Plants produce a vast diversity of bioactive molecules to defend themselves from stress. This book provides a complete overview of these compounds, detailing their biochemistry, functional roles, and biotechnological production for use as food supplements and natural medicines.
Post Traumatic Survival
Why do some war refugees thrive while others do not? This study of Khmer Rouge survivors reveals how cultural and religious resources were instrumental to their resilience. It proposes a new model to help health workers assist other survivors in their recovery.
Practical Cardiology Review
This book covers real and practical issues in cardiology. Each chapter features key point summaries and multiple-choice questions for self-assessment. Complete with comprehensive answers, real pictures, and charts, this guide is perfect for rapid review and easy learning.
This book covers practical issues in cardiology. Each chapter provides key point summaries and multiple-choice questions with comprehensive answers for self-assessment. Real pictures, charts, and tables enhance understanding, making the content perfect for rapid review.
This volume provides concise, essential information on common non-neoplastic liver diseases. It is a useful guide for pathologists and trainees, with checklists to guide workup and reporting. It is also a good reference for hepatologists, other clinicians, and researchers.
This volume offers concise, essential, and up-to-date information on the most common liver masses and lesions. For pathologists, trainees, hepatologists, and clinicians, its checklists provide guidance on initiating the workup and generating the report.
Practical Theories for Nursing Practice
Nurses are expected to lead quality improvement, but traditional theories are not enough. This book offers a concise overview of practical education, communication, and quality improvement theories to support evidence-based practice. Beneficial for any healthcare professional.
Preventing Inflammation and Cardiovascular Diseases
Cardiovascular disease is the world’s #1 killer, but our focus on cholesterol is flawed and ineffective. This book reveals a new approach: preventing CVD by targeting its true cause—chronic inflammation—through healthy diet and lifestyle choices, without medication.
Add 20+ years to your life. Based on 1000+ studies, this book unveils a data-driven system for fighting aging. Use a simple point system to track the daily choices in food, exercise, and mindset proven to extend your lifespan.
This book introduces human motor control and neuroplasticity, explaining how the nervous system adapts to physical activity, training, and rehabilitation. Integrating research with clinical applications, it is an essential text for students, researchers, and clinicians.
Indicative of the fast-developing field, this comprehensive new edition on aspects of audiology discusses important changes in standards and codes of practice. Simple diagrams and photographs are provided, and the text includes more diversity and detail than previous editions.
Written by neurosonology experts, this volume details the ‘science’ and ‘art’ of performing these tests. With representative cases from clinical practice, it serves as a reference for sonographers and neurologists on transcranial Doppler and cervical duplex exams.
For residents and interventional pain medicine fellows, writing procedure notes can be difficult. This book makes it easier to quickly write notes and helps you prepare for a procedure by reading the notes and visualizing how it is done.
This richly illustrated textbook is a step-by-step guide to the most common techniques in Oral Rehabilitation. It explains the rationale for each procedure and is an essential learning tool and quick reference for both dental students and qualified dentists.
Illness confronts us with our vulnerability, where qualities like hope and compassion become crucial aspects of care. This highlights the importance of spirituality in healing. This volume brings together leading experts to address principles and practices for spiritual care.
Bringing together papers presented at the 2nd Symposium on Advances in Geospatial, this collection deals with the new scientific field of medical geology used to address a variety of human health issues and diseases related to geological materials and earth-system processes.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes infections resistant to many antimicrobials. This book studies the β-lactamases that create resistance to critical drugs. It shows that while molecular methods are the gold standard for detection, they are very costly and require expertise.
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.
Psychopathology and Atmospheres
The notion of “atmosphere”—a sensorial, affective quality that determines how we experience a space—is a growing topic of scientific debate. This is the first book to link atmospheres and psychopathology, proposing a new, field-based paradigm for clinical work.
Psychotherapy in Pain Management
This timely, neuroscience-based guide presents the Clinical Biopsychological Model for treating chronic pain. It offers novel strategies for addressing negative memories, interpersonal stressors, and depression, with detailed guidance for assessment and treatment.