Infectious and contagious diseases

Now in its fourth edition, Health Psychology takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to studying health psychology, and offers a comprehensive overview of the subareas within this fascinating subject.

Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine.

This concise, beautifully illustrated book provides a convenient introduction to the basic science of medical microbiology and how this relates to clinical practice.

Practical text provides quick access to key diagnostic features of each virus encountered in clinical practice and their management.

Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable.

This is the first comprehensive text on the methodological issues in epidemiologic research on infectious diseases.

Over three previous editions, Clinical Tuberculosis has established itself as an indispensable guide to all aspects of tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment.

Paediatric surgeons who practice in areas where medical resources are stretched over wide geographical areas face a number of challenges.

Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018From December 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

This text gathers information concerning the diagnosis and management of adult patients with infections in the outpatient setting.

For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millionsof lives and cured billions of debilitating infections.

This book provides child care and preschool providers, pediatricians, family practitioners, and public health officials with an up-to-date, easy to read reference on infections and infection control for children in day care and preschool.

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Centuries ago, predicting was an enterprise entrusted to magic and fortune tellers, while today it is the domain of knowledge to which researchers and scientists contribute daily, analyzing and interpreting pathologies, trying to decode the complexity of life, represented by unresolved problems.

This up-to-date, two-volume work provides A-Z coverage of all topics related to sexually transmitted disease, ranging from anatomy to modern legal and social implications to past and present methods of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

The universal human instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease like Ebola.

When Zika made headlines in 2016, images of women cradling babies affected with microcephaly spread across the media and pulled on heartstrings.

This book examines the challenges of communicating messages during the COVID-19 pandemic and provides recommendations for managing future global health crises.

Microbiology and virology laboratories provide a diagnostic service that supports the management of patients under the care of front-line clinicians.

Holistic overview of what we have learnt about HIV/AIDS, and identifies why so many HIV prevention schemes have failed.

The 2009 H1N1 vaccination campaign was one of the largest public health campaigns in U.

Examines the advent, during the mid-nineteenth century in Britain, of techniques of infectious disease surveillance, now one of the most powerful sets of tools in modern public health.

Since the dawn of medical science, people have recognized connections between a change in the weather and the appearance of epidemic disease.

Living with HIV can be stressful, which can affect both your emotional and physical well-being.

This book provides a systematic introduction to the fundamental methods and techniques and the frontiers of - along with many new ideas and results on - infectious disease modeling, parameter estimation and transmission dynamics.

International Symposium on the Treatment of Carcinoma of the Prostate, Berlin, November 13 to 15, 1969 presents a resolution to the doubts and uncertainty in the treatment of carcinoma and formulate a new policy for handling.

For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans.

The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity.

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Originally published in 1980, this book focusses attention on various aspects of disease ecology.

"e;This new work updates the highly regarded first edition.

This book presents recent findings on the role of oxidative stress in chronic diseases.

This reader offers some of the most important writing to date from the science of COVID-19 and what science says about its spread and social implications.

In SARS Stories, Belinda Kong delves into the cultural archive of the 2003 SARS pandemic, examining Chinese-language creative works and social practices at the epicenters of the outbreak in China and Hong Kong.

Fenner and White's Medical Virology, Fifth Edition provides an integrated view of related sciences, from cell biology, to medical epidemiology and human social behavior.

Pocket-sized text provides the procedures for taking accurate vital signs.

Global history of the 1918-20 Influenza Pandemic (Spanish Flu) that delivers insights into the socio-economic implications of the COVID-19.

An unprecedented insight into the approach used by the innovative Suicide Crisis charity, a crisis centre that has so far achieved a zero suicide rate amongst their clients.

Bioethics emerged at a time when infectious diseases were not a major concern.

The last decade has seen a huge amount of change in the area of sexually transmitted infection control and prevention, including the development of high-profile vaccines for preventing the spread of cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV), novel control methods for HIV and AIDS, and even the discussion of more widespread use of controversial abstinence-only sex education programs.

Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond explores-through thoughtful, thorough, and diverse scientific review and analyses-factors that have led to recent public health emergencies and offers a vision for a better protected global environment.

Paul Elliott has drawn together a thought-provoking collection of topics that together explain the psychology of infection prevention and control.

Viruses are a huge threat to agriculture.

This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed, accessibly written historical account of the most serious epidemiological catastrophe of modern times.

This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic.

CONGENITAL AND PERINATAL INFECTIONS provides a concise and clinically-oriented primer on the congenital and perinatal infections likely to present in clinical practice.

Globally, there has been a move away from national public sector vaccine development over the past 30 years.