Medical Science category: 13998 books
by Peter D Turnpenny, BSc MB ChB DRCOG DCH FRCP FRCPCH FRCPath FHEA, Sian Ellard
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Master the genetics you need to know with the updated 14th Edition of Emery’s Elements of Medical Genetics by Drs. Peter Turnpenny and Sian Ellard. Review the field’s latest and most important topics with user-friendly coverage designed to help you better understand and apply the basic principles...
Joe Doupe
Bedside Physiologist
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
In 1946, Winnipeg’s struggling medical student received an injection of new life when scientist and army doctor Joe Doupe came home from the war. He assembled the school’s first research group and in 1949, took over the physiology department. Doupe soon blended science and clinical teaching, objecting...
Medical Monopoly
Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
During much of the nineteenth century, physicians and pharmacists alike considered medical patenting and the use of trademarks by drug manufacturers unethical forms of monopoly; physicians who prescribed patented drugs could be, and were, ostracized from the medical community. In the decades following...
Commemorations and Memorials
Exploring the Human Face of Anatomy
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
A major component of many modern human anatomy programs is commemorating people who have donated their body for education and research. In addition, some institutions have also organized memorial places to honor the body donors. This book is an edited volume which explores the phenomena of commemorations...
Problems and Solutions in Medical Physics
Diagnostic Imaging Physics
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
The first in a three-volume set exploring Problems and Solutions in Medical Physics, this volume explores common questions and their solutions in Diagnostic Imaging. This invaluable study guide should be used in conjunction with other key textbooks in the field to provide additional learning opportunities....
by C H Chen
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
There has been great progress and increase in demand for medical imaging. The aim of this book is to capture all major developments in all aspects of medical imaging. As such, this book consists of three major parts: medical physics which includes 3D reconstructions, image processing and segmentation...
Celiac Disease and Gluten
Multidisciplinary Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Celiac Disease and Gluten: Multidisciplinary Challenges and Opportunities is a unique reference work—the first to integrate the insights of the causes and effects of celiac disease from the chemistry of reaction-causing foods to the diagnosis, pathogenesis, and symptoms that lead to proper diagnoses...
Human Medical Research
Ethical, Legal and Socio-Cultural Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Medical research involving human subjects has contributed to considerable advancements in our knowledge, and to medical benefits. At the same time the development of new technologies as well as further globalisation of medical research raises questions that require the attention of researchers from...
NMR-Tomography and -Spectroscopy in Medicine
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Even the earliest applications of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and tomography to medical inquiries, using experimental apparatus that was primitive by today's standards, demonstrated the extraordinary potential of the NMR method. The subsequent rapid advances in this area were due...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This book investigates the design of devices, systems, and circuits for medical applications using the two recently established frequency bands: ultra-wideband (3.1-10.6 GHz) and 60 GHz ISM band. These two bands provide the largest bandwidths available for communication technologies and...
Compendium to Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists
300 Problems and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
This exercise book contains 300 typical problems and exercises in modern physics and radiation physics with complete solutions, detailed equations and graphs. This textbook is linked directly with the textbook "Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists", Springer (2010) but can also be used...
The Phantoms of Medical and Health Physics
Devices for Research and Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
The purpose and subject of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of all types of phantoms used in medical imaging, therapy, nuclear medicine and health physics. For ionizing radiation, dosimetry with respect to issues of material composition, shape, and motion/position effects are all highlighted....
by B.H Brown, R.H Smallwood, D.C. Barber
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering provides broad coverage appropriate for senior undergraduates and graduates in medical physics and biomedical engineering. Divided into two parts, the first part presents the underlying physics, electronics, anatomy, and physiology and the second part addresses...
by S. Bradbury
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Hewer's Textbook of Histology for Medical Students, Ninth Edition Revised focuses on the minute structure of the cells, tissues, and organs of the human body and the reactions of tissues and cells to various conditions.
The publication first elaborates on the techniques used in the study of...