Dermatology Books

it has not been the three months that ittakes, but i am pretty confident, that putting the information in this book, to use, and doing exactly as the books says, even for a month, that it will, help to preserve, and perhaps restore, scalp and hair health. Like any other health program, you have to stick to it, and apply what the book instructs, daily, as it says. Half hearted efforts, wont even get you, a quarter of improvement. i'm glad i found this book, and hating everybody i know, for not telling me these thngs.

I found this book very informative and interesting. I dont have hair loss issues but I have had dandruff for years and wanted information on how to treat it naturally. So far I have not tried her recipes to clear my scalp, I dont yet have all the ingredients,but I definitely plan to.

This book is comprehensive in its instructional and informative qualities. It covers everything from diet to massage to shampoos to brushing and beyond. While i didn't find every single step particularly helpful, overall i did benefit by gaining an understanding and appreciation for hair health. The shampoos if found don't rinse out particularly well, but much of the other advice is defintely worth a look. Good buy for someone looking to improve their hair quality.

I bought this book for my sister since she's been loosing hair, she wanted to try the concoction. The list of ingredients are quite hard to find, but I manage to buy them all for my sister to try, every single ingredients is available on E-bay, so far I spent $55.00
Castor oil, white/decolorized iodine, fuller's earth, neutral henna,nettle, orris root (powder), Arrow root (powder), dried horsetail, dried chapparal, Black Indian Hemp (seller in E-bay paulaw4472 )- I'm not getting any monetary gain from those people, it's just that the ingredient is so hard to find they are the one I found selling it.
For the oil I decided to buy the pure oil (lemon, lavender, rosemary, peppermint, basil).
Last point, Try buying from the same seller to get a shipping discount.

I'm not sure if it's effective my sister is yet to try. I hope this helps.
for the white iodine buy from tampadavedeals in e-bay and mention that you saw it at this website for [...]off. [...]

This book focuses on removing residues that may be impacting your hair's growth. Much of it focuses on VERY involved processes and ingredients for creating home-made hair care products. Expect to spend many hours a week preparing the concoctions. It may help for general hair loss.

I am a 31-yr-old female experiencing androgenic alopecia and was disappointed to find no reference to treating the hormonal causes of this problem.

I am Asian and I am relieved that I found this book. Most of the stuff out there on skincare is catered towards women of European descent- not to say that is bad, but I've always wondered about the differences between ethnic skin and European skin, and this book explains just that. Not to mention that this book also tells me how my skin might react to different skin treatments, which is helpful. I even spotlighted this book in my blog. Always remember to Indulge Thyself.

I have not yet completed reading this book however, it is filled with lots of information for skin of color. I would recommend this book to others. The price was great and the condition of the book is excellent. I would like to be able to contact the physicians that authored the book so if anyone knows how to contact them please let me know.

Total garbage. Doesn't tell you anything you can't find on the net. Don't even waste your money.

I enjoy reading books to help improve my skills as an up and coming makeup artist. This book came highly recommended at a recent event and I had the opportunity to meet the author. Great book for those interested in improving their daily regimen of cleaning their skin and covering skin flaws.

This is an excellent resource for learning about skin of color. It provides detailed information for almost any skin condition i.e. causes of skin disorders, remedies, length of expected results, product names for over-the-counter and prescription medicine, average cost of cosmetic procedures and side effects. As an African-American, I was amazed to learn facts about the specifics of my skin, like, laser skin resurfacing treatment is not recommended for keloid-proned skin and microdermabrasion is a gentler and safer treatment because layers of the skin are not rubbed off and no anesthetic is needed. Because the skin is gently "blasted" with particles during microdermabrasion, it can help fade dark marks with the use of hydroquinone products because this agent can seep deeper into the skin after dead skin has been removed. Included in this book is basic information that we all should know, especially about drinking plenty of water to hydrate the skin and using a humidifier to add moisture to the air. However, after reading this book, I was better informed about various skin conditions and how to treat my skin. The book contains information regarding acne, dry skin, botox, chemical peels, wrinkle fillers, cysts, dark circles, facial hair, sun protection (which is highly suggested throughout the book), stretch marks, hair loss, moles, laser treatments and tons of other skin conditions. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone searching for facts regarding delicate skin of color.

