Books in the Commonwealth Fund Publications series

Magnesium and Man provides the physician with a brief yet comprehensive overview of magnesium as a biochemical agent in human metabolism and disease. The first half of the book introduces techniques of measurement as well as the role of magnesium in normal biochemistry and physiology. The remaining chapters discuss magnesium squarely in the context of human disease: neonatal deficiency, thyroid disease, kidney disease, malignant osteolytic disease, alcoholism, and cirrhosis.

No detailed description available for "Insanity and Idiocy in Massachusetts".

No detailed description available for "Genetic Basis of Morphological Variation".

This volume brings together two previously unpublished works by the late George Scatchard. One of the most eminent physical chemists of this century, Scatchard, in collaboration with Edwin Cohn, had enormous influence on the development of protein chemistry

No detailed description available for "Thinking and Psychotherapy".

This book was undertaken at the persistent urging of colleagues who seemed to feel that the evolution of educational research, development, and teacher training efforts in medicine was a story that should be told before my memory and my files fell victim to the inevitable deterioration that accompanies the lengthening years.

No detailed description available for "The Training of Good Physicians".

No detailed description available for "Resistance to Tuberculosis".

No detailed description available for "Prothrombin".

No detailed description available for "Mental Health in the United States".

No detailed description available for "Currents in American Medicine".

No detailed description available for "Psychological Appraisal of Children with Cerebral Defects".

No detailed description available for "Teaching and Learning in Medical School".

No detailed description available for "The Student-Physician".

This book provides an overall view of mental health promotion--its underlying theory, typical practice, and problems of evaluation. Each of the papers focuses from its own vantage point on current efforts to maintain the mental health of all at an optimum level on a community-wide basis.

No detailed description available for "Poverty and Health".

No detailed description available for "Functional Endocrinology from Birth through Adolescence".

No detailed description available for "Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry".

Majno pieces together the difficulties people faced in the effort to survive injury, as well as the odd, chilling, or inspiring ways in which they rose to the challenge. In asking whether early healers benefited their patients or only hastened their demise, Majno uncovered surprising answers by testing ancient prescriptions in a modern lab.

Waiting lists in psychiatric clinics and increasing numbers of patients in long-term psychotherapy have highlighted the need for shorter methods of treatment. Existing forms of short-term psychotherapy tend to be vague and uncertain, lacking as they do a clearly formulated rationale and methodology.

For this volume Gil examines and interprets a series of nationwide studies of child abuse that were initiated in 1965 in an attempt to unravel the context of social and cultural forces with which violent behavior against children is associated. With an approach that is epidemiologic, social, and cultural, rather than clinical and psychological, he compiles findings from press and public-opinion surveys, from analyses of nearly 13,000 incidents of child abuse reported through legal channels across the country during 1967 and 1968, and from a comprehensive study of more than 1300 incidents reported in a representative sample of cities and counties.

No detailed description available for "Hunterdon Medical Center".

No detailed description available for "Longitudinal Studies of Child Personality".

No detailed description available for "Visual Field Defects after Penetrating Missile Wounds of the Brain".

No detailed description available for "Teaching Comprehensive Medical Care".

No detailed description available for "The Envelope".