pathology books

	Pathology: Board Review Series
	By: Arthur S. Schneider, Philip A. Szanto ISBN: 0683302655 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 15 December, 2001 Bioscience book rank: 220131	This book is pretty comprehensive and definitely a good buy for second year medical students. A lot of people used this to study for the boards as well, because they had been reading it all year. There are tests after each section, so you can check how much you retained and find out where your weaknesses lie. If you know everything in this book you should probably ace this section on the boards. This is the bible of pathology for med school and step 1. I would agree with most of the other reviews here, so I will only reiterate that is an essential book for your studies. The only thing that would make this book perfect is to feature color pathology pictures, since that is what is used on the step exams. THIS IS THE IT BOOK. IF TOU WANT TO PASS PATHOLOGY IN THE STEP 1 YOU NEED THIS BOOK.
	Hegde's PocketGuide to Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology
	By: M.N. Hegde ISBN: 1418014958 Publisher: CENGAGE Delmar Learning Release Date: 12 July, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 148570	i'm highly recommended speech-language pathologist to buy this book because it will reflect a helpful points in the assessments. <br /> <br />Abdulaziz, SLP This book gives you quick and accurate guidelines for assessment of communication disorders. It has become a bestseller in the field-for good reason. It is concise, easy to navigate, accurate, clearly written, and informative. A great volume to accompany the author's pocket guide to treatment. Hegde has one of those minds that knows how to synthesize a great deal of information and present it clearly.
	Workbook for Comprehensive Radiographic Pathology
	By: Ronald L. Eisenberg, Nancy M. Johnson ISBN: 0323042198 Publisher: Mosby Release Date: 26 February, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 47592
	Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization
	By: John Zerzan ISBN: 092291575X Publisher: Feral House Release Date: March, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 170392	I've seen plenty of political stances before, but I find this one unusual. Perhaps I've spent too much time reading books by liberals and conservatives. <br /> <br />Zerzan is an anarchist. To him, Noam Chomsky is simply too conservative, maybe reactionary. Now, to some extent, I might agree with that feeling, given that Chomsky has picked up some rather reactionary political allies. And Zerzan does make the point that Chomsky has said little about nature or women. But no, I don't buy the idea that this makes Chomsky just another right-winger. Nor do I agree with, for example, Zerzan's implication that Chomsky (who has said he wants a "two-state" solution in the Levant) is too pro-Israel. <br /> <br />Can a book annoy me to such an extent as to get me to give it a one-star review? Yes. And this book is an example of one that has done so. Zerzan thinks we need to dismantle our overly technological society. And I think that's a very poor idea. If this book had made a reasonable case for doing that, I would judge it less harshly. <br /> <br />In my opinion, bringing down our society would at best send us into a new Dark Ages, removing our rights, freedoms, prosperity, and well-being. It would also get rid of our access to truth and to our means of bettering ourselves. While our species might survive, I suspect that most individuals would die an ugly death, as without modern technology, the planet's population would quickly drop catastrophically. Even the end of the Western Roman Empire wasn't pretty, especially in the British Isles, and the demise of our present society could well be worse. <br /> <br />Yes, much of what our society does uses up non-renewable resources. But I think the answer to that is to use up fewer resources, not to abandon technology! After all, some technology has shown us how to better our lives inexpensively. Even some of the more expensive applications of technology, such as huge advances in the field of medicine, are things that many members of society might feel are worth preserving. And I think a great example of a less costly achievement of our present society is computer-based technology, which has made data storage and retrieval, calculations, and communications far easier. Let's see what Zerzan has to say (in this book, no less) to one of my heroes (Marvin Minsky), a person who has done superb work in a field (the theory of computation) that I think benefits all mankind: <br /> <br />"I believe I am not alone in the opinion that vermin such as you will one day be considered among the worst criminals this century has produced." <br /> <br />Um, wow. I have annoyed people in the past for many reasons, such as my religious views or political views. But I'm more than a little surprised to see such implicit annoyance with the fact that I've taught a couple of computer science courses in which I rather liberally used material from a textbook written by Marvin Minsky! I had to reread this, just to make sure that Minsky was actually being attacked for his scholarly achievements. <br /> <br />I guess that by teaching this subject, I've become an, um, accomplice to Minsky's "crimes." And that makes my failure to recommend this book rather self-serving. But I'll do it anyway. <br /> Anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan's book "Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization" is a collection of essays written between the years 1992-2001. While the essays cover a wide range of subjects--from the personal "So...How Did You Become an Anarchist?" the cultural critique "Why I Hate Star Trek" and the militant "He Means It--Do You?" the essays essentially cover the same idea--civilization is rotten. Zerzan argues that civilization "took a wrong turn with the advent of animal domestication and sedentary agriculture." These events, according to Zerzan, led to the exploitation of the planet, "hierarchal social structures" and the "ideological control of the many by the few." Zerzan argues we've been going downhill ever since, and "seeks to merge