This is a book from someone who has traveled the route with his wife to learn about scleroderma and to obtain quality medical care and necessary assistance. Many avenues they traveled are shared in detail. The author clearly wrote this book in an aim to assist others taking the same path he, his wife and his family were forced to endure.

Read the last chapter of this book first!

Although Mike wrote this book for those affected by scleroderma, it is a very practical guide that would be of great benefit to anyone dealing with a chronic or severe illness.

The book presumes that the reader has a certain level of knowledge about the various types of scleroderma. It is not a book about scleroderma symptoms or treatments (see Dr. Mayes' book for that), but rather deals on a higher level of how to successfully navigate the complex world of healthcare, health insurance, and Internet healthcare resources.

Mike truly saved the best for last in this book, by sharing his no-holds-barred, gripping and searing story of his family's nearly unbearable struggle with scleroderma. Online we sometimes joke about "Kleenex alerts". This story goes far beyond a mere Kleenex alert; Mike unerringly strikes to the heart and soul of the depths of pain and the heights of love experienced by any family coping with a fatal illness.

If you think you already know how to navigate healthcare, insurance and the Internet, get this book anyway, and read the last chapter. That alone, I guarantee you, will be worth it's weight in gold.

I got this book for my mother who was diagnosed with scleroderma 5 months ago. It answered questions that we hadn't even thought of yet. The chapters on finding the right doctor and getting information on the Internet were the best. This is a great resource.

I found this book completely useless, although I suppose it may be helpful to U.S. patients. It seemed to me to be a catharsis for the writer, nothing else. As a patient suffering from scleroderma, I wasted my money, and the book ended up in the garbage after I had looked through it. I think it should be made clear that this is not helpful to patients or their families living outside the U.S.

As webmaster of Scleroderma from A to Z ..., I highly recommend this book for people affected by scleroderma, but with one caveat:

Read the last chapter of this book first!

Although Mike wrote this book for those affected by scleroderma, it is a very practical guide that would be of great benefit to anyone dealing with a chronic or severe illness.

The book presumes that the reader has a certain level of knowledge about the various types of scleroderma. It is not a book about scleroderma symptoms or treatments (see Dr. Mayes' book for that), but rather deals on a higher level of how to successfully navigate the complex world of healthcare, health insurance, and Internet healthcare resources.

Mike truly saved the best for last in this book, by sharing his no-holds-barred, gripping and searing story of his family's nearly unbearable struggle with systemic scleroderma. Online we sometimes joke about "Kleenex alerts". Mike's story goes far beyond a mere Kleenex alert; with brazen honesty, he unerringly strikes to the heart and soul of the depths of pain and the heights of love experienced by any family coping with a fatal illness.

If you think you already know how to navigate healthcare, insurance and the Internet, get this book anyway, and read the last chapter. That alone, I guarantee you, will be worth it's weight in gold.

This is the text book for the "A Day of Brows" course provided by Grace Albert Aesthetics formerly Adriel Eyebrow Design. This book is a Must Have for all Estheticians and Makeup Artists.

This book was a huge disappointment. It was very basic and very vague. For example, it would tell you to shape the brow to make their face look longer or shorter, but it wouldn't tell you how to shape the brow in order to do that. All the pictures were small, in black and white, and it was hard to see any detail. I kept on reading on, hoping that I was going to get to the good stuff, but the good stuff never came. I truly felt like I learned nothing and it was supposed to be an instructional book. A waste of money. I was debating returning it, but it doesn't seem worth it to go to the post office and have to pay for shipping it back.

