In Sri Lanka, poverty and civil war have created a youth mental health crisis. This book gives an overview of common psychosocial problems and the challenges practitioners face, discussing practical solutions for providing mental health services with limited resources.
How do we make rational decisions in medicine with contradictory data? This interdisciplinary book explores the scientific and ethical issues of proof, questioning the value of physicians’ experience, the relevance of data, and the reliability of biomedical knowledge.
This book proposes that the physiological motif of plastocyanin dimorphism is a hallmark of higher plants. It also serves as a methodological guide to photosynthesis, offering various methods for the study of proteins.
This book is an easy-to-read, in-depth guide to essential clinical skills: patient history, physical examination, documentation, and diagnosis. It helps trainees succeed in practice and exams, while serving as a trusted companion for clinicians and trainers.
This book explores an organism’s development in health and disease from the viewpoints of biochemistry, biophysics, and thermodynamics. It offers a broad perspective on the interaction between an organism and its environment and the mechanisms that maintain its internal energy.
This book argues for an integrative view of depression, where mood is modulated by both central and peripheral mechanisms. Sensorimotor stimulation—via our senses and movement—can have the diametrically opposite effects of either alleviating or aggravating depression.
A Journey into the Human Experience of Incurable Disease
This book critically investigates the uniquely human experience of and response to illness and treatment, which affects the body, the mind, and the very core of human existence and identity. Without hope, there is no future; without healing, no holistic recovery.
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 easy-to-use text offers a fast review of orthopaedic pathology for daily clinical practice and board examination. It is a helpful reference for anatomic pathologists and orthopaedic surgeons preparing for their board exams.
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 focuses on community-based health care, with community health workers as a critical workforce. It explores case studies and techniques for successful community engagement, showing why understanding people’s perspectives is vital to health improvement.
Dietary Induction Models of Nutritional Disorders in Rodents
From lab to clinic: Explore dietary models of disease in pre-clinical studies. Leading experts in nutrition and bioethics offer an essential guide to translational research, shaping future clinical work for students and health professionals.
Hepatitis C is a significant cause of mortality in hemodialysis patients. This book analyzes the “two sides of the same coin”—the benefits and adverse effects of peginterferon alpha therapy. Based on a unique national study, it raises awareness of HCV prevention.
This book explores the medicinal use of selected African plants. It details each species’ botanical characteristics, traditional medical use, and biological activity, while also proposing unique and original medical usages. An essential reference for medical practitioners.
This book analyses COVID-19 threats and healthcare management in lower-income countries. Researchers and epidemiologists contribute studies to improve decision-making, presenting models for post-pandemic treatments and evidence on social inequalities and new medicaments.
Pseudoscience and Hypermedicalization
This book provides a critical analysis of burnout. Citing the inconsistencies and dangers of a general diagnosis with 140 symptoms and the absence of a negative diagnosis, it argues that burnout represents the widest medicalization of human life that we know of.
Epigenetic Functional Nutrition
This book contains the latest research on how bioactive compounds in functional foods fight chronic diseases. It highlights the benefits of an anti-inflammatory diet and its epigenetic effects in preventing and managing mental disorders and inflammation-based cancers.
This book brings together expert writings on herbal nanoproducts, covering pharmacological, clinical, safety, and regulatory aspects. It will assist researchers in capturing holistic knowledge on this intriguing subject.
This book captures India’s COVID-19 second wave in 2021 through writings of people with a ringside view. It presents a vivid idea of the onslaught, complexities, confusion, and chaos amplified by the suddenness and ferociousness of the peaking pandemic.
This thorough study of radio-pathological correlation in breast cancer offers a pathology of the disease and 35 practical case studies. It is an essential resource for breast clinicians, pathologists, and students.