Description
Book SynopsisThis manual was designed to bring relevance and critical thinking skills to the allied health chemistry course. Students are encouraged to become diagnosticians and apply their newly-acquired chemistry knowledge to solving real life health and environmental cases.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1 Science and Measurement
case 1: Uncovering the Source of a Coma
case 2: How Much is Too Much?
Chapter 2 Atoms and Elements
case 3: Chelated Calcium
case 4: The Discovery of Guacamolium (Gu)
case 5: Running from Radiation
Chapter 3 Compounds
case 6: Swimming in Chromium
case 7: Consuming Chromium
Chapter 4 An Introduction to Organic
case 8: Molecules in the Movies
case 9: Food and Forensics
Chapter 5 Gases, Liquids, and Solids
case 10: Diving and Flying
case 11: Vomiting on Vacation
Chapter 6 Reactions
case 12: All '-Caines' are Not the same
case 13: Malaria and Methemoglobin
Chapter 7 Solutions, Colloids, and Suspensions
case 14: Surviving a Ship-Wreck
case 15: Vanishing Varicose Veins
case 16: Ineffective Antibiotics
Chapter 8 Lipids and Membranes
case 17: OTCs for Arthritis
case 18: Patch Me Up
Chapter 9 Acids, Bases, and Equilibrium
case 19: Only Half Awake
case 20: Diaper Rash Dilemma
Chapter 10 Carboxylic Acids, Phenols, and Amines
case 21: Treatments for Toothaches
case 22: pH and the Parasite
case 23: Which Vitamin C is Best for Me
case 24: Medicine in the Mirror
Chapter 11 Alcohols, Ethers, Aldehydes, and Ketones
case 25: Sweet, Clear, Colorless, and Deadly
case 26: Gallstones and Gasoline
Chapter 12 Carbohydrates
case 27: Scanning for Sugars
case 28: A Polyhydroxy What?
Chapter 13 Peptides, Proteins, and Enzymes
case 29: The Case of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
case 30: A Boost for Red Blood Cells
Chapter 14 Nucleic Acids
case 31: Surviving with Sickle Cell Anemia
Chapter 15 Metabolism
case 32: Intermingled Pathways
case 33: WARNING! Detour Ahead