This eyebrow book is the best educational
material on the market.
After you have read the book do your career a favor and
take the test provided with the book.
I personally learned so much from this book and I am a
professional in the field of Permanent Makeup. In my opinion
this is a must read book for anyone in the field of makeup.
This is a book you'll keep in your personal library for years to come.
All we can do for now is wait for the next book from this talented author.

I don't understand the reviewer who said that this book is vague. If anything, it contains a level of instruction that is far more detailed than most ordinary people need or want. That's not a criticism. The book is very useful for a layperson, but it is written for a professional in training. It is a textbook on the eyebrow, complete with chapter quizzes, published by an educational publisher. Yes, it might be nice to see color rather than black-and-white photographs, but most cosmetology students are not well-off and using color photos in a textbook increases the price to students. This book is unique. Instead of relying on simple formulae and photos of famous women as some other brow books do, Bush treats the perfect eyebrow as a thing that is unique to each individual. Their other facial features and their goals for their facial appearance determine the direction that their brow-shaping should take. Extremely detailed how-to instructions are included, but to use them it is helpful to read all of the chapters in order. Using the book effectively demands more patience and attentiveness from the reader than does a simpler approach, but if you can do that, then you will learn much more than with any other book on this topic. It will be most useful to someone working in one of the aesthetic occupations (e.g., makeup artist, tatoo artist) who needs to create the ideal eyebrow for a variety of individuals. But it's not expensive, so even if yours are the only brows you will ever shape, it's an unbeatable investment in a truly useful beauty tool.

This book is great for understanding how to shape a brow that best suits your face. I believe it is intended for use as a text book in cosmetology and esthetics courses, but it provides great in-depth information for styling your brows. If you're seriously interested in learning what styles and shapes suit your face type this is the book for you. I was thourougly satisfied.

Please take the review by the National Pediculosis Association with a large grain of salt. This is an organization that is at odds with all of the major medical organizations regarding the treatment of lice, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Centers for Disease Control, to name a few. The NPA discourages the use of all lice products except nit-picking using one particular comb, which they sell. All of the research they refer to on their website dates from the early 1900's. They do not list their own credentials, or even their names, so I suspect that they have no medical or research credentials at all. It would appear that the NPA is an authority on lice in the same way the Flat Earth Society is an authority on the shape of the planet!

After a harrowing ordeal of relentless combing and spending big bucks on commercial products, i broke down and bought this book. since following the olive oil regime, my kids have been lice and nit free, while to date, my neighbor is still nitpicking and washing bedding. Good humor, good advice. Buy it, use it and urge your school nurse to read it.

I have found this book to be very helpful in combating head lice. There is not a great deal of hard information out there, and that makes lice eradication so frustrating! Another thing that I like about this book is its calm, reassuring attitude: You WILL live through this, and you will conquer! A necessity for parents of school-age kids

I found this book to be very helpful in outling the process for eliminating headlice. The section describing the life cycle of lice from nit to mature, egg-producing louse was very helpful in making clear why nit picking and reapplication of treatment is necessary. My children have had lice 4 times and each time have been able to clear up the problem before it got out of hand. Daily manual nit picking (not relying on nit combs) I have found is the only way to produce a successful result.

The only concern I have with the book is the advise to leave the treatment on the hair longer than the manufacturer's recommendation of 10 minutes. When using such potent chemicals, I think it is wise to follow the manufacturer's instructions carefully and not overdo. Longer is not necessarily better and may actually be harmful.

The National Pediculosis Association critiqued this book, giving it two thumbs down. The book contradicts its own directives and authorizes the use of chemicals in ways that fly in the face of approved indications by the Food and Drug Administration. Such misuse of pesticidal products can pose health risks to children. References are made to scientists David Taplin and Terri Meinking to falsely imply their approval of the contents of the book. The National Pediculosis Association has requested that this book be pulled from the market. It is the NPA's opinion that the misinformation imparted by this book has added to the unnecessary confusion surrounding this public health problem. The NPA has also received many complaints about the book from school nurses.

