The Future of Post-Human Language
Does language delimit our mental world? Conventional views are misleading. This book provides a new way to understand the nature of learning that transcends the debate, with seminal implications for the future of how we think, feel, and do.
Deriving from a medicine history conference, this set of proceedings comprises topics from areas such as the history of health care systems, medical sciences and public health. It is also well-illustrated with diagrams and images pertaining to the history of medicine.
This study, filling a gap in the qualitative literature on Reiki practice, provides an ethnographic portrayal of a particular group’s construction of well-being. Contributing to medical anthropology, the findings reveal health-related culturally situated ideas and practices.
Risk and Regulation at the Interface of Medicine and the Arts
This conference proceedings investigates how innovative performing arts can help to develop medical education and practice. It also offers an archive of a visual arts exhibition focused on surgical themes that ran alongside the conference.
Bringing together papers presented at the 2nd Symposium on Advances in Geospatial, this collection deals with the new scientific field of medical geology used to address a variety of human health issues and diseases related to geological materials and earth-system processes.
Arts, Health and Wellbeing
This volume features contributions from leading UK researchers in the field of arts and health, including creative arts therapies, and will appeal to anyone practising or researching arts and health, in both hospitals and community settings.
This compendium brings together 47 chapters related to various aspects of health science. The main topics explored here are obesity, pain management, adolescent pregnancies, palliative care needs, nursing care, preclinical applications, and healthy lifestyles, amongst others.
This book extends the concept of the “calcium paradox,” linking Ca2+/cAMP signalling pathways to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. It details how this interaction can open new pharmacological strategies for treating these diseases.
Learning from Empire
With contributions from reputed faculty and researchers, this anthology addresses the dynamics of circulation of medical knowledge and the creation of webs of empire through medical curiosities, medical and architectural knowledge, medical manuscripts, and surgical knowledge.
This book explains the shift in Turkish foreign policy from a neoclassical realist view. Analyzing Turkey’s activist grand strategy through its relations with Iran, Israel, and the EU, it makes sense of policy under JDP rule while testing the theory’s explanatory power.
The Importance of Becoming a Medical Educator
A medical degree alone is not enough to make an effective educator. This book gives doctors the understanding and tools they need to better teach their students, colleagues, and patients by addressing topics like adult learning theory, motivation, and teacher assessment.
This book advances an evidence-based, unifying view of sarcoidosis that accounts for its baffling features. It challenges prevailing premises on its nature, causation, and treatment by positing plausible mechanisms and sketching 20 fundamental questions for future investigation.
University Curriculum Transformations in Context
Universities worldwide are transforming curricula for the global knowledge era. This book presents case studies of three Chilean universities enacting a ’21st-century curriculum’ promoting critical thinking, providing ‘food for thought’ for educators internationally.
The Book of Chinese Medicine, Volume 1
This volume provides an overview of the history of Chinese medicine, from its earliest dynasties to the present day. It offers insights into the theory of body systems, how balance creates health, and the core concepts of Qi, meridians, and the diagnosis of diseases.
This book presents a humanistic framework for health promotion, arguing that the key is not to control behavior, but to cultivate autonomy. It reframes health as a matter of social justice—a moral endeavor to remove barriers so everyone can realize their innate capacities.
The Book of Chinese Medicine, Volume 2
This volume applies Chinese medicine in clinical settings to prevent and treat disease. Using real patient examples, it covers herbal drugs and acupuncture techniques, and discusses the revolutionary innovations shaping the future of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Helping You Successfully Manage Your Headache and Migraine
Authored by a consultant neurologist with 20 years of experience, this book is for headache sufferers told “there is nothing else we can do.” Advising on how to alleviate and prevent symptoms, it provides a guide to understanding and self-managing your condition.
Problem-Based Learning is an effective method of medical instruction that teaches students to think critically in a group environment. This book will help you harness the power of active learning and conduct an outstanding session and properly prepare for it.
This book provides concrete steps for applying Crew Resource Management (CRM) skills in complex, error-prone situations. Learn to communicate clearly, be assertive about safety, and support your team to prevent errors, using best practices from real-world clinical scenarios.
Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death, but its multidrug treatment often causes adverse effects. This practical clinical guide is for health personnel managing TB. It details drug side effects on the body’s systems and offers clear therapeutic strategies for their management.