Exploring Medical Language

Myrna LaFleur Brooks: Exploring Medical Language, Elsevier Mosby, Februar 2011
Focusing on medical terminology and vocabulary, this title helps you understand complex medical terms using a step-by-step strategy, building each term from its foundation.

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KAEMPFERO, Engelberto D.. AMOENITATUM EXOTICARUM POLITICO-PHYSICO-MEDICARUM FASCICULI V, QUIBUS CONTINENTU.
AN IMPORTANT & SCHOLARLY BOTANICAL STUDY OF JAPAN & ASIA TITLE: cont.: ...COLLECTAE, AB AUCTORE ENGLEBERTO KAEMPFERO, D. * About half of this work is devoted to Kaempfer's travels in Persia [see below], with stunning copper etchings documenting his travels and recording the flora & botanical specimens he found of interest of that desert region. Of interest are the plates of date plams and other unique desert fruits. The balance of the work convers Japanese medicine, acupuncture, flora, medical pharmacopiea & botany. * RARITY: The book is rare and from our research this seems to be a very small printing of a fascinating work. Few complete copies are found in libraries. **** The contents: Fasciculus I: Complectens relationes de aulae Persicae stau hodierno. [16 relationes]. * Fasciculus II: Contiens relationes & observationese historico-physicas de rebus variis. [14 relationes]. * Relatio XIII: Chartopeia Japonica, [caracteres Chinois]. * Relatio XIV: Regnum Japonicae optima ratione, ab egressu civicum, & exterarum gentium ingressu & communione, clausum, [caract. Chinois]. * Fasciculus III: Contiens Observationes physico-medicas curiosas [16 observationes]. * Obs. XI: Curatio colicae per Acupuneturan, Japonibus usitata. * Obs. XII: Moxa, praestantissima cauteriorum materica, Sinensibus Japonisbusq; multum usitata,[charact. Chinois]. * Obs. XIII: Theae Japonesis historia [caract. Chinois et planches]. * Fasciculus IV: Contiens Relationes Botanico-historicas de Palma dactylifera in Perside crescente. [10 relationes]. * Fasciculus V. Contiens Plantarum Japonicarum, quas regnum peragranti solum natale conspiciendas object, nomina & characteres sinicos; intermixtis, pro specimne, quarundam plenis descriptionibus, una cum Iconibus. Cont: catalogus planarum fasiculi v in quinque calasses distributi, quarum exhibet. Classis: 1. Plantas volgo dictas bacciferas & pruniferas. 2. PL. pomiferas & Nuciferas. 3. Pl. Oleraceas & Frugiferas. 4. Pl. specioso flore conspicuas. 5. Pl. miscellaneas. **** * NOTE: While Kaempfer states "Chinese characters" in the text, actually what he meant to say was Japanese Kanji characters "borrowed" from the Chinese. ** THE AUTHOR: Engelbert Kaempfer [1740-1812], was a German doctor, and is best known as the director of the Deshima factory in Nagasaki, Japan from 1779-1780 & 1781-1784. Also his classic work: THE HISTORY OF JAPAN, 1827 & 1828 was his most stunning contribution to information on Japan at the time, their flora, especially the tea camellia, acupuncture, hand paper-making, and medical studies relating to acupuncture and the use of moxibustion as a cauterizing & therapeutal agent. * In 1683 he joined the Swedish embassy to visit the Shah of Persia. The embassy traveled from Moscow, via Kazan, Astrakhan, across the Caspian Sea to Isfahan, the capital of Persia. Kaempfer ventured out along the way, exploring other areas by the Baku on the Caspian Sea. He was an avid student and mastered the Persian language, which enabled him to then focus on that country's flora, fauna and geography. The results of these studies are found in this text, with especial focus on the flora. * Upon to Sweden, Kaempfer joined the Dutch East India Company, where he was appointed chief surgeon in the Persian Gulf. He explored Arabia, the west coast of India and finally ended up in Batavia, where he focused on Javanese natural history. While there, he met several people who had been stationed in Deshima, Japan, and some Japanese. He was appointed chief surgeon to Deshima where he studied all aspects of the Japanese. * His resulting HISTORY OF JAPAN, introduced many new things to the western world. His essays and illustrations on acupuncture, moxa, paper-making, natural history, use of cannabis, opium, tobacco and amber shed new light on medical practice in Japan. In many ways the current work resembles the HISTORY OF JAPAN in that it outlines similar subjects and in depth essays on the flora, fauna but on Persia. He also discusses customs, musical instruments, costume, fruits and a variety of unusual plants found in the desert and oasis of that area. * In the present work Kaempfer devotes 502 pages to Persia, with 42 stunning copper etched plates, some fold outs. including acupuncture, a long chapter on the Persian date palm, and a variety of cultural, fauna and flora essays. He also attaches an extensive catalogue of Japanese plants with their names and Kanji characters in the text. He adds 47 botanical and other copper etched plates with a map to the last part of this work. * THE PLATES: The plates found in this text are either large fold-outs, single full page, or one half or one third text illustrations. The fold-outs and full single page plates are copper etched, while the text illustrations may be wood cuts or possibly copper etched. The distinguishing "plate mark" is difficult to find on the text plates, while on the others this is very clear. * A fascinating and early primary resource. Written in an astute and scholarly manner, with careful analysis of what he saw, who he met and where he traveled. * RARITY: This book is quite rare, and seldom found complete. Our copy contains all plates & text, with some toning to the pages, some corner wear. By and large, an excellent early resource on the plants medicinal plants of Asia, with Chinese characters in the index and also an index to plant names. Also Amoenitatum Exoticarum which contains Relationes Botanico-Historicas de Palma Dactylifera in Perfide crefcente...et al. * **** BIBLIOGRAPHY: H. Cordier: JAPONICA columns 411-412. He also cites: "Cat. Mourier, no. 429, 10 fr" at the end of his citation. * ALT JAPAN KAT. 699. * Nissen, BBI 1018 * Stafleu 3483 * Hunt 427 * Wellcome III, p.376 * Brunet III: 636 * Gordon Mestler: A GALAXY OF OLD JAPANESE MEDICAL BOOKS: p.470 et al. for Kaempfer, [Mestler mis-spells it "Kampfer" [sic] and moxa. Plesase inquire with us for copies of this major bibliographical reference resource. * Shinku Nichibun: Cites this book, and gives a complete list of the plates. Following is a correction to that list: plate # 12 is on p.262; text plate on p.548 omitted; plate # 56 is on p.697. Often books of this period had pages mis-numbered and plates inserted at different locations regardless of the fact [most] each plate has an associated page number within the etched area, to assist in placement. **** Color scans can be sent by email. 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Lemgoviae 1712, Meyeri.New half leather over marbled boards, 9 text, 15 folding & 60 full-page engravings,facsimile:fold- ing map, plate p.334, frontis; title rebacked else original, solid, "as is," pages toned, 18 x 23.5 cm., index, complete.