A complete, up-to-date textbook for medical students detailing everything needed to pass medicine exams feeling confident. The diagrams and at-a-glance sections are particularly helpful. There are more detailed books, but this covers everything necessary (and more) and what it does, it does well. Could be used either as a standard text or as a revision guide, due to the at-a-glance features. Easy to read and attractively laid out - this is a nice all-round medical textbook.

This book goes through the different chapters in medicine in a clear and thorough way, including anatomy, physiology, clinical topics and treatments. This book is even READABLE (unlike a lot of medical reference books) because of well spaced text, plenty of clear diagrams and pictures. Great for students or for a quick rehearsal, though a bit limited for practicing clinicians.

I've used this book for a year, but am currently looking for another book on internal medicine. I found the information in this book too shallow. Most of the chapters I read, I felt I got too little information about pathology and treatment, so I often had to look up in other books to fill out the blanks. I'm a person that has to understand what I read in order to learn it well. Nice charts are not enough. I was disappointed about this book, and I know many of my fellow students were too.

very clear diagrams, well set out, good pictures and "At A Glance" boxes make exam revision very easy. Highly recommend to any clinical student as a text or exam revision. Better than Kumar & Clark.

As a med student buying this book has saved me a lot of money, its the only medical reference to have lots of pictures, which is what you need especially for Derm & Ophth. No need to buy a picture book. "At A Glances" are brilliant!Highly recommended, its cheap too, as far as medical books go.

This is nicely written, not wordy or loaded with polysci jargon. She reviews national events, mostly political, and how the media covered or created them.

It is rather painful but enlightening to see how some of the "what everybody knows" about a particular candidate started off as speculation by someone, then got quoted as fact by the rest of the pack.

Another reminder of how gullible people are so the media can lead us around by the nose and how important it is to be extremely skeptical about the way the media characterize candidates. Also I'm reminded how important it is to have sources from outside the US media market such as BBC.

The Press Effect suggests the media frames issues and candidates in a way that their future stories on the subjects will tend to fit neatly inside the pre-conceived box. Since the media is a follow-the-leader game, once a frame takes hold it doesn't let go very easily. Jamieson and Waldman use this theory mainly to explore the 2000 Election between Gore and Bush.

Gore's many misstatements through his political career led the press to frame him as dishonest. Bush's flubs through his short political career convinced the press to put him in the frame of unintelligent. The result were campaign stories that asked voters to choose between the smart, but untrustworthy Gore and the dumb but affable Bush. The examples of media coverage in the book support this theory pretty well.

Next the authors cite the examples of Gore's untruths and basically defend each one as a misunderstanding, leaving Gore as a more honest individual than painted by the media. As a reader, I anticipated the authors next explaining that Bush was actually a smarter man than he was given credit for, after all he has an MBA from Harvard. Instead the authors quote a New Yorker article where a reporter cites George W. Bush's average grades at Yale. This is was a surprise, because the story was unverified by Yale and it doesn't take into account that grades have much more to do with ambition and drive than intelligence. There was no attempt to give Bush the same credit that the authors spent giving Gore. An opportunity to support their main thesis was left on the floor, which gives one the feeling that the real purpose of the book is to defend Gore not shame the media. This same pattern is repeated when the authors discuss the Florida recount.

It's unfortunate that Jamieson and Waldman abandon the scholarly for the advocacy role because there is a lot of other research in the book that seems dead on. They bemoan that fact that reporters do a terrible job of verifying the evidence and drawing conclusions. Instead, the authors argue that the media play into the "he said, she said" game of political strategy. The story becomes about how the candidates disagree with each other on their positions more than the actual substance of those positions. They also state that the media loves to play psychologist when they should instead be playing fact-finder.

I found the basic theories in the book supported by good evidence. But the advocacy of Gore and the silence on Bush in the analysis sections detracted from the book's purported goal of exposing the media's laziness. I'm sure that the authors would say that they had no intention of propping up Gore, but parts of the book seem to strengthen the media frame on Bush which weakens the overall argument of the book. This is surprising since Bush could have been defended as easily as Gore.

