The Art and Science of Compassion, A Primer: Reflections of a Physician-Chaplain
Agnes M.F. Wong
The Art and Science of Compassion, A Primer is designed as a short, “all-in-one,” introductory text that covers the full gamut of compassion, from the evolutional, biological, ...
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ASAM Handbook of Addiction Medicine (2 edn)
Darius Rastegar and Michael I. Fingerhood (eds)
This book is a concise, evidence-based guide to the treatment of individuals with substance use disorders. It is an update to the 2015 edition and is targeted to nonspecialist clinicians ...
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Basaglia's International Legacy: From Asylum to Community
Tom Burns and John Foot (eds)
Italian Law 180 of 1978 is probably the most radical Mental Health Act ever passed. It forbade the admission of any new patients to mental hospitals forthwith and called for the rapid ...
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The Benzodiazepines Crisis
John Peppin, Joseph V. Pergolizzi, Robert B. Raffa, and Steven L. Wright (eds)
When properly prescribed, benzodiazepines and related “Z” drugs, are usually safe and effective. However, some patients experience lack of efficacy, severe adverse effects, and/or ...
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Bipolar Disorder
Stephen M. Strakowski, Melissa P. DelBello, Caleb M. Adler, David E. FleckStephen M. Strakowski
Bipolar disorder is a common psychiatric condition that is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. As a dynamic, recurrent, and chronic illness, it can be complex to identify and ...
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C. Miller Fisher: Stroke in the 20th Century
Louis R. Caplan
Abstract: When Charles Miller Fisher was born in 1913, there was little scientific knowledge about brain diseases and their treatment. Views of stroke, one of the most common and most ...
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Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Intervention (2 edn)
Andrew Mitchell, Giovanni Luigi De Maria, and Adrian Banning (eds)
Cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography are both key components to routine cardiology practice. This new edition of Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Intervention has been fully ...
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Cardiothoracic Critical Care
Brigid Flynn, Natalia S. Ivascu, Vivek K. MoitraBrigid Flynn, , and Alan Gaffney (eds)
Practicing critical care entails understanding human physiology, pharmacokinetics, and molecular pathways in concert with adherence to evidence-based literature. Some may say combining all ...
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Care of the Acutely Ill Adult (2 edn)
Fiona Creed and Christine Spiers (eds)
The new edition of Care of the Acutely Ill Adult enables nursing staff to develop an in-depth understanding of the knowledge required to care for patients whose condition is deteriorating. ...
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Caring for the Family Caregiver
Elaine Wittenberg, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra L. Ragan, and Terri Ann Parnell
This remarkable work reveals the plight of the family caregiver in chronic illness through the prism of communication. Examining the high cost and poorly addressed exigencies of the ...
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Challenging Concepts in Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease in the Young: A Case-Based Approach with Expert Commentary
Salim Jivanji and Michael Rigby (eds)
Challenging Concepts in Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease in the Young contains a series of challenging concepts in paediatric cardiology covering all subspecialty areas, including ...
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Challenging Concepts in Paediatric Critical Care: Cases with Expert Commentary
Hari Krishnan, Miriam R. Fine-Goulden, Sainath Raman, and Akash Deep (eds)
This textbook, ‘Challenging concepts in paediatric critical care’, has been designed to cater to the needs of paediatric intensivists, current trainees and those intending to train in the ...
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Cinema, MD: A History of Medicine On Screen
Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
Cinema, MD argues that within cinema there is a history of medicine—one version in the many different histories of medicine. How did filmmakers write a history of medicine? ...
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The Cognitive Autopsy: A Root Cause Analysis of Medical Decision Making
Pat Croskerry
Behind heart disease and cancer, medical error is now listed as one of the leading causes of death. Of the medical errors that lead to injury and death, diagnostic failure is regarded as ...
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The Complete Recovery Room Book (6 edn)
Anne Craig and Anthea Hatfield
New technologies are increasingly available for patient care but simple ‘tried and true’ old fashioned methods are still essential. The care that a patient receives in the first hours after ...
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Congress of Neurological Surgeons Essent
Najib E. El TEcle, Tarek Y. El Ahmadieh, Salah G. Aoun, and Bernard Bendok (eds)
This book presents a collection of critically appraised neurosurgical papers that shed light on some of the most impactful studies in the history of neurosurgery. Papers that have shaped ...
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Convergence Mental Health: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Innovation
Harris A. Eyre, Michael Berk, Helen Lavretsky, and Charles Reynolds (eds)
The world is in the throes of a global health, economic, and mental health crisis with severe physical, societal, and economic ramifications. Modern mental health problems are characterized ...
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Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health
Jaime BreilhNancy Krieger
This book provides a groundbreaking approach to critical epidemiology for understanding the complexity of the health process and studying the social determination of health. It presents a ...
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Deep Brain Stimulation: A Case-based Approach
Shilpa Chitnis, Pravin Khemani, and Michael S. Okun (eds)
The fundamental principles of deep brain stimulation treatment are derived from decades of empirical and experiential observations. Through a case-based approach, this book is an effort to ...
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Diabetic Retinopathy: Screening to Treatment (Oxford Diabetes Library) (2 edn)
Ramesh R. Sivaraj and Paul M. Dodson (eds)
Background diabetic retinopathy (DR) can involve several different microvascular pathologies, which will be explained with example images. These include microaneurysms, haemorrhages, ...
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