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Cover of A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought
by Chiara Thumiger
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017

The Hippocratic texts and other contemporary medical sources have often been overlooked in discussions of ancient psychology. They have been considered to be more mechanical and less detailed than poetic and philosophical representations, as well as later medical texts such as those of Galen. This...
Cover of Medical Parasitology
by Rohela Mahmud, Yvonne Ai Lian Lim, Amirah Amir
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018

This textbook will provide a systematic comprehension of the various medically important human parasites; their distribution, habitat, morphology and life cycle, pathogenesis and clinical features, laboratory diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control. The main emphasis is on the protozoan and helminthic...
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Complementary Medicine in Australia and New Zealand

Its popularisation, legitimation and dilemmas

by Hans Baer
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015

In the late nineteenth century on the eve of the formation of Australia as a nation-state in 1902, the Australian medical system could be best described as a pluralistic one in the sense that while regular medicine constituted the predominant medical system, it was not clearly the dominant one in...
Cover of Medical Professionals and the Organization of Knowledge
by Eliot Freidson, Judith Lorber
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

"Medical Professionals and Their Work" conveys how medical people shape and organize the knowledge, perception, and experience of illness, as well as the substance of illness behavior, its management, and treatment. It is now well established that the unique symbolic equipment of the human...
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Legislating Medical Ethics

A Study of the New York State Do-Not-Resuscitate Law

by Jonathan Bynum
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

Can medical ethics be legislated? Can a complex bioethical question be definitively answered through legislation? In July 1987 the New York State legislature experimented with legislating medical ethics by amending the state's public health law to regulate `Do Not Resuscitate' orders. The consequent...
Cover of International Perspectives on Training in Addiction Medicine
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016

The use of alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceutical drugs, illicit drugs and other substances are widespread throughout the world and are amongst the leading causes of disability and death. Increasingly, medical approaches of treating these disorders have established themselves as effective interventions...
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Medicare Nightmare

The Great Australian Tragedy

by Dal Ouba
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016

For decades, public discourse on the Australian health system has been reduced to focusing on limited issues such as e-health or budget cuts while failing to capture the greatest challenge facing our national healthcare system. That is, inefficient access to crucial information that empowers patients...
Cover of Molecular Pathology of Endocrine Diseases
by Philip T. Cagle
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010

The past two decades have seen an ever accelerating growth in knowledge about molecular pathology of human diseases, which received a large boost with the sequencing of the human genome in 2003. Mole- lar diagnostics, molecular targeted therapy, and genetic therapy are now routine in many medical...
Cover of Modeling the Injury Flow and Treatment after Major Earthquakes
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016

This book discuss a series of earthquake emergency medical rescue complex models, which can provide theoretical support for medical disaster rescue work in the future. This book consists of three parts. The first part is an introduction (chapter 1) which makes an overview of the purpose, meaning,...
Cover of Mendel's Garden: Selected Medical Topics
by David J Holcombe
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014

MENDELS GARDEN: SELECTED MEDICAL TOPICS contains a collection of short non-fiction texts covering a wide variety of medical issues. Dr. Holcombe intends each short text for the lay audience, and there are consequently no rigorous references as would be found in scientific publications. Instead, the...
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Cardiac Valve Replacement

Current Status

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Cardiac Valve Replacement: Current Status is the proceedings of the Fourth Interna­ tional Symposium on the ST. JUDE MEDICAL@ valve. The first three symposia on this topic were held primarily for designated investigators involved in clinical trials of the ST. JUDE MEDICAL valve. The last meeting,...
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Medical-Surgical Nursing Test Success

An Unfolding Case Study Review

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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013

This is a unique case study reference for students in the medical surgical nursing core course and a review/workbook for students about to embark on the NCLEX-RN exam. Unlike other reviews, the book embeds required information into compelling, unfolding case studiesóstudies that evolve over timeóin...
Cover of Danger Signs! Contraindications and Proper Applications of Spinal Manipulation
by Dr. Andrew M. Rodgers
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

DANGER SIGNS! The Contraindications and Proper Applications of Spinal Manipulation is a medical text to be used by Chiropractors and other practitioners of spinal and pelvic manipulation with special attention to malpractice attorneys. The beginning chapters discuss the proper standard of chiropractic...
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Shape in Medical Imaging

International Workshop, ShapeMI 2018, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018, Granada, Spain, September 20, 2018, Proceedings

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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Workshop on Shape in Medical Imaging, ShapeMI 2018, held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing, MICCAI 2018, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018. The 26 full papers and 2 short papers presented were carefully...
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