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Good Housekeeping doctors' secrets : fight disease, relieve pain, live a healthy life, with practical advice from 100 top medical experts / by Harrar, Sarí,author.(CARDINAL)393629;

According to a study by Emory University, doctors live an average of five years longer than the rest of us. They know what it takes to keep themselves healthy-and this book shows you how to think and act like one of them. Award-winning journalist Sari Harrar checks in with more than 100 top medical practitioners to learn their science-based daily strategies . . . and puts them right at your fingertips. Find out what experts in everything from gastroenterology, endocrinology, and dermatology to sleep medicine, nutrition, obstetrics, and surgery do, from treating emergencies quickly and getting the right tests to taking supplements and becoming smart healthcare consumers. See how they stay slim (even enjoying dessert), what they think about juice cleanses, which foods they feel fight disease, how they double a nap's energy rewards, what they do to beat colds and flu, why they mix regular and alternative medicine, and so much more.

Subjects: Health.; Massage therapy.; Pain; Exercise therapy.;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4

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Amphibian biology / by Heatwole, Harold,editor.(CARDINAL)320293;

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Subjects: Amphibians, Fossil.; Amphibians.;

Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10

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The vitamin solution : two doctors clear the confusion about vitamins and your health / by Levitan, Arielle.(CARDINAL)624189; Block, Romy.(CARDINAL)624188;

"Are you confused about vitamins? Unsure of which ones you need for optimal health, and what levels are safe? You're not alone. Many people's health issues could be improved with vitamin-- if they only knew how to use them. In The Vitamin Solution, Drs. Romy Block and Arielle Levitan provide a common-sense, medically sound approach to using vitamins to improve your diet, exercise plan, and overall health. In clear, accessible, language, they explain which vitamins and supplements can be helpful, which can be harmful, and which are altogether unnecessary; explore health topics including migraine, hair loss, fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, hot flashes, and more; and address preventive care, providing insights on topics such as screening tests, weight loss, and preserving memory"--Amazon.com, viewed 11/27/15.

Subjects: Vitamin therapy.; Vitamins.; Vitamins;

Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7

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Father time : a natural history of men and babies / by Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer,1946-author.(CARDINAL)158793;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-407) and index."A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable division of labor: mammalian males evolved to compete for status and mates, while females were purpose-built to gestate, suckle, and otherwise nurture the victors' offspring. But come the twenty-first century, increasing numbers of men are tending babies, sometimes right from birth. How can this be happening? Puzzled and dazzled by the tender expertise of new fathers around the world-several in her own family-celebrated evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy set out to trace the deep history of male nurturing and explain a surprising departure from everything she had assumed to be "normal." In Father Time, Hrdy draws on a wealth of research to argue that this ongoing transformation in men is not only cultural, but profoundly biological. Men in prolonged intimate contact with babies exhibit responses nearly identical to those in the bodies and brains of mothers. They develop caring potential few realized men possessed. In her quest to explain how men came to nurture babies, Hrdy travels back through millions of years of human, primate, and mammalian evolution, then back further still to the earliest vertebrates-all while taking into account recent economic and social trends and technological innovations and incorporating new findings from neuroscience, genetics, endocrinology, and more. The result is a masterful synthesis of evolutionary and historical perspectives that expands our understanding of what it means to be a man-and what the implications might be for society and our species"--

Subjects: Informational works.; Father and child.; Fatherhood; Parental behavior in animals.; Male caregivers.; Fatherhood.;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4

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Principles of pharmacology / by Renneboog, Richard,editor.(CARDINAL)891845;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Acetaminophen -- Alkylating agents in chemotherapy -- Allergies -- Aminoglycoside antibiotics -- Amiodarone -- Amoxicillin -- Androgen drugs -- Angiogenesis inhibitors -- Antacids -- Anthrax vaccine -- Antiandrogens (cancer treatment) -- Antianxiety drugs -- Antibiotics: Experimental -- Antibiotics: Overview -- Antibiotics: Types -- Antibodies -- Anticholinergics -- Antidepressant medications -- Antidiarrheal agents -- Antiestrogens -- Antifungal drugs -- Antimetabolites in chemotherapy -- Antinausea medications -- Antineoplastics in chemotherapy -- Antiparasitic drugs -- Antipsychotic medications -- Antiviral drugs -- Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) -- Benzodiazepines -- Beta-blockers -- Biopharmaceuticals -- Bisphosphonates -- Branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) -- Bromocriptine -- Brompton cocktail -- Calcium channel blockers -- Cancer vaccines -- Carbamazepine -- Cephalosporin antibiotics -- Chemical germicides -- Cisplatin -- Clonidine -- Colchicine -- Corticosteroids -- Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors -- Cyclosporine -- Cytokines -- Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) -- Designer drugs -- Diindolylmethane -- Dopamine and addiction -- Doxorubicin -- Endocrinology -- Essential oil monoterpenes -- Estriol -- Estrogen -- Estrogen receptor downregulator (ERD) -- Ethambutol -- Fentanyl -- Gamma oryzanol -- Gene therapy -- General antibiotics -- Glutamine -- Heparin -- Hepatitis vaccines -- Histamine 2 antagonists -- HIV vaccine -- Hormones -- Huperzine A -- Hydroxycitric acid -- Hydroxymethylbutyrate -- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy -- Imidazole antifungals -- Influenza -- Influenza vaccine -- Insulin -- Integrase inhibitors -- Interferon -- Interleukins -- Iodine -- Ipriflavone -- Isoniazid -- Ketolide antibiotics -- Laxatives -- Lipoic acid -- Lipopeptide antibiotics -- Living with allergies -- Loop diuretics -- Macrolide antibiotics -- Marijuana -- Matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors -- Maturation inhibitors -- Melatonin -- Mesoglycan -- Metabolism -- Methotrexate -- Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI) -- Monoclonal antibodies -- Narcotics -- Nicotine -- Nicotine replacement products -- Nitrofurantoin -- Nitroglycerin -- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) -- Opioids -- Oral contraceptives -- Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs -- Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs: cautions and precautions -- Oxazolidinone antibiotics -- Pain management medications -- Penicillamine -- Penicillin antibiotics -- Pentoxifylline -- Pharmacognosy and pharmacology -- Phenobarbital -- Phenothiazines -- Phenytoin -- Plant alkaloids and terpenoids in chemotherapy -- Primidone -- Protease inhibitors -- Proteasome inhibitors -- Psychopharmacology -- Quinolone antibiotics -- Radiopharmaceuticals -- Reverse transcriptase inhibitors -- Schistosomiasis vaccine -- Serotonin -- Steroids -- Tetracycline antibiotics -- Thalidomide -- Thiazide diuretics -- Thiazole antifungals -- Thyroid hormone -- Tocotrienols -- Topoisomerase inhibitors -- Tramadol -- Tricyclic antidepressants -- Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole -- Trimethylglycine -- Trypanosomiasis vaccine -- Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) -- Typhus vaccine -- Tyrosine kinase inhibitors -- Tyrosine -- Vaccines -- Valproic acid -- Vitamins and minerals -- Warfarin -- Weight loss medications.This book addresses a variety of topics in the field of pharmacology. Entries related to basic principles and concepts include fields of study related to the topic; an abstract that provides a brief, concrete summary of the topic; and key concepts important to a proper understanding of the topic.