Anyway, I think the authors do a fine job casting a spotlight on the media's "follow the leader" approach and that's enough recommend it despite my other misgivings.

One of the most bothersome things about journalism today is how frequently lies and distortions promulgated on all sides of the political spectrum, particularly the right side, become accepted as truth. To a large extent, as this book points out, this is the fault of journalists, whose primary job is, or should be, to discover and report the truth about important issues of the day. Democracy cannot function well if the public is constantly mislead. And simply presenting opposing views does not help the public determine the truth. Truth telling needs to be rewarded and deception needs to be punished. This is not happening now.

Real journalism is not about repeating the "spin" but finding the truth.

As the book says: "Reporters should help the public make sense of competing political arguments by defining terms, filling in needed information, assessing the accuracy of the evidence being offered, and relating the claims and counterclaims to the probable impact of the proposed policies on citizens and the country."

This can be hard work. It is much easier to focus on the "horse race" and personalities and that is why over 70% of elections stories in 2000 did not mention any issue at all.

This book should be required reading for all journalists and concerned citizens.

The press is in crisis--it no longer serves its most important role, which is to cut through political spin to get at the facts. Jamieson and Waldman make a convincing case that the press is so intent on creating compelling storylines that it has lost its critical edge.

For all journalists out there--please read it!

Jamieson and Waldman offer a highly critical overview of media coverage, focusing on the 2000 Presidential election, but also touching on historical issues such as the Nixon Presidency and the Gulf of Tonkin incident. They are equally critical of the coverage given to Bush and Gore, in an impressive display of non-partisanship that is lacking in our media today. They encourage reporters to research the statements by candidates and to not simply accept the frame given to them by interested parties but to investigate and to put a truly fair and balanced frame around it. One issue that they note but could have gone into more detail on is that the media almost universally present issues as a for/against disagreement, whereas in reality there are often (I might argue almost always) more than two points of view on a given issue and the press ignores all but the two that are most easily reduced to sound bites.

i was very excited to recieve this book..when it arrived..the excitement instantly ceased..this book..is 99 pages..of only ...and i truly mean..only..test and test..and not one bit of skin care / skin treatment's..this is not even a workbook..there was no reading material even to use as a testing tool..just mutiple questions..and answers...and 39.dollars later..you have nothing...think, research..this book/manual..before you waste your money and time..i did not..i fell for the review's..which i still do not think the reviews were for what i recieved..if you are wanting a book with info on skin treatment's, dermatology,procedure's ..explanation's..reading material....then you will be left out..this book is what they give a student who has reviewed a book.in a course...and now has to pass a test..nothing but a test , one after another..nothing else...99 pages of testing

Up to date information on the latest in anti-aging treatments, microdermabrassion, skin peels and exfoliators, explanation of product ingredients, and much more. As an experienced skin care specialist this book is a must for your reference library.

I didn't buy this book and I'm glad I didn't. I'm not much of a textbook reader and this is definitely it. Contains basic details about things you should know but if you're really into skincare and have read too many books before this one, this is not the book for you. It should be for someone on the Skin Care 101 or someone looking for a reference book. So bad coz I'd really want to like it.

As a licensed esthetician, I find this book my best resource. It covers most of the questions I have had as a skin care professional and many of my client's questions as well. I consider this book essential to anyone in my profession. It is readable and understandable for anyone, those in the business or those just wanting to understand their skin and what products can help them.

Lee's book is a must for all estheticians (skin care specialists) and medical personnel looking for a simple-to-understand text directed to teach and provide review about basic skin chemistry, ingredient chemistry, skin disorders, their causes, challenges, and how to treat. His chapters on "The Immune System" and "Essential Knowledge of Chemistry," give a a great dialoque on understanding our immune system and basic chemistry. Mr. Lee is a great teacher. He puts difficult theories into "people language." Skin care correction for highly damaged skin is very well explained. Having been in professional skin care for 17 years, I find this book a marvelous reference. Its provides some of the latest findings and theories for accurate analysis. For the lay person,new student,or beauty editor, it offers great insight into the complexity of our skin, the body's largest organ, and how it plays a vital role to protect us. It also explains about skin diseases and how they are recognized and treated. The best thing is that this is an accurate book based on science and written by a well qualified and experienced person. After all, skin care is a science and plays a large role in preventative health care.

