Cataract is one of the main cause of blindness and constitutes the main surgical work load in ophthalmic services throughout the world, especially in India.
Substance Use and Addiction Research: Methodology, Mechanisms, and Therapeutics is an up-to-date, comprehensive, practical book on research methodologies for substance use and addiction that is intended for researchers and consumers of research information at all levels.
Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on later life, this book examines questions such as 'how can we understand ageing and later life?
This book entitled "e;Nitric Oxide: From Research to Therapeutics"e; includes the most recent information about the role of Nitric Oxide (NO) in physiology, pathophysiology and its translation to therapeutics.
Inorganic Nanosystems: Theranostic Nanosystems, Volume Two examines the applications of nanotherapeutic systems and nanodiagnostics in relation to polymeric nanosystems.
This innovative and engaging book argues that because our genetic information is directly linked to the genetic information of others, it is impossible to assert a 'right to privacy' in the same way that we can in other areas of life.
This innovative and engaging book argues that because our genetic information is directly linked to the genetic information of others, it is impossible to assert a 'right to privacy' in the same way that we can in other areas of life.
La importancia de conformar una Comunidad Práctica de Aprendizaje (CPA) (Wenger & Lave, 2001) en este caso, conformada por formadores de formadores y profesores en formación en las disciplinas de física y matemática de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile, no sólo se ve reflejada en el aprendizaje colectivo que propician sus integrantes traducido en estas "experiencias destacables" –la mayoría interdisciplinarias– sino también en su orgánica dinámica e innovadora que considera que formar parte de una CPA implica compromiso, responsabilidad social, compartir experiencias y objetivos, reconocer y valorar el aporte de otros y otras.
Enhancing Fertility through Functional Medicine: Using Nutrigenomics to Solve 'Unexplained' Infertility provides cutting-edge information and solutions to help support the worldwide rise of fertility challenges.
Enhancing Fertility through Functional Medicine: Using Nutrigenomics to Solve 'Unexplained' Infertility provides cutting-edge information and solutions to help support the worldwide rise of fertility challenges.
This book highlights the integration of science and imaging and demonstrates how we can teach and learn in a much more accessible, innovative, and engaging way using technology.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In this exploration of the concept of the gene, Jonathan Slack looks at the discovery, nature, and role of genes in both evolution and development.
Infertility affects about five million individuals of childbearing age in the United States, yet infertility is a subject about which many people are reluctant to talk.
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern.
This book offers a head-to-toe look at the health concerns most pertinent to teens and young adults as well as what they can do to safeguard their health.
Genetic testing has provided important clues to understanding our health, but it has also raised many ethical, legal, and medical questions and concerns.
Written by established and emerging leaders in a broad array of disciplines, this two-volume set provides undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, professionals, and policymakers with an overview of the field of aging that examines the social landscape as well as key changes, challenges, and solutions.
Recent literature has identified modern parenting as an expert-led practice one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions, entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense burdens on mothers and increasingly on fathers too.
The issue of abortion forces a confrontation with the effects of poverty and economic inequalities, local moral worlds, and the cultural and social perceptions of the female body, gender, and reproduction.
The age-friendly community movement is a global phenomenon, currently growing with the support of the WHO and multiple international and national organizations in the field of aging.
The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their own historical awareness and memories of their postwar lives, requiring readers to follow simultaneous, disparate narratives.
In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them.
Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their employers.
Strategies or decisions aimed at affecting, in a manner considered to be positive, the genetic heritage of a child in the context of human reproduction are increasingly being accepted in contemporary society.
Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly with similar culinary tastes, music and pop culture, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different.
Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy?
Plastination is currently considered one of the most innovative forms of conservation of complete bodies, sections and organs, both human and animal, for use in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, as well as morphological research.
Central to this book are Gbigbil women's experiences with different "e;reproductive interruptions"e;: miscarriages, stillbirths, child deaths, induced abortions, and infertility.
