This book explores the quality of care through patient decision-making. It examines the nurse’s relationships with patients, families, and health teams, guiding managers to create policies that improve care and increase patient autonomy.
This introduction to the economics of dentistry applies economic theory to the oral health care sector, showing how everyday decisions are influenced by the laws of economics. It is essential reading for dental professionals, policy makers, and students.
A comprehensive source for IMGs preparing for USMLE step 2 CS. This book addresses common IMG challenges with easy approaches to prepare efficiently, recall key points, and build confidence. Simple language with illustrations and mnemonics facilitates learning and recall.
A readable guide to health as we age, easily understood by all. Written in an appealing, informal manner with entertaining stories and useful philosophical notes, it offers a helpful, holistic perspective. This encouraging book has value for all of us, elderly or not.
Many new pathologies and syndromes are caused by tiny, unsuspected foreign bodies. Knowing them is essential for correct diagnoses, without which no therapy can be effective. This book is an introduction to nanopathology, a field where so much still remains to be discovered.
This book emphasizes the role of the extracellular matrix in regulating cell growth and death. It presents promising findings that trace elements Zn, Se, and Mn can inhibit the progression of colorectal cancer, offering hope for their potential therapeutic use in CRC patients.
Scientific Research on Health Inequalities
This book reviews the evidence on health inequalities, revealing the methodological limitations of the research. It suggests the causal effect of social position on health is a chimera, raising crucial questions for researchers and public health professionals.
Based on research with 300 young Albanian males from post-conflict Kosovo, this book explores how physical training shapes the body. It reveals distinctive biological profiles in athletes and non-athletes, with vital implications for sports science, medicine, and public health.
Oral Cancer
This practical manual details the cause, prevention, and treatment of oral cancer. A lethal disease with rising incidence, half of all patients die within five years. This book provides pragmatic strategies to identify malignant disease at the earliest stage.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
A Healthy Life on a Healthy Planet
We think pollution only affects the environment, but disease rates are rising. This book explains how our health depends on the environment, demystifying how pollutants from carbon fuels and pesticides affect us and what we can do about it.