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.
Concepts and Issues in Healthcare Ethics
This book gives healthcare professionals practical help with ethical dilemmas. With a playful, accessible approach, it provides philosophical tools and discusses practical cases to stimulate creative inquiry and guide students and professionals in providing good 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.
Orofacial Pain and Headache
This concise, clinically oriented 3rd edition integrates knowledge on orofacial pain and headache. Chapters start with clinical features and treatment strategies, followed by a discussion of mechanisms. This book is intended for senior dental students, dentists, and physicians.
This volume discusses the coronavirus pandemic’s ecology, evolution, and psychosocial and economic impact. It covers epidemiology, clinical management, and future global threats, making it an essential resource for clinicians, policymakers, and civil society organizations.
Introduction to Clinical Pharmacology
Built around patient presentation, this textbook advances from symptoms to diagnosis and treatment, mirroring clinical practice. It provides concise information on pharmacology, with relevant cases and questions. For medical and pharmacy students, practitioners, and pre-meds.
This book reviews the medical aspects of bilio-pancreatic malformations in adults, covering key ductal anomalies like pancreas divisum and annular pancreas. It includes a wide literature review, as well as original schematic figures and illustrations.
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.
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.
Imogene King’s Conceptual Framework and Theory of Goal Attainment
Imogene King was a major 20th-century nursing thought leader whose Theory of Goal Attainment was formative in professionalizing nursing. This book makes King’s framework relevant for today’s practitioners and displays its value to improve clinical practice worldwide.
Parallel Discourses
To make public health programs in Botswana more effective, we must understand local religious and cultural beliefs. This book explores the parallel discourses on HIV between faith and public health, suggesting common ground for collaborative and effective prevention.
Grammar Formalism for Medical Data Analysis
This book assists in medical diagnosis in cardiology by extending grammar to applications such as the ECG signal and tomographic image. Compared to statistical methods, this approach offers more flexibility and makes medical diagnosis easier.
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.
An anaesthesia textbook for medical students in Africa, written by specialist anaesthesiologists from across the continent. It provides helpful mnemonics and practice exam questions. The book is also useful for postgraduate students and anaesthesia practitioners.
In Russia, millions of women underwent radical mastectomy without indications. This book explores invasive procedures used without sufficient cause, a surgical hyper-radicalism linked to paternalism, disregard for informed consent, and the training of medical personnel for war.
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.
Intra-articular Corticosteroid Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis
An essential guide to corticosteroid therapy for knee osteoarthritis. This resource demystifies treatment, exploring effectiveness, factors that predict response, and clinical management strategies based on the latest research. Enhance your treatment methods and patient care.
A lost science of medicine is resurfacing. This book explores “caves of healing”—metaphorical caverns in the body and the earth—to unfold a new map of medicine that integrates mind, body, and environment, reviving the role of consciousness in our health.
This book outlines the surgical and prosthetic stages of dental implantation. The reader is guided through using digital tools at every stage, from treatment planning and patient selection to surgical execution, restorative modalities, and postoperative care.
In the quest for a ‘magic bullet’ against cancer, nanoparticles show great promise. These engineered nanostructures can target specific tumors, but their effectiveness must be weighed against toxicity. This book explores diverse nanotechnological advances.