Check out our NLM Exhibit Print Book Display!
Academic textbooks, graphic novels, popular nonfiction, and more--we've got something for EVERYONE. It wasn't hard to fill this display with resources that "fit" the NLM exhibition theme. Check back because as soon as one book leaves the display, we've got many more interesting titles to take its place! Oh, and don't forget to help yourself to a MedlinePlus bookmark or a healthy piece of swag while you browse.
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Wellness Around the World: an International Encyclopedia of Health Indicators, Practices, and Issues [2 Volumes]
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ISBN: 9781440866791Publication Date: 2022This two-volume set introduces student and general interest readers to global and cross-cultural health studies. Its profiles of 195 countries utilize a standardized format to examine the common factors that contribute to a nation's well-being, such as healthcare infrastructure, prevalent diseases and conditions, and diet and nutrition, while also touching on particular issues and concerns unique to each country
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Gale eBooks
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MedlinePlus Consumer Health
MedlinePlus is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) consumer health web portal. It contains reputable information on health topics, medical tests, drugs and supplements, genetics, the latest medical news, and more in a variety of reading levels and languages, including Spanish. Its medical encyclopedia contains images and videos. It can be linked to EHRs (Electronic Health Records) and should be the first stop when seeking health information on the internet.
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Medscape ReferenceAn online clinical reference providing in-depth drug & disease information and tools to support clinical decision making. Content is designed for practicing medical professionals and includes diagnostic medical images. Free Registration to MedScape is required. To go straight to an entry in this resource, try Googling the word emedicine and your disease/condition (i.e. emedicine pneumonia)
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Merriam-Webster Online Medical DictionaryA medical dictionary that includes audio pronunciations
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Micromedex
Micromedex is an evidence-based, multi-database drug search engine that provides summary and in-depth information for drugs (both prescription and over-the-counter products), diseases, toxicology, and alternative medicine. Its clinical tools include IV compatibility, drug identification, drug interactions, drug comparisons, and clinical calculators.
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PubMed - National Library of Medicine
The PubMed database, freely available via the Internet, provides citations and abstracts to articles in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the pre-clinical sciences; it also indexes articles from the Index to Dental Literature and the International Nursing Index. PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine. Citations may include links to full-text articles from PubMed Central or publisher websites.
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Select Print Titles
Comparative Health Systems a Global Perspective
Global health policy, administration, and practice continue to evolve while countries throughout the world seek to balance their economic and health goals through health system reform, improvement, and modification.
Women and Health: global lives in focus
This volume on global women's health provides a broad overview of many conditions that impact women's health, including social and economic inequities and examples of health advocacy.
Good Intentions in Global Health
Explores informal global health action and the importance of intentions of those who volunteer.
Global Health: ethical challenges
the book outlines how progress towards improving global health relies on understanding its core social, economic, political, environmental and ideological aspects.
A History of the World in Six Plagues
Based on in-depth research and cultural analysis, Bonhomme explores Cholera, HIV/AIDS, the Spanish Flu, Sleeping Sickness, Ebola, and COVID-19 amidst the backdrop of unequal public policy.
Wellness Around the World: an International Encyclopedia of Health Indicators, Practices, and Issues [2 Volumes]
This two-volume set introduces student and general interest readers to global and cross-cultural health studies. Its profiles of 195 countries utilize a standardized format to examine the common factors that contribute to a nation's well-being, such as healthcare infrastructure, prevalent diseases and conditions, and diet and nutrition, while also touching on particular issues and concerns unique to each country
Slow Burn:the hidden costs of a warming world
How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun--from lower test scores to higher crime rates--and how we might tackle them today
Living with Climate Change
Living with Climate Change contains different topics on how to adapt to global warming. The book also examines the root causes of global warming. R
Medicine: a graphic history
Spanning centuries and crossing continents, this fast-paced and yet rigorously detailed graphic novel guides us through one of the most wondrous strands of human history, covering everything from blood-letting to organ donation, x-rays to prosthetics.