The Abraham Dilemma: A divine delusion
George Graham
The Abraham Dilemma: A Divine Delusion focuses on the topic of religious delusion - on the disorder's causes, contents, consequences, diagnosis and treatment. The title argues that we ...
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Apathy: Clinical and Neuroscientific Perspectives from Neurology and Psychiatry
Krista Lanctot and André Aleman
Apathy is characterized by loss of motivation, decreased initiative, and emotional blunting. It is highly prevalent in neurological and psychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, ...
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Axial Spondyloarthritis (Oxford Rheumatology Library)
Stefan Siebert, Raj Sengupta, and Alexander Tsoukas (eds)
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory arthritis affecting mainly the sacroiliac joints and spine, resulting in pain, stiffness, and reduced movement. Over the past decade ...
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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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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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Bioscience - Lost in Translation?: How precision medicine closes the innovation gap
Richard Barker
Medical innovation as it stands today is fundamentally unsustainable. There is a widening gap between what biomedical research promises and its current impact in terms of patient benefit ...
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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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Bridging the Gap: How Community Health Workers Promote the Health of Immigrants
Sally E. Findley and Sergio Matos
Bridging the Gap details the role, lessons, and effectiveness of community health workers (CHWs) in bringing health care to underserved immigrant communities. Combining education, advocacy, ...
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Child Health: A Population Perspective
Alice A. Kuo, Ryan J. Coller, Sarah Stewart-Brown, and Mitch Blair (eds)
Child Health: a Population Perspective provides students with a multifaceted overview of the importance of child health as a population health strategy. Child health considers the ...
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Climate Change and Public Health
Barry Levy and Jonathan Patz
Orchestrating and coordinating contributions from more than 75 selected public health specialists and environmental scientists, the editors have developed a concise and comprehensive ...
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Colorectal Surgery (2 edn)
Richard G Molloy, Graham J MacKay, Helen R Dorrance, and Patrick J O'Dwyer (eds)
The primary focus of this book is as a revision tool for general surgical trainees preparing for the FRCS examination, and in particular those declaring colorectal surgery as an area of ...
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Communication in Emergency Medicine
Maria E. Moreira and Andrew French (eds)
Widely varying patient needs, a wide provider mix, significant power differentials, and a heightened emotional state all contribute to barriers in communication in the medical field and all ...
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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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Concepts of Epidemiology: Integrating the ideas, theories, principles, and methods of epidemiology (3 ed.)
Raj S. Bhopal
Epidemiology is a population science that underpins health improvement and health care, and is concerned with the pattern, frequency, trends, and causes of disease. This book teaches its ...
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Current Topics in Occupational Epidemiology
Katherine Venables (ed.)
Current Topics in Occupational Epidemiology is an in-depth study of contemporary issues and emerging themes in the field. Divided into seven parts it discusses 'new' occupational diseases ...
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Diabetes Care: A Practical Manual (2 ed.)
Rowan Hillson
Diabetes is common, chronic, complicated, and costly. It causes distress, disability, and premature death. Most diabetes complications can be prevented or reduced. This new edition of ...
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Diabetes in Pregnancy (Oxford Diabetes Library)
Robert Lindsay (ed.)
Part of the Oxford Diabetes Library, this resource summarizes the key aspects of the medical management of diabetes during pregnancy, acting as a practical introduction particularly for ...
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Diagnosis: A Guide for Medical Trainees
Ashley Graham Kennedy
The process of clinical diagnosis—from establishing the patient–physician relationship to gathering evidence, to performing, evaluating, interpreting, and allocating diagnostic tests, to ...
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Disease Prevention: A Critical Toolkit
John Frank, Ruth Jepson, and Andrew J. Williams
Preventive medical interventions—and even non-medicalized public health programmes that implicitly promise health benefits in the future, from actions taken now—all carry a strong ethical ...
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Drug Use in Prisoners: Epidemiology, Implications, and Policy Responses
Stuart A, Kinner and Josiah D. Jody Rich (eds)
The majority of people who experience incarceration have a history of harmful alcohol, tobacco, and/or illicit drug use. Some discontinue use of these substances while in custody. ...
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