Concise Oxford Textbook of Medicine (Oxford Textbook)

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The Oxford Textbooks have found their way onto the shelves of clinics, libraries, and hospital departments the world over. They have earned praise for their careful integration of basic science and the best of clinical practice, their international focus, and not least their exhaustive coverage. Spring 2000 saw an exciting new development - the publication of our new, eagerly-awaited one-volume textbook of medicine based on the Oxford Textbook of Medicine. The Concise Oxford Textbook of Medicine retains all the authority of its parent text, while providing more concise and accessible information on how to manage every condition that a physician is likely to have to diagnose and treat. Starting with the content of the Oxford Textbook of Medicine, two of the original editors have selected the most essential and practical content, and reorganized and restructured it for ease of use. The authors of the original Oxford Textbook of Medicine articles have updated and rewritten their work to make it more practically focused, and many new chapters have been commissioned, while up-to-date references and many new illustrations have been added throughout. Every chapter of the Concise Oxford Textbook of Medicine has been painstakingly edited by Professors Ledingham and Warrell - two of the editors of the Oxford Textbook of Medicine - to eliminate repetition and achieve complete consistency and clarity. No other one-volume textbook of medicine is as international, readable, or accessible, and none has the balance and perspective of the Concise Oxford Textbook of Medicine.

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Concise Oxford textbook of medicine.......2001-08-30

This textbook is a one volume textbok of medicine based on the wellknown, renowned and established Oxford Textbook of Medicine (OTM). Two of the three original editors have selected, organized and restructered the content into a more practical and handy volume with the chapters updated and re-written with a practical focus in mind. The OTM is now in its fourth edition, three volumes and therefore not the first choice of book for the medical student or the young physician in training with a busy schedule. That has been the rationales behind this condensed version.
The book is in twenty sections: Starting out with pain management (for some unknown reason), cardiology, hematology, respiratory disease, gastroenterology, metabolic disorders, endocrine disease, nutrition, disorders of the skeleton, rheumatology, diseases of the skin, nephrology, neurology, psychiatry, palliative medicine, infectious disease, sexually transmited disease, chemical and physical injuries and environmental factors and disease, geratology and finally forensic medicine. Each section will usually have many chapters with specific subjects.
Looking in depths at the first and last chapters we found a good review with practical applications to every day clinical life. Looking at other chapters with questions in our daily clinical activities, during this review period, we found an international approach, readable, informative chapters and a good practical index. We think the editors have done a hard, but wonderful job, which will benefit many students and young phycicians in general medicine and practice. The Concise Oxford textbook of medicine should be a good choice for the medical student, the busy hospital physician or the general practitioner in family medicine.
Profesor Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Sackler Schol of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and Medical Director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel.
Mohammed Morad, MD
Family Physician, Department of Family Medicine, Ben Gurion University,
Box 653, IL-84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel. E-mail: morad-62@barak-online.net

Concise Oxford textbook of medicine.......2001-05-31

It's a good one choice if you want to review rapidly one issue in particular, however, and may be it happens because It is a concise one, there is imcomplete information in many cases concerning the treatment of the ailments.

Concise Oxford textbook of medicine.......2001-05-31

Concise Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology

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Concise Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology

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Concise Oxford Textbook of Medicine (Oxford Textbook) by Ledingham

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Concise Oxford Textbook of Medicine on CD-Rom

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Concise Oxford Textbook of Medicine on CD-Rom

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This exceptional new textbook of medicine is now available on CD-ROM. The Concise Oxford Textbook of Medicine offers accessible, readable information on every disorder the physician is likely to encounter. It is ideal for everyday reference, revision, general reading and preparation for examinations. Differential diagnosis and evidence-based management are detailed throughout. Bridging the gap between the best-selling Oxford Handbooks series and the exhaustive detail of the Oxford Textbooks, no other comparable textbook of medicine is as international, readable, accessible, or has the same balance and perspective.

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Sporting a glowing introduction by the master of "veiled autobiography," Eddie Campbell, this graphic novel features all of Glenn Dakin's ABE stories from the British comix scene. If you're not familiar with Dakin's work, Glenn has, for the last nineteen years, been one of England's best alternative comics creators. ABE is not only regarded as a milestone in the world of fanciful autobiography, but it's a must read for fans of ALEC or anyone who's interested in astute, witty, and profound observations of life and living.

