Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle cell disease remains a leading scourge. This volume provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review from experts in the field. It highlights what is known about the disease and where future advances are needed, providing a solid foundation for future studies.
In the high-risk world of aviation, psychology is a critical variable affecting performance, safety, and accidents. This book brings together detailed studies from the behavioural sciences to allow the reader to better understand this multifaceted relationship.
Ethics in Child Health
How do you approach the tough ethical dilemmas in child health? This concise, practical case-based workbook helps healthcare professionals and students critically think about ethical problems through interactive case studies and thought-provoking discussions.
This book explores the unique medical heritage of Portugal’s National Palace of Mafra, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It presents innovative studies on its collection of medical texts and items, covering topics from Paracelsan alchemy to the lives of 18th-century physicians.
This first-of-its-kind textbook from the Schroth Best Practice Academy offers an overview of the evidence-based Schroth method. A guide for practitioners, it focuses on current non-surgical treatments for spinal deformities to improve patient outcomes and quality of life.
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.
Pediatric Otolaryngology
A vital and concise ear, nose and throat (ENT) reference for professionals. This book presents up-to-date, accurate, and understandable information in a straightforward manner, and includes images for greater insight into the topics discussed.
Nutrition and Disease
Nutrition is essential for preventing and treating disease. Discover how plant-based diets, enhanced by modern genomics, can address global challenges like the obesity epidemic, sustainable food production, and the future well-being of our planet.
Medical knowledge is not just for doctors. Since the principles of life are largely universal, studying human medicine reveals much about all living beings. Yet disease, an unavoidable part of existence for every species, is often treated as chaos beyond the laws of life.
Suicide is a leading cause of death globally, especially in young people. The most successful prevention methods are at the grassroots level, involving everyone. This book explores current and outdated perceptions of suicide and presents novel approaches and tools to prevent it.
The next generation of oncological hyperthermia selectively heats malignant cells. Due to its selectivity, this innovative concept is safer, less toxic, and uses significantly lower energy. This book shows the challenges, theoretical basis, and clinical results of the method.
This book explains how scientific discoveries happen through the exciting story of the RANKL protein. This breakthrough led to a drug therapy used worldwide to treat osteoporosis, cancer, and other diseases, a story of interest to laypersons and students alike.
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 volume argues that key aspects of Old English poetry continued into Middle English romances like King Horn and Athelston. It reveals the surprising afterlife of Old English culture, uncovering unexpected links between Saracens, Vikings, and the Anglo-Saxon past.
Pediatric Cardiology
This book presents a unique historical perspective on pediatric cardiology, charting 50 years of evolution in the field. It describes the development of new knowledge and patient care, focusing on advances made in the management of congenital heart defects.
Neurometabolic disorders are treatable hereditary diseases, but early detection is essential. Delays can cause severe neurological consequences or fatal effects. This atlas is a guide for pediatric specialists to diagnose and treat them successfully.
Changing Horizons in the 21st Century
As global demographics change and people live longer, this book provides a holistic understanding of ageing. Written by globally recognized experts, it explores policy, the ageing experience, and intergenerational relations to enhance your interactions with older people.
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.
Survival after Treatment for Gynaecological Cancer
As gynaecological cancer survival rates improve, quality of life after treatment is vital. This is the first textbook on managing the physical and psychological effects of treatment. It is essential reading for gynaecological oncology specialists and related disciplines.
Concussion Competencies from a British Perspective
This book presents essential information for people working with concussion recovery and for those currently experiencing one, especially if it is sports-related. It fills a critical knowledge gap by focusing on behavioural treatment and “active rehabilitation” strategies.
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