pathology books

	Rapid Review Pathology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access (Rapid Review)
	By: Edward F. Goljan ISBN: 032304414X Publisher: Mosby Release Date: 15 November, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 3240	This is a great book for pathology board review. I have not yet started studying for boards, but I use this as a quick read before I start reading Robbins. It helps me know what facts are really important and ingrains important facts in my head before I get overwhelmed by the large amount of information in Robbins. I have heard that many of my class mates only used this book to study for pathology board review and that it was great! Goljan is definitely making studying pathology a little bit easier. Mostly, I use it as a study guide and add annotations from Robbin's Pathology and online path review from YouTube Shotgun histology and histopathology. I think it will be really useful once it gets around to the time for studying for the boards. I highly recommend this book! I would describe it as "everything you really need to know condensed in outline format with tables, photos, and charts for a comprehensive by concise overview of organ systems and physiology."
	BRS Pathology (Board Review Series)
	By: Arthur S Schneider, Philip A Szanto, Sandra I Kim, Todd A Swanson ISBN: 0781760224 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 December, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 7741	This book is a godsend--it was my best friend, my baby during 2nd year and for the Boards. I can't praise it enough. It had just enough information in it about everything that I needed, it was an excellent basis for pathology for the Boards. Supplement with a Robbins Path Book if you want extensive detail (and for the great pictures in Robbins!) and you'll be set. Concise material that covers all the bases. Good tables for quick recap, and Q & A's are good for studying when pressed for time. This is a great Step 1 review book. I used others as well, but after taking the exam, I can say that this was the most useful review book. I have Goljan Pathology as well, but this BRS is much more essential, and doesn't contain all the details needed for Step 2, so it is a good quick read with good practice quizzes and pretty much all the essential info you need, and you don't feel just overwhelmed after reading each chapter. It would've been nice if the authors added color illustrations to the text, and some figures in the quizzes were unclear. But overall buying this book was the best textbook investment I've made so far.
	Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4)
	By: Paul Farmer, Amartya Sen, Paul Farmer ISBN: 0520243269 Publisher: University of California Press Release Date: 22 November, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 5660	Paul Farmer, perhaps the most famous 'Third World doctor' living today, has written an eloquent and moving plea for a reconsideration of modern approaches toward healthcare in the developing nations in this book, "Pathologies of Power". Based on his personal experiences of care in Haiti, but also his professional visits to Russia, Africa, Central America, Mexico, Cuba and many other places besides, Paul Farmer demonstrates that the problematics of healthcare and those of poverty and inequality are insolubly linked in these nations. Whoever says "heal the sick" must also say "end poverty", for the one is not possible without the other; and whoever says "prevent disease" must also say "destroy socio-economic inequality", for the one is not possible without the other. That is the message of this book. <br /> <br />A large part of the work consists of reflections by Farmer on his experiences in Haiti and elsewhere and on the way in which the current worldwide economic structures engender a genuine and systematic violence against the rights of the poor. Strongly inspired by liberation theology (though not necessarily religious), Farmer eloquently and effectively contrasts the heavy importance attached to individual political and legal rights with the way in which the violations of rights done by structural inequalities and injustices is wholly ignored in the same circles that would complain about the former. Rights issues are the domain of jurists, development issues the domain of (liberal) economists; but the way in which the poor and weak are constantly crushed by the systematic repression that is poverty and inequality, at least as real and at least as much a violation as any torture, that seems to be the domain of nobody at all. As Paul Farmer clearly shows, even in the lately so blossoming domain of medical and bioethics the issue of socio-economic structures is completely swept under the carpet. As he says, this really is the "elephant in the room". <br /> <br />The same also goes for the oft-invoked importance of efficiency. Callous and counterproductive Western, often American, inspired healthcare policies in the developing nations (among which we must now sadly share Russia as well) generally fail at providing effective treatment against simple preventable disease such as TBC, because those medications that would actually help are considered "not cost-effective". This is in fact just a polite way of saying "we don't care about these people", but then phrased in a manner that will lead to less of an uproar in the newspapers. Farmer however is not fooled so easily, and sees this for what it is - a structural repression of the developing nations by the developed ones, in the name of "efficiency", i.e. efficiency in achieving the aims of the Western states. <br /> <br />This book is a very powerful work, and a strong indictment of the prevailing attitude towards healthcare and development issues and the little attention paid to their interrelation. It also demonstrates convincingly how the current worldwide economic