Oxidation and Reduction Processes in Vivo and in Vitro
This book introduces a novel electrochemical method for assessing oxidative stress and antioxidant activity. It presents potentiometric determination as a preferred tool for monitoring health, disease, diet, and sports, with future applications in wearables and telemedicine.
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.
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.
This clinical guide focuses on oral medicine and oral radiology. Divided into sections on medicine, radiology, and tools for detection, and rich with photographs and radiographs, it is an essential reference for undergraduates, postgraduates, and general practitioners.
Facing surgery can be daunting. This guide unravels the mysteries of anesthesia, providing clear, compassionate answers to your questions. Learn what to expect before, during, and after your procedure and navigate the experience with confidence and a sense of control.
Master the adult thoracic surgery exam with this definitive SBA revision guide. Packed with questions covering the full new curriculum, it focuses on clinical scenarios to test your knowledge, improve exam technique, and maximise your chances of success.
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.
Lessons in Practical Clinical and Operative Surgery
Through his own life, surgeon Salah Abbas reveals the trials of medicine: the difficult decisions and consequences surgeons face daily, the influence of global regimes on medical professionals, and the effects of emigration on their lives.
A temporary heart valve is a novel, lifesaving option during acute valvular failure when open-heart surgery is not readily available. This textbook introduces a first-of-its-kind temporary aortic valve catheter, providing a summary of its modeling and preclinical validations.
How do we make rational decisions in medicine with contradictory data? This interdisciplinary book explores the scientific and ethical issues of proof, questioning the value of physicians’ experience, the relevance of data, and the reliability of biomedical knowledge.
This book brings together expert writings on herbal nanoproducts, covering pharmacological, clinical, safety, and regulatory aspects. It will assist researchers in capturing holistic knowledge on this intriguing subject.
This book covers new artificial intelligence methods for medical image processing. It presents and analyzes new, more efficient convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures aimed at increasing the accuracy of tumour detection and cancer classification, with proven results.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Hepatitis C is a significant cause of mortality in hemodialysis patients. This book analyzes the “two sides of the same coin”—the benefits and adverse effects of peginterferon alpha therapy. Based on a unique national study, it raises awareness of HCV prevention.