Public Health category: 1911 books
The Bleeding Disease
Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
By the 1970s, a therapeutic revolution, decades in the making, had transformed hemophilia from an obscure hereditary malady into a manageable bleeding disorder. Yet the glory of this achievement was short lived. The same treatments that delivered some normalcy to the lives of persons with hemophilia...
Lyme
The First Epidemic of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, the disease infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia, and Australia.
Mary...
The Management of Mass Burn Casualties and Fire Disasters
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Burns and Fire Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Thermal harm is one of the most traumatizing assaults on man and his environment. Whether suffered by living beings as burn injury, or sustained by societal structures as fire damage, the resulting physical pain and material loss can be extremely distressing both to the person and to society. The...
by Tom Valenta, John Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This book is a comprehensive and clinically objective review of drug abuse and addiction in Australia. It is written to appeal to families, educators, policy makers, students, healthcare professionals and drug users. It is based on the knowledge and experience of Dr John Sherman and his clinic in...
by J. Donald Boudreau, Eric Cassell, Abraham Fuks
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
The renewal of medical curricula generally arises from emerging pedagogies (e.g. problem-based learning), new technologies (e.g. high fidelity simulation), or prevailing sociocultural forces (e.g. complexity of health care delivery and team-based care). Approximately 15 years ago, a team of physicians...
by Angela Coulter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This new book from one of the leading authors in this field will provide an overview of the theories, concepts, evidence and policies that make up patient engagement in health service development and delivery.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Infectious Disease Epidemiology is a concise reference guide which provides trainees and practicing epidemiologists with the information that they need to understand the basic concepts necessary for working in this specialist area. Divided into two sections, part one comprehensively covers the basic...
Intervention Research
A Practical Guide for Developing Evidence-based School Prevention Programmes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This book offers a step-by-step guide to intervention research, including the methods and techniques that researchers, higher degree research students and others can use when pursuing intervention research in schools and other settings. Guided by the Intervention Research Framework, it also provides...
Improvising Medicine
An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward staff as a cancer epidemic emerged in Botswana. The epidemic is part of an ongoing surge...
Disability in the Global South
The Critical Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This first-of-its kind volume spans the breadth of disability research and practice specifically focusing on the global South. Established and emerging scholars alongside advocates adopt a critical and interdisciplinary stance to probe, challenge and shift common held social understandings of disability...
Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals
How Drug Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2010
A provocative exposÈ of the lucrative industry built around a newly constructed disorder.
Set against a backdrop of virtual intercourse, online porn, and burgeoning Viagra sales, this compelling new book reveals how women's sexual difficulties are being repackaged as symptoms of a new disease-female...
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
How Medical Imaging Is Changing Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Many will remember the segment of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" in the Disney film Fantasia; it is a perfect metaphor for medical imaging as it stands today. The apprentice magician tests his nascent skills at sorcery by bringing common household items to life and putting them to work. At first, things...
by Sarah Boslaugh
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Drug resistance—the reduction in the effectiveness of a particular medicine (particularly antimicrobials) in treating a disease or condition—is considered one of the most pressing issues in medicine today. This problem is likely to have profound impacts on society in the decades to come. This...
by Katheem Kiyasudeen S, Mahamad Hakimi Ibrahim, Shlrene Quaik
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The main aim of this book is to bridge the gap between aerobic and anaerobic waste treatments by concentrating on studies of earthworms. In particular, vermicomposting is being discussed as well as its properties and applications. Other subjects touch on the treatment of palm oil mill effluents, the...