Summary: "The world's most widely used medical reference is now in its 20th edition. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy now in its 20th edition has been thoroughly updated and thoughtfully expanded with a new larger trim size to include 40% new and revised content. Including 36 new chapters with more than 200 new tables, and numerous new figures. The world's most widely used medical reference is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc. 2018
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 616.075 MERSederer, Lloyd I.
Summary: More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level. And left untreated, mental disorders can devastate our families and communities. Family members and friends are often the first to realize when someone has a problem, but it is hard to know how to help or where to turn. From understanding depression,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 SEDGnaulati, Enrico.
Summary: A veteran clinical psychologist argues that today's children are routinely misdiagnosed with serious psychiatric conditions, explaining how the misdiagnoses are occurring while sharing tools for parents on how to differentiate serious conditions from behavior disturbances stemming from developmental, familial, and social issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.9289 GNAGendron, Alice
Summary: "An inclusive guide to ADHD that explores its diverse types, symptoms, diagnoses, and misconceptions, and shares how to work with your ADHD brain to fully understand yourself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Prism 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 GENSummary: "Diagnose any health problem with this simple visual symptom guide: simple illustrations of every part of the body lead you straight to the problem ; easy-to-follow descriptions of symptoms guide you to the likely cause and more information about the condition ; symbols indicate the appropriate form of medical help ; ailments that need urgent medical advice are clearly flagged ; written and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616 MEDCahalan, Susannah
Summary: For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 CAHNewby, Kris
Summary: "A riveting thriller reminiscent of The Hot Zone, this true story dives into the mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time--Lyme disease--and of Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind it, revealing his secret role in developing bug-borne biological weapons, and raising terrifying questions about the genesis of the epidemic of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 NEWHorowitz, Richard.
Summary: "When Dr. Richard Horowitz moved to the Hudson Valley over a decade ago to start his own medical practice, he didn't know that he would be jumping into the center of one of the fiercest, most heated medical disputes being waged today. The ongoing debate over Lyme disease as a chronic illness has made it difficult for sufferers to find care, as doctors are in many cases unable or unwilling to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9246 HORTweedy, Damon
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care into the mainstream of medicine As much as we all might wish that mental health problems, with their elusive causes and unsettling behaviors, simply did not exist, millions of people suffer from them, sometimes to an extreme extent. Many others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024