system is bad for everybody's health. And what could be a more important thing than that? Read this book. Paul Farmer is one of the few who can enlighten us to a more profound understanding of the mechanisms that underlie disease in so many of its forms. He sees farther than most of us and comes to his conclusions with a gigantic intellect and hard hard hands-on work with the poor and ill for over 2 decades in Haiti and elsewhere. He is our Albert Schweitzer. His concept of "structural violence", that set of social and economic intrastructure deficits that set aside "rich" from "poor" and lays open the environment for not only the contagious diseases like TB and HIV, but also allows for the malnourishment and the reduced choices in nutrition, allows for the maintenance of the dearth of available health care resources, sanitation and educational systems, the conflation of which prevents protection against the illnesses of poverty, puts the reader into the realm of being forced to see a hidden and dirty truth. His prose is mutedly angry. His emotions are unmistakably righteous. His undressing of some of the "liberal" NGO mentality is eye opening. He is the real deal. Read his elegant words and get a glimpse at reality. We are sadly blinded to it by some of the "pathologies" of the powers that be. I have been a physician for almost 30 years. I've given this book to my sons who are young physicians. The thoroughness of his presentation of the causes of the societal ills that allow for the illnesses, and the bibiography that supports his theses are encylopedic in scope. Again, he is the real deal. Paul Farmer is a Harvard MD and PhD (anthropology), clinician, tuberculosis specialist, author of numerous books and scholarly articles, recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, and Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School--when he is not living in a hut in his beloved Haiti where he founded Partners in Health, or traveling a quarter million miles a year to lecture, visit prisons, or meet with George Soros or the Gates Foundation. Most important of all, Farmer is an unapologetic, outspoken, and radical advocate for the poorest of the poor. Adequate health care, he insists, is a basic human right for every human being, and our world is failing miserably in this regard. His fascinating life story is told by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder in the book Mountains Beyond Mountains (2003). <br /> <br /> According to a World Bank study from 1993, today in Sub-Saharan Africa "the median age at death is less than five years," (p. xi; no typographical error). Such deplorable disparities between rich and poor, Farmer writes, are not random occurrences, they are not accidental, inescapable or necessary. Rather, they result from pathologies of power, human agency, and structural violence. Quoting the liberation theologian Jon Sobrino, "The poor of the world are not the causal products of human history. No, poverty results from the actions of other human beings" (p. 143). Which is to say that the brutal asymmetry that consigns over half the world to wretchedness is not irremediable. Resignation, in fact, is the most inexcusable choice we could make. However daunting and complex, we can ameliorate these unacceptable conditions if we make other choices: "This book is a physician-anthropologist's effort to reveal the ways in which the most basic right--the right to survive--is trampled in an age of great affluence, and it argues that the matter should be considered the most pressing one of our times" (p. 6). <br /> <br /> Farmer spends considerable time charting anecdotal evidence from his two decades of clinical practice serving the poorest of the poor. These detailed case studies from Haiti, Chiapas, Peru, Russia and Cuba are not mere examples but instead emblematic of the problem. Further, following liberation theologians who have deeply influenced him, Farmer strongly advocates listening carefully to the voices of the poor themselves, in their own words, and not only to health "experts" in Geneva, New York and Paris. "I believe," writes Farmer, that 'the poor and impoverished of the world, in virtue of their very reality, constitute the most radical question of the truth of this world, as well as the most correct response to this question'" (p. 202). <br /> <br /> Some will dismiss rhetoric like that as from a wild-eyed idealist, or an angry extremist, but Farmer would respond that what is extreme and harsh are the conditions of way too many human beings in the world, which ought to evoke anger, and not his passionate advocacy for them (p. 254). Rather than merely "manage" these horrible social inequalities, Farmer challenges each one of us to make a difference by what he calls "pragmatic solidarity" with the poor.
	Robbins and Cotran Review of Pathology, Second Edition
	By: Edward Klatt, Vinay Kumar ISBN: 0721601944 Publisher: Saunders Release Date: 18 November, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 23095	This book is a must have for any serious medical student. It helps guide and focus your study of pathology to what is relevant to the USMLE. Practicing these questions really underscored the key points of each Robbins chapter. In addition, the answers have page numbers specifically referencing on which page of Robbins you can get more information on the topic. Helpful book for the study of pathology. Clinical vignettes and pictures make it a great addition to the pocket Robbins. This book should be required in schools for pathology. The questions are excellent, explanation clear and well written, and the book was immensely helpful for all the blocks (we had system-based curriculum). Yes the questions are long but that makes it good practice for step1. This is also one of the few books that helped me in both step1 and school exam studying. Highly recommended.
