How do we make rational decisions in medicine with contradictory data? This interdisciplinary book explores the scientific and ethical issues of proof, questioning the value of physicians’ experience, the relevance of data, and the reliability of biomedical knowledge.
Creative Teaching Strategies for Pre-Licensure Nursing Curricula offers teaching strategies that engage students beyond lectures. Incorporating the sciences, arts, and humanities provides a holistic approach to enhance student learning, improve outcomes, and boost satisfaction.
Concepts and Issues in Healthcare Ethics
This book gives healthcare professionals practical help with ethical dilemmas. With a playful, accessible approach, it provides philosophical tools and discusses practical cases to stimulate creative inquiry and guide students and professionals in providing good care.
For students and dental professionals, this text illustrates important concepts in dental anatomy and occlusion. It presents a step-by-step wax build-up technique to guide the fabrication of dental restorations with optimal longevity, aesthetics and function.
A Comprehensive Guide to the Biology of Cancer
This comprehensive guide to the biology of cancer covers its causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Written in accessible language, it is a must-read for students, laypeople, and anyone wanting to understand one of humanity’s most devastating diseases.
Electroencephalogram Signal Analysis
This book assists medical diagnosis and clinical decision-making. It shows how neuronal networks and machine learning are useful for EEG signal analysis, covering epileptic cerebral activity localisation and a parallel implementation for EEG artefact rejection.
This book analyses clinical encounters through an interpreter from a new point of view. It explores the difficulties in multilingual medical communication, revealing why the risk of misunderstanding is significantly higher in trilingual than in bilingual communication.
Explore the interplay between oral health and respiratory well-being. This groundbreaking book unveils the significance of biomarkers in diagnosing and managing periodontal and respiratory diseases, bridging the gap between periodontology and respiratory medicine.
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.
Urethral Function During a Woman’s Lifetime
This book provides up-to-date insights into urethral function with unique histologic images. It summarizes risk factors and correlates objective data with hormonal alterations during pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause. A reference for all professionals in women’s health.
This book provides a detailed overview of sympathetic surgery, from its state-of-the-art techniques to controversies. It covers the anatomical background, indications, and complications, with a focus on overperspiration and the major side effect, compensatory sweating.
This book explores the complexities of ethics and plagiarism in medical research. Plagiarism is often framed in narrow terms, but its consequences are complicated by the internet. This text helps readers understand how to scrutinize language in scientific writing and publishing.
This book critically examines the US COVID-19 crisis, arguing the nation’s response was out of proportion to the actual threat. This led to needless suffering, driven by the misrepresentation of public science by government officials and the news media.
A temporary heart valve is a novel, lifesaving option during acute valvular failure when open-heart surgery is not readily available. This textbook introduces a first-of-its-kind temporary aortic valve catheter, providing a summary of its modeling and preclinical validations.
Delve into the genetic ties between periodontitis and respiratory disease. This book elucidates shared genetic risk factors, enabling personalized treatment strategies for improved patient outcomes and empowering researchers and healthcare professionals.
The Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
A century of science couldn’t stop the COVID-19 pandemic, a wake-up call for humanity. This book consolidates the latest research on the continuously evolving SARS-CoV-2 virus, providing essential knowledge on a global threat that proved we remained vulnerable.
This well-researched text covers laboratory and diagnostic procedures in malariology. Born out of years of laboratory practice, it shows a meticulous attention to detail and is highly recommended to laboratory practitioners, biomedical and medical students alike.
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.
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.
This book explores modern applications of Quality by Design (QbD) and green analytical chemistry in pharmaceutical development. It reveals how to apply QbD principles in process development and quality control to improve product quality and ensure process sustainability.
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