Medicine and Nursing

First published in 1997, this volume approaches the controversial issue of Medicare and its future.

Bioinformatics is an integrative field of computer science, genetics, genomics, proteomics, and statistics, which has undoubtedly revolutionized the study of biology and medicine in past decades.

This volume is derived from the conference on Training Clinical Child Psychologists held in South Carolina.

Action learning was developed in the UK in the 1960s and is now one of the most widely used development methods in healthcare.

Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Houston Wood suggests that the recent critical attention to the gendered, classed, and raced elements of the embodied early modern subject has been hampered by its failure to acknowledge the role time and temporality play within the scope of these admittedly crucial concerns.

Mit Beiträgen von Hans-Christian Deter, Monika Hasenbring, Martin Hautzinger, Corinna Jacobi, Uwe Koch, Thomas Köhler, Paul Lehrer, Bernd Leplow, Reinhard Maß, Frank Rösler, Rainer Schandry, Karl-Heinz Schulz u.

This book presents a new avenue in the field of ophthalmology and sheds light on the field of eye imaging.

Medicinal Chemistry: A Series of Monographs, Volume 13-II presents the context of inflammation and the therapeutic interventions in debilitating chronic inflammatory diseases.

This new and revised edition of Culture, Society and Sexuality brings together and makes accessible a broad and international selection of readings to provide insights into the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality and relationships, and emerging discourses around sexual and reproductive rights.

Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film explores an intriguing facet of human behavior never yet examined in its own right - an individual or a group may contrive, unawares, to repeat a half-forgotten traumatic experience in disguise.

This book discusses arthrology in general and of the upper and lower limbs specifically.

Sexual Health Promotion in General Practice provides a menu of options and ideas to meet the wide variety of needs in both urban and rural practices and those serving populations with different prevalences of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases.

Phytochemicals: Mechanisms of Action is the latest volume in a highly regarded series that addresses the roles of phytochemicals in disease prevention and health promotion.

An Experience-based Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice looks at each individual as a motivated doer doing, seeking, feeling, and intending, and relates development, sense of self, and identity to changes that are brought about in analytic psychotherapy.

This book describes how different diagnostic techniques may facilitate the prenatal identification of orofacial malformations.

A comprehensive yet accessible reference guide to the practical management of menopausal symptoms.

Encephalitis is a devastating condition whose impact upon people should not be underestimated.

This book bridges the gap between a clinician's and material scientists' knowledge by elucidating upon the different biomaterials used in anatomical systems and how those materials react to the human body.

Now in its second edition, this bestselling title has been extensively revised and expanded to include new topics on:obesity and breast cancerinduction of anti-hormone and anti-growth factor resistance in breast cancerclinical implications of testosterone and breast cancerinsulin-like growth factorsdiscussions on the biological, genetic, and molecu

Bewegungsförderung von der Frühpädagogik bis zur Gerontologie mit dem Ziel der dauerhaften Gesundheit.

This book contains a foreword by Ann Thompson, Professor of Midwifery, University of Manchester.

Sir William Richard Gowers was one of the pre-eminent clinical neurologists of the nineteenth century.

How efficient is the Chinese healthcare system?

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health.

This book provides the logistics, fundamentals, and nuances for all involved in surgery to optimize performance and results in the operating room.

Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215.

The author relates the stories of two patients reshaping their lives into something they could believe in, and examines the complex roles of the therapist and therapy, self/other and mind/body relations, and the dramatic interplay of faith and catastrophe.

Help children overcome the increasing dangers they face because of their parents' addictionsImpact of Substance Abuse on Children and Families addresses the growing concern over children at risk of developing physical and mental health problems because of their parents' addictions to alcohol and other drugs (AOD), including a chapter on the troubling increase of methamphetamine abuse by parents.

This second edition focuses on the study of human interphase chromosomes and its relation to health and disease.

It is a distinct pleasure to be invited to prepare a short Foreword to Biomedical Research: How to plan, publish and present it, by William F.

A Thieme classic in a revised and updated second edition!

How can psychotherapists apply the wealth of recent research in Positive Psychology to their clinical work to help their clients change in positive directions?

Hazardous Chemicals: Overview, Toxicological Profile, Challenges, and Future Perspectives offers comprehensive coverage of hazardous chemicals and their routes of exposures, mechanism of toxicity, hazard control measures, handling and storage, emergency guidelines, and safety measures.

Of the 8 million individuals living with cancer in the United States, up to 800,000 patients have a form of inherited cancer.

Ultrasound Technology for Clinical Practitioners A hands-on and practical roadmap to ultrasound technology for clinical practitioners who use it every day In Ultrasound Technology for Clinical Practitioners, distinguished medical physicist and vascular ultrasound scientist Crispian Oates delivers an accessible and practical resource written for the everyday clinical user of ultrasound.

Emotional Labour in Oral History Research critically appraises the many complex ways in which emotion management features in oral history research and its specific implications for the researcher.

Years of extensive investigation into neurophysiology, neurochemistry, and behavioral pharmacology have produced an understanding of antipsychotic medication action that is much more refined than the original dopamine hypothesis.

This special issue of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology on Heart Failure covers the entire spectrum of the field, from the current understanding and definitions of heart failure, to epidemiology and the importance of co-morbidities, clinical trial design and biomarkers, as well as imaging technologies.

Written by the President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and a leading health care journalist, this groundbreaking book examines how leading organizations in the United States are pursuing the Triple Aim improving the individual experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per capita cost of care.

Packed with information, advice and learning activities, this book tells you what you need to know about drugs, young people's drug use, and how you can help them stay safe.

This book seeks to represent the main concepts and theories related to psychoneuroimmunology with the aim of their application in clinical settings and formation of novel theories to further elucidate the mutual connection of the psyche and the physiology of humans' body.

Significant progress in engineering has allowed the production of devices that can optically detect, differentiate and treat surface or near-surface cancers.

While applied epistemology has been neglected for much of the twentieth century, it has seen emerging interest in recent years, with key thinkers in the field helping to put it on the philosophical map.

This book, the second of the two volumes, continues to chart the ways in which psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been implemented, developed and researched within the public sectors of six different countries around the world.

The Dictionary for Human Factors/Ergonomics is a major compilation of the basic terminology in the field of ergonomics.

This book is a clinician's guide to understanding, diagnosing, treating, and healing complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD).