This thought-provoking book exposes and challenges the hidden assumptions of modern medicine: the body is a kind of machine, symptoms must be caused by disease, health depends on healthcare, prevention is better than cure, things that can be measured are more real than those that cannot, how we see things is how they are, relationships are peripheral to medical care, and proper doctors just keep going.
Drawing on the writings, moral vision, and enduring influence of Florence Nightingale, this book explores timeless principles that are still relevant to nursing today.
Drawing on the writings, moral vision, and enduring influence of Florence Nightingale, this book explores timeless principles that are still relevant to nursing today.
Geriatric medicine is challenging - people present with multiple problems at the same time, and case studies provide a good way to discuss this complexity.
Traditional Midwives: Cross-Cultural Perspectives is a pioneering work that delves deeply into the worlds of traditional midwives, shedding light on their practices, roles, and the immense cultural value they hold within their respective communities wherever they are still allowed to practice.
This comprehensive handbook provides therapists, social workers, educators, and mental health professionals with effective clinical interventions for working affirmatively with disabled clients and their families.
Translational health informatics is a rapidly evolving field, drawing insights from diverse disciplines like translational medicine, socio-technical systems thinking, and information systems design science.
Translational health informatics is a rapidly evolving field, drawing insights from diverse disciplines like translational medicine, socio-technical systems thinking, and information systems design science.
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is a serious and potentially life-threatening complication of ovarian stimulation in women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF).
This book provides the core knowledge that all doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and non-clinical leaders and managers at all levels should have at their fingertips to plan and execute both large-scale and continuous incremental improvement.
This book provides an in-depth analysis of neglected parasitic zoonoses of helminthic origin, offering a comprehensive understanding of their epidemiology, pathology, and implications for public health.
The healthcare industry is poised for a transformative leap, driven by the convergence of next-generation wireless technologies and the growing demand for patient-centered care.
Traditional Midwives: Cross-Cultural Perspectives is a pioneering work that delves deeply into the worlds of traditional midwives, shedding light on their practices, roles, and the immense cultural value they hold within their respective communities wherever they are still allowed to practice.
This book reviews the evolution, development, and application of medicinal compounds, beginning with their historical context and advancing to modern innovations.
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the lived experiences of stroke patients, interwoven with healthcare professional expertise to provide evidence-based guidance for nurses and other healthcare professionals.
This book draws on original research to illuminate how the personal values and norms of healthcare professionals in the Emergency Department (ED) influence how they experience the death of a patient, and develop tools and strategies to cope with these experiences.
This book provides an in-depth analysis of neglected parasitic zoonoses of helminthic origin, offering a comprehensive understanding of their epidemiology, pathology, and implications for public health.
This book provides researchers, faculty, and students with a comprehensive resource for applying qualitative methods in Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) research among underrepresented communities.
The healthcare industry is poised for a transformative leap, driven by the convergence of next-generation wireless technologies and the growing demand for patient-centered care.
This book examines young men's precarious education-to-employment transitions as they navigate educational, occupational and emotional challenges in the shadow of deindustrialisation and austerity.
From algorithms that draft clinical notes in seconds to autonomous agents that triage emergency room backlogs, artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping every facet of healthcare.
Architectures of Ageing in Place provides curated critical perspectives, from a practice-based research point of view, of buildings that are purpose built and/or refurbished to accommodate housing and care needs of older people ageing in place in high rise/medium rise integrated communities.
This book comprehensively examines the applications of bioinformatics, computational chemistry, and artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of drug discovery and innovation.
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science investigates and illuminates the growing international interest in the intersections and interactions between theatre, drama, performance and the sciences.
Infant Welfare: For The Student & Practitioner was published in 1926, at a time that saw the development of the new Infant Welfare centres, which began to appear in the UK in the late 19th century.
Originally published in 1980, this comprehensive study of stuttering in Britain in the nineteenth century was the first detailed examination of one speech problem as manifested in a particular time and place.
Dr Maxwell Jones, known worldwide as one of the founders of the therapeutic community movement, recounts his seven years at Dingleton Hospital in The Process of Change (originally published in 1982) in an autobiographical style.
This book comprehensively examines the applications of bioinformatics, computational chemistry, and artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of drug discovery and innovation.
This book encompasses the development, implementation, and maintenance of socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable healthcare systems in Africa amidst the increasing utilization of disruptive technologies.
How can public policy support the growing population providing unpaid care to people with disabilities, older people, or people with dementia, and what are the policy implications of the growing need for caregivers?
This comprehensive handbook provides therapists, social workers, educators, and mental health professionals with effective clinical interventions for working affirmatively with disabled clients and their families.
This timely book provides an overview of the evolution of food charity in Australia, from the early days of colonial settlement to the current system of food pantries and emergency relief.
This book encompasses the development, implementation, and maintenance of socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable healthcare systems in Africa amidst the increasing utilization of disruptive technologies.
This book emerges from "e;Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces"e;, an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary project uniting social scientists, postcolonial scholars, and artists worldwide to raise critical issues related to the death of migrants.
Interprofessional teams of health and social care professionals encounter, and respond to, significant ethical challenges and complexity in their everyday work.
