How to Find Health Information on the Internet [Paperback]

Bruce Maxwell (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1568022719 | ISBN-13: 978-1568022710 | Publication Date: August 1998

This volume presents information and evaluates more than 600 on-line sources for free health information. It includes a comprehensive index and a glossary of terms.

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Amazon.com Review

There are those who complain that the Internet is pernicious waste of time whereby you surf, you cruise, you fritter away valuable portions of your life in futile Net searches, but Bruce Maxwell's guide to health information on the Internet actually adds to the quality (and possibly the duration) of your life, providing easy access to 600 of the most useful health Web sites currently available, from a site devoted to Aarskog Syndrome to the Y-Me National Breast Cancer Organization. Along with information on medical directories and search engines, doctors and hospitals, general health resources and medical libraries, there are Web sites and email addresses for health conditions, diseases, and illnesses from AIDS to substance abuse, URLs on various prevention and treatment topics such as travel, fitness, and alternative medicines, and on health-care issues like health insurance, smoking, and dying. When it's 3 a.m. and you can't sleep and you want to know right away what the deal is with that dull pain in your gut, or any other time when you need reliable medical information in a timely fashion, Maxwell's guide is a great boon. --Stephanie Gold

From the Author

Health information that I found on the Internet helped save my life. In this book, I've tried to help others find the information they need to stay healthy and to fight any medical problems that might arise in themselves or their loved ones. The Internet is a fantastic source for free health information, and this book points readers toward some of the best resources among the thousands of health sites now available.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 332 pages
• Publisher: Cq Pr (August 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568022719
• ISBN-13: 978-1568022710
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,587,129 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars En bonne sante, January 14, 2004

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This review is from: How to Find Health Information on the Internet (Paperback)

L'auteur Bruce Maxwell est un internaute qui sait trouver des renseignements sur la sante, en ligne. Ainsi arrive-t-il a s'arranger d'un diagnostic inattendu et du traitement qu'il faut. Quant a lui il y a une soixantaine de bonnes sources, en ligne, qui vous donnent, facile et gratuitement, tout ce dont vous avez besoin de savoir de la sante. Par exemple, on se sert de l'index comprehensif Internet Sleuth. Ensuite on trouve des reponses a des tas de questions sur des maladies, des soins preventifs ou des traitements, au moyen d'Alternative medicine, du Center for food safety & applied nutrition, et du RxList. Enfin on arrive meme a trouver comment se proteger des impacts du milieu sur la sante, tels que de l'environnement ou du travail!

5.0 out of 5 stars The Site Collector, November 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Find Health Information on the Internet (Paperback)

Knowing HOW TO FIND HEALTH INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET helped author Bruce Maxwell to accept a diagnosis and a treatment plan. Then he went off surfing for the rest of us until he had identified over 600 online sources as the most dependable, reputable and up-to-date for large amounts of free, reliable and useful information. And he arranged all of his net finds according to whether they help with DIY information searching, such as through the Internet Sleuth health indexes database; or with specific conditions, diseases, or illnesses; or with prevention and treatment, such as Alternative medicine, the Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition, the National Oral Health Information Clearinghouse, the Needy Meds, and the RxList of capsule and tablet codes when you have unidentified medicines on hand; or with wider relevant issues, such as environmental, occupational and rural health. So it takes a caring, serious writer to put together such a straightforward book with the same patient commitment as Tom Ferguson's HEALTH ONLINE, John Grohol's THE INSIDER'S GUIDE TO MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES ONLINE, and MOSBY'S MEDICAL SURFARI.