This book illustrates how human impacts on the environment and climate change affect health. It highlights innovative approaches and models for sustainable healthcare, setting out a vision of ecological principles to guide sustainable health developments for future generations.
This book provides a general overview of more than 350 medicinal plants. It covers the health benefits and uses of each plant in teas, tinctures, creams, and more. Brief, straightforward explanations are accompanied by high-quality, colourful photos.
Common Problems in Pregnancy
This book presents concise summaries of common pregnancy conditions, covering up-to-date diagnosis and evidence-based management. It is of great value to clinicians, obstetricians, and midwives, and is also ideal for those studying for exams.
The most comprehensive textbook on equine dentistry and maxillofacial surgery ever published, this guide includes major scientific advances and detailed surgical techniques. Written by the world’s most prominent specialists, it is essential reading for all equine veterinarians.
The first deep dive into how social determinants of health fuel disparities for people with epilepsy. Through ground-breaking research into low-income communities, this book exposes the social and economic roots of inequity and charts a path toward health justice.
This volume provides a theoretical background for labelling disaster victims and protecting their information. It discusses information processing and AI techniques to assist in disaster response and will be of interest to researchers in disaster, emergency, and data management.
This book critically examines the US COVID-19 crisis, arguing the nation’s response was out of proportion to the actual threat. This led to needless suffering, driven by the misrepresentation of public science by government officials and the news media.
This book provides concrete steps for applying Crew Resource Management (CRM) skills in complex, error-prone situations. Learn to communicate clearly, be assertive about safety, and support your team to prevent errors, using best practices from real-world clinical scenarios.
This book bridges biophysics with cellular and molecular biology, where time is the determining factor. As biology becomes quantitative, the dynamic processes at the heart of life—from cellular excitability to perception—are now interpretable and potentially predictable.
The Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
A century of science couldn’t stop the COVID-19 pandemic, a wake-up call for humanity. This book consolidates the latest research on the continuously evolving SARS-CoV-2 virus, providing essential knowledge on a global threat that proved we remained vulnerable.
Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death, but its multidrug treatment often causes adverse effects. This practical clinical guide is for health personnel managing TB. It details drug side effects on the body’s systems and offers clear therapeutic strategies for their management.
In an era of biomedical technology, how do we account for the subjective experiences of illness and suffering? This unique book offers an international medical anthropology perspective on the ethics of care and the importance of the patient’s voice in healthcare.
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.
The Miracle of Skin
Our skin’s most critical role isn’t social—it’s conserving the water that keeps us alive. The threat of dehydration dictates the behaviour of all land animals and explains why early humans developed sweat glands, lost hair, and gained pigmentation to hunt on the savannah.
Healthy nutrition is critical to the body’s self-defense. This book covers calculating daily nutritional needs, energy balance, restoring healthy body weight, treating food intolerance, and using food supplements and ergogenic aids in sport.
For students and dental professionals, this text illustrates important concepts in dental anatomy and occlusion. It presents a step-by-step wax build-up technique to guide the fabrication of dental restorations with optimal longevity, aesthetics and function.
Selected Articles and Letters of Stewart R. Roberts, MD (1878-1941)
Stewart R. Roberts, MD, was the first cardiologist in the South of the United States and was frequently called ‘the Osler of the South.’ This book presents a selection of 20 articles by Roberts, providing insights into his work and his environment.
This book maps the vital substances of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), like Qi, to modern signaling molecules. By explaining the molecular mechanism behind TCM’s proven success, it bridges Eastern and Western medicines to enable more effective treatment of disease states.
Electroencephalogram Signal Analysis
This book assists medical diagnosis and clinical decision-making. It shows how neuronal networks and machine learning are useful for EEG signal analysis, covering epileptic cerebral activity localisation and a parallel implementation for EEG artefact rejection.
The Complete History of Plague in Norway, 1348-1654
This unique book provides a complete history of the entire Second Plague Pandemic in Norway, from the Black Death to 1654. It studies how plague epidemics evolve by comparing their spread and dynamics in late medieval society versus early modern society.