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WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR: A VILLAGE HEALTH CARE HANDBOOK

by: David Werner, Jane Maxwell & Carol Thuman

Perhaps the most widely-used health care manual in the world. This 2010 reprint features updated medicines, plus info on tuberculosis & HIV, including guidelines for anti-retroviral therapy & preventing HIV in babies. 9×6 inches, 446 pgs.

0-942364-15-5
978-0-942364-15-6
Softcover
05-24-2010
Self Defense & Survivalism

$29.95

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About This Book
Overview

Hesperian’s classic manual, Where There Is No Doctor, is perhaps the most widely-used health care manual in the world.

Useful for health workers, clinicians, and others involved in primary health care delivery and health promotion programs, with millions of copies in print in more than 75 languages, the manual provides practical, easily understood information on how to diagnose, treat, and prevent common diseases. Special attention is focused on mutrition, infection and disease prevention, and diagnostic techniques as primary ways to prevent and treat health problems.

Reviews:

I consider Where There Is No Doctor my health bible. I carry it with me on every trip I take, and refer to it often. The information provided in this book is simple, straight forward, and easy to read. I would highly recommend that any person planning to serve overseas have a personal copy for reference. –Anita Good, Mennonite Central Committee, Honduras

The Hesperian Foundation has been selling (this) Third World medical manual at a brisk pace for more than 25 years. …(This) classic public-health text has meant survival for thousands in the Third World since the early 1970s, according to officials from the World Health Organization and the U.S. Peace Corps. …it stands as arguably the most widely use public-health manual in the world, according to WHO. …WHO officials noted that since 1978, it, too, has adopted the kind of community-based approach to health care exemplified by (Where There Is No Doctor). Both WHO and UNICEF now buy (the book) for their field offices… —-Monica Eng, Chicago Tribune

Home health care manuals are a dime a dozen, but this one is in a league by itself… This amazing manual…successfully brings together modern concepts of public health and personal health care into a usable and understandable format for the Third World villager. If you are a physician, dentist or nurse planning to volunteer on a medical mercy mission, review this book ahead of time and take it with you. –Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 125, no.12

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 along.

Details

ISBN: 0-942364-15-5
Publisher: Hesperian
Publish Date: 05-24-2010

“WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR: A VILLAGE HEALTH CARE HANDBOOK”

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