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Wry, funny, philosophical.......2006-10-13

In a way, this collection reminds me a bit of "My Dinner With Andre," in that it also examines life from many angles, often through tiny details & absurd situations, while leaving the reader with much food for thought afterwards. It's also fascinating as a chronicle of the growth of the artist, following his work from its earliest days through nearly two decades. Enjoyable from the first, it grows in subtlety with the passage of time, delving into more serious material without losing its charm or sense of humor. Additionally, it's a delight to watch his development as an artist -- it's just amazing how much feeling he can put into the deceptive simplicity of his work!

I see that this is listed as Volume 1, so I can only hope that Volume 2 will be coming along eventually. Glenn Dakin is good company, a fine storyteller, and he'll leave you both amused & a bit wiser for the time spent with him. Highly recommended!

Excellent..........2002-12-04

This is just a great collection of comics from Glenn Dakin. It's cool to read about a cartoon character with such down to earth thoughts and feelings. If your curiosity has gotten you far enough to read this review, I would definitely recommend giving the book a shot.

Voice of Reason: Why the Left and Right Are Wrong

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The "Voice Of Reason"...
Finally, an author who isn't wedded to the left OR the right
Yay, for Ronn!
Wake me up when its all over
A lame book by a shallow thinker

Voice of Reason: Why the Left and Right Are Wrong
Ronn Owens
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 047148282X

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Voice of Reason is a breath of fresh air in today’s toxic political climate, offering a positive message in dark times: that with reason, common sense, and pragmatism, we can find common ground between all Americans–left, right, and center. If you’re sick of the hyperactive bleating of the Ann Coulters and Michael Moores, and you’re ready for a straightforward and fair discussion of today’s biggest issues, there’s only one Voice of Reason out there.

Buy it today!

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Voice of Reason shows why both the Left and the Right are to blame for America's current problems. Preoccupied with hating each other, liberals and conservatives are polarized by issues, suspicious of each other, and inflexible in their beliefs. But Voice of Reason is a breath of fresh air in today's toxic political climate. With elections coming in 2004, America needs a voice from the middle and Ronn Owens is that voice.

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The "Voice Of Reason"..........2005-08-19

...called Cindy Sheehan (and by extension all anti-war protestors) an anti-Semite on August 15,2005. Does that sound like a ...voice of reason?

Finally, an author who isn't wedded to the left OR the right.......2005-06-07

What I like most about Ronn Owens - both his book and his show - is that he analyzes both sides of an issue and comes to an independent conclusion - refreshing in this age of polarization when many people seem simply to mimic the opinions of their respective political parties. I've heard him back Republican issues and candidates; I've heard him back Democratic issues and candidates. If a centrist is a person who sorts through both sides of an issue and takes a stance regardless of party affliation, sign me up. And for what it's worth, I've met Ronn. He's an intelligent, educated man and just simply a nice guy. I admire him a great deal.

Yay, for Ronn! .......2005-01-27

Finally some common sense!

After reading some of the reviews listed here for Ronn's book I had to do one of my own. Some of the negative opinions and reviews went a bit too far! I have a feeling that most of the hostile reviews were done by a few cantankerous listeners of his radio show and I truly question whether or not they even read the book.

If you listen to his radio show or read his book, you will find he has an impact on you whether you agree with him or not.

Of course I might not be in accordance with ALL of Ronn's ideas and views, but I respect and appreciate they way he delivers them in this book and on his talk show. I highly recommend this book!

Wake me up when its all over.......2004-10-27

So, the "Voice of Reason" is clearly stating the obvious -- America and Americans should formulate their own centric ideas. So what? What's postulated here is nothing new and really provides nothing enlightening or inspirational. I was an occassional listener to his AM show when I lived in the Bay Area, and its all the same in paper mode -- you can only take small amounts of it, realise its mostly egotistical (while proclaiming not to be) and offer nothing but more confusion for befuddled Americans - particularly at a time when the country is so divided.

Is this really the best that a publisher can put out there during these times?

A lame book by a shallow thinker.......2004-07-08

I've listened to Ronn's show on and off for several years. This book is just a re-hash of comments made on his show. Ronn is not a deep thinker. He has a talent for keeping a radio show moving along but don't go to the book (or the show) for enlightenment, political or otherwise.

Wrong for the Right Reasons (Archimedes)

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Wrong for the Right Reasons (Archimedes)

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The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's point of view. We no longer think, for example, that heat is a material substance transferred from hot to cold bodies. But is wrong science always or even usually bad science? The essays in this volume argue by example that much of the past's rejected science, wrong in retrospect though it may be - and sometimes markedly so - was nevertheless sound and exemplary of enduring standards that transcend the particularities of culture and locale.

