Me and My Hormones
This jargon-free book offers a comprehensive account of hormone conditions affecting all ages. It covers common issues like puberty timing, thyroid disorders, diabetes, and weight, bringing clarity to how hormones impact your health, growth, and well-being.
The Success Rates and Limits of Reproductive Medicine
More couples are leaving children until later, not realising “later” can be “too late”. While many trust in reproductive medicine, the biological clock cannot be turned back. This book explains the medical facts: what fertility treatments can achieve, and what they cannot.
This book presents a humanistic framework for health promotion, arguing that the key is not to control behavior, but to cultivate autonomy. It reframes health as a matter of social justice—a moral endeavor to remove barriers so everyone can realize their innate capacities.
This volume covers cancer epidemiology, drug development, and therapies, presenting tools to assess side effects. It also explores patient quality of life, palliative care, and the global disparities that prevent equal access to diagnosis and treatment.
This textbook explains the mechanical properties of smooth muscle, a vital tissue implicated in diseases like high blood pressure and asthma. It is the only book with functional models and easy-to-follow mathematical derivations, linking the muscle cell to the laws of physics.
This book introduces human motor control and neuroplasticity, explaining how the nervous system adapts to physical activity, training, and rehabilitation. Integrating research with clinical applications, it is an essential text for students, researchers, and clinicians.
This book on comparative anatomy will be useful to medical and high school students. It provides a better understanding of phylogenetically determined anomalies and malformations in the development of internal organs in humans.
Food Safety, from Farm to Fork
This volume explores global food safety issues, presenting key findings from scientific studies. It details threats along the food chain—from pathogens, pesticides, and heavy metals to allergens—and shows how adhering to good practices is crucial in ensuring safe foods.
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.
This book reports on the current state and future of meristemotherapy (gemmotherapy). Based on clinical trials and research, it investigates preparation methods, collateral effects, posology, and administration methods.
This systematic, illustrated guide presents methods for bone marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy. It offers a step-by-step approach to obtaining and processing samples safely and effectively, with practical advice on resolving common problems and complications.
The Book of Chinese Medicine, Volume 1
This volume provides an overview of the history of Chinese medicine, from its earliest dynasties to the present day. It offers insights into the theory of body systems, how balance creates health, and the core concepts of Qi, meridians, and the diagnosis of diseases.
Learn how electrical pulses can make cancer treatment more efficient with fewer side effects. Successfully used with chemotherapy on over 3000 patients, this method doesn’t require high-tech resources, making it ideal for less-equipped healthcare settings.
This text leads the reader on an evolutionary journey through cancer pain, palliative care, and supportive care. It highlights new research in these fields, reflecting the link between clinical activity and scientific data.
This unique book by industry experts reveals the complexities of dermatological drug development. It covers topical, oral, and biologic drugs, explaining the unique clinical studies necessary and how to navigate negotiations with regulatory agencies like the FDA, EMA, and PMDA.
First Language Bidialectism in Second Language Interface Acquisition
This book helps separate language difference from disorder in multidialectal L2 learners. It offers empirical and theoretical support for linguists and speech-language pathologists, with valuable implications for teaching, assessment, and clinical practice.
This book challenges conventional views of infection, arguing that epidemics are irrevocably linked to culture, class, and power. Experts from diverse fields present a collaborative approach to find solutions that may determine whether people live or die.
Psychotherapy in Pain Management
This timely, neuroscience-based guide presents the Clinical Biopsychological Model for treating chronic pain. It offers novel strategies for addressing negative memories, interpersonal stressors, and depression, with detailed guidance for assessment and treatment.
Once considered mild, psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a potentially serious disease that is difficult to diagnose early. This book illustrates a systematic approach to accurate diagnosis, presenting typical and rare case studies for clinicians, patients, and their families.
An Introduction to Nutritional Medicine
Charles Darwin meets Hippocrates, the father of medicine. In this imagined dialogue, the two great thinkers provide a useful introduction to nutritional medicine, tackling controversial topics like supplements, probiotics, and how to define “junk food.”
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