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Books can be a useful tool for helping children deal with separation and divorce. Practitioners will find that books are available which offer realistic insight into the problems that children experience during family breakdown. These problems are noted, and annotated books on separation and divorce are presented.
According to the data of the recent archaeological excavations, the history of traditional Chinese medicine begins in the neolithic period (10,000-4,000 years ago). The fundamental principles of the traditional Chinese medicine may be interpreted on the basis of two classic theories of Chinese thought: the Yin-Yang theory and the five phases theory. The former stated that our reality is the product of the continuous interaction and transformation of the Yin and Yang principles. The latter recognise the existence of five emblematic groups in which everything regarding humankind and nature may be classified. The five phases interact in two different ways: the cycle of production (Sheng) and the cycle of control (Ke). Theoretical basis of traditional Chinese medicine are described on the Huangdi Neijing (The Book of Yellow Emperor's: a classic of internal medicine) written during the period 475-225 b.C. as a dialogue between the mythical Emperor Huangdi and his physician Qibo. The book is divided into two parts: the Suwen (Questions about living matter) and Lingshu (The vital axe). Each part is composed of 81 sections. In this book are set correspondences between phases and organs, viscera, feelings, body fluids, flavours, foods, colours, and so on. We can also find the description of blood (Xue) and energy (Qi) circulation and the pathways of main, collateral and curious vessels. The origins of disease are also reported on the Huangdi Neijing. As regards the psychological point of view, special attention is dedicated to dreams and their possible causes and to the description of various kind of mental illness. The unknown Authors underline the five defects and the four mistakes of the physician, pointing out the importance to avoid them. Finally, it must be mentioned their special care to the principles of preventive medicine.
The study of the original sources in the medical literature is an essential part and condition for doing good medical research. The love of books is conducive to a proper use of the source material. To support this statement, a short description of some famous book collectors in medical history is presented in this article.
The principle of the procedure suggested lies in double decoding: that of the isolated picture and picture sequences and that of the written story. The exploration procedure offered to the children consists of confronting personal hypotheses with respect to stories as they are told in books. Our research consisted of testing different types of pictures in order to establish a progression adapted to the children and in addition, testing a set of books designed for young children in order to identify those in which the pictures are suitable and in which the text and the pictures are complementary as far as the information communicated is concerned. This selection made it possible to set up an essentially active procedure with children in which the emphasis is placed on the representation activity, the desire to communicate, the importance of the spoken language, the affectivity and insertion of children in the world of mean.
A basic list of 133 book and journal titles in dentistry is presented. The list is intended as a bibliographic selection tool for those libraries and health institutions that support clinical dentistry programs and services in the nondental school environment in the United States and Canada. The book and journal titles were selected by the membership of the Dental Section of the Medical Library Association (MLA). The Dental Section membership represents dental and other health sciences libraries and dental research institutions from the United States and Canada, as well as from other countries. The list was compiled and edited by the Ad Hoc Publications Committee of the Dental Section of MLA. The final list was reviewed and subsequently was approved for publication and distribution by the Dental Section of MLA during the section's 1996 annual meeting in Kansas City, Missouri.
Explicit verbal comparisons in 53 popular children's books were syntactically and semantically classified. Comparison types found in these books were contrasted with comparisons used as comprehension stimuli in extant developmental research. Although noun-phrase metaphor has been a popular syntactic form in research, it is a rare form in children's literature. Implications for the design of future stimulus sets are discussed.
Ibn an-Nadim, the famous 10th century bookseller and bibliographer of Baghdad and author of the "Fihrist" (Catalogue), tells the story of an unnamed Chinese student who found in the library of the famous physician and philosopher ar-Razi the so-called "Sixteen Books," i.e. the Arabic summary of the most influential books written by Galen, and translated them into Chinese. We do not know if this Chinese translation was safely transported to China.
Books@Ovid is a full-text database of clinical textbooks published by Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, and McGraw-Hill. It is distributed by Ovid Technologies. In addition to discussing the search environment for Books@Ovid, this paper discusses its online help, indexes, and content, in terms of both coverage and updates. How this product competes with its counterparts in print is also treated in the discussion.