A wonderful book to help out with all those journal clubs and intro epi courses we have to take. I used it in medical school and continue to use it during residency. I refer to it before journal clubs and before discussing studies with medical students. Easy to read, concise, great overview of the subject! Highly reccomended!

I bought this book 18 months ago and never cracked it til last week. I have worked as a Medicare medical director for five years, and someone should have given each of us this book the day we started. It is a very good survey of how to assess clinical trials. You will not finish this book and then plan trials for "big pharma" nor will you have a PhD in statistics (one recent reviewer of this book at Amazon was appalled by what he found to be several semantic errors or math errors - let's bear in mind the book has thrived through 5 editions and the author has a PhD from Johns Hopkins.) But if you are thinking about what makes clinical trials "tick" and you want a thorough (300 pp) but not numbing viewpoint, this is an excellent book. I also found the book very well written, I was able to go through 50 pages at a pop and felt I was really absorbing it. Embarassingly, considering jobs I have held, I would have been hesitant to give a concise explanation of a "case control" versus "cohort" study and Riegelman makes this sort of distinction fundamental and clear early one without belaboring how important it is (you can tell how important it is). The author, Riegelman, is a senior professor at the Geo Washington Univ School of Medicine. The book is intended for medical students (smart insightful ones), MPH students, those reviewing/evaluating the clinical literature (the evidence-based-medicine world). He explains things in a way that makes you think you'll remember it for years. For a different style and result(imagine you are actually designing a clinical trial in your niche of medicine from Step A to Step Z) see the Brian Hayes/David Sackett books (several versions) on "clinical epidemiology" or "evidence based medicine."

I started to review the book, but could not stand it after reading a few pages. On p 56 interaction is incorrectly defined and is referred as being subject to low power. This is neither correct nor helpful. While tests of interaction may have less power then main effect tests, they can still be performed and are often critical to an analysis.
P 323 Estimation is incorrectly limited to effect size. Inference is incorrectly equated with hypothesis testing. Inference is both hypothesis testing and estimation. The latter includes both point and interval estimates. Later on the page the book states data in graphic form are hard to communicate. This is flat wrong. "One picture is worth one thousand words" and at least as many statistics. Students and researchers today are routinely urged to plot their data before undertaking an analysis.
P 324 Asserts that mean is a special case of average. The author incorrectly asserts that averages are weighted and means use weights of one. This is news to most statisticians who routinely use weighted means. In EXCEL the average function is unweighted.
P 329 uses the neologisms univariable and bivariable rather than the English words univariate and bivariate. The jargon multivariable is also used, but should not be encouraged. If the analyst means multiple regression or several variables, then that should be said.
P 329 asserts the choice of statistical technique depends on scale of measurement. This is far too narrow, the choice depends on the research design. The author gives an incomplete definition of continuous and numerical discrete scales. A critical point is that for either the distance from, for example, 1 to 3 is twice the distance from 1 to 2.
P 331 Ordinal is required to have at least three values and "... at most a limited number of values, such as stages of cancer." This is flat wrong. A binary variable can be treated as ordinal and an ordinal variable can have an unlimited number of values. For example non parametric statistics can be based on ranks with one rank for each value of the original discrete data. Moreover, not all cancer stages are ordinal, for example TNM staging is not ordinal. Colon cancer stages 3A and 3B are not ordered.

At this point I decided not to read on as I had had enough of a cardiovascular work out. This book should be avoided.
Studying a Study and Testing a Test: How to Read the Health Science Literature

This book assumes that the reading of medical texts is not just something that is self-evident, but something that can be learned by reading the book. "The traditional course in reading the medical literature consists of "Here's the New England Journal of Medicine. Read it!". Unlike this "sink or swim" method, this book provides a step-by step, active-participation approach to a clinical review of the medical literature.

