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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Plants produce a vast diversity of bioactive molecules to defend themselves from stress. This book provides a complete overview of these compounds, detailing their biochemistry, functional roles, and biotechnological production for use as food supplements and natural medicines.
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.
This book extends the concept of the “calcium paradox,” linking Ca2+/cAMP signalling pathways to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. It details how this interaction can open new pharmacological strategies for treating these diseases.
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.
This guide explores Africa’s STI/HIV epidemic through the lens of cultural beliefs and sexual habits. It offers vital context for health professionals and the public, helping to understand and address the root causes of the crisis.
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 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.
Medical Education in Western India
“Medical knowledge is not communicable to the natives.” Despite this 1832 declaration, Governor Sir Robert Grant, Dr Charles Morehead, and philanthropist Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy created a medical college in Bombay that went on to rival those in Europe and America.
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.
This text offers a concise overview of introductory neuroscience, from molecules to the mind. Focusing on the primary concepts of brain anatomy and physiology without peripheral details, it is an ideal guide for students and a useful reference for a quick refresher.
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.
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.
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.
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.