Flame retardants: is the customer always right? Brominated additives are a bete noire for OEMs trying for a green image, but perhaps for the wrong reasons. ... An article from: Plastics Engineering

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Flame retardants: is the customer always right? Brominated additives are a bete noire for OEMs trying for a green image, but perhaps for the wrong reasons. ... An article from: Plastics Engineering
Peter Mapleston
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Title: Flame retardants: is the customer always right? Brominated additives are a bete noire for OEMs trying for a green image, but perhaps for the wrong reasons. What then is the future for halogen-based flame retardants?(Original equipment manufacturers)
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Publication: Plastics Engineering (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2007
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Wrong for All the Right Reasons: How White Liberals Have Been Undone by Race

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Wrong for most of the wrong reasons

Wrong for All the Right Reasons: How White Liberals Have Been Undone by Race
Gordon Macinnes
Manufacturer: NYU Press
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ASIN: 0814755437
Release Date: 1996-02-01

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There was a time, in this century, when liberals championed the working class, when Democrats were indisputably the party of those who worked rather than invested for a living. Today, however, most Americans have come to see liberals as drifting and aimless, somehow lacking in backbone and moral fiber, beholden to radical ideologies that have little to do with the average American's life. Few incidents cast this phenomenon into greater relief than George Bush's successful tarring of Michael Dukakis as a liberal in 1988--and, tellingly, Dukakis's subsequent flight from the liberal tradition.

How has it come to this? Why have liberals allowed themselves to be so portrayed? In this book, Gordon MacInnes--state senator, fiscal conservative, frustrated Democrat, and a man who believes deeply in America's civic culture--reveals how progressive forces have retreated from the battle of ideas, at great cost. Squarely at the nexus of race, poverty, and politics, Wrong for All the Right Reasons charts the sources of liberal decline and the high costs of conservative rule.

Tracing the origins of the liberal retreat to the fall-out over Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's report on the black family in the 1960s, MacInnes claims that white liberals have somewhere along the way stopped taking black people seriously enough to argue with them. Continuously put on the desfensive, liberals have been unable to forge an aggressive, proactive agenda of that addresses the needs of working-class and poor Americans. This has led to a breakdown of honest dialogue which to this day continues to plague liberal Democrats, as evidenced by Bill Bradley's withdrawal from active party politics last fall.

Finding room for optimism in the groundswell of grass-roots progressivism, Wrong for All the Right Reasons is a timely, necessary call to arms for liberal, progressive Democrats, outlining ways in which they can reverse their party's dangerous decline.

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Wrong for most of the wrong reasons.......1998-06-16

Give contentious state Sen. Gordon MacInnes credit for tackling the country's most vexing issue head-on. But not too much credit. While his diagnosis of how race drove Democrats' fall from mid-'60s power seems basically on-target - if overly harsh toward activists and thinkers whose ideas and proposals were compromised by changing attitudes and social conditions - his prescription becomes less and less convincing as it goes on. The conclusion reveals the book to be useful primarily as an example of how even very bright people become muddled when considering the subject of race.

The first part of "Wrong" is valuable: MacInnes details every misguided move made by post-JFK liberal intellectuals and politicians: ignoring the 1965 Moynihan report, which singled out black illegitimacy as a cause of future urban unrest; accepting the McGovern handout of "specially tailored rights" for virtually everyone; moving from "clearly opposing crime and civil disorder" to " excusing black crime and rioting as an understandable reaction to a history of oppression and discrimination." But his focus is on perception, not reality, and his goal for the Democratic Party appears not so much to solve America's race problems as to convince white swing voters that Democrats care about them - not blacks. Rather than changing people's minds - in this case the admittedly narrow, even racist, views of white swing voters - he advocates sanding down the party's stances to suit those prejudices. MacInnes - from Morris County, N.J., "one of the most Republican places on earth" - is tired of minority-party status, and he's more than willing to trade longstanding Democratic ideals for the votes of resentful whites. Rather than try to convince the "radical middle" why their true home is the Democratic Party, he'd prefer to abandon its traditional electoral base and go for the swing vote.

He'd rather switch than fight.