Subjects: Pharmacology.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Out of the ordinary : a life of gender and spiritual transitions / by Dillon, Michael,1915-1962,author.(CARDINAL)681819; Lobzang Jivaka,1915-1962.(CARDINAL)399094; Lau, Jacob,editor.(CARDINAL)414638; Partridge, Cameron,editor.(CARDINAL)414639;

Includes bibliographical references.Foreword / by Susan Stryker -- Editors' Note -- "In His Own Way, In His Own Time" : an Introduction to Out of the Ordinary -- Author's Introduction -- Part I: Conquest of the Body -- Birth and Origins -- The Nursery -- Schooldays -- Oxford -- War -- The Darkest of Days -- Part II: Conquest of the Mind -- Medical Student -- Resident Medical Officer -- Surgeon M.N. -- On the Haj -- Round the World -- Interlude Ashore -- Last Voyage -- Imji Getsul."Now available for the first time--more than 50 years after it was written--is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self : A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here at last is Dillon/Jivaka's extraordinary life story told in his own words. Out of the Ordinary captures Dillon/Jivaka's various journeys--to Oxford, into medicine, across the world by ship--within the major narratives of his gender and religious journeys. Moving chronologically, Dillon/Jivaka begins with his childhood in Folkestone, England, where he was raised by his spinster aunts, and tells of his days at Oxford immersed in theology, classics, and rowing. He recounts his hormonal transition while working as an auto mechanic and fire watcher during World War II and his surgical transition under Sir Harold Gillies while Dillon himself attended medical school. He details his worldwide travel as a ship's surgeon in the British Merchant Navy with extensive commentary on his interactions with colonial and postcolonial subjects, followed by his 'outing' by the British press while he was serving aboard The City of Bath. Out of the Ordinary is not only a salient record of an early sex transition but also a unique account of religious conversion in the mid-twentieth century. Dillon/Jivaka chronicles his gradual shift from Anglican Christianity to the esoteric spiritual systems of George Gurdjieff and Peter Ouspensky to Theravada and finally Mahayana Buddhism. He concludes his memoir with the contested circumstances of his Buddhist monastic ordination in India and Tibet. Ultimately, while Dillon/Jivaka died before becoming a monk, his novice ordination was significant: It made him the first white European man to be ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Out of the Ordinary is a landmark publication that sets free a distinct voice from the history of the transgender movement"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Dillon, Michael, 1915-1962.; Dillon, Michael, 1915-1962; Lobzang Jivaka, 1915-1962.; Transgender people; Female-to-male transsexuals; Surgeons; Merchant marine; Buddhist monks; Mahayana Buddhism.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Transgender people.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M.,author.(CARDINAL)328471;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The behavior -- One second before -- Seconds to minutes before -- Hours to days before -- Days to months before -- Adolescence: or, Dude, where's my frontal cortex? -- Back to the crib, back to the womb -- Back to when you were just a fertilized egg -- Centuries to millennia before -- The evolution of behavior -- Us versus them -- Hierarchy, obedience, and resistance -- Morality and doing the right thing, once you've figured out what that is -- Feeling someone's pain, understanding someone's pain, alleviating someone's pain -- Metaphors we kill by -- Biology, the criminal justice system, and (oh, why not?) free will -- War and peace."Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs--whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened. Sapolsky keeps going: How was that behavior influenced by structural changes in the nervous system over the preceding months, by that person's adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his or her genetic makeup? Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual's group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors millions of years old. The result is one of the most dazzling tours d'horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a subtle and nuanced perspective on why we ultimately do the things we do...for good and for ill. Sapolsky builds on this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and war and peace. "--

Subjects: Neurophysiology.; Neurobiology.; Animal behavior.;

Available copies: 27 / Total copies: 36

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