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Coping with Illness Digitally
ISBN: 9780262038287
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 21, 2018
An examination of “digital coping” involving the use of communication technologies, particularly social media, in responding to illness.
Biomedical Platforms
Realigning the Normal and the Pathological in Late-Twentieth-Century Medicine
ISBN: 9780262612159
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 11, 2006
Since the end of World War II, biology and medicine have merged in remarkably productive ways. In this book Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio analyze the transformation of medicine into biomedicine...
The Electroencephalogram
Its Patterns and Origins
ISBN: 9780262519991
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 16, 1993
In this book, John Barlow describes an ingenious new hypothesis for a comprehensive model of the EEG that is able to emulate a large variety of known EEG patterns with few variables.
The Atheist and the Holy City
Encounters and Reflections
ISBN: 9780262610773
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 1992
In this series of 15 essays, which won the Letterstedt Prize, Sweden's equivalent of the Pulitzer, distinguished cell biologist George Klein shares his considerable insights on science and on human...
Hematology
ISBN: 9780262521574
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 30, 1991
The fifth edition of this well-known series of lectures by distinguished Harvard hematologists is substantially revised to include discussions of the many important scientific developments in contemporary...
Encounters Between Patients and Doctors
Encounters Between Patients and Doctors
An Anthology
ISBN: 9780262690973
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 26, 1987
This book of readings offers compelling evidence that even in this age of advanced medical technology and large-scale bureaucracy, the essence of diagnosis, therapy, and management of illness continues...
The Healer's Art
ISBN: 9780262530620
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 7, 1985
Beyond drugs, beyond technology, there will always be the human element, "the healer's art." Dr. Cassell discusses the world of the sick, the healing connection and healer's battle, the role of omnipotence...
Talking with Patients
Clinical Technique
ISBN: 9780262530569
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 27, 1985
Spoken language is the most important diagnostic and therapeutic tool in medicine, and, according to Dr. Cassell, "we must be as precise with it as a surgeon with a scalpel." In these two volumes,...
Talking with Patients
The Theory of Doctor-Patient Communication
ISBN: 9780262530552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 27, 1985
Spoken language is the most important diagnostic and therapeutic tool in medicine, and, according to Dr. Cassell, "we must be as precise with it as a surgeon with a scalpel." In these two volumes,...
Coping with Illness Digitally
ISBN: 9780262038287
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 21, 2018
An examination of “digital coping” involving the use of communication technologies, particularly social media, in responding to illness.
Biomedical Platforms
Realigning the Normal and the Pathological in Late-Twentieth-Century Medicine
ISBN: 9780262612159
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 11, 2006
Since the end of World War II, biology and medicine have merged in remarkably productive ways. In this book Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio analyze the transformation of medicine into biomedicine...
The Electroencephalogram
Its Patterns and Origins
ISBN: 9780262519991
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 16, 1993
In this book, John Barlow describes an ingenious new hypothesis for a comprehensive model of the EEG that is able to emulate a large variety of known EEG patterns with few variables.
The Atheist and the Holy City
Encounters and Reflections
ISBN: 9780262610773
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 1992
In this series of 15 essays, which won the Letterstedt Prize, Sweden's equivalent of the Pulitzer, distinguished cell biologist George Klein shares his considerable insights on science and on human...
Hematology
ISBN: 9780262521574
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 30, 1991
The fifth edition of this well-known series of lectures by distinguished Harvard hematologists is substantially revised to include discussions of the many important scientific developments in contemporary...
Encounters Between Patients and Doctors
Encounters Between Patients and Doctors
An Anthology
ISBN: 9780262690973
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 26, 1987
This book of readings offers compelling evidence that even in this age of advanced medical technology and large-scale bureaucracy, the essence of diagnosis, therapy, and management of illness continues...
The Healer's Art
ISBN: 9780262530620
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 7, 1985
Beyond drugs, beyond technology, there will always be the human element, "the healer's art." Dr. Cassell discusses the world of the sick, the healing connection and healer's battle, the role of omnipotence...
Talking with Patients
Clinical Technique
ISBN: 9780262530569
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 27, 1985
Spoken language is the most important diagnostic and therapeutic tool in medicine, and, according to Dr. Cassell, "we must be as precise with it as a surgeon with a scalpel." In these two volumes,...
Talking with Patients
The Theory of Doctor-Patient Communication
ISBN: 9780262530552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 27, 1985
Spoken language is the most important diagnostic and therapeutic tool in medicine, and, according to Dr. Cassell, "we must be as precise with it as a surgeon with a scalpel." In these two volumes,...