Medicine and Nursing

This new edition of a highly regarded classic midwifery text encourages critical thinking about the art and science of midwifery.

Provides practical guidance for the optimal organization and management of an IVF laboratory for successful embryo culture.

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This timely and exciting new book brings together for the first time the readily available choices of dietary supplements and their relationship to injury rehabilitation.

Fatigue is a condition spanning the breadth of human functioning in health and disease and is a central concern in sport and exercise.

The core of this three-volume book deals with damage-associated molecular patterns abbreviated "e;DAMPs"e;, which are unique molecules that save life and fight for survival of all organisms on this planet by triggering robust inflammatory/immune defense responses upon any injury, including those caused by pathogens such as viruses and bacteria.

Menschen mit Pflegebedarf und/oder Demenz sowie ihre Angehörigen favorisieren zunehmend kleinräumliche, alltags- und familiennahe Versorgungsformen wie ambulant betreute Wohngemeinschaften.

This volume addresses oxidant-reduction or redox and antioxidant sensitive molecular mechanisms and how they are implicated in different disease processes.

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

Narrative therapy is an exciting and evolving psychotherapeutic approach.

This edited volume examines the multiple dimensions of sustainability in the Circumpolar North, a territory facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges at the start of the 21st century.

Over the past two decades, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) emerged as a leading-edge method for helping parents improve their children's disruptive and oppositional behavior.

Data-Driven Quality Improvement and Sustainability in Health Care: An Interprofessional Approach provides nurse leaders and healthcare administrators of all disciplines with a solid understanding of data and how to leverage data to improve outcomes, fuel innovation, and achieve sustained results.

Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical questions than organ transplantation.

Japanese Kampo Medicines for the Treatment of Common Diseases - Focus on Inflammation provides researchers and clinicians with a current look at how Kampo medicines can be used to effectively treat inflammatory disorders.

Studying for a Foundation Degree in Health is designed to provide clear, relevant knowledge and to support appropriate skills development amongst students enrolled on foundation degree and equivalent level courses, in health and social care.

Das «Siebenstufige kognitiv-behaviorale Behandlungskonzept (SBK)» ermöglicht die Bearbeitung und Bewältigung traumatischer Erlebnisse.

This atlas comprehensively covers a wide range of pathologic processes and diseases, illustrated with 1,200 color photomicrographs and histologic correlations.

Published in 1997, this book traces the development of European Food Aid Policy from its inception in the 1960s through to the 1990s.

Dieses Buch vermittelt die optimale Grundlage für die Ausbildung und Praxis in der ganzheitlichen und kausalen Diagnostik und Therapie nach F.

Kids who have lived with the chaos of addiction are often relieved, but just as often confused, when a parent enters recovery.

Curated by the chief editor of the American Journal of Sexuality Education, this book presents engaging and accessible chapters that capture current and essential research findings from leaders in the sexuality education field.

Horse Pasture Management begins with coverage of the structure, function and nutritional value of plants, continuing into identification of pasture plants.

This volume presents a unique indepth examination of the effects that the popular approaches to management organizational change downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering had on a major hospital.

As people are living longer on average than ever before, the number of those with dementia will increase.

The rapid advances made in the study of the synthesis, structure and function of biological macromolecules in the last fifteen years have enabled scientists concerned with antimicrobial agents to achieve a considerable measure of understanding of how these substances inhibit cell growth and division.

This is a unique compilation, by experts worldwide, addressing how diabetes impacts the nervous system.

First puiblished in 1998, this book provides a professional and practical guide detailing social work interventions for people with dementia and their carers.

For young gay men who came of age in the United States in the 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was a formative experience in fear, hardship, and loss.

FORENSIC SCIENCE Forensic Science: Current Issues, Future Directions presents a comprehensive, international discussion of key issues within the forensic sciences.

This illustrated volume serves as a handy guide to diagnostic fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology of thyroid on liquid-based preparations (LBP).

This book presents the evidence-based treatments in the context of cognitive behavioral therapy and rehabilitation in various disorders in combination with the clinical experience of the author in private practice.

Identity Transformation and Posttraumatic Growth Following Traumatic Brain Injury and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder provides an autoethnographic qualitative study that portrays the author's recovery from a devastating life-changing event - a car crash resulting in the hybrid diagnosis of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), leading to posttraumatic growth (PTG) and identity transformation over a ten-year recovery period.

The Human Body: Linking Structure and Function provides knowledge on the human body's unique structure and how it works.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can develop at a young age and when it does, it can cause significant distress for the child and the family.

In recent years the contribution of drama to second language learning has grown internationally as a field of interest to both teachers and researchers.

Research shows that many adults with serious mental illness live with or maintain contact with their families.

Biological response modifiers are increasingly used in viral and cancer therapy.

This textbook describes in detail the process of cancer metastasis from a single cell in the primary site through its arduous journey to the sentinel lymph node as the main gateway and beyond to distant sites.

This book presents a detailed overview and critical evaluation of recent advances and remaining challenges in improving nutritional quality and/or avoiding the accumulation of undesirable substances in plants using a variety of strategies based on modern biological tools and techniques.

This organized text compiles, for the first time, the most useful normalization methods developed for interpreting microarray data.

The first book about Guided Participation written for nursesThis authoritative publication delivers an in-depth examination of Guided Participation (GP), a dynamic process of teaching and learning that parents and guardians have used for generations to help their charges become self-reliant.

This book discusses the new generation of integrated microfabricated devices, including DNA chips, Lab-on-a-Chip, microcapillary electrophoresis systems, biosensors, and microanalytical systems.

Significant numbers of physicists began working in association with hospitals following the discovery of X-Rays and radioactivity in the late 1890s.

Mädchen im Jugendalter sind häufig von einer Körperunzufriedenheit betroffen, die mit gesundheitlichen Risiken wie Diätverhalten und (sub-)klinischen Essstörungen assoziiert ist.