This book chronicles a 40-year battle against glioblastoma, a fatal brain tumour, and the revolutionary treatment that emerged. Cancer Gene Therapy turns a patient’s own cancer cells into a vaccine, inducing an immune response to increase survival and improve quality of life.
The neurodiversity movement alleges that neurologically divergent individuals must struggle for their civil rights. This book explores these questions, examining the policies and practices of institutions like higher education, social support, and healthcare.
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.
Evidence-Based Eating
This accessible book summarizes the latest research in human nutrition and lifestyle, with fascinating historical context. It distinguishes high-quality evidence from personal anecdotes and clarifies the critical difference between correlation and causation.
Evolution of Haematology in India
Tracing the five-decade journey of hematology in India, from a sub-specialty to a distinct discipline. It highlights the pioneers and technological breakthroughs—like CAR-T and gene therapy—that have revolutionized patient care and saved lives.
Saliva is emerging as a diagnostic alternative to blood. This book provides clinicians, researchers, and students with the latest advances in saliva-diagnostics, critically reviewing biomolecules, biomarker validation, applications for systemic diseases, and key technologies.
This book delves into neurodegenerative illnesses like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, exploring molecular targets for therapy. By analysing neural circuits, protein misfolding, and genetics, it unravels the mind’s complexities, offering optimism for millions worldwide.
This book comprehensively covers public health dentistry in an up-to-date way. Designed to be concise and understandable, it is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and those preparing for entrance exams. Every chapter includes references for further reading.
This book uses COVID-19’s essential questions—who, where, when, and why—to challenge the superiority of clinical medicine over epidemiology. It argues epidemiology’s model is more adequate, reframing it as Ecosystem Thinking to explore the geopolitical values in medicine.
This manual presents a systematic approach to bone marrow procurement and examination. It is a contemporary reference for haematologists, oncologists, medical students, physicians, technologists, and nurses, consolidating a growing body of information in one working reference.
Obesity, diabetes, and hypertension interact, ultimately leading to fatty liver disease. This book explores all aspects of the condition, from how it develops to the ideal lines of investigation and management.
Fetal Exposition to Synthetic Sex Hormones
This book reveals the deleterious somatic and psychiatric effects of artificial hormones on children whose mothers were exposed during pregnancy. What is particularly worrying is the multigenerational harm of such endocrine disruptors, a real danger for future generations.
Fixing Healthcare Delivery
With up to one in four hospitalized patients experiencing an adverse event, our healthcare system needs a fix. This field manual, illustrated with real patient stories, equips readers to apply the Toyota Production System to create efficient, error-minimizing healthcare systems.
Fluid Physiology
Inappropriate fluid therapy harms patients. For medical and veterinary practitioners, this book presents a new paradigm based on the revised Starling principle. It retires outdated views on colloids and focuses on volume kinetics for safer, evidence-based patient care.
Food Safety, from Farm to Fork
This volume explores global food safety issues, presenting key findings from scientific studies. It details threats along the food chain—from pathogens, pesticides, and heavy metals to allergens—and shows how adhering to good practices is crucial in ensuring safe foods.
This book explores the complexities of ethics and plagiarism in medical research. Plagiarism is often framed in narrow terms, but its consequences are complicated by the internet. This text helps readers understand how to scrutinize language in scientific writing and publishing.
Freud
Written as an intellectual defense against psychosis, this book embeds a model of behavior based on psychoanalytic theory within the chaos to conceptualize the explosion of data from the neurosciences. This is a reflection on how psychoanalysis can take over your mind.
From Depression to Happiness
What do you do after symptoms of a mental disorder are controlled? How can you build a better life? Weaving together Positive Psychology and Aristotelian philosophy, this book details an approach to creating a path towards a flourishing life based on virtue and excellence.
This book reports on the current state and future of meristemotherapy (gemmotherapy). Based on clinical trials and research, it investigates preparation methods, collateral effects, posology, and administration methods.
These essays illustrate the power of gender stereotypes to shape how medicine is practiced and perceived. The chapters investigate gendered perceptions of healers and patients in narratives across fiction, memoir, film, new media, and visual art.
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