Music
This book explores applications of music in healthcare with research from music therapy, sociology, and psychology. International authors present how music participation creates community, promotes health, and delivers patient-centred care.
This study explores why Croatian Broca’s aphasics comprehend questions differently than English speakers, linking their distinct deficit patterns to key structural and processing variations between the two languages.
This introductory text helps physiotherapists integrate research evidence into their practice. It bridges the gap for those lost in the language of research, offering a platform to develop an understanding of critical appraisal and gain confidence.
Illness confronts us with our vulnerability, where qualities like hope and compassion become crucial aspects of care. This highlights the importance of spirituality in healing. This volume brings together leading experts to address principles and practices for spiritual care.
This book explores the quality of care through patient decision-making. It examines the nurse’s relationships with patients, families, and health teams, guiding managers to create policies that improve care and increase patient autonomy.
The use of music in therapeutic practice in Turkey is not a new phenomenon. In recent years, though, the institutionalization of music therapy as a scientific discipline has begun. This volume explores multifarious perceptions of the discipline and its potential role in Turkey.
Voice Ergonomics
A well-functioning voice is part of the professional skills needed in many occupations. Voice Ergonomics offers background knowledge and concrete guidelines on how to improve communication environments and practices for decreasing voice loading.
Transdisciplinarity and Translationality in High Dilution Research
Evidence for the biological effects of high dilutions is often ignored by the scientific community. This book provides direct access to the latest research, offering a sound, evidence-based “no” to the question: “Is homeopathy really that implausible?” An essential contribution.
Indicative of the fast-developing field, this comprehensive new edition on aspects of audiology discusses important changes in standards and codes of practice. Simple diagrams and photographs are provided, and the text includes more diversity and detail than previous editions.
This book explores the lives of Hungarian Jewish doctors between the World Wars. It answers how these doctors treated patients while inmates themselves, and why so many Jewish youth chose the medical profession in Hungary.
This guide helps therapists and health professionals hone their clinical decision-making skills and provides the necessary tools to practice ethically.
Having trouble sleeping after you retired? As we change with age, sleep also changes. Why not encourage it to change for the better? This book provides information and advice, explaining how to recognize telling symptoms and organize a different schedule.
This guide is for caring for the cognitively impaired in professional and home settings. It provides information to study for the ICCPA certification exam, covering interventions for conditions like Sundowning to ensure the highest quality of life.
Emergency Cross-cover of Surgical Specialties
Written by junior doctors for junior doctors, this survival guide helps you cross-cover surgical specialties with confidence. It covers specialty-specific emergencies, when to admit, when to call for help, and key practical skills.
Information Systems in Healthcare
This book examines the power of information systems (IS) to re-shape healthcare. Addressing demands for accountability, cost-effectiveness, and quality, it shows how IS can change management and offers a fresh look at the future of healthcare in the digital era.
This book links chronic degenerative diseases to inflammation, blending scientific findings with folklore. It explores how natural remedies can halt the progression of chronic disease by acting on this root cause. A concise guide for students and medical practitioners.
Once considered mild, psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a potentially serious disease that is difficult to diagnose early. This book illustrates a systematic approach to accurate diagnosis, presenting typical and rare case studies for clinicians, patients, and their families.
First Language Bidialectism in Second Language Interface Acquisition
This book helps separate language difference from disorder in multidialectal L2 learners. It offers empirical and theoretical support for linguists and speech-language pathologists, with valuable implications for teaching, assessment, and clinical practice.
This book explains the rationale and value of routine blood tests. A valuable guide for health care providers, it allows professionals to effectively assess blood test results and explain them to patients.
This book maps the vital substances of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), like Qi, to modern signaling molecules. By explaining the molecular mechanism behind TCM’s proven success, it bridges Eastern and Western medicines to enable more effective treatment of disease states.