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 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 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.
18 Stories of the Skin
When disease tears our skin apart, the trauma is both physical and emotional. This book gathers patient stories to find the fundamental humanity, compassion, and empathy for those who suffer, seeking to dignify each life in the face of an illness that is not their fault.
Creativity, a Profile for Our Species
A profound reflection on the brain and mind. This book charts the search for talent in the brain, analyzing historical icons from Descartes to van Gogh, and features the author’s unique, direct analysis of Einstein’s brain tissue.
For healthcare professionals, the assessment of sarcopenia and frailty is essential to personalized medicine. This book provides practical assessment tools, reviews key findings from the literature, and suggests treatment modifications for frail patients across clinical settings.
Taichi Meets Motor Neuroscience
Is Taichi Chuan more than soft gymnastics? This book shows it is a master key for communication between Western and Eastern cultures. Defined as meditation in motion, it explores East-West points of convergence in cognitive neuroscience, embodied cognition, robotics, and dance.
Medical knowledge is not just for doctors. Since the principles of life are largely universal, studying human medicine reveals much about all living beings. Yet disease, an unavoidable part of existence for every species, is often treated as chaos beyond the laws of life.
Information Systems in Healthcare
This book examines the power of information systems (IS) to re-shape healthcare. Addressing demands for accountability, cost-effectiveness, and quality, it shows how IS can change management and offers a fresh look at the future of healthcare in the digital era.
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 guide is for caring for the cognitively impaired in professional and home settings. It provides information to study for the ICCPA certification exam, covering interventions for conditions like Sundowning to ensure the highest quality of life.
Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death, but its multidrug treatment often causes adverse effects. This practical clinical guide is for health personnel managing TB. It details drug side effects on the body’s systems and offers clear therapeutic strategies for their management.
This book advances an evidence-based, unifying view of sarcoidosis that accounts for its baffling features. It challenges prevailing premises on its nature, causation, and treatment by positing plausible mechanisms and sketching 20 fundamental questions for future investigation.
A lost science of medicine is resurfacing. This book explores “caves of healing”—metaphorical caverns in the body and the earth—to unfold a new map of medicine that integrates mind, body, and environment, reviving the role of consciousness in our health.
Health disparities in American Indians are severe and underappreciated. Edited by experts, including a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, this volume identifies the causes and solutions to this overlooked problem, with relevance for Indigenous People’s health around the world.
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.
The first deep dive into how social determinants of health fuel disparities for people with epilepsy. Through ground-breaking research into low-income communities, this book exposes the social and economic roots of inequity and charts a path toward health justice.
Neurosurgery before Science
This book traces the development of surgery from Hippocrates to the nineteenth century, analysing procedures like bloodletting and the myth of laudable pus. It demonstrates the profession’s resistance to new ideas, preferring accepted notions even when evidence confounds them.
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.
Acute Right Heart Failure
Acute right heart failure is a complex syndrome often overlooked in research. This book covers its precursors, from normal physiology to pathology, and offers comprehensive guidance on its early assessment and management based on current clinical and experimental trials.
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