Medicine and Nursing

This new edition of a very successful textbook provides an up-to-date, broad and authoritative introduction to studying health.

Traditionally only those physicians with many years of experience in a particular speciality chose to commit their accumulated knowledge to print for general consumption.

Institutions--like education, family, medicine, culture, and law--, are powerful social structures shaping how we live together.

Multiple Sclerosis and CNS Inflammatory Disorders is a practical guide to effective care of patients with multiple sclerosis and other neuroimmunologic and CNS inflammatory disorders.

Managing the Drug Discovery Process: How to Make It More Efficient and Cost-Effective thoroughly examines the current state of pharmaceutical research and development by providing chemistry-based perspectives on biomedical research, drug hunting and innovation.

An understanding of mechanisms underlying seizure disorders depends critically on the insights provided by model systems.

Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology.

This book advises the reader on the mechanics of starting a basic science research career as an academic surgeon.

This book reviews key recent advances and new frontiers within psychiatric research and clinical practice.

Atherosclerosis is the most significant cause of cardiovascular disease worldwide.

Capital punishment is one of the more controversial subjects in the social sciences, especially in criminal justice and criminology.

This book continues to be the definitive reference on drug metabolism with an emphasis on new scientific and regulatory developments.

Advances in Parasitology, Volume 99, the latest in a series first published in 1963, contains comprehensive and up-to-date reviews on all areas of interest in contemporary parasitology.

This book discusses the emergence of diverse functional organizations in the visual pathway which could be spontaneously and solely initiated by the random feedforward wiring of neural circuits.

Practices of cosmetic surgery have grown exponentially in recent years in both over-developed and developing worlds.

Each volume of Advances in Pharmacology provides a rich collection of reviews on timely topics.

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Children, particularly those on the autism spectrum, are able to acquire communication skills much more easily when their learning incorporates movement.

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support in Secondary Schools is a humanistic guide used to produce reliable human capital outputs while ensuring the promotion of socially just practices on campus.

This book claims that a tragicomic outlook-the kind that echoes in black and gallows humour and the "e;laughter through tears"e; of Jewish humour-is the most effective way to manage what Freud called the "e;harshness"e; of everyday life.

This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care.

This handbook examines the wide-ranging applications of positive psychology in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities.

This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery System.

From pediatric to the elderly, from contractible to refractive, epilepsy is an illness that manifests in many forms and across a range of demographics.

This international collection examines a wide range of psycho-social aspects of AIDS and HIV infection, including prevention, education, healthcare and policy in terms of gender challenges.

The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a serious global pandemic in just one year.

What are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature?

It hardly seems that three years have passed since the publication of the first edition of Allergic Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment.

It is well known that fats, proteins, and carbohydrates are all energy-yielding nutrients that influence health and physical performance.

Bringing together thousands of the best dermatologic clinical and pathological photographs and figures from researchers and scientists around the world, this volume focuses on the most prevalent dermatologic disorders as they relate to cutaneous anatomy, general dermatologic concepts, and biology and inherited disorders.

Full translation together with detailed introduction, commentary and discussion of terminology.

Sobotta - More than just an Atlas: Learn, Understand and Test your Knowledge Sobotta Atlas 'Volume 3 focuses on the Head, Neck and Neuroanatomy providing in-depth insights into the human head, it's structures, organs and circulatory, as well as, nervous systems to students and professionals alike.

This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic.

Awarded the book prize for 2012 by the Australasian Journal on Ageing!

While most people find it relatively easy to manage their possessions, some find it extremely difficult.

The Society for Life History Research in Psychopathology is a group of investigators from many disciplines who share an interest in studying the longitudinal aspects of psychiat- ric disorder.

Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective offers a clinically based framework through which adult survivors of early childhood trauma can re-engage with painful past events to create meaningful futures for themselves.

In the last six years, Colorado has seen a population boom reminiscent of the state's first few years of settlement.

The entire infrastructure and culture of medicine is being transformed by digital technology, the Internet and mobile devices.

The optimal management of breast cancer patients relies on the expertise of a team of medical specialists including radiologists, surgeons, radiation therapists and medical oncologists.

This is the first book to provide a multidisciplinary and global overview of evidence-based sexuality education (SE) programs and practices.

This book provides a critical and comprehensive review of the methodologies available for measuring drug adherence in clinical practice, including those relying on emerging technologies.

Voice Work Second Edition The voice is one of the fundamental modes of self-expression, a key touchstone of identity and sense of self.

This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space.

This book provides an update on recent clinical practice and an in-depth view of selected topics relevant to hospital medicine.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the state-of-the-art in cardiovascular computing and highlights novel directions and challenges in this constantly evolving multidisciplinary field.