In a way, this book is a traditional book on research methods turned upside down. Instead of telling the researcher how to do and report a study, this book tells the reader how to apply such knowledge in determining the quality of a medical paper. As such it is well written, clear and relevant.

I would like to suggest, however, that research methods are always depending on a views in the philosophy of science. (Courses in the Philosophy of Medicine are becoming more and more important in the education of Doctors). As an example of a well received book I can mention "Philosophy of Medicine. An Introduction" by Henrik R. Wulff, Stig Andur Pedersen & Raben Rosenberg (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1986). Knowledge of this kind should enable the reader to read and interpret the medical literature at a still higher level. (It is of course more difficult to write easy "how to read books" based on such a more theoretical and philosophical level compared to the more statistical and methodical level).

There exists a broader literature on "Clinical reasoning in the health Professions" (Higgs et al), "Medical semiotics" (Baer et al.), diverse philosophical studies of medicine, "Quality in science" and much more. It would be interesting if anyone would try to expose how such knowledge could be turned upside down as guide on how to read the medical literature on a still deeper level.

It is my claim that a general background in philosophy and science studies should provide readers with even better qualifications to read the scientific literature. This is not an extraordinary position. In Denmark courses in the philosophy of science are very popular, and just now are we discussing to make such courses compulsory in all university studies.

Very nicely written... for non-math oriented people. Very "user" friendly. Provides examples and explanations clearly.

This product purports to dispense with all those old fashioned "nonsensical" Chinese medicine theories and teach Acupuncture with nice scientific western concepts.

And it purports to do all this in 232 Pages?

Now THAT is nonsensical.

Another expensive pretend book from CRC.

I am an actively practicing Osteopathic Family Physician. I incorporate a lot of manipulation and trigger point injections into my practice. I have been studying acupuncture (Traditional Chinese Medicine) now for about six months. TCM acupuncture is difficult for my western trained brain to grab a hold of and to be able to put into practical application. Anatomical Acupuncture is a breath of fresh air. This is a book that I, again as a western trained physician, can immediately grasp and immediately implement in my own clinical practice. I have already begun treating a few select patients based on what I learned in this book and am already seeing postive clinical outcomes. I highly recommend this book to you. You won't be disappointed. Well worth the investment.

Insightful book that attempts to explain acupuncture from a scientific physiologic bent without the hocus-pocus found in a lot of acupuncture books written today.

After reading a lot of acupuncture books about the weird "pulse diagnosis," the mysterious "chi" (from those Kung Fu movies where the Kung Fu fighters all seem to have superhuman abilities--maybe the NBA should sign them up for a multimillion dollar contract, they should play a mean game of basketball), and those strange chi "meridians" that connect the "triple burner" to the "governor vessel" to the kitchen sink and how acupuncture should only be performed by a man with a red carnation at certain times of the day when the sun and moon and Mercury and Jupiter are in "harmony" with each other under the direction of an astrologist who is wearing green suspenders, I got so sick that I just wanted to vomit.

This book cuts out all those outdated, mystic, superstitious, ideas that were used to explain acupuncture in medieval times, and brings it more into accord with 21st Century thinking grounded on the laws of physics, chemistry and physiology.

It's been a breath of fresh air reading this book.

As a physician, I have found Dr. Dung's approach offers the most logical and reasonable means of understanding and using acupuncture as a pain relieving modality for everyday clinical practice. A simple review of a bit of gross anatomy (emphasizing the peripheral nervous system) is recommended. Any well motivated and prudent physician can begin using this information fairly rapidly and will soon see that allegiance to "Yin/Yang" theory and other philosophical constructs is unnecessary. Neuromodulation is based on basic science research and is the logical basis of this wonderful (but underutilized) modality. I highly recommend this book to any physician/dentist who has had interest in acupuncture but was turned off by the metaphysical baggage it has carried (until now).