Listen to your body: A head-to-toe guide to more than 400 common symptoms, their causes and best treatments [Hardcover]

Ellen Michaud (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This guide to bodily symptoms and what to do about them includes 19 chapters covering 400 symptoms and 180 common conditions. Each chapter opens with symptoms requiring immediate medical attention, then discusses less critical ones (hiccups and creaking joints) and home treatment, and closes with commonly occuring health conditions of the body part or system under discussion. Well-budgeted libraries may want this; less well-endowed libraries that already have the American Medical Association Family Medical Guide ( LJ 11/15/82) may pass it by. Written in a lively style, the book is valuable in its coverage of less serious symptoms. Carol Spielman Lezak, General Learning Corporation, Northbrook, Ill.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 525 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Press; First Edition edition (1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878577289
• ISBN-13: 978-0878577286
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,504,235 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ellen Michaud's latest book Blessed: Living a Grateful Life has been named the #1 Spiritual Inspiration Book of the Year by USA Book News. She and her husband and dogs live in a small cottage tucked away in the woods high in the mountains of Vermont.

Ellen's work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Ladies Home Journal, Health Magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, Parents Magazine, Readers' Digest Magazine, and Prevention Magazine, where she was the editor-at-large for six years. Beginning in July, she will be the writer-in-residence at Earlham School of Religion.

Visit her at www.theblessedblog.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very useful book. Very clear too., October 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Listen to Your Body (Hardcover)

Excellent guide to checking your symptoms when you don't feel well. The book well help you figure out what's wrong. Not comprehensive, but what book on this topic can be? Also discusses dangerous symptoms that you cannot alleviate on your own.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars keep listening to your body, April 23, 2000

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Kathy Streutker (Kentucky,USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Listen to Your Body (Hardcover)

This book is an excellent source of useful daily information. It should be included in everyone's reference library. It should be noted that it was only republished in 1997. The book is a reprint of the 1988 edition.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The House Call on your shelf, July 2, 2004

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D. S. Bornus (St. Paul, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Listen to Your Body (Hardcover)

This is a reassuring guide to look over when you're bothered by some strange symptom in the middle of the night or on a weekend (when most illnesses seem to happen) and you don't want to go to the ER just to see what it might be. You can get an idea of what may be bothering you and whether it is serious or not.

I think that this book is better than using Webmd because it's ad-free and has a good topical index. You can read up on conditions and learn about them to become a much more informed patient. Over the years I have reached for it many times.