Human biology

Brummelhuis and Herdt provide an intense examination of sexual risk and its cultural configurations heretofore missing from the AIDS literature.

Develop experimental, analytical and evaluation skills with topical biology examples, practical assessment guidance and differentiated end-of-topic questions in this updated, all-in-one textbook for Years 1 and 2.

This book discusses fundamental discourses relating to health in Africa arising out of the consequences of endemic diseases in Africa.

This book is an introduction to recent advances in neuromorphic robotics and its contribution to furthering our understanding of the brain.

Plants provide the food, shelter, medicines, and biomass that underlie sustainable life.

Methods of Hormone Radioimmunoassay, Second Edition is a compilation of radioimmunoassay techniques for the quantification of hormones.

Originally published in 1933 Functional Affinities of Man, Monkeys and Apes gives a taxonomic and phylogenetic survey and the findings of diverse experimental investigations of lemurs, monkeys, and apes.

The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today.

Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology and Ecology synthesizes the current knowledge about our sister species the Neandertals, combining data from a variety of disciplines to reach a cohesive theory behind Neandertal low population densities and relatively low rate of technological innovation.

First published in 1980, The limbo people is based upon research carried out in a day centre ('the Centre') for elderly Jewish people in a London Borough and studies the experience and the conception of time among the elderly.

An interdisciplinary perspective on the ways in which human biology and culture can affect fertility.

Enhance your teaching with expert advice and support for Key Stages 3 and 4 Biology from the Teaching Secondary series - the trusted teacher's guide for NQTs, non-specialists and experienced teachers.

A tour of the body, telling the natural (evolutionary) history of each part, and the cultural history that records our response to it.

For many years, biochemical tests have been widely used for the diagnosis, classification, and monitoring of bone and connective tissue disease.

Through an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach, this book documents the dramatic several-thousand-year history of leprosy using bioarchaeological, clinical, and historical information from a wide variety of contexts, dispelling many long-standing myths about the disease.

Come along with Ackerley the Acanthostega to visit the Triassic and Jurassic periods, 203-145 million years ago.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Brazil ranked second only to the United States in the number of reported cases of AIDS.

Get a close-up view of the life of a tomato.

The human body is an amazing thing.

First published in 1909, this book collects the author's lectures on the 'problem of evolution' and the resultant debate.

The Eye: Volume 1, Vegetative Physiology and Biochemistry is a compendium of papers that describes the physiology of the eye, particularly its gross anatomy and embryology including its intra-ocular fluids, the intra-ocular pressure, the vitreous body, lens, cornea, and sciera.

Living Tissues: An Introduction to Functional Histology discusses the fundamental concepts that are essential in studying organic tissues.

This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective.

Essential Medical Physiology, Third Edition, deals with the principal subjects covered in a modern medical school physiology course.

Youth Digital Health and Online Platforms focuses on young people's use of the digital platform Reddit for health.

Southeast Asia is regarded as one of the birthplaces of modern humans.

Exhaustive in its scope, this book provides a comprehensive study of the natural and modified history of congenital heart disease.

A valuable guide to scoring crown and root traits in human dentitions for ancestry estimation and biodistance analysis.

Von Matriarchaten, Pseudopenissen, KannibalinnenWas bedeutet es, dem weiblichen Geschlecht anzugehören?

Blood Group Substances: Their Chemistry and Immunochemistry focuses on the characteristics, reactions, sources, and transformations of blood group substances.

Der Erfolgsautor zeigt neue Wege auf, wie der Mensch sich vor schädlichen Umwelteinflüssen schützen kann.

Problems of the Biochemistry of the Nervous System is a collection of papers presented at the Second Conference on the "e;Biochemistry of the Nervous System, organized by the Institute of Biochemistry of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences on February 12-16, 1957.

This book investigates the neuroscientific knowledge on addiction as an epistemic project.

The Circulating Platelet focuses on the biochemistry and physiology of platelets.

The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology charts the state of the art in the field, describing relevant areas of communication studies where a biological approach has been successfully applied.

This lively text by leading medical anthropologist Elisa J.

"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

Easy to use and friendly guide explains the inner workings of cells, bacteria, viruses, fungi, plants, animals, as well as evolution, the environment, DNA and chromosomes, genetics and genetic engineering, laboratory techniques, and much, much more.

The Islets of Langerhans: Biochemistry, Physiology, and Pathology reviews the state of knowledge in the complex phenomena involved in the functioning of the multiendocrine organ, the islet of Langerhans, and the various influences that can lead to its abnormal functioning.

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The muscular system is made up of three different kinds of muscles: skeletal muscles, smooth muscle, and heart muscle.

Americans spend more than five billion dollars a year on cosmetics.

The term biofabrication is defined as the automated generation of biologically functional products with structural organization.

This collection brings together fifteen essays from practitioners of a variety of disciplines that concern themselves with the past, not only historians, but scholars from other branches of the humanities and social sciences (including theology, art history, public history, and archival science) and natural sciences (including geology, paleontology, astronomy, and paleoanthropology).

Advances in Physiological Sciences, Volume 25: Oxygen Transport to Tissue covers the proceedings of the satellite symposium of the 28th International Congress of Physiological Science, held in Budapest, Hungary in 1980.

This book provides a definitive account of koro, a topic of long-standing interest in the field of cultural psychiatry in which the patient displays a fear of the genitals shrinking and retracting.