About the Health Edition
In this fourth installment in the bestselling Intellectual Devotional series authors Noah Oppenheim and David Kidder team up with Dr. Bruce Young to offer a year’s worth of medical knowledge and wellness wisdom. Each daily dose is drawn from one of seven health categories: lifestyle and preventive medicine; the mind; medical milestones; drugs and alternative treatments; sexuality and reproduction; disease and ailments; and children.
From Typhoid Mary to the human genome, Vitamin B to penicillin, these 365 informative and infectious entries will both revive the mind and rejuvenate the body. Sure to please devoted intellectuals and newcomers alike, this timely volume sheds new light on an endlessly fascinating subject: ourselves.
MONDAY-CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH: Health issues particularly relevant to young people, from measles and mumps to growth spurts and zits.
TUESDAY-DISEASES: Starting with a summary of the body’s immune system, this section explores diseases both commonplace and deadly.
WEDNESDAY-DRUGS: A look at conventional stand-bys like Tylenol, homeopathic alternatives like St. John’s Wort, and everything in between.
THURSDAY-MIND: Human mental machinery — from cerebral cortex to medulla oblongata — and the afflictions that threaten it.
FRIDAY-SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION: Conception, pregnancy, birth, and an answer to the eternal question: What role does the stork play in everything?
SATURDAY-LIFESTYLE / PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE: Staying healthy day-to-day.
SUNDAY-MEDICAL MILESTONES: Great moments in medical history, from the day Hippocrates took his oath to the first robotic surgery.