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.
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.
New Ways of Thinking about Nursing
The research-based, technical approach to nursing is failing our patients, students, and profession. This book challenges the assumptions of modern evidence-based practice, proposing a person-centred philosophy of nursing that addresses the needs of each individual patient.
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.
Relating the achievements of women dental professionals in the 100 years since (some) women first achieved the right to vote in the UK, this volume profiles women working in all aspects of dentistry during the period, and celebrates those who are a credit to their profession.
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.
Written by neurosonology experts, this volume details the ‘science’ and ‘art’ of performing these tests. With representative cases from clinical practice, it serves as a reference for sonographers and neurologists on transcranial Doppler and cervical duplex exams.
This collection of essays addresses the absence of African voices in global bioethics. It explores issues from medical research and traditional medicine to reproductive health, showing how universal bioethics can be firmly anchored in local, continental realities.
This book investigates how stress causes life-threatening diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s, and what you can do to save yourself. A neurologist reveals that cutting the nerve supply to the adrenal glands can prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
Indicative of the fast-developing field, this comprehensive new edition on aspects of audiology discusses important changes in standards and codes of practice. Simple diagrams and photographs are provided, and the text includes more diversity and detail than previous editions.
Transdisciplinarity and Translationality in High Dilution Research
Evidence for the biological effects of high dilutions is often ignored by the scientific community. This book provides direct access to the latest research, offering a sound, evidence-based “no” to the question: “Is homeopathy really that implausible?” An essential contribution.
Psychopathology and Atmospheres
The notion of “atmosphere”—a sensorial, affective quality that determines how we experience a space—is a growing topic of scientific debate. This is the first book to link atmospheres and psychopathology, proposing a new, field-based paradigm for clinical work.
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.
Roman Military Medicine
An illuminating text on the understudied topic of medicine and its use in the Roman military, this study explores the workings of the ancient healthcare system, the methods of care by its physicians, and the treatments it offered for different ailments and injuries.
Infections in Hematology
With resistance to antibiotics growing and new forms of infectious diseases emerging, the findings of this text—which draws on extensive clinical experience and the results of modern research to identify new directions in the field—are particularly timely.
Perinatal Bonding Disorders
The difficulties in perinatal bonding are one of the most important but unduly neglected issues in the perinatal mental health field. Introducing the latest available knowledge, the volume is a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians, and associated professionals.
Voice Ergonomics
A well-functioning voice is part of the professional skills needed in many occupations. Voice Ergonomics offers background knowledge and concrete guidelines on how to improve communication environments and practices for decreasing voice loading.
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.
This publication asks whether FODMAPs have contributed to the rapid rise of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease in Japan, showing that the disease can be improved by a strict diet based on a deep understanding of the patient and their diet.
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