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| | Introduction to Cardiac Care
| | Benjamin Lewis |
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Heart disease is America's leading killer. More women die each year from heart disease than men. Yet far too few of us really understand our heart—how it works, how to care for it when it's healthy, how to treat it when it's not. In this e-seminar, Dr. Benjamin H. Lewis teaches medical consumers about their hearts. Enter.
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| | Dinosaurs and the History of Life—E-Seminar 1, Prelude to the Dinosaurs
| | Paul E. Olsen |
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In this first e-seminar in a series of nine, professor of geological sciences Paul Olsen takes us back to the time before the dinosaurs, 4.5 billion to 245 million years ago, when our planet formed and became habitable, the first complex organisms arose, and the direct predecessors of the dinosaurs—and ourselves—came to dominate Earth. Enter.
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| | Dinosaurs and the History of Life—E-Seminar 2, The Triassic and the Origin of Dinosaurs
| | Paul E. Olsen |
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In this second e-seminar in a series of nine, professor of geological sciences Paul Olsen explores the beginning of the age of the dinosaurs, the Triassic Period. Discover the kinds of animals that eventually gave rise to the dinosaurs, the earliest dinosaurs, and the organisms that shared the Earth with them—including fierce rivals that dominated the land until a mass extinction cleared the way for dinosaur domination. Enter.
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| | Earth's Variable Climate
| | Joe Ortiz |
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What forces drive climate change? The objective of this e-seminar is to provide an introduction to some of the factors (both natural and human-induced) that drive climate change on a variety of time scales. Enter.
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| | The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Guide to Surgery
| | Eric A. Rose, M.D., and leading Columbia surgeons |
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Far too often, patients blindly accept a recommendation to have surgery. Whether overwhelmed by an abundance of confusing medical information, unwilling to question their physician's advice, or simply too afraid to consider the implications of surgery, many patients never truly evaluate their surgical options. In this e-seminar, Eric A. Rose, Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, empowers patients with the necessary set of tools to make informed decisions about surgery. Enter.
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| | The Politics of Pollution—E-Seminar 1, Lead Poisoning and the Industrial Age
| | David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz |
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In Lead Poisoning in the Industrial Age, the first e-seminar in a two-part series, Professors Rosner and Markowitz focus on the lead industry as emblematic of industrial pollution and industrial disease in the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Enter.
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| | The Politics of Pollution—E-Seminar 2, The Modern Threat of Plastics
| | David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz |
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In The Modern Threat of Plastics, the second e-seminar in the series The Politics of Pollution, Professors Rosner and Markowitz focus on plastics—in particular, polyvinyl chloride (PVC)—as the paradigmatic substance of industrial disease of the second half of the twentieth century. Enter.
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| | The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Guide to Breast Care
| | Freya Schnabel and leading breast specialists at Columbia |
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Taught by 19 Columbia breast-care specialists, The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Guide to Breast Care provides a clear, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary look at the latest developments in breast-cancer detection, treatment, and prevention. Enter.
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| | The Politics of Health Care—E-Seminar 1, The Roots of Health Care in the United States
| | Michael S. Sparer |
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Prior to the 1940s, American federal and state governments played a minor role in the nation's health-care system. But gradually, with the rise of the hospital and the increasing sophistication of the medical profession in the late-nineteenth century, governments began to regulate health care, especially as the system of health insurance evolved, first sponsored by the hospitals themselves, later by nonprofits and, starting in the 1970s, by commercial providers. Enter.
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| | The Politics of Health Care—E-Seminar 2, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Legacy of the New Deal
| | Michael S. Sparer |
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Most Americans get their health-care insurance through their employers. But what happens to those Americans who fall outside this system? What happens to the unemployed, the elderly, and the disabled, and to employees who do not receive health insurance from their employers? Who pays for their health care? Enter.
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