Product Description: Stress and Developmental Programming of Health and Disease: Beyond Phenomenology (Public Health in the 21st Century)

Product Description: During the mid- to late-twentieth century, study of the physiology of the developing fetus and newborn infant evolved rapidly to become a major discipline in the biomedical sciences. Initially of interest from a standpoint of function of the placenta and oxygenation of the fetus, the field advanced to explore both normal functional mechanisms as well as pathophysiologic aspects of their regulation...read more

Product Description: "Our Lords, the Sick" comprises eighteen essays in medical humanism, the history of medicine, and health care delivery. They are the John P. McGovern Lectures to the American Osler Society during the past two decades. Each of the essays, given by eminent physicians, historians, and educators, are timeless in their relevance to medicine and health care delivery...read more

Product Description: Amongst the many scientific developments that have led to the modern practice of obstetrics and gynaecology, a relatively small number of original insights, discoveries and clinical observations stand out as having had an unique importance and seminal influence...read more