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.
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.
Learn how the healthcare community is working with patients to predict and prevent disease using P4 medicine, nutrition, and a healthy lifestyle. This book explores personalized therapies, patient participation, and uses systems thinking to dispel common health misconceptions.
Systems thinking is being used to improve human health and reduce costs. Learn how the healthcare community is developing targeted therapies that stimulate our bodies to cure ourselves, and explore advances in genetics, 3D bioprinting, and how supplements and drugs are marketed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AIDS in Cultural Bodies
Venkatesan and Ammanathil examine the various psychosocial and sexual ordeals of African American people living with HIV or AIDS as depicted in African American literary narratives dealing the disease published from 1980 to 2010.
The Proceedings of the 20th Anniversary History of Medicine Days Conference 2011
This volume from the History of Medicine Days conference comprises insights into the histories of Women, Health and Reproduction; Institutes and Deinstitutionalization; and the Brain, Mind, and Mindlessness. It includes Dr. George Weisz’s keynote on chronic disease.
Towards a New Philosophy of Mental Health
This collection represents a major contribution to the interdisciplinary dialogue in mental health. It uses new tools from neuroscience, psychology, phenomenology, and epistemology to explore mental disorders and critically reappraise current research.
“Attached Files”
In this selection of lectures and papers, medical anthropologist Imre Lázár explores the synergic logic of human bonds. Using attachment as a core concept, he connects anthropology, health sciences, religious studies, and ecology.
Community, Autonomy and Informed Consent
Current informed consent guidelines for international research fail when community is involved. This book critiques the traditional view of autonomy that causes these failures and proposes a relational model to create more just and effective ethical policies.
Japanese bioethics has developed a distinct identity separate from its American origins. This anthology, featuring original chapters by leading scholars, reveals how traditional Japanese values shape the nation’s approach to complex ethical issues in medicine.
Essential reading for anyone who is presented with the problem of identifying and dealing with negative spirit influence, this monograph presents a complementary approach that is built upon the theoretical concepts and experimental methods of Frederic Myers.
Health, Communication and Multicultural Communities
For healthcare professionals, students, mediators, and interpreters, this is a practical handbook on communicating in multicultural settings. It is not a theoretical book but is oriented towards reflection and practice, drawing from years of experience.
Arterial stiffening is a key consequence of ageing and vital for treating resistant hypertension. This book explains the pathophysiology behind arterial stiffness, its relation to high blood pressure, and offers insights into its management from current research.