First Language Bidialectism in Second Language Interface Acquisition
This book helps separate language difference from disorder in multidialectal L2 learners. It offers empirical and theoretical support for linguists and speech-language pathologists, with valuable implications for teaching, assessment, and clinical practice.
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 It retires outdated views on colloids and focuses on volume kinetics for safer, evidence-based patient care.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.
Clinical lymphology offers highly effective methods to treat a wide range of pathologies, from inflammatory to cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases. These simple, cost-effective techniques significantly expedite patient recovery and shorten treatment duration.
Pediatric glycometabolic disorders are often considered a specialist field, but the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, hypoglycemia, and metabolic syndrome is not. This book provides the trainee pediatric specialist with robust preliminary knowledge of the field.
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.
Grammar Formalism for Medical Data Analysis
This book assists in medical diagnosis in cardiology by extending grammar to applications such as the ECG signal and tomographic image. Compared to statistical methods, this approach offers more flexibility and makes medical diagnosis easier.
This book explores modern applications of Quality by Design (QbD) and green analytical chemistry in pharmaceutical development. It reveals how to apply QbD principles in process development and quality control to improve product quality and ensure process sustainability.
This book describes 100 years of change in American medicine through the extraordinary and inspiring life of Halsted Reid Holman. A visionary leader, he challenged orthodoxy and injustice, navigating the tension between healthcare as a basic human right and as a business.
Women suffer from headaches far more than men. This text explores the dramatic new understanding of migraine, leading to more targeted treatments. It addresses key issues for women: hormonal changes, pregnancy, menopause, genetics, and comorbidities like stroke.
This introduction to the economics of dentistry applies economic theory to the oral health care sector, showing how everyday decisions are influenced by the laws of economics. It is essential reading for dental professionals, policy makers, and students.
Health, Communication and Multicultural Communities
For healthcare professionals, students, mediators, and interpreters, this is a practical handbook on communicating in multicultural settings. It is not a theoretical book but is oriented towards reflection and practice, drawing from years of experience.
Healthcare Clowns in Palliative Care in Chile
This book explores the roles healthcare clowns play in a pediatric palliative cancer unit in Santiago, Chile. It reveals their positive effects on well-being, emotional regulation, and humane care, showing how they form bonds of friendship and complement traditional treatments.