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Back from the Brink
Just a few short years ago, the outcome of a life-threatening brain injury lay in the hands of the victim's god. Neurologists had a self-mocking term for their role in healing: "Diagnose and adios." While doctors knew more about why and how a brain might die or be permanently impaired, they rarely intervened in brain trauma cases, believing there was little they could do. Today, though, a brave new world of brain rescue is opening up. A handful of hospitals around the country have begun to develop neurological intensive care centers where aggressive new treatments are pulling brain-injured patients back from the brink. Acclaimed science journalist Edward J. Sylvester here takes us to one of ...
The Healing Blade
This book traces the efforts of one of the world's top neurosurgical teams to understand the human brain in ever-deeper ways. Its dramatic focus is a state called the standstill, where the patient has no breath, no heartbeat, no blood flow, no viable temperature, and no brain waves or other activity that clinically define life. In The Healing Blade, patients are taken down to death itself and brought back again.
Breeding Bio Insecurity
In the years since the 9/11 attacks—and the subsequent lethal anthrax letters—the United States has spent billions of dollars on measures to defend the population against the threat of biological weapons. But as Lynn C. Klotz and Edward J. Sylvester argue forcefully in Breeding Bio Insecurity, all that money and effort hasn’t made us any safer—in fact, it has made us more vulnerable. Breeding Bio Insecurity reveals the mistakes made to this point and lays out the necessary steps to set us on the path toward true biosecurity. The fundamental problem with the current approach, according to the authors, is the danger caused by the sheer size and secrecy of our biodefense effort. Thousan...
THE HISTORY OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated)
Experience the American feminism in its core. Learn about the decades long fight, about the endurance and the strength needed to continue the battle against persistent indifference and injustice. Go back in time and get to know the founders and the followers, the characters of all the strong women involved in the movement. Find out what was the spark which started it all and kept the flame going. Learn about the organization, witness the backdoor conversations and discussions, read their personal correspondence, speeches and planned tactics. Learn about the relationship between great activists and what caused the fraction. See the movement in its full light and learn what it took to obtain m...
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Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
Provides an overview, chronology of events, glossary and annotated bibliography on biotechnology and genetic engineering.
