Medicine: general issues

A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with terror.

This is the future.

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food, water, sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition among women and children in India.

In keeping with the spirit of the first edition, the second edition of this book displays the autopsy procedure in a step-wise, start-to-finish fashion.

Practical Customer Success Management is a complete "e;handbook for CSMs"e;, written by a customer success expert who has coached and trained many hundreds of customer success managers across the globe.

This book presents advanced knowledge and techniques to improve food quality, such as organic farming, fertilization using waste, reducing arsenic in food, soil restoration, forage production in arid regions and weed control.

Der Hauptteil umfasst knapp 100 Dokumente in den fünf gesonderten Themenblöcken, die das Handeln des preußischen Kultusministeriums bzw.

This book addresses the use of food hydrocolloids as agents for encapsulating biological active ingredients.

This book presents an engaging, detailed portrait of the people, ideas, and beliefs that made up the world of English medieval medicine between 750 and 1450, a time when medical practice extended far beyond modern definitions.

Within manufacturing industries, lean manufacturing and systems rooted in lean principles stand out as the most effective tool used to enhance productivity, quality, and comprehensive economic, environmental, and social sustainability.

This book provides a detailed overview of ethical omnivorism, as well as the philosophical foundations of this movement and diet.

Improve your health and quality of life with expert advice and strategies to outsmart diabetes.

Originally published in 1987, Social Gerontology presents papers from the British Society of Gerontology annual conference held at the University of Glasgow in September 1986.

Technological change in healthcare has led to huge improvements in health services and the health status of populations.

This brief monograph is intended chiefly for non-specialists and for others interested in a concise introduction to the field.

This essential text introduces criminal justice students to the topics of stress and wellness in personal and professional pursuits and provides them with the tools they will need to identify the signs of stress in their own lives and the lives of others.

Ensuring equity in healthcare is the main concern of health policymakers in order to provide a sustainable health system.

This book approaches the subject of AIDS pedagogy by analysing the complex links between representation or discourse, ideology, power relations and practices of self, understood from the perspective of embodiment.

In the light of scares about potential pandemics such as swine fever and avian flu, the issue of global health and its governance is of increasing concern to scholars and practitioners of medicine, public health, social work, and international politics alike.

This book goes beyond the traditional approaches to drug use and discusses the issue from a societal perspective, integrating contributions from different disciplines such as psychology, public health, anthropology, law, public policies and sociology to address specifically the social aspects of the phenomenon.

By triangulating the Greco-Roman world, classical reception, and disability studies, this book presents a range of approaches that reassess and reimagine traditional themes, from the narrative voice to sensory studies.

The use and practice of traditional, complementary and/or integrative medicine (TCIM) raises significant questions, poses many challenges and holds much potential for the broad fields of public health and health services research.

All couples walk to the altar dreaming of happily-ever-after, but many forces in our society work against healthy lifelong commitment.

Dieses Buch bietet eine rechtsgebietsübergreifende Analyse der Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer GKV-Unterstützung von Patienten bei Behandlungsfehlerverdacht.

This book explores some of the complex ethical quandaries entailed by proposed phase III HIV preventive vaccine trials.

Nurses typically go in to the profession of nursing because they want to "e;care"e; for patients, not knowing that the inherent stresses of the work environment put them at risk for developing psychological disorders such as burnout syndrome, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression.

The purpose of this indispensable and concise title is to provide a roadmap to a fulfilling and successful career in academic medicine.

This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health.

This book is for researchers and students looking for ways to engage communities and industry in research.

Activate your 'skinny gene' with The Alternate-Day Diet, by James B Johnson.

Vaccines have historically been considered to be the most cost-effective method for preventing communicable diseases.

Recent epidemics have prompted large-scale international interventions, aimed at mitigating the spread of disease in a globalized world.

Through a series of vivid case studies, Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings: Does Music Matter?

This collection of cases and commentaries highlights ethical dilemmas arising during high-tech hospital care of seriously ill children.

In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the nineteenth century to the present.

Liberalizing, Feminizing and Popularizing Health Communications in Asia provides insights into the manner in which biomedical discourses are communicated and portrayed in Asia in light of the rapidly evolving socio-cultural, technological and epidemiological undercurrents.

Complete Guide to Respiratory Care in Athletes introduces the respiratory system and its function during exercise.

'A remarkably honest memoir of a life spent pulling people back from death' - Adam KayIn these stories, Dr Jim Down brings us to the very heart of the intensive care unit - the section of the hospital where the sickest patients are brought to be cared for until their condition improves.

This highly successful text, which has achieved wide acclaim among practitioners and is a recommended text in the major dental schools, has again been revised and updated to keep it at the forefront of clinical practice.

With advances in personalised medicine, the field of medical law is being challenged and transformed.

This book discusses some of the innumerable ways in which computational methods can be used to facilitate research in biology and medicine - from storing enormous amounts of biological data to solving complex biological problems and enhancing treatment of various grave diseases.

Kaplans National Registry ParamedicPrep provides essential content and focused review to help you master the national paramedic exam.

This book explores LGBQTNB people''s relationships with animals, examining a complex menagerie of human-animal relationships.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This reference book reviews the latest advancements in the fungal infections and their impact on human health.

Erlöse ambulanter Leistungen werden auf Basis zahlreicher Gebührenordnungen und Tarife ermittelt.