A Healthy Life on a Healthy Planet
We think pollution only affects the environment, but disease rates are rising. This book explains how our health depends on the environment, demystifying how pollutants from carbon fuels and pesticides affect us and what we can do about it.
40 Years After In Vitro Fertilisation
Marking the 40th anniversary of IVF, this collection gathers its principal actors to summarize the technique’s achievements, current state, and future. It provides a passionate story of IVF’s evolution, understandable to health professionals and the lay public alike.
Glucose transporters are vital for metabolism, and disturbances in their function can be fatal. This book discusses the link between these proteins and disease, including their potential as an anticancer and antidiabetic therapeutic target.
Italy’s 1978 Psychiatric Reform closed all psychiatric hospitals, a move praised worldwide. But this transition had notable setbacks. This book provides a much-needed appraisal, highlighting the reform’s often-overlooked shortcomings with a multi-faceted, independent viewpoint.
Our skin changes throughout our lives, responding to health, lifestyle, and our surroundings. As it often deteriorates in cold weather, this book explores why this happens and what we can do about it, connecting skin with our lifestyle, wellbeing, and environment.
This book summarizes 50 years’ work on dinitrosyl iron complexes (DNIC). After the discovery of nitrogen monoxide (NO) as a universal regulator in organisms, interest in DNIC grew. By donating NO, DNIC mimic its beneficial and detrimental effects and are its “working” form.
Dark Tales of Illness, Medicine, and Madness
A strange and mordant journey through the world of illness, doctors and patients. A forensic psychiatrist exposes the extremes of human nature in the dangerous relationships between them, revealing medical quacks, murders, and other crimes in the world of medicine.
Public fear of breast cancer obscures the facts. Treatments can increase other health risks, while fear itself can impair quality of life. This book explores the history and mystery of breast cancer, from Ancient Egypt to the future, to champion the totality of women’s health.
This book explores uncommon diseases, explaining their symptoms, diagnosis, causes, and treatment. This volume represents important introductory material for medical, pharmacy, and all other health science students.
Risk and Regulation at the Interface of Medicine and the Arts
This conference proceedings investigates how innovative performing arts can help to develop medical education and practice. It also offers an archive of a visual arts exhibition focused on surgical themes that ran alongside the conference.
Arts, Health and Wellbeing
This volume features contributions from leading UK researchers in the field of arts and health, including creative arts therapies, and will appeal to anyone practising or researching arts and health, in both hospitals and community settings.
Fluid Physiology
Inappropriate fluid therapy harms patients. For medical and veterinary practitioners, this book presents a new paradigm based on the revised Starling principle. It retires outdated views on colloids and focuses on volume kinetics for safer, evidence-based patient care.
Breast cancer treatments can induce cardiotoxicity, a risk linked to obesity. This book offers a practical approach for medical teams and patients, integrating modern cancer and heart failure treatments with healthy nutrition, physical activity, and stress management.
Clinical Expressive Arts Therapy in Theory and Practice
This volume makes a tremendous contribution to expressive arts therapy. It presents clear theoretical bases and applies in-depth psychological knowledge to practical cases, shedding light on clinical interventions that use art in psychotherapy for the professional community.
Hereditary Effects of Parental Lifestyle on the Health of Offspring
Parental and grandparental lifestyle choices can affect the health of their children and grandchildren. Eating habits, smoking, or drinking can “program” their offspring to be more susceptible to diseases, even if the children themselves adopt a healthy lifestyle.
This study, filling a gap in the qualitative literature on Reiki practice, provides an ethnographic portrayal of a particular group’s construction of well-being. Contributing to medical anthropology, the findings reveal health-related culturally situated ideas and practices.
The Age of Informed Consent
This book analyses the application of informed consent in continental Europe, comparing its evolution to the US/UK model. It addresses the practical difficulties of applying an imported concept without a proper analysis of the local cultural, social, and medical background.
Tuberculosis and Co-infection with HIV-AIDS
This exhaustive book on Tuberculosis incorporates the most recent research on its history, global spread, co-infection with HIV-AIDS, and novel therapies. Supplemented with figures, it helps students grasp the facts with full visualisation of the concepts.
Deriving from a medicine history conference, this set of proceedings comprises topics from areas such as the history of health care systems, medical sciences and public health. It is also well-illustrated with diagrams and images pertaining to the history of medicine.
This volume explores how healthcare can be improved by the humanities. Drawing on fiction, art, and history, it offers innovative perspectives on healing, illness, and patient care, showing why an interdisciplinary dialogue is needed to enrich both medicine and the humanities.
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