The American Medical Association Family Medical Guide (American Medical Association Home Health Library)

Kunz, Jeffrey R. M. (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0394510151 / ISBN 13: 9780394510156

Published by Random House, New York, 1982

About this Item

831 pp. Third printing. Remainder stamp on the lower page edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.

Seller Inventory # 040712

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The American Medical Association Family Medical Guide (American Medical Association Home Health Library)
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394510151
• ISBN 13: 9780394510156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Provides clear, detailed guidelines for evaluating family members' physical and mental conditions, approximately one hundred self-diagnosis symptom charts, more than 650 illustrated articles on minor and major diseases, and guidelines for home nursing

From the Inside Flap

first published in 1982, The American Medical Association Family Medical Guide set a new standard for depth, authority, and accessibility. The completely updated and expanded third edition of this landmark guide brings this bestselling medical home reference into the nineties. It is simply the most useful, comprehensive home health reference ever published, brought to you by the nation's most respected medical authority.

This lavishly illustrated volume, prepared by a a team of over forty distinguished medical authorities under the direction of the American Medical Association, incorporates the most significant trend in health care: wellness and preventive medicine. It covers the sweeping revolution in technology and puts more emphasis on the reader as a health-care consumer. It also updates the information on the most prominent health issues of the nineties, including Alzheimer's disease, AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome, stress, death and dying, drug abuse, and more.
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