BREAK-THROUGHS - Astonishing Advances in Your Lifetime in Medicine, Science and Technology

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Book. Illus. by Stan Fedinick;. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 8vo. 340 pp. Navy blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. Illustrated with drawings. The Chapters are: PART ONE - Medicine: Holistic Health Breakthroughs: Your Mind as Healer - and Slayer; Muntrition Breakthroughs: That - and How - You'll Eat and Why; Cancer Breakthroughts: New Drugs, Tests, Treatments - and Maybe a Cure; Heart Breakthroughs: Keep Your Heart Young, Healthy and Alive; Dental Breakthroughs: Saving Your Teeth; Treatment Breakthroughts: Conquering Pain, Obesity, and Your Body's Other Worst Enemies; Gene Breakthroughs: How You'll Change Your Past and Shape Your Future; Infertility Breakthroughs: Children for Childless Couples; Female Health Breakthroughs: Medicine for Wives, Mothers, and Working Women. PART TWO - Science: Biorhythm Breakthroughs: New Rhythms That Make You Tick; Brain Breakthroughs: You Body's Own Drugs for Pleasure and Pain; Sleep Breakthroughs: You'll Sleep to Be Healed; Aging Breakthroughs: You Won't Have to Grow Old; Behavior Breakthroughs: How You'll Live, Work and Love; Biometeorology Breakthroughs: How Weather Affects Your Health; Earth Breakthroughs: Predicting Tomorrow's Catastrophes; Weather Breakthroughs: Wather fot he 1980s, 1990s and Beyond; Mind-Boggling Breakthroughs: Strange New Views of Our Physical World. PART THREE - Techonology: Medical Technology Breakthroughs: Health Through Computers and Microelectronics; Communications Breakthroughs: Toward a Smaller, More Convenient World; Energy Breakthroughs: Power from the Sun - and Just About Everthing Under It; Transportations Breakthroughs: How You'll Get Around Faster, Safer and Cheaper; Space Breakthroughs: Colonizing Space - and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life..