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Title: Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook by David Werner, Carol Thuman, Jane Maxwell ISBN: 0-942364-15-5 Publisher: Hesperian Foundation Pub. Date: May, 1992 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.52 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must for anyone working in international development
Comment: This book is amazing! I worked in Guatemala for around 8 months in community development, with a rural indigenous pueblo. We tried to get in as many doctors as possible, but when that failed, we could always use this book--the diagrams of each disease (especially the skin diseases, prevalent in Central America) helped us to decide how to address each person's health concerns. I only wish there was a copy in K'iche' for the community leaders to have to use!
The forms included in the book for basic check ups and keeping medical records will be helpful in the future when we set up a clinic. I can't emphasize what a straight forward, useful, and practical book this is. If you intend to work anywhere in a developing country, with health or not, you need this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Indispensable outside Europe and North America
Comment: When we visit my wife's village in Ghana, this is almost the first thing that we pack. Anyone travelling to the less developed parts of the world should take a copy - and leave it there with someone who can use it. This is probably the most widely used medical reference book in the world - it has been translated into 80 languages. Its simple language, clear explanations and illustrations make essential medical knowledge accessible to anyone with basic literacy. The diagnostic charts are very straightforward and make it easy for a lay person to distinguish between diseases which can be easily confused. The treatments described are completely appropriate for village conditions. There is considerable emphasis on preventative health care and on health education. Anyone familiar with village life in underdeveloped countries will acknowledge that this book is an extraordinary achievement. For those who complain that it is not relevant to the United States: the book was written for "those who live far from medical centers, in places where there is doctor". However there is plenty of information which *is relevant* to a North American audience, particularly the section on nutrition. Anyone backpacking or camping in the more remote regions of the US would benefit from taking this a long.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Real Life Saver!!!!!
Comment: This book is written in very easy to read english. Which is part of its value. Not being in the medical field and if I had to deliver a baby in the bush in Africa I want the book to be written as simply as possible. The drawings are a bit better than stick men but they get the point across. My wife and I lived in West Africa and quite often in the bush. Places where you do not find a doctor and the hospitals are less than our American medicine cabinets. This book has helped through malaria; yellow fever; insect bites; dehydration; water purification; etc. These were areas that we truly faced and the book took us through. Yes, we survived!! If you know anyone in the 3rd. world, do them a great service and get them this book. No missionary or business men to the 3rd. world have any business leaving without this book.
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Title: Where There Is No Dentist by Murray Dickson, Michael Blake, Joan Thompson ISBN: 0942364058 Publisher: Hesperian Foundation Pub. Date: October, 1983 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women by A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell, Katharine Shapiro, Sandy Nieman, Elena Metcalf, Katharine Shapiro ISBN: 0942364252 Publisher: Hesperian Foundation Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine (Oxford Medical Publications) by Michael Eddleston, Stephen Pierini ISBN: 0192627724 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Helping Health Workers Learn: A Book of Methods, Aids, and Ideas for Instructors at the Village Level by Bill Bower, David B. Werner ISBN: 0942364104 Publisher: Hesperian Foundation Pub. Date: December, 1982 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Wilderness Medicine, Beyond First Aid, 5th Edition by William Forgey ISBN: 076270490X Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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