Subjects:  1. Medical / Nursing    2. Neurosurgery    3. Surgery - Neurosurgery   

Subjects:  1. Cervical Vertebrae    2. Emergency Medicine    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Orthopedic Surgery    6. Orthopedics    7. Spinal Cord Injuries    8. Spinal Injuries    9. Spinal cord    10. Treatment Of Wounds And Injuries    11. Wounds and injuries    12. Medical / Orthopedics    13. Neurosurgery    14. Orthopaedics & fractures    15. Trauma & shock   

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A candid and highly intelligent account of personal growth
This memoir recounts the personal evolution of a highly accomplished professor of literature forced to confront a debilitating health crisis involving her back.As a result she questions the path she has taken in life, examining with relentless candor her own past.At the same time, her obsession with a nineteenth century literary figure, Constance Fenimore Woolson, leads her on an unpredictable and surprising course of speculation on matters of spirituality, feminism, and personal psychology.The author's intelligence, humor, determination, and sheer literary skill take this memoir well beyond the usual inspirational new age stuff, and the result is a fine meditation on the coming together of many forces that refocus and redefine her sense of self. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biographers    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. English teachers    7. General    8. Patients    9. Spinal cord    10. United States    11. Weimer, Joan Myers    12. Women    13. Wounds and injuries    14. Biography & Autobiography / Women    15. Biography: general    16. Woolson, Constance Fenimore   

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An important, basic, and comprehensive reference work.
Dawn Matthews edits Rehabilitation Sourcebook which covers important basic details on various kinds of rehabilitation, from recovery from heart surgery or stroke to spinal cord injury. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health/Fitness    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Medical rehabilitation    6. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation    7. Popular works    8. Reference    9. Rehabilitation Therapy   

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Neurology - General    4. Orthopedics    5. Pharmacology    6. Spinal Cord Diseases    7. Spinal Cord Injuries    8. Spinal cord    9. Surgery - General    10. Wounds and injuries    11. Clinical & Internal Medicine    12. Surgery   

Subjects:  1. Costs Of Health Care    2. Economic aspects    3. Epidemiology    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Orthopedics    7. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation    8. Public Health    9. Social aspects    10. Spinal cord    11. United States    12. Wounds and injuries    13. Health systems & services   

Subjects:  1. Medical / Nursing    2. Neurology (Specific Aspects)    3. Neuroscience    4. Science/Mathematics   

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Physical Therapy    2. Case studies    3. Health & Fitness    4. Health/Fitness    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Neurology - General    7. Neuroscience    8. Physical Impairments    9. Psychological aspects    10. Social aspects    11. Spinal cord    12. Wounds and injuries    13. Coping with disability    14. Health systems & services    15. Orthopaedics & fractures   

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Good in Idea but Not in Execution
As a New Mexico resident and a lover of the desert, I had high hopes for this book when I plucked it off a shelf and bought it based on the description on back.Clearly the author's story is poignant and inspiring, but that really gets lost in barely mediocre writing.Swander grossly minimizes details related to New Mexico and its cultures, and she does the same with her descriptions of mystical figures and religion, and these sort of bald descriptions & generalizations really weaken the power of the story and her credibility as a writer.This propensity also makes the story feel unfocused and unguided.The book just doesn't read very authentically.I wish I had a different experience reading it, but I didn't.

Meaningful and Inspiring
Swander does some important legwork for everyone who has suffered chronic illness and/or pain and wondered why, why, why, and how can I be healed ?! A Healing Journey
In The Desert Pilgrim, Iowan Mary Swander shares her journey from debilitating illness to physical and spiritual healing with the help of an Orthodox monk and an herbal healer in an Albuquerque barrio. Swander doesn't exaggerate the extent of her recovery or the power of her regained faith, yet there is no doubt she has been transformed by this experience and by the wisdom and generosity of Lu and Father Sergei. Swander's writing is clear and accessible, and her story is an inspiration. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Christianity - Christian Life - General    4. Comparative Religion    5. Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)    6. Mysticism    7. Patients    8. Religion    9. Religion And Medicine    10. Specific Groups - General    11. Spinal cord    12. Spiritual biography    13. Spiritual life    14. Swander, Mary    15. United States    16. Wounds and injuries    17. Biography & Autobiography / General   

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Evergreen (un libro que no envejecerá)
The Human Brain and Spinal Cord es un libro que nunca deber� retirar por obsoleto del armario de la oficina. Sus descripciones anat�micas del sistema nervioso central son materia superlativa.Read more

