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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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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Breast Disease Management: A Multidisciplinary Manual
James Harvey, Sue Down, Rachel Bright-Thomas, John Winstanley, and Hugh Bishop
Breast cancer affects 1 in 10 women and the majority of UK women will attend a breast clinic at least once during their lives. The patient's journey through assessment and management is one ...
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Compassion: The Essence of Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Philip J. Larkin
Compassion is a complex and multifaceted concept that has been explored from a range of cultural, philosophical, theological, and sociological perspectives. It can be considered a ...
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The EACVI Echo Handbook
Patrizio Lancellotti and Bernard Cosyns (eds)
Echocardiography has become the most requested imaging modalities. It is the first line imaging in the diagnostic work-up and monitoring of most cardiac diseases. Echocardiography is ...
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The EACVI Textbook of Echocardiography (2 ed.)
Patrizio Lancellotti, José Luis Zamorano, Gilbert Habib, and Luigi Badano (eds)
Echocardiography uses ultrasound waves to generate images of cardiovascular structures and to display information regarding the blood flow through these structures. Knowledge of basic ...
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The ESC Handbook of Preventive Cardiology: Putting Prevention into Practice
Catriona Jennings, Ian Graham, and Stephan Gielen (eds)
While acknowledging that cardiovascular disease prevention efforts must be complemented by societal and community-based strategies, this handbook focuses on practical strategies that can be ...
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Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection: A handbook for field professionals
Irene A. Kreis, Araceli Busby, Giovanni Leonardi, Jill Meara, and Virginia Murray (eds)
Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection guides front-line public health practitioners through the decisions they are likely to face when dealing with environmental ...
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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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Field Trials of Health Interventions: A Toolbox (3 ed.)
Peter G. Smith, Richard H. Morrow, and David A. Ross (eds)
Before new interventions are released into disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in `field trials'. These may be complex and expensive undertakings, ...
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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 Promotion: Ideology, Discipline, and Specialism
John Kemm
This online resource is a thorough examination of the field, advancing clear proposals for its development and future, as well as the theoretical background, historical context, or the ...
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Human Factors in Healthcare: Level Two
Debbie Rosenorn-Lanng
Building on Level One, this title of Human Factors in Healthcare continues to enhance and develop the SHEEP model, delving deeper into the challenges of leadership, conflict resolution, and ...
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Integrative Addiction and Recovery
Shahla Modir and George Munoz (eds)
Integrative Addiction and Recovery is a book discussing the epidemic of addiction that is consuming our friends, family, and community nationwide. In 2016, there were 64,000 ...
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Landmark Papers in Rheumatology
Richard A. Watts and David G. I. Scott (eds)
Rheumatic disease is a major cause of morbidity and disability in the Western world. There have been major developments in our understanding of the causes of rheumatic disease and in their ...
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Lean Behavioral Health: The Kings County Hospital Story
Joseph Merlino, Joanna Omi, and Jill Bowen (eds)
As the largest public healthcare system in the United States, the New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation adopted the principles of the Toyota Production System, or lean, as the ...
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Learning While Caring: Reflections on a Half-Century of Cancer Practice, Research, Education, and Ethics
Samuel B. Hellman
Learning While Caring is about what the author has learned during his half-century career as a cancer doctor. During this time, medicine has changed greatly. It has become more ...
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Living Longer, Living Better: Exploring the Heart-Mind Connection
Lionel H. Opie
Living Longer: The heart-mind connection is written for all those who strive for optimal long-term health and the maximal functioning of their hearts and minds. Today's problem for the ...
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