Many doctors have, at some time or other, the idea of writing a book. This article considers some of the practical problems involved, including dealing with publishers, the formulation of a book proposal, writing individual chapters and desirable features of computer software.
When becoming involved in the production of artwork for book publications the medical artist must interact and work with publishers through whom authors' instructions are conveyed. Procedures and job titles vary from one publisher to the other and misunderstandings can lead to costly mistakes. From a typical publishing situation a common approach to medical artwork preparation for book publication is described that will prepare the medical artist to work in close cooperation with the publishing team.
This study, based on the data found in notarized inventories of the deceased, ex-libris or bookplates, and listings of books in institutional libraries, shows clearly that circulation of medical books, generally imported from Europe, was next to non-existent in the general public but growing steadily in the Canadian medical corps during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This growth is proof of the increasing professionalization of the medical corps and institutionalization of medical know-how and expertise during that period.
The present study is a report of an experience of nurses from the South of Brazil as technical proofreaders of books about nursing diagnosis. It aims at contributing with colleagues who might do similar task arousing some aspects for discussion. The development of nursing diagnosis in Brazil is presented. The main steps of a translated book production are identified and the attributions of technical proofreaders are cited. The positive aspects and the difficulties found in this activity are commented. Alternatives are given in order to maintain the final quality of the work and to enlarge the availability of specialized texts as faithful to the original as possible.
For 70 years New Jersey physicians generously gave books from their personal libraries to create a medical library in the state. Today, the old and rare medical books they collected are available to new generations of physicians and scholars in the history of medicine collection at UMDNJ Smith Library.
Based on the arrangement of Renho Temple edition of Taisu (Extremely Plain), as an example, it can be seen that by correcting the wrong popular words in ancient medical books, the causes of mistakes of ancient editions and solution for annotations of difficult terms of ancient words in the medical books are of significance.
OBJECTIVES: While evaluating the effect of a community-wide informational intervention, this study explored access, health, and demographic factors related to the use of medical reference books, telephone advice nurses, and computers for health information. METHODS: A random sample of households in the intervention city (Boise, Idaho) and two control cities were surveyed about their use of health information in 1996. Shortly thereafter, the Healthwise Communities Project (HCP) distributed health information to all Boise residents. A follow-up survey was conducted in 1998. Overall, 5,909 surveys were completed for a 54% response rate. RESULTS: The HCP intervention was associated with statistically significant increases in the use of medical reference books and telephone advice nurses. The increased use of computers for health information was marginally significant. Few access, health, or demographic factors were consistently associated with using the different resources, except that people with depression used more of all three information resources, and income was not a significant predictor. CONCLUSION: Providing free health information led to an increase in use, but access, health, and demographic factors were also important determinants. In particular, poor health status and presence of a chronic illness were associated with health information use. These results suggest that healthy consumers are less interested in health information, and it may take other incentives to motivate them to learn about prevention and healthy behaviors.
This book is well preserved in the Ashimori Kaikan (an exhibit of Okayama city). This paper describes the book of medicinal plants in detail.
The name of Wu Jutong, a physician of seasonal warm diseases in the Qing dynasty was Tang, another name being Peiheng, and Jutong was his alias. He was born in 1758 and died in 1836 and his native place was now Huai'an city, Jiangsu province. Wen bing tiao bian (Treatise on Differentiation and Treatment of Seasonal Warm Diseases) was not finished in 1798, but 1813, after a hard efforts of 15 years. He compiled a Yi yi bing shu (A book Checking the Defects of Medical Professionals) in 1931 and arranged his medical records as books in 1833 to help latercomers. He not only researched medicine carefully and thoroughly and was brave in innovation, but also was an honest man with high morality. He opposed factions when studying, and had an open mind, collected widely from various schools, and had right attitude towards his own achievements. He was a model, and worthy to study and yearn.
A book titled Müntehab is offered to Sultan Mehmet the first. The personality author and the value of the book is stressed.