Subjects:  1. History    2. Human Central Nervous System Function    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Nervous System    5. Neurology    6. Neuroscience    7. Neurosciences    8. Reference   

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Subjects:  1. Emergency Medicine    2. General    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Neurology - General    6. Neuroscience    7. Medical / Neuroscience    8. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    9. Neurosurgery    10. Reference works    11. SPINAL CORD   

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The "Best Disability Read" for consumers & professionals
For consumers who have succeeded for decades in living with their disability, "Spinal Network" has earned its reputation as a survival reference; for those who are coping with disability as a new lifestyle, SN provides coping strategies as well as time-proven resources for becoming independent and living each day to the max; for professionals and the curious community, SN provides the most grounded and accurate portrait of active people who have declared their disability an asset.Having survived my disability for 35 years, I can say with confidence -- for everyone -- that SN is the "Best Disability Read" available anywhere!Buy it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Disability    2. Diseases - Musculoskeletal    3. Health & Fitness    4. Health & Fitness / Diseases / Musculoskeletal    5. Health & Fitness / Reference    6. Injuries    7. Personal & Practical Guides    8. Reference    9. Reference / Personal & Practical Guides    10. Spinal cord   

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Invaluable resource
This book was developed from the proceedings of the first major professional symposium of aging with a spinal cord injury (held in Denverin 1991).The content is very comprehensive and focuses on different bodysystems and how normal aging of these systems effects the person with SCI,and how SCI may modify the aging process.While this book was published anumber of years ago, it contains most of the research to date, and is basedon collaborative data from major SCI centers in both the USA and England. While heavily focused on the medical model, it can be a valuable resourcefor both professionals working with people with SCI as well as those withSCI and their families. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Age factors    2. Aging    3. Diseases Of Cranial And Spinal Nerves    4. Geriatrics    5. Health/Fitness    6. Older people with disabilities    7. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation    8. Physiological aspects    9. Politics - Current Events    10. Politics / Current Events    11. Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare    12. Spinal cord    13. Wounds and injuries    14. Diseases & disorders    15. Geriatric medicine    16. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    17. Neurosurgery   

Subjects:  1. Anatomy    2. Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Pharmacology    5. Science    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Surgery - Neurosurgery    8. Medical / Surgery / Neurosurgery    9. Orthopaedics & fractures    10. evoked potentials    11. spinal cord    12. spinal cord evoked potentials    13. spinal cord surgery   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Inspirational    3. Motivational & Inspirational    4. Self-Help    5. Biography & Autobiography-General    6. Self-Help & Practical Interests    7. Self-Help / General    8. Self-Help / Motivational    9. Spinal cord    10. Wounds and injuries   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Neurology - General    5. Neuroscience    6. Research    7. Spinal Cord Injuries    8. Spinal cord    9. United States    10. Wounds and injuries    11. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology   

Subjects:  1. Children's 9-12 - Science    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    3. Juvenile Nonfiction    4. Science & Nature - General    5. Spinal cord    6. Science: General Issues   

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An Excellent Text
If you have been dabbling in cognitive psychology and brain science, have found it interesting and are looking for a broad yet in-depth treatment then this book will not dissapoint you.It approaches Neuroscience from every possible angle: you will learn about the anatomy and physiology of the brain and how it produces, controls and mediates the sensory, motor and emotional functions that underlie human experience.The layout of the text is logical, it uses great pedagogical tools, and the writing is concise and informative (if a little dry).Highly recommended as a first textbook for serious study.

A Brief Review of "Neuroscience"
I just finished using this book for an undergradutate Neurobiology class at Harvard University, and found it to be very informative. It has a number of diagrams and illustrations, and clearly describes various aspects of neuroscience in great detail,but in a comprehensive manor. I recommend it to anyone pursuing a career in neuroscience.

Not a definitive resource
This book has had praise heaped upon it by previous reviewers.I'd like to put that in perspective.As an undergraduate text or a general encyclopedic reference for the unitiated, this book is reasonably comprehensive and contains substantial high-quality illustrations.However as a reference for more advanced students, there is insufficient detail to motivate serious discussion.I find "Principles of Neural Science" by Kandel, Schwartz, and Jessell far more useful despite being a year older than Bear, et al.If the goal is to lift artwork for a pleasingly graphical PowerPoint presentation, this book is a fantastic resource, but if you want more than jargon and an introduction to the topic (albeit comprehensive), I'd look elsewhere. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Brain    2. Diseases - Brain    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Neurobiology    6. Neuroscience    7. Neurosciences    8. Spinal cord    9. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology   

Subjects:  1. Reference / General   

Subjects:  1. Reference / General