	A Massage Therapist's Guide to Pathology: A Diagnostic Guide to Neurologic Levels (Recall Series)
	By: Ruth Werner ISBN: 0781754895 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 March, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 39643	This book is well written, clear, and helpful; a truly informative book for massage therapists and anyone interested in the relationship between massage and specific pathologies. If you do bodywork, you will benefit from this book. I have just scanned through the book so far, but it looks like a very good pathology book for massage therapists. It describes the relationship massage therapy has with different human pathologies (extremely important). I am a student and using the book for school right now, but I will continue to use this book for future reference when I am acually practicing medical massage. I highly recommend the book. It contains detailed descriptions of all the commonly encountered diseases with vivid illustrations. The text lacks indications and contraindications for Eastern massage. It focuses only on circulatory massage.
	Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual
	By: Kenneth G. Shipley, Julie G. McAfee ISBN: 1401827519 Publisher: CENGAGE Delmar Learning Release Date: 08 March, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 71614	This is a very useful text for graduate coursework. I would highly recommend it. The CD with printable forms is extremely useful for when I get out into the field. I ordered this book when taking my pre-reqs before getting into the SLP program. It's a great book. It pretty much breaks down everything you are going to be needing. Coincidence is that I am going to be using it next semester for a class, so that's great... <br />The only thing that I didn't find in the book that I wish it had was direction on how to write goal and objectives. I just ordered a couple books that seemed to have themes dealing with that... so we'll see. This text is a valuable resource for any professional speech pathologist or student in the field as it clearly explains how you would go about doing assessments. There are lots of examples and assessment forms for most speech disorders, so you become very familiar with assessings individuals/furure clients. I found this book to be a necessary part of my resources as I study to become a speech pathologist.
	Robbins Basic Pathology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access (Basic Pathology (Kumar))
	By: Vinay Kumar, Abul K. Abbas, Nelson Fausto, Richard Mitchell ISBN: 1416029737 Publisher: Saunders Release Date: 17 May, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 15825	The re-delivery time of my purchase was very good and this made the whole experience pleasant. Book was exactly as described, took about 7 business days to arrive. This text is very concise compared with Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease. Both are excellent, but this "smaller" book actually has everything you need for the general pathology part of the written AP boards. I am specifically referring to chapters 1-9 with 10 and 11. It needs to be read with near total comprehension, but the color graphics are excellent aids. All other systemic pathology topics should be covered in a surgical pathology text, of course.
	Lange FlashCards: Pathology (Lange Flash Cards)
	By: Suzanne Baron, Christoph Lee ISBN: 0071436901 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical Release Date: 30 July, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 49856	I keep telling my friends to use these and they don't listen. "Live by Lange Path Cards," I always say. They not only earn me A's in class, but they give big bold lettering to all the important physical exam and lab values for each disease - very high yield. I recommend it for class and USMLE. I was skeptical about these cards at first. They're literally printed on paper (not notecards), and they're packed with way too much information for quick flashcard review. However, they were indispensable during 2nd year. Granted, they don't cover all of the diseases in Robbin's, but I rather preferred it that way; diseases they didn't cover, I figured were low yield, and this served me fairly well. There is a clinical vignette on one side, and then the disease name and description on the other with important information in bold. I used my pharmcards and microcards sporadically, but these were a mainstay. Not helpful in the slightest for Knowledge level of Pathology. These cards are only meant for the end of Pathology studies and putting them into application.
	Anatomy and Pathology: The World's Best Anatomical Charts (The World's Best Anatomical Chart Series)
	By: Anatomical Chart Company ISBN: 0781773563 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 June, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 41849	This book has great visuals to show the students about different areas of the human body. A must have! Very good quality at the cheap price. <br />I recommended it to my students as well. The charts are excellent... photos are colorful and labeled nicely. The print is a little small on the charts but the color and diagrams are very clear and excellently done.
	Hegde's PocketGuide to Treatment in Speech-Language Pathology
	By: M.N. Hegde ISBN: 141801494X Publisher: CENGAGE Delmar Learning Release Date: 12 July, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 83463	Wonderful guide and so easy to read. Very concise and easy to flip to the exact disorder you are wondering how to treat or assess! One of the best SLP books I have! The author of this book also happens to be my speech therapist. I suspect he's been using these treatments on me, and they've been working. To the snake oil guy: if there is any bias in this book, it is towards effectiveness. Unlike mentalistic psychology (believe me, we've had endless arguments about mentalism vs. behavioralism), Dr. Hegde tries to use the scientific method to approach any number of communicative disorders. The treatments are based in the scientific method, and are, by definition, verifiable, repeatable, and emperical. No mentalism here! This is an excellent resource for a practicing speech-language pathologist in any setting. It quickly reminds you of all of the things you learned in graduate school, but have since forgotten. It is much easier to look up information here than to dig through all of your old textbooks and notes. I am shocked that Amazon even printed the earlier review giving this text only one star. The reviewer did not write a review of this book. He simply attacked the entire field of speech-language pathology.