Environmental Medicine

Imagine living in a box at the bottom of the sea for a month at a time. Locked away in a saturation chamber, plumbed to depths of more than 500 fee...

The World Health Organization estimates that about 2.9 billion workers around the world are regularly exposed to risks at their workplace. Therefor...

In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, the...

During the last four decades, tremendous advances have been made towards the understanding of transport characteristics of contaminants in soils, s...

POLITICS OF OCCUPATION-CENTRED PRACTICE Reflections on occupational engagement across cultures Politics of Occupation-Centred Practice: Reflections...

This fully updated third edition of the classic text, widely cited as the most important and useful book for health engineering and disease prevent...

Occupational skin diseases are a field of increasing interest in today''''s dermatology. Due to rapid developments in several areas of modern indus...

The Oxford Textbook of Medicine: Infection is selected from the infection section of the renowned Oxford Textbook of Medicine, Fifth Edition. The ...

Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversariespanic, exhaustion, heat, noiseand introduces us to the scientists ...

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 20th Edition, is the must have resource for anyone in the field of public health. Every chapter has been r...

Sarah Thebarge, a Yale-trained physician assistant, nearly died of breast cancer at age twenty-seven, but that did not end her deeply felt spiritua...

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize The most entertaining writer in science The Times, Books of the Year Wa...

Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversariespanic, exhaustion, heat, noiseand introduces us to the scientists ...

When the last deep coal mine in Britain closed in 2016 it marked the end of the most transformative era in the history of mankind. In writing this ...

New emerging diseases, new diagnostic modalities for resource-poor settings, new vaccine schedules . all significant, recent developments in the fa...

There are about 8 million deaths each year from neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the underdeveloped world, whilst drug discovery focus and pra...

Malaria is the leading parasitic infectious disease in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in terms of morbidity, hospitalisation and mortality. Pregnant wome...

We live in unprecedented times - the Anthropocene - defined by far-reaching human impacts on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planet...

Travel medicine is accepted as a unique subspecialty in medicine. With more persons travelling to tropical and subtropical destinations, travel med...

Hypothermia is the condition in which human body temperature drops below the normal range. The decrease in temperature affects all physiological sy...

This highly practical guide is ideal for any medical professional who deals with the aerospace environment or is involved in the healthcare of airc...

Concepts, procedures and programs described in this book make it possible for readers to solve both simple and complex equilibria problems quickly ...