Medicine for Consumers provides students with an overview of the world of medicine with special emphasis on topics that are important to patients and consumers.

In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular — and largely unexamined — idea that in order to get good health care, people

The essential guide by one of America's leading doctors to how digital technology enables all of us to take charge of our health A trip to the doctor is almost

Today, being a health consumer encompasses more than being knowledgeable about traditional medicine and health practice but also includes the necessity to be we