This collection presents case studies and reflections on research bioethics from a Latin American perspective. It inspires comparative analyses of research with human subjects and explores the reception of global scientific ideas in the region.
This volume publishes work by emerging researchers in the history of medicine, exploring topics from medical classics and the effects of war to conceptions of blood. It features the paper by keynote speaker Dr Thomas Schlich and is well-illustrated.
This book introduces a new view of agility theory, offering experimental research and theoretical knowledge on both reactive and running agility. It also details a number of agility training methods and exercises.
Body Talk in the Medical Humanities
Drawing on insights from medical practitioners and researchers, this book asks fundamental questions about illness, the body, and healthcare. It explores pain, disability, and patient-doctor relationships to reveal how communication can improve ethical and relational practices.
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 It retires outdated views on colloids and focuses on volume kinetics for safer, evidence-based patient care.
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.
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 guide helps therapists and health professionals hone their clinical decision-making skills and provides the necessary tools to practice ethically.
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.
Women suffer from headaches far more than men. This text explores the dramatic new understanding of migraine, leading to more targeted treatments. It addresses key issues for women: hormonal changes, pregnancy, menopause, genetics, and comorbidities like stroke.
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.
Practical Cardiology Review
This book covers real and practical issues in cardiology. Each chapter features key point summaries and multiple-choice questions for self-assessment. Complete with comprehensive answers, real pictures, and charts, this guide is perfect for rapid review and easy learning.
Shell Shock Doctors
Shell shock was WWI’s signature injury. Military doctors witnessed psychiatric states never seen before, evolving interventions still in use today. This text reconsiders their forgotten writings. Neuropsychiatry was founded in the shell craters of Flanders.
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 book explores the lives of Hungarian Jewish doctors between the World Wars. It answers how these doctors treated patients while inmates themselves, and why so many Jewish youth chose the medical profession in Hungary.
A Global Compendium of Oral Health
This book summarizes 30 countries’ epidemiological profiles on tooth eruption and dental tissue anomalies. It introduces the full spectrum of anomalies, addresses teething myths and misconceptions, and maps what we currently know and what remains to be studied.
From Depression to Happiness
What do you do after symptoms of a mental disorder are controlled? How can you build a better life? Weaving together Positive Psychology and Aristotelian philosophy, this book details an approach to creating a path towards a flourishing life based on virtue and excellence.
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.
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.
A manual on constructing and using mathematical models of infectious disease transmission in animals. With veterinary examples, it shows how models inform disease control strategies, making it valuable for clinicians, policy makers, civil servants, and interested readers.
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