Suicide is a leading cause of death globally, especially in young people. The most successful prevention methods are at the grassroots level, involving everyone. This book explores current and outdated perceptions of suicide and presents novel approaches and tools to prevent it.
The Climate and COVID-19
This book explores the critical link between climate and the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides insights into the pandemic’s biological trends, the challenges for frontline workers, and debates future forecasts and the transition back to normalcy.
The Clinical Presentation of Parkinson’s Disease and the Dyadic Relationship between Patients and Carers
This book offers a study of Parkinson’s disease, focusing on the neuropsychological changes that impact patients and their carers. It emphasizes the patient-carer relationship, providing explanations and strategies to alleviate the difficult aspects of care-giving.
The Complete History of Plague in Norway, 1348-1654
This unique book provides a complete history of the entire Second Plague Pandemic in Norway, from the Black Death to 1654. It studies how plague epidemics evolve by comparing their spread and dynamics in late medieval society versus early modern society.
The Complex Architecture and Healing of Traumatic Brain Injuries
Through compelling doctor-patient dialogues, each chapter presents a case study on healing traumatic brain injuries and other maladies of the mind. This ground-breaking book explores the difficult process of putting a person’s “sense of self” back together after such injuries.
This concise guide simplifies the immune system, providing a clear overview of the body’s defence mechanisms. It covers immune cells, antigen response, autoimmunity, and the latest developments in immunotherapy. Multiple-choice questions enhance understanding.
Neuro-intervention is one of medicine’s most exciting specialties, but it can be a source of misfortune. This book shows that problems in the field are not outlying incidents, but are systemic, insidious, and ubiquitous issues affecting research, education, and publications.
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Spasticity
An updated practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of spasticity, authored by experienced physicians. It provides tips and tricks to help both GPs and specialists safely provide patients with the most convenient treatment.
This book emphasizes the role of the extracellular matrix in regulating cell growth and death. It presents promising findings that trace elements Zn, Se, and Mn can inhibit the progression of colorectal cancer, offering hope for their potential therapeutic use in CRC patients.
This book focuses on community-based health care, with community health workers as a critical workforce. It explores case studies and techniques for successful community engagement, showing why understanding people’s perspectives is vital to health improvement.
This book reviews platelet rich plasma therapy, covering its preparation, controversies, and its future combined with stem cells. It explores how PRP’s growth factors enhance the body’s healing capacity. For dermatologists, plastic surgeons, orthopedicians, and physicians.
The Enlightenment of Evolutionary Medicine
This book applies evolutionary theory to human physiology, disease, and culture. It reveals how maladaptation causes modern diseases like obesity and diabetes, and how evolutionary principles now guide the development of new drugs and cancer therapies.
The Faith Sector and HIV/AIDS in Botswana
Based on field research by scholars, this book covers the role of various religions in the struggle against HIV/AIDS in Botswana, once the world’s worst-affected country. It is for all who address HIV and AIDS, not just those studying religion.
This jargon-free book explores immunology by resolving its central paradoxes. The resulting framework offers a powerful platform for preventing and treating autoimmunity, cancer, and infectious diseases, providing a platform for debate for general readers and researchers alike.
The Future of Post-Human Language
Does language delimit our mental world? Conventional views are misleading. This book provides a new way to understand the nature of learning that transcends the debate, with seminal implications for the future of how we think, feel, and do.
This comprehensive but simple manual addresses frequent and rare emergencies in hand surgery. Written by experienced hand surgeons, this guide covers the management of a variety of conditions, from a nailbed injury to an amputation or a gunshot wound.
The Hepatitis E Virus
Describing an English doctor’s contribution to the discovery of the hepatitis E virus’ (HEV) impact in humans, this account includes stories from an increasingly under pressure health service and puts the dubious practices of the meat production industry under the spotlight.
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.
The History of Medicine and Healthcare
This well-illustrated volume covers topics such as the history of psychiatry, biomedical ethics, and public health. Of special note is a paper by internationally renowned historian Dr Peter L. Twohig.
This book chronicles the journey of the Epilepsy Society of Australia, from humble beginnings to a leading professional body. It details the society’s growth, its role in advancing knowledge and technology, and its contribution to training some of the world’s leading experts.
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