African Health Leaders: Making Change and Claiming the Future
Francis Omaswa and Nigel Crisp (eds)
Most accounts of health and healthcare in Africa are written by foreigners. African Health Leaders: Making Change and Claiming the Future redresses the balance. Written by Africans, who ...
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The Antibody Molecule: From antitoxins to therapeutic antibodies
Anthony R. Rees
The Antibody Molecule follows the extraordinary journey of the medics and scientists who shaped the course of medical advances in the field of immunology. One of the oldest of the medical ...
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Autism Spectrum Disorders
David Amaral, Daniel Geschwind, and Geraldine Dawson (eds)
Autism is an emerging area of basic and clinical research, and has only recently been recognized as a major topic in biomedical research, and is now an intense growth area in behavioral and ...
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Autonomic Failure: A Textbook of Clinical Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System (5 ed.)
Christopher J. Mathias and Sir Roger Bannister (eds)
This new edition of Autonomic Failure features numerous new chapters and makes diagnosis increasingly precise by fully evaluating the underlying anatomical and functional deficits, thereby ...
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Bandolier's Little Book of Making Sense of the Medical Evidence
Andrew Moore and Henry McQuay
This resource, written by world leaders in the field of evidence-based pain treatments, acts as a simple guide for people who wish to make sense of evidence in a healthcare setting and who ...
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Beyond Depression: A new approach to understanding and management (2 ed.)
Christopher Dowrick
This resource takes a critical insider's look at commonly held views about the diagnosis and management of depression, and argues that our belief in depression as a medical condition is ...
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Cardiac Anesthesia: A Problem-Based Learning Approach
Mohammed MinhajMagdalena Anitescu
Cardiac Anesthesia: A Problem-Based Learning Approach provides a comprehensive review of the dynamic and ever-changing field of cardiac anesthesia. Its problem-based format ...
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Challenging Concepts in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology: Cases with Expert Commentary
Amber Arnold and George Griffin (eds)
This online resource details over 30 challenging cases from a wide area of infectious diseases, medical microbiology and virology and includes topics ranging from typhoid fever to secondary ...
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Challenging Concepts in Oncology
Madhumita Bhattacharyya, Sarah Payne, and Iain McNeish (eds)
Providing the inside track on how the experts approach and deal with real-world clinical scenarios, Challenging Concepts in Oncology contains wide-ranging and in-depth reviews of ...
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Critical Appraisal of Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials (4 ed.)
Mark Elwood
This book presents a system of critical appraisal applicable to clinical, epidemiological and public health studies and to many other fields. It assumes no prior knowledge. The methods are ...
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Drugs in Psychiatry (2 ed.)
Basant K. Puri
The new edition of this resource summarizes essential information on all the major drugs currently used in clinical psychiatric practice via a discussion on drugs in psychiatry, the ...
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (4 ed.)
Alan E. H. Emery, Francesco Muntoni, and Rosaline C. M. Quinlivan
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, an inherited and progressive muscle wasting disease, is one of the most common single gene disorders found in the developed world. In this fourth edition of the ...
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Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials (2 ed.)
Henry A. Glick, Jalpa A. Doshi, Seema S. Sonnad, and Daniel Polsky
It is becoming increasingly important to examine the relationship between the outcomes of a clinical trial and the costs of the medical therapy under study. The results of such analysis can ...
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Essentials of Environmental Public Health Science: A Handbook for Field Professionals
Naima Bradley, Henrietta Harrison, Greg Hodgson, Robie Kamanyire, Andrew Kibble, and Virginia Murray (eds)
Assessing and addressing the risks of chemical hazards requires a sound knowledge of toxicology, environmental epidemiology, environmental science, health risk assessment, and public health ...
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Essentials of Toxicology for Health Protection (2 ed.)
David Baker, Lakshman Karalliedde, Virginia Murray, Robert Maynard, and Norman HT Parkinson (eds)
Essentials of Toxicology for Health Protection is ideal as both a course resource for students and a reference for field professionals involved in responding to chemical incidents and local ...
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From General Practice to Primary Care: The industrialization of family medicine
Steve Iliffe
This resource explores the many dimensions of the alleged industrialization of general practice as it has occurred to others in the past, and analyses the origins of the current wave of ...
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Global Mental Health: Principles and Practice
Vikram Patel, Harry Minas, Alex Cohen, and Martin Prince (eds)
The emergence of the discipline of global mental health as one of the most dynamic fields of global health underscores the need for this resource, which covers two major aspects of the ...
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Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth (3 ed.)
Murray Enkin, Marc Keirse, James Neilson, Caroline Crowther, Lelia Duley, Ellen Hodnett, and Justus Hofmeyr
This resource summarizes the most authoritative evidence available on the effects of care practices carried out during pregnancy, childbirth, and immediately after birth, and in addition to ...
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Health Measurement Scales: A practical guide to their development and use (5 ed.)
David L. Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman, and John Cairney
Health Measurement Scales is the ultimate online guide to developing and validating measurement scales that are to be used in the health sciences. It covers how the individual items are ...
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The History of a Genetic Disease: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy or Meryon's Disease (2 ed.)
Alan E. H. Emery and Marcia L. H. Emery
This resource traces the history of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in detail along with a commentary of Edward Meryon's research, which has led to our current understanding of the disease, ...
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