anarchist socio-political analysis with radical deep-green environmental thought" while advocating moving forward to a "future primitive" world. <br /> <br />As I passed through a particularly rotten part of town yesterday, I watched people on filthy, rubbish covered streets, pushing their shopping carts, while mini-skirted, drug-ravaged prostitutes hawked their wares at passing motorists. Zerzan's words came back to me, and I found myself mulling over his arguments. And he is right on many issues here. Civilization is rotten, but when it comes to what we should do about it, I admit that I part ways with anarcho-primitivism. There's a great deal to be said for a cessation of global warming, and living with less in a simpler society with no division of labour etc. But I have to think that civilization and technology have brought some positive results. A future primitive state would certainly solve a lot of problems but other problems would be created in its wake. For example, humans now live a lot longer than our ancient ancestors, and a future primitive culture would mean a total lack of medicine--other than 'natural' cures. Zerzan argues that cancer was "unknown before civilization" but it's impossible to know that--there may have been less cancer, but we can't assume there was NO cancer. The modern diet, along with contaminants and pollutants are no doubt partly responsible for the epidemic proportions of cancer in today's society. But there's absolutely no guarantee that cancer would disappear in a future primitive culture, and it doesn't take a great deal of imagination to realize that in a future-primitive society, deaths would occur for fairly simple routine problems due to untreated appendicitis, for example, or c-sections without anesthesia. <br /> <br />Zerzan's essay "So...How Did You Become an Anarchist?" is one of the highlights of the book. It's intensely personal and details Zerzan's gradual philosophical development towards green anarchy. The essays "He Means It--Do You?" and "Who Is Chomsky?" draw a line between anarcho-primitivism and traditional anarchy while condemning the latter. Other essays cover Zerzan's anti technology position, his relationship with Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, and his beliefs regarding time keeping and memory. There's a direct connection between anarcho-primitivism and Situationist ideas, and Zerzan's book offers the prescriptive theory that the original Situationists never really discovered. <br /> <br />"Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization" gets five stars for making me think--and while most of that thinking was to decide what I did and didn't agree with, the book was well worth reading. There are lessons to be learned from these essays, and while I can't see myself in a future primitive culture, who knows what lies ahead for our planet. If politicians insist on using their arsenals of nuclear weapons, humans may well find themselves living in a primitive state--not by choice--but thanks to the stupidity of those in power--displacedhuman At a time when I've been regarding anarchy as a mere euphemism for impotence, John Zerzan's Running on Emptiness has come across my desk. One of the more articulate of marginalized writers on the counterculture scene today, Zerzan encourages us to embrace the present, our connectedness to the earth and to nature itself. He suggests that we wean our hyper-dependence on technology to do this for starters. While Zerzan fluently cites examples of our current plight of apathy/ alienation via a kind of incendiary deftness that has earned him the 'most important philosopher of our time' kind of lavish praise from Derrick Jensen, I'm still not completely won over when it comes to abandoning my computer and making a dash to nature like some 21st Century Schizoid Rousseau.<p>However, I enjoy the challenge John poses of soberly looking at whatever banal assumptions I may make about how convenient and carefree technology has made my life. The more insidious effects of PCs, the Internet, cell phones, even call waiting on our consciousness, on our potentials for deeper sentience, can really only be gauged by someone like Zerzan, who has resolutely resisted the all too powerful seductions and promises of the digital age. Such freedom from technological spell casting is evident in Zerzan's obvious command of philosophy, the depth and breadth of his research and in his ability to breathe vitality into such stolid behemoths as dialectical State apologist Kant, the 'Crypto-Aryan' Heidegger, the Frankfurt Schoolboys Adorno, Walter Benjamin and others. More important than his obvious pansophical exuberance is the author's honest ease which is very rare in a world currently colonized by morbid intellectuals. I suggest reading the New York Review of Books if you need to be reminded of just how moribund the (com)postmodern intelligentsia have become, fingering their well worn copies of Lyotard, Derrida, Baudrillard and other not so Free Radicals who only serve to accelerate the breakdown of what remains of our culture, offering nothing redeeming in return whatsoever other than their perpetually cynical excrescences.<p>Zerzan doesn't hesitate to take on such Sacred Cows of the left as Noam Chomsky, challenging the MIT professor's views on the origins of language making capabilities in humans as being crassly reductionistic and dehumanizing. He also confronts Hakim 'King of the Anarchists' Bey and aptly dissects the Temporary Autonomous Zone mystique the author surrounds himself with and entrances his many vulnerable, if not gullible readers with. (see the writings of Luther Blisset for further elaboration on this.)<p>Running on Emptiness is the perfect negentropic unguent to the various pathologies at large, helping us ground out rather than abandon our intellectual, philosophical and cultural heritage in a way that may very well facilitate our connection with nature instead of creating further detachment from it. It is in this regard that I may reassess my views on anarchy's implicate impotence and hope that something viably intelligent comes from that wayward camp, at least enough for me to join their cause. Zerzan makes such a possibility more and more likely.