Dubbing the word *liberal* "a political pejorative," MacInnes goes so far as to name the Democrats' race-based fol! lies "the Liberal Misadventure." The villains of his story are not African-Americans but "the liberals who obligingly shut up about ghetto problems, who patronized the ideas of vocal blacks solely because of their color." After the 1964 presidential election, in which all but a handful of African-Americans deserted the GOP, liberals began focusing on the interests of its least empowered; it became "the party of the poor, the dispossessed, the homeless, the disabled." Therefore, since 1964, the Democratic Party has steadily lost "the votes of white suburbanites." And, MacInnes says, it can't have both. "If . . . progressives emphasize bailing out society's most troubled members," he writes, "they squander the chance to incorporate increasingly anxious working- and middle-class white Americans into the coalition."

Here he moves toward - but never reaches - the Democrats' real coalition-building problem: Since segregationist Dixiecrats left the party after 1964, Democrats have never effectively made the case that the interests of black ghetto-dwellers and the white middle class have much in common, while Republicans have done all they can to drive a wedge between the two. "Before they can rebuild a political majority, progressives must both shore up their coalition and come up with an answer to restoring the American dream," MacInnes writes. But he proposes abandoning, not "shoring up," the Democrats' most reliable voters.

Throughout "Wrong for All the Right Reasons," MacInnes doesn't seem to sense the disconnect between his beliefs and his realpolitik political instincts. "No matter what terms are used, politically it makes sense to emphasize equal opportunity and integration," he writes. He understands full well, though, that this rhetoric is to be meant only theoretically: "Make no mistake: as soon as someone proposes specific ways and means for the ideals of equal opportunity and integration to come alive for black Americans, white American enthusiasm flags, quickly and precipitously." So here's what ! MacInnes appears to be recommending: As Republicans have always done, make appropriate "equal opportunity" noises but don't actually *do* anything about it, lest white Americans run screaming.

And yet, for a moderate Democrat in an anti-affirmative-action era, MacInnes is surprisingly wishy-washy on the topic, trying to have it both ways. He insists that remedial programs should be organized around "misfortune, disadvantage, and poverty . . . not race or ethnicity." "Progressives," he writes, "must be clear about the implications of race preferences: they so strongly counter the fundamental beliefs of American society that they should be opposed" - but here's the catch - "except in cases of persistent discrimination where temporary preferences are the only solution."

In the end, MacInnes actually advocates government involvement in private business. "Employers should be required to demonstrate that they had included women and minority candidates in their search, and that there are acceptable explanations for disproportionately low representation." This, Senator, is called affirmative action. And for employers who fall short? "Court-administered quota plans appear to be the only remedy," writes MacInnes, who angrily rejects the term "liberal" but apparently has no problem with "quotas."

What lessons should the Left take from "Wrong"? For the benefit of white Americans, speak to blacks in harsh tones, criticize them, make it clear that Democrats don't need them. But continue everything pretty much as before. Actually, it's unclear whether MacInnes is advocating the misleading of white Americans as to the Democratic Party's beliefs - which ill serves the cause of open debate - or advocating the jettisoning of its least empowered voters. Maybe both. Either way, his naked pandering for the votes of Perotistas doesn't speak well for the cause of sticking by one's beliefs. And remarks like "Democrats do not need to prove again that they care about poor people" bespeak a callousness that is antithetical to t! he only major political party that does in fact care about poor people (if only erratically).

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Title: Doing the right thing for the wrong reason.(Executive Essay)
Author: Gregory Smith
Publication: Mortgage Banking (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2004
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Soul survival: is "the new neuromorality" a threat to traditional views of right and wrong?: An article from: Reason

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Soul survival: is "the new neuromorality" a threat to traditional views of right and wrong?: An article from: Reason
Cathy Young
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Title: Soul survival: is "the new neuromorality" a threat to traditional views of right and wrong?
Author: Cathy Young
Publication: Reason (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2005
Publisher: Reason Foundation
Volume: 37 Issue: 4 Page: 18(2)

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The other side: Or, some reasons against the removal of an ancient landmark ; The other side -- no. II : or, "The right side" shown to be the wrong one

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The other side: Or, some reasons against the removal of an ancient landmark ; The other side -- no. II : or, "The right side" shown to be the wrong one
George Duffield
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Repeal the "Civil Wrongs Bill" for biblical reasons

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Repeal the "Civil Wrongs Bill" for biblical reasons
Carl McIntire
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Welfare reform: The right choice for the wrong reasons

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Welfare reform: The right choice for the wrong reasons
Anita M Bock
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