Lessons in Practical Clinical and Operative Surgery
Through his own life, surgeon Salah Abbas reveals the trials of medicine: the difficult decisions and consequences surgeons face daily, the influence of global regimes on medical professionals, and the effects of emigration on their lives.
Living Better with Low Back Pain
Low back pain is a frustrating dilemma, but the medical system is often ineffective. This book dispels the myths around common diagnoses and treatments, presenting recent medical research in a practical way. Gain insight, reassurance, and find your way to a better back.
Living Well with Cancer
This book uses solution-focused thinking to show how life with cancer may be lived well. Written in a chatty but powerfully effective style, it is for people who have cancer, their families, and friends, as well as the health professionals who seek to help them.
Making Sense of Paranoia
This book challenges mainstream views by prioritising the personal narratives of paranoia sufferers over pre-existing theories. Written by those with lived and professional experience, it argues for alternative ways to conceptualise paranoia and alleviate suffering.
This definitive guide to spontaneous cerebral haemorrhage compiles cutting-edge research from globally recognised experts. An essential resource for neuroscientists, clinicians, and researchers, it offers data-driven insights and practical strategies for patient care.
Mishaps and medical emergencies are a risk in any dental clinic, especially when treating children. This guide provides a problem-solving approach for immediate and efficient management, ensuring every dentist can reduce complications and handle any clinical situation.
This systematic, illustrated guide presents methods for bone marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy. It offers a step-by-step approach to obtaining and processing samples safely and effectively, with practical advice on resolving common problems and complications.
Me and My Hormones
This jargon-free book offers a comprehensive account of hormone conditions affecting all ages. It covers common issues like puberty timing, thyroid disorders, diabetes, and weight, bringing clarity to how hormones impact your health, growth, and well-being.
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.
Medical Assistance in Dying
This book offers a critical analysis of medical aid in dying (MAiD). While supporting MAiD based on the notion of rational suicide, it shows how inconsistent international protocols raise moral and legal concerns. It provides a framework to analyze and reform these protocols.
Explore 3D-printed biomaterial scaffolds for tissue engineering in bone and dental surgery. These customizable, biocompatible scaffolds support cell growth and promote tissue regeneration. An indispensable resource for healthcare professionals, bioengineers, and researchers.
Medical Education in Western India
“Medical knowledge is not communicable to the natives.” Despite this 1832 declaration, Governor Sir Robert Grant, Dr Charles Morehead, and philanthropist Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy created a medical college in Bombay that went on to rival those in Europe and America.
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.
Medical Specialisation at the London Hospital
The development of specialty skills in the late 19th and 20th centuries transformed medicine. For the first time, patients could expect accurate diagnosis and effective treatment. Specialty skills defined innovations in hospital and family practice, a legacy that continues today.
This book investigates how stress causes life-threatening diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s, and what you can do to save yourself. A neurologist reveals that cutting the nerve supply to the adrenal glands can prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
This book describes how the liver coordinates metabolism, immunity, and more. It places these functions in clinical contexts, from alcohol-related and metabolic liver disease to cancer and sepsis, and shows how diet and activity affect health via the liver’s regulation.
Explore the microbiome’s dynamic relationship with human health. This book highlights its role in disease prevention and management, from immunity and diabetes to cancer, while delving into cutting-edge research, futuristic diagnostics, and innovative therapeutic interventions.
This book discusses the impact of micronutrients (minerals and vitamins) on the human brain. From its developmental stage to intellectual performance, it describes their regulatory role, their potency on brain cells, and their connection to various neuropathological conditions.
This book explores the emotional care midwives give women to reduce distress and provide comfort. Based on research and written in accessible language, it is a useful source for students, voluntary groups, and women on their journey to motherhood.
Migrations
This collection of essays by international experts and New Zealand curators opens up the little-known medieval manuscripts of New Zealand to a wider audience, placing them within the international discourse of postcolonial heritage and manuscript studies.