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Heeks, Richard (Edited by): Reinventing Government in the Information Age: International Practice in IT-enabled Public Sector Reform, London, United Kingdom Routledge 1999
0415190371 Very Good

Library sticker to spine and FEP. Stamp to FEP. Text clean, tight and bright. Over the past decades, the field of health psychology has witnessed a tremendous growth, and social psychologists have contributed substantially to the theoretical foundation of this field. Their research has focused on a wide variety of health relevant topics such as how individuals decide to respond to their health and well-being, how and why they change their behaviour to avoid such threats, and especially, how they adjust to or cope with the risk of threatening disease and with the diseases themselves. As diverse as this literature may be, however, there does appear to be a common theme throughout much of it - the observation that comparison of oneself and one's health status and coping efforts with others is an integral part of the coping process. Consequently, social comparison theory is increasingly becoming recognized as a fruitful framework for illuminating health related issues. A still expanding literature is exploring the role of social comparisons with respect to coping with a wide range of health problems, including cancer, physical decline among the aged, rheumatoid arthritis, AIDS, stress at work and occupational burnout, and eating disorders. Social comparison theory has augmented knowledge about the ways in which people cope with stressful events, and thus has contributed significantly to it. At the same time and at a more basic level, research in this applied context has made significant contributions to the development of social comparison theory itself. The present volume presents an overview of the various ways in which social comparison theory has been applied to issues related to health, coping and well-being, and also to point out how these applications have contributed to our insight into the way humans employ social comparison information. Given the attention paid to theoretical as well as applied issues, this volume should appeal to a wide audience, including social and health psychologists, as well as therapists, physicians, clinicians, medical sociologists, nurses and those involved in the growing field of nursing research No Jacket as Issued hardcover Government Library Reference

[SW: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION POLITICAL SCIENCE LANGUAGE]

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NULL Griffith: Encountering the Sacred Psychothera, ROUTLEDGE, Juli 2003 ISBN: 1572309385
Drawing on narrative, postmodern, and other therapeutic perspectives, this book guides therapists in exploring the creative and healing possibilities in clients' spiritual and religious experience. Vivid personal accounts and dialogues bring to life the ways spirituality may influence the stories told in therapy, the language and metaphors used, and the meanings brought to key relationships and events. Applications are discussed for a wide variety of clinical situations, including helping people resolve relationship problems, manage psychiatric symptoms, and cope with medical illnesses.

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[SW: Religion / Spirituality]

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