orientation to the hec tic, anxious area of medical education. The work includes di scussions on clinical experience, career doubt and professio nal practice. '
Health, Illness and Optimal Aging undertakes the difficult task of assembling an objective and holistic picture of human aging, including the physical aspects of aging, chronic disease, and health promotion in the later years, for students and professionals. Aldwin and Gilmar provide comprehensive, multi-disciplinary coverage of the demography of ......
Demonstrates the effective use of any ambulatory setting in medical education. This practical hands-on resource investigates the tools needed from a theoretical framework for teaching, in addition to essential teaching skills, dealing with difficult trainees, setting up a private practice as a setting for teaching, and more.
