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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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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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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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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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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Echocardiography (3 edn)
Paul Leeson, Cristiana Monteiro, Daniel Augustine, and Harald Becher (eds)
Fully updated for its third edition, Echocardiography provides all of the essential information you need on echo acquisition, interpretation, and reporting in an easily readable and concise ...
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ESC Handbook of Cardiovascular Rehabilitation: A practical clinical guide
Ana Abreu, Jean-Paul Schmid, and Massimo Piepoli (eds)
There is a great deal of information available on why we should perform cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and in which type of patients. It has a permanent place in any book on secondary ...
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The ESC Textbook of Intensive and Acute Cardiovascular Care (3 edn)
Marco Tubaro, Pascal Vranckx, Susanna Price, Christiaan Vrints, and Eric Bonnefoy (eds)
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a major cause of premature death worldwide and a cause of loss of disability-adjusted life years. For most types of CVD early diagnosis and ...
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Exploiting Hope: How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Us--and Makes Us Vulnerable
Jeremy Snyder
One often hears stories of people in terrible and seemingly intractable situations who are preyed upon by individuals offering empty promises of help. Frequently these cases are condemned ...
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Goodman's Neurosurgery Oral Board Review (2 edn)
Allan D. Levi (ed.)
This book will educate and prepare neurosurgery candidates who are preparing for the Neurosurgery Oral Board exam. The book begins by initially describing the format of the new oral board ...
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Integrative Neurology
John W. McBurneyIlene S. RuhoyAndrew T. Weil
Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in alternative methods of treatment for many diseases. Physicians have recognized the limitations in the conventional use of ...
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Law and ethics in intensive care (2 edn)
Christopher Danbury, Christopher Newdick, Alex Ruck Keene, and Carl Waldmann (eds)
The practice of intensive care medicine raises multiple legal and ethical issues on a daily basis, making it increasingly difficult to know whom to admit and when, at what stage invasive ...
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Legal and Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine
Eileen F. Baker (ed.)
Part of the “What Do I Do Now?: Emergency Medicine” series, Legal and Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine uses a case-based approach to cover common and important topics in the legal and ...
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Mayo Clinic General Surgery
Jad M. Abdelsattar, Moustafa M. El Khatib, T. K. Pandian, Samuel J. Allen, and David R. Farley
This book presents the core concepts of general surgery instruction at Mayo Clinic. It was created to provide succinct and accurate information in a written, imaging, and audiovisual format ...
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Measuring the Global Burden of Disease: Philosophical Dimensions
Nir Eyal, Samia A. Hurst, Christopher J.L. Murray, S. Andrew Schroeder, and Daniel Wikler (eds)
In this volume, a group of leading philosophers, economists, epidemiologists, and policy scholars continue a twenty-year discussion of philosophical questions connected to the Global Burden ...
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Medicine for MRCP
Rupa Bessant, Jonathan Birns, and Charlotte Ford (eds)
Medicine for MRCP
provides a comprehensive review of the material that candidates need to pass the MRCP Parts 1 and 2 written papers. The 27 ...
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