Public fear of breast cancer obscures the facts. Treatments can increase other health risks, while fear itself can impair quality of life. This book explores the history and mystery of breast cancer, from Ancient Egypt to the future, to champion the totality of women’s health.
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.
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.
Arts, Health and Wellbeing
This volume features contributions from leading UK researchers in the field of arts and health, including creative arts therapies, and will appeal to anyone practising or researching arts and health, in both hospitals and community settings.
Fluid Physiology
Inappropriate fluid therapy harms patients. For medical and veterinary practitioners, this book presents a new paradigm based on the revised Starling principle. It retires outdated views on colloids and focuses on volume kinetics for safer, evidence-based patient care.
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.
Clinical Expressive Arts Therapy in Theory and Practice
This volume makes a tremendous contribution to expressive arts therapy. It presents clear theoretical bases and applies in-depth psychological knowledge to practical cases, shedding light on clinical interventions that use art in psychotherapy for the professional community.
Hereditary Effects of Parental Lifestyle on the Health of Offspring
Parental and grandparental lifestyle choices can affect the health of their children and grandchildren. Eating habits, smoking, or drinking can “program” their offspring to be more susceptible to diseases, even if the children themselves adopt a healthy lifestyle.
This study, filling a gap in the qualitative literature on Reiki practice, provides an ethnographic portrayal of a particular group’s construction of well-being. Contributing to medical anthropology, the findings reveal health-related culturally situated ideas and practices.
The Age of Informed Consent
This book analyses the application of informed consent in continental Europe, comparing its evolution to the US/UK model. It addresses the practical difficulties of applying an imported concept without a proper analysis of the local cultural, social, and medical background.
Voice Ergonomics
A well-functioning voice is part of the professional skills needed in many occupations. Voice Ergonomics offers background knowledge and concrete guidelines on how to improve communication environments and practices for decreasing voice loading.
Tuberculosis and Co-infection with HIV-AIDS
This exhaustive book on Tuberculosis incorporates the most recent research on its history, global spread, co-infection with HIV-AIDS, and novel therapies. Supplemented with figures, it helps students grasp the facts with full visualisation of the concepts.
Deriving from a medicine history conference, this set of proceedings comprises topics from areas such as the history of health care systems, medical sciences and public health. It is also well-illustrated with diagrams and images pertaining to the history of medicine.
Relating the achievements of women dental professionals in the 100 years since (some) women first achieved the right to vote in the UK, this volume profiles women working in all aspects of dentistry during the period, and celebrates those who are a credit to their profession.
This volume explores how healthcare can be improved by the humanities. Drawing on fiction, art, and history, it offers innovative perspectives on healing, illness, and patient care, showing why an interdisciplinary dialogue is needed to enrich both medicine and the humanities.
Dental professionals face musculoskeletal problems from stressful work and awkward postures. This practical guide offers a holistic, systematic program for self-management, helping you recognize the causes, effectively manage your condition, and prevent recurrence.
The Neurolinguistic Approach (NLA) for Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages
Germain details the development of the Neurolinguistic Approach to Second-language Acquisition, from its inception in Canada in 1998 as a method for teaching French as a second language in a school setting to its current use in teaching adults in several other countries.
Women suffer from headaches far more than men. This text explores the dramatic new understanding of migraine, leading to more targeted treatments. It addresses key issues for women: hormonal changes, pregnancy, menopause, genetics, and comorbidities like stroke.
Learning from Empire
With contributions from reputed faculty and researchers, this anthology addresses the dynamics of circulation of medical knowledge and the creation of webs of empire through medical curiosities, medical and architectural knowledge, medical manuscripts, and surgical knowledge.
This collection of essays addresses the absence of African voices in global bioethics. It explores issues from medical research and traditional medicine to reproductive health, showing how universal bioethics can be firmly anchored in local, continental realities.
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