	Pathology And Genetics of Head and Neck Tumours (World Health Organization Classification of Tumours)
	By: Leon Barnes, John W. Eveson, Peter A. Reichart, David Sidransky ISBN: 9283224175 Publisher: Not Avail Release Date: 30 September, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 362830
	Professional Issues in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
	By: Rosemary Lubinski, Lee Ann C. Golper, Carol Frattali ISBN: 1418015482 Publisher: CENGAGE Delmar Learning Release Date: 03 November, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 284886	It arrived within the promised time frame and was in great condition. I didn't have to get it at the college bookstore so it saved me some money. I was extremely disappointed by Amazon. I needed this text book for a course and Amazon sent me the 2nd edition of the text; which is the older version; there is a 3rd edition out of this text. <br />This is a terrible blunder by Amazon and it cost me undue stress and money since I now have to replace it with the newer edition, which I will purchase from my campus bookstore.
	Forensic Pathology, Second Edition (Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations)
	By: M.D., Vincent J.M. DiMaio, Dominick DiMaio ISBN: 084930072X Publisher: CRC Release Date: 28 June, 2001 Bioscience book rank: 245133	An excellent resource to forensic pathology. I would recommend you have some reference of medicine, however, before reading it. It's difficult to understand some of the terminology if you're picking up the book and reading without prior knowledge. MISSING INFORMATION IN THE BOOK ABOUT SHOTGUN WOUNDS, AUTOPSY PROCEDURE,BLOOD SPOTS ETC. If your idea of forensics is CSI on television, this book is not for you. If you are studying forensic science, or need an excellent reference book, by all means - buy it. This book gives one a strong foundation, and the photographs are an excellent source of information, of which to look at after reading the descriptions. <br /> <br />The second edition is a definite improvment over the first.If you are looking for a chapter on gunshot wounds, it is not here. However, DiMaio has written the standard on evaluating gunshot wounds: Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques.
	Pathology And Genetics of Tumours of the Soft Tissues And Bones (World Health Organization Classification of Tumours)
	By: Who ISBN: 9283224132 Publisher: Not Avail Release Date: January, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 326445	A must have for anyone interested in Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology. I'm not sure when the new edition is coming out, though. You may want to look into that. Dear Sirs, <br /> <br />I have returned the book "Pathology and genetics of tumors of the soft tissues and bones" because I have already bought by amazon.com in my other account (vencio56@hotmail.com). My mistake. <br /> <br />The book is very good (5 stars). <br />Sincerely, <br />Eneida Franco Vencio This is a great book to review bone and soft tissue tumor.
	Handbook of Dynamic Psychotherapy for Higher Level Personality Pathology
	By: Eve Caligor, Otto F. Kernberg, John F. Clarkin ISBN: 1585622125 Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing Release Date: 23 February, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 548409
	Oral Pathology: Clinical Pathologic Correlations
	By: Joseph A. Regezi, James J. Sciubba, Richard C. K. Jordan ISBN: 1416045708 Publisher: Saunders Release Date: 02 October, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 342670	As a busy clinical otolaryngologist in Lutherville Maryland, who is called upon to render opinions on all manner of oral lesions, I am pleased to finally have a comprehensive reference to make my practice more precise and treatment rendered more effective. This book is very well illustrated and provides an in-depth yet telegraphic approach to the wide range of oral pathology that is encountered in the general clinical practice of ENT. I recommend this well referenced book to all of us in allopathic medicine, who are not extensively trained in benign oral lesions,but are in need of a cogent answer to the question "Hey Doc look at this and tell me what you think it is?". I now have a "go to" reference for this exact need. Mark Williams MD less comprehensive than Shafer's but it is more direct to the target and more actually clinically oriented. thanks to the authors I would like to see a more complete version of this book written for the professionals. It provides a good review of the topic although at times lacking in depth. Highly recommended for the dental student.