This "Collins Gem" provides the traveller with the knowledge needed to identify potential health hazards abroad, how to avoid them where possible and how to cope with them if you can't. The topics covered include pre-holiday preparations, air and sea travel, sun hazards and tropical and cold-climate health, water, mountain and ski-sport health, and sexually-transmitted diseases.

Collins Gem Holiday Health (Collins Gems)

Youngson, Robert

Health, Fitness & Dieting

HarperCollins, Publishers

This reference work covers everything from a runny nose to an irregular heartbeat. It helps to pinpoint physical and mental problems, as well as indicating the signs of a more serious or life-threatening disease. Worries can be quickly answered, as it describes how hundreds of mind and body disorders show themselves. The book allows readers to check what a particular symptom implies and whether the problems is likely to be trivial or serious. It gives practical advice on the significance of a whole spectrum of symptoms, from abdominal pain to zoophobia, including anxiety, breast pain, cramps, double vision, excessive sweating, flushing, giddiness, hallucinations, irritable bowel, joint pain, knee problems, loss of weight, memory loss, noise in the ear, painful periods and sexual problems. Robert Youngson is the author of "The Royal Society of Medicine Encyclopedia of Family Health", "The Surgery Book", "The Guinness Encyclopedia of the Human Being" and "The Collins Medical Dictionary".

The Royal Society of Medicine's Dictionary of Symptoms

Reference

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

From quack cures to infamous doctors, the history of medicine is littered with bad mistakes and unexpected discoveries. This insightful introduction uncovers the stories of Typhiod Mary, Sigmund Freud's misuse of cocaine, why some drugs are worse than diseases, and more.

A Brief History of Bad Medicine

Medical Books

Schott, Ian

History

Running Press

Medical Blunders: Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad, and Dangerous Doctors

A doctor removes the normal, healthy side of a patient's brain instead of the malignant tumor. A man whose leg is scheduled for amputation wakes up to find his healthy leg removed. These recent examples are part of a history of medical disasters and embarrassments as old as the profession itself. In Medical Blunders, Robert M. Youngson and Ian Schott have written the definitive account of medical mishap in modern and not-so- modern times. Youngson and Schott cover the gamut of medical accidents, from famous quacks to curious forms of sexual healing, from blunders with the brain to drugs worse than the diseases they are intended to treat. In Medical Blunders, we find shamefully dangerous doctors, human guinea pigs, masturbation treated as a disease requiring treatment, and the legendary surgeon who was himself a craven morphine addict. The resulting picture is one which depicts medical mistakes that are incredible, misguided, arrogant, cruel, or stupendously wrong-headed. Exploring the line between the comical and the tragic, the honest mistake and the intentional crime, Medical Blunders illustrates once and for all that doctors are subject to the same political, social, historical, and personal pressures as the rest of humanity.

Americas

NYU Press

A doctor removes the normal, healthy side of a patient's brain instead of the malignant tumor. A man whose leg is scheduled for amputation wakes up to find his healthy leg removed. These recent examples are part of a history of medical disasters and embarrassments as old as the profession itself. In Medical Blunders, Robert M. Youngson and Ian Schott have written the definitive account of medical mishap in modern and not-so- modern times. Youngson and Schott cover the gamut of medical accidents, from famous quacks to curious forms of sexual healing, from blunders with the brain to drugs worse than the diseases they are intended to treat. In Medical Blunders, we find shamefully dangerous doctors, human guinea pigs, masturbation treated as a disease requiring treatment, and the legendary surgeon who was himself a craven morphine addict. The resulting picture is one which depicts medical mistakes that are incredible, misguided, arrogant, cruel, or stupendously wrong-headed. Exploring the line between the comical and the tragic, the honest mistake and the intentional crime, Medical Blunders illustrates once and for all that doctors are subject to the same political, social, historical, and personal pressures as the rest of humanity.

Living With Asthma

Sheldon Press

Jorico and Fragonard: Corruption in private medicine

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Independently published

Fields of Vision

Everything You Need to Know About Your Eyes

Isis Large Print Books

An account of the errors into which seemingly infallible humans have fallen, whether through obstinacy, arrogance or carelessness. Examples investigated include the Piltdown Man hoax and the Tay Bridge collapse.

Scientific Blunders: Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad and Dangerous Scientists

Science & Math

Constable Robinson

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