Written by leading experts, this book explores public health in the Indian context. It covers diverse topics from cancer treatment to m-health, with case studies on challenges and solutions. This is an essential resource for learners, researchers, and policymakers.
Mankind is in an arms race with drug-resistant pathogens. This book reveals how benign bacteria become pathogenic by acquiring new genes and proposes a third strategy beyond drugs and vaccines: achieving herd resistance by enhancing our protective intestinal microbiota.
Rare scrotal afflictions mimic common conditions, leading to misdiagnosis, delayed treatment, and patient distress. Since most medical books do not cover these lesions in detail, this book provides a vital reference for clinicians to ensure accurate and timely diagnosis.
This book explores uncommon diseases, explaining their symptoms, diagnosis, causes, and treatment. This volume represents important introductory material for medical, pharmacy, and all other health science students.
Rare Tumours of the Kidney
Rare malignant neoplasms of the kidney have aggressive outcomes but are not covered in most books of Urology, Surgery, and Medicine. This book focuses on these rare neoplasms, providing updated information on a heterogeneous group of disorders with distinct abnormalities.
Rare types of prostate cancer are aggressive, have poor prognoses, and are often misdiagnosed. This book updates the literature on these rare neoplasms to alert clinicians and encourage research to find more effective treatment options.
This book advances an evidence-based, unifying view of sarcoidosis that accounts for its baffling features. It challenges prevailing premises on its nature, causation, and treatment by positing plausible mechanisms and sketching 20 fundamental questions for future investigation.
This book provides essential information on the most important issues in nursing and midwifery, from palliative care to quality of life. Offering suggestions for future research, it will appeal to professional nurses, students, researchers, and other healthcare professionals.
This compendium brings together 47 chapters related to various aspects of health science. The main topics explored here are obesity, pain management, adolescent pregnancies, palliative care needs, nursing care, preclinical applications, and healthy lifestyles, amongst others.
Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Viral Age
In the post-COVID viral age, social contagions and irresistible technology create new techno-psychopathologies. As the cybersphere rewires our minds, the checklist diagnostics used to define mental illness have become obsolete. The human mind is fundamentally different.
Reflecting on Presence in Nursing
Presence is essential in nursing: connecting with another person for healing. This book explores its importance through personal accounts from research and practice, allowing readers to reflect on finding meaning, joy, and delivering care in a truly relational way.
A collection of essays on our planet’s environmental challenges. The contributions connect resilience with ecology, health, and biotechnology, concluding with an ethical analysis of overlapping problems that require urgent attention and long-term resolution.
Helicobacter pylori is a common infection linked to gastric problems and cancer, affecting millions worldwide. This book details the bacterium’s pathophysiology, transmission, and treatment, serving as an essential guide for students and healthcare workers.
Reversion of Disease and Aging
Discover a clinically proven medicine that can reverse disease and aging. This book reveals how to activate your body’s self-curative mechanisms through conditioning, diet, and exercise, creating a natural path to improved health and longevity for all.
Medical image interpretation is time-consuming and prone to error. This collection explores how AI and computer vision are creating a paradigm shift in healthcare by enhancing diagnostic accuracy and speed, leading to personalized treatment and improved patient care.
Risk and Regulation at the Interface of Medicine and the Arts
This conference proceedings investigates how innovative performing arts can help to develop medical education and practice. It also offers an archive of a visual arts exhibition focused on surgical themes that ran alongside the conference.
Robotic Surgical Innovations in Calcification
This book explores how robotics, AI, and nanotechnology are revolutionizing the diagnosis and treatment of calcification disorders. With expert insights and case studies, it is an essential resource for clinicians, researchers, and technologists in precision medicine.
Roman Military Medicine
An illuminating text on the understudied topic of medicine and its use in the Roman military, this study explores the workings of the ancient healthcare system, the methods of care by its physicians, and the treatments it offered for different ailments and injuries.
This book explains the rationale and value of routine blood tests. A valuable guide for health care providers, it allows professionals to effectively assess blood test results and explain them to patients.
This curated collection of abstracts presents the latest breakthroughs in veterinary medicine, animal production, and public health. An indispensable resource for professionals and researchers, it bridges the gap between theory and practice, shaping the future of animal science.