Medicine and Nursing

Neurology: A Clinician's Approach teaches a symptom-oriented approach to the 20 most common problems which face neurologists in training.

In the 1980s the relationship between alcohol and aggression and violence was a controversial one.

The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.

Since The Cleveland Clinic Manual of Headache Therapy published, new guidelines and therapies have emerged.

Leading economists, including three Nobel prize winners, evaluate ten serious global challenges.

Trauma research and clinical practice have taught us much about the widespread problems of child maltreatment, partner violence, and sexual assault.

Recent scientific evidence points to the origins of childhood obesity as an outcome of the dynamic interplay of genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors throughout early development, with a compelling body of evidence suggesting that both maternal and paternal nutritional and other exposures affect a child's risk of later obesity.

This book presents a comprehensive set of methods for quantifying geometric quantities such as the volume of a tumor, the total surface area of the alveoli in a lung, the length of plant roots, or of blood vessels, the number of neurons in a brain compartment, the connectivity number of trabecular bone, the mean size of grains in a rock, etc.

In this compilation, the authors review the biological aspects of myelodysplastic syndrome disease, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as innovations involving genetics and new treatment perspectives.

In this multidisciplinary book, the editor and contributors provide the most accurate and most recent information on health and health care in the State of Mississippi.

Trauma in Schools and Communities uses the power of first-hand, autobiographical narratives to illustrate the advantages and pitfalls of specific interventions implemented in the wake of tragedies.

This book considers that contextual factors are important for the achievement of social justice and it recognizes that vulnerability to which children are exposed is a phenomenon throughout the planet, particularly in the South.

Safety pharmacology is the evaluation and study of the pharmacological effects of a potential drug that are unrelated to the desired therapeutic effect.

A career in emergency medicine can be truly rewarding, despite the long hours and adverse conditions.

This novel and informative book discusses the various aspects of seafood quality.

Polymers are one of the most versatile and important materials used for capsule preparation despite various others available.

Das Multiorganversagen stellt eine der größten Herausforderungen in der Intensivmedizin dar.

A concise overview of the fundamental concepts of cancer biology for those with little or no background in the field.

Clean root canal systems are essential for successful endodontic treatment.

This book presents a comprehensive integrative theory and style of therapeutic involvement that reflects a relational and non-pathological perspective.

An unusually detailed examination of conversation analysis from a psychotherapy perspective.

Due to the complicated nature of using art and art materials in clinical practice, art therapists are often confronted with ethical considerations that are unique to their field.

Die zu der Sammlung der hippokratischen Schriften gehörende Abhandlung nimmt im Corpus eine Sonderstellung ein, da sie mit ziemlicher Sicherheit einem bestimmten Autor zugewiesen werden kann: Polybos, dem Schüler und Schwiegersohn des Hippokrates.

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

Here is an informative guide to help directors and staff of residential treatment centers (RTCs) cope with the financial and administrative problems resulting from today's financially turbulent times.

The healing properties of colour and light have been recognised since ancient times; today colour therapy techniques are used to great effect in a range of complementary therapies and for personal wellbeing.

With economic winter facing many healthcare and health education budgets, the high costs of medical education are bringing it under close scrutiny.

Children's health has clearly improved over the past several decades.

The topic of heart failure although extensively researched and reported, has several gray areas.

Diet Evaluation: A Guide to Planning a Healthy Diet provides knowledge about diet and health along with an accurate and convenient way to assess the nutritional adequacy of individual and family diets.

In recent years, considerable research, as well as clinical guidelines based on study findings, has been published on the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Flexible Batteries highlights the key advances in flexible batteries, a booming new direction in the energy storage field.

In this lively and engaging work, Carolyn Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early years of the Cold War.

For most of the post-war period, alcohol problems had been viewed primarily as individual problems.

Children and Young People s Nursing at a Glance, is the perfect companion for study and revision for pre-registration children s nursing students from the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series.

Phagocytosis has been at the forefront of cell biology for more than a century.

Pericytes were originally discovered and named more than hundred years ago as contractile cells around the blood vessel endothelial cells.

This volume initiates a series devoted to theory and research in behavioral pedi- atrics.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life.

The topic of this book is the modeling of data uncertainty and knowledge for a health engineering problem such as the biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system.

Traumatic experiences may occur during pregnancy, during birth and in the early years of life.

Chris and Gisela have been partners for twelve years.

In einer umfassenden interdisziplinären Darstellung des Themas »Religion in der Psychiatrie« erörtert der Autor die pathologischen und gesunden Erscheinungsformen von Religion und Religiosität und die historische und aktuelle Position der Psychiatrie.

This practical manual provides a real-world educationally focused resource.

The goals of healthcare and health policy, and the health-related dilemmas facing policy makers, professionals, and citizens are extensively analysed and debated in a range of disciplines including public health, sociology, and applied philosophy.

This book presents the papers included in the proceedings of the 7th International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology 2023 (IRICT 2023) that was held in Pulai Springs Resorts, Johor, Malaysia on 27-28, December 2023.

The Art and Science of Dance/Movement Therapy offers both a broad understanding and an in-depth view of how and where dance therapy can be used to produce change.

Spanning six decades, this collection, Journeys in Psychoanalysis: The selected works of Elizabeth Spillius, traces the arc of her career from anthropology and entering psychoanalysis 'almost by accident', to becoming one of her generation's leading scholars of Melanie Klein.