Neurosurgery before Science
This book traces the development of surgery from Hippocrates to the nineteenth century, analysing procedures like bloodletting and the myth of laudable pus. It demonstrates the profession’s resistance to new ideas, preferring accepted notions even when evidence confounds them.
This book explores the intersection of neurosciences, AI, and the Internet of Things in medicine. It provides practical recommendations for integrating such advances into clinical routines in order to improve patient care and quality of life.
Despite international attention, HIV remains a leading scourge with no cure. As the search continues, this timely book discusses the changing epidemiology of HIV. Its contributors are both academicians and seasoned programmers working in the realm of HIV care.
Japanese bioethics has developed a distinct identity separate from its American origins. This anthology, featuring original chapters by leading scholars, reveals how traditional Japanese values shape the nation’s approach to complex ethical issues in medicine.
This well-researched text covers laboratory and diagnostic procedures in malariology. Born out of years of laboratory practice, it shows a meticulous attention to detail and is highly recommended to laboratory practitioners, biomedical and medical students alike.
New Ways of Thinking about Nursing
The research-based, technical approach to nursing is failing our patients, students, and profession. This book challenges the assumptions of modern evidence-based practice, proposing a person-centred philosophy of nursing that addresses the needs of each individual patient.
New-Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase
New-Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) is among the most worrying bacterial resistance markers. This book displays a full picture of NDM, tracking it from its discovery to its global spread, and highlighting the mutations that give it stability and enable fast transfer.
No More Pandemics
This book proposes a path to end pandemics and achieve a world without infectious diseases. Using today’s science, it is entirely possible to avoid infection by implementing an air ventilation approach to stop viruses from entering the body. The challenge must be confronted now.
Explore the latest findings on the tumor molecular microenvironment’s role in cancer progression. This book highlights new therapeutic targets based on apoptosis, autophagy, and tumor signaling, and reveals how nanoformulations are revolutionizing the future of cancer therapy.
This book clearly describes engineering simulation methods for biomechanics and biological processes. It covers numerical methods like the Finite Element Method and presents relevant applications, from lung airflow to mechanobiology. For students, academics, and professionals.
Nurses’ Extraordinary Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In their own words, nurses share the joys, sorrows, and grief of caring for dying COVID-19 patients. Often the only ones in the room, they went above and beyond their role, all while fearing they would bring the deadly virus home to their families.
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.
Amidst the rise of chronic diseases, this book provides insight into physiology, molecular biology, and genetics to raise awareness about nutrition. It shows how food is not only for disease prevention, but for co-adjuvant and sustainable treatment.
Nutrition and Science
Confused by contradictory reports on nutrition? Even many GPs are. This up-to-date summary of nutritional medicine cuts through the noise. It summarises the expert consensus on the most important issues, but also explains where and why there are differences of opinion.
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.
Breast cancer treatments can induce cardiotoxicity, a risk linked to obesity. This book offers a practical approach for medical teams and patients, integrating modern cancer and heart failure treatments with healthy nutrition, physical activity, and stress management.
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.
Dive into the world of omics sciences. This guide explores the interdisciplinary realm of genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, revealing their transformative potential in medicine, agriculture, and environmental science to shape the future of science and society.
On Resentment
Resentment has a history. With the French Revolution as a turning point, this volume explores its evolution from a social passion for justice to a pathological symptom, revealing how this cultural experience has shaped social movements and the present world.
On the Forefront of Hematology and Oncology
From a clinical pharmacist specializing in oncology, this book illuminates the fundamental aspects of solid and blood cancers and their novel drug therapies. Emphasizing key concepts, it provides a clear introduction for clinicians and students to understand oncology principles.