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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first 'immortal' human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
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Language
English
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Physical is the story of a hard living, happily married, middle-aged American (the author) who gets a three-day "executive checkup" at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality, not to mention glove-wearing doctors and the pair of dominatrix-esque technicians who supervise his stress test quite strictly. James McManus must understand his revised actuarial odds in the light of his not-so-long-lived forebears and the fact that...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 114 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Extraordinary changes are taking place in American medicine today. Driven by new scientific evidence, doctors are coming to understand that treating the body alone is not enough; the mind can also play a critical role in the healing process. Many physicians are embracing a more holistic form of healthcare, seeking to heal the whole person. Treatments once considered fringe, including visualization, meditation and hypnosis, are being prescribed alongside...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 102 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This visually lush documentary travels 10,000 miles throught India, Greece, and the U.S. to accompany practitioners of Ayurveda - probably the oldest continually practiced holistic healthcare system in the world.
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Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"In turn heartbreaking, irreverent, moving and at times raucously humorous; one of the nation's leading pediatric researchers recounts his first years as a newly minted, stuggling, and insecure doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. A graduate of a state university medical school, Scott Rivkees was competing with elite students from some of the most prestigious schools in the country. Nervous and uncertain, he worked unholy hours with...
8) The doctors Blackwell: how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women--and women to medicine
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Language
English
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Description
"The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity won her the acceptance of the all-male...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1846, a young surgeon, J. Marion Sims ("The Father of Gynecology"), began several years of experimental surgeries on a young enslaved woman known as Anarcha ("The Mother of Gynecology"). This series of procedures--performed without anesthesia and resulting in Anarcha's so-called "cure"-- forever altered the path of women's health. Despite brutal practices and failed techniques, Sims proclaimed himself the curer of obstetric fistula, a horrific...
12) Coyote medicine
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
299 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
15) The doctors
Author
Publisher
Watts
Pub. Date
1968
Physical Desc
47 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
16) The doctor
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Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Explore the life of a colonial doctor and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It tells the true story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line.
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