This guide explores Africa’s STI/HIV epidemic through the lens of cultural beliefs and sexual habits. It offers vital context for health professionals and the public, helping to understand and address the root causes of the crisis.
Dental professionals face musculoskeletal problems from stressful work and awkward postures. This practical guide offers a holistic, systematic program for self-management, helping you recognize the causes, effectively manage your condition, and prevent recurrence.
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.
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.
Plants produce a vast diversity of bioactive molecules to defend themselves from stress. This book provides a complete overview of these compounds, detailing their biochemistry, functional roles, and biotechnological production for use as food supplements and natural medicines.
The Age of Informed Consent
This book analyses the application of informed consent in continental Europe, comparing its evolution to the US/UK model. It addresses the practical difficulties of applying an imported concept without a proper analysis of the local cultural, social, and medical background.
A Healthy Life on a Healthy Planet
We think pollution only affects the environment, but disease rates are rising. This book explains how our health depends on the environment, demystifying how pollutants from carbon fuels and pesticides affect us and what we can do about it.
Learn how the healthcare community is working with patients to predict and prevent disease using P4 medicine, nutrition, and a healthy lifestyle. This book explores personalized therapies, patient participation, and uses systems thinking to dispel common health misconceptions.
Systems thinking is being used to improve human health and reduce costs. Learn how the healthcare community is developing targeted therapies that stimulate our bodies to cure ourselves, and explore advances in genetics, 3D bioprinting, and how supplements and drugs are marketed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AIDS in Cultural Bodies
Venkatesan and Ammanathil examine the various psychosocial and sexual ordeals of African American people living with HIV or AIDS as depicted in African American literary narratives dealing the disease published from 1980 to 2010.
The Proceedings of the 20th Anniversary History of Medicine Days Conference 2011
This volume from the History of Medicine Days conference comprises insights into the histories of Women, Health and Reproduction; Institutes and Deinstitutionalization; and the Brain, Mind, and Mindlessness. It includes Dr. George Weisz’s keynote on chronic disease.
Towards a New Philosophy of Mental Health
This collection represents a major contribution to the interdisciplinary dialogue in mental health. It uses new tools from neuroscience, psychology, phenomenology, and epistemology to explore mental disorders and critically reappraise current research.
“Attached Files”
In this selection of lectures and papers, medical anthropologist Imre Lázár explores the synergic logic of human bonds. Using attachment as a core concept, he connects anthropology, health sciences, religious studies, and ecology.
Community, Autonomy and Informed Consent
Current informed consent guidelines for international research fail when community is involved. This book critiques the traditional view of autonomy that causes these failures and proposes a relational model to create more just and effective ethical policies.
Japanese bioethics has developed a distinct identity separate from its American origins. This anthology, featuring original chapters by leading scholars, reveals how traditional Japanese values shape the nation’s approach to complex ethical issues in medicine.
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