Medicine: General Issues

ECHNOLOGICAL PROSPECTS AND SOCIAL APPLICATIONS SET Coordinated by Bruno SalguesThere are many controversies with respect to health crisis managemen...

Explores the human impacts on environment that lead to serious ecological crises, an innovative resource for students, professionals, and researche...

In a globalized economy where work is increasingly tenuous, the safety, health, and well-being of workers has become a matter of some urgency for ...

AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho, where a quarter of adults are infected, the wide-ranging implications of the di...

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An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging   With no k...

PREDICTING HEART FAILURE Predicting Heart Failure: Invasive, Non-Invasive, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Based Methods focuses on th...

In 1949, the Communist Party of China pledged that its approach to health care would differ markedly from that of the former Nationalist government...

This concise primer shows clinical health psychologists how to assess and treat adults suffering from chronic respiratory disease. It provides bas...

During the apartheid era, thousands of South African political activists, militants, and refugees fled arrest by crossing into neighbouring souther...

Recognized as the father of palliative care in North America, Balfour Mount facilitated a sea change in medical practice by foregrounding concern f...

'Stylish and exhilarating... from a wide-ranging mind and a profound humanity... inspiring' Hilary Mantel 'A wonderful series of meditations - cli...

In 1949, the Communist Party of China pledged that its approach to health care would differ markedly from that of the former Nationalist government...

This expanded, updated, and completely revised edition of The COVID-19 Catastrophe is the authoritative guide to a global health crisis that has co...

The health care system in Canada receives a great deal of international attention, but it is subject to considerable critique and debate locally. H...

NEW: This text is now accompanied by an enriched eBook at no additional cost. These enrichments include unit quizzes, an interactive glossary, flas...

In an era when capitalism leaves so many to suffer and to die, with neoliberal 'self-care' offering little more than a bandaid, how can we take hea...

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANES A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAIL AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S ...

Scientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed lan...

This is the first book to fully review the Mexican health system, its organization and governance, health financing, health care provision, health ...

Give up smoking and vaping for good Most people know that smoking is bad for their health and believe vaping is a better alternative. Now, vaping h...

This expanded, updated, and completely revised edition of The COVID-19 Catastrophe is the authoritative guide to a global health crisis that has co...

WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNCIMAN AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 A SPECTATOR ...

In Sight is a memoir about how a love of science and discovery drove Julia Levy, a celebrated scholar and biotech CEO, to work her way through gend...

Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from an...

A global view of health offers a richer understanding of ways of measuring, improving and sustaining health both in individual national settings an...

The two-volume Emergency Medical Services: Clinical Practice and Systems Oversight delivers a thorough foundation upon which to succeed as an EMS m...

Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from an...

AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in La...

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANES A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAIL AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S ...

Explore real women’s tales of healthcare trauma and medical misogyny with this meticulously researched, in-depth examination of the women’s health ...

Das Buch umfasst alles Wissenswerte von der Diagnose bis zum Leben mit Zöliakie. Die Autorin macht auf die Risiken aufmerksam und gibt wertvolle Ti...

Health Program Planning and Evaluation: A Practical, Systematic Approach for Community Health, Fifth Edition carefully walks the reader through the...

From humble beginnings as a `barefoot boy’ in a small town in the heart of South Africa, he learned to mix with presidents and prime ministers, wit...