The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook: Third Home Edition

by Robert S. Porter (Editor)

This comprehensive medical resource, The Merck Manual - - Third Home Edition , extensively covers health care for newborns, the elderly, and everyone in between.  The new Third Home Edition provides the same authoritative information doctors have relied on in The Merck Manual, for more than a century, in easy-to-understand, everyday language.  Previous editions have sold more than 3 million copies. Written by more than 200 internationally respected medical experts, this new edition of the world's bestselling reference presents in-depth information for medical situations, including:

Aging

Gynecological Disorders

Heart disease

Digestive disorders

Cancer

Nutrition problems

AIDS

Hormonal problems

Infections and immunizations

Neurological Disorders

Pediatric Disorders

Men's, women's and children's health issues

Mental health disorders

Accidents and injuries

Care for the dying

 

And much more...

Genres: Medicine, Reference, Health

2500 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Robert S. Porter earned his MD from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, PA and completed an Emergency Medicine residency at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland, OH. Since 1983, he has held a variety of clinical and teaching appointments in the Philadelphia area, most recently at Albert Einstein Medical Center and Thomas Jefferson University. He recently retired from Merck, where he had been editor-in-chief of The Merck Manuals.

Reviews

[Julia Rojas]

This book is a good health book. It has a lot of information about first aid, health problems, and other things. It has a lot of big words in it. This book does not get five stars because the book had too many chapters in it.