Mankind is in an arms race with drug-resistant pathogens. This book reveals how benign bacteria become pathogenic by acquiring new genes and proposes a third strategy beyond drugs and vaccines: achieving herd resistance by enhancing our protective intestinal microbiota.
Get answers to your headache questions. Experienced authors cover common issues: diagnosis, triggers, lifestyle, and medical management for everything from migraine to concussions. This book is an excellent resource for patients, their families, and clinicians.
Imaging diagnostics is an indispensable element of physiotherapy. This volume addresses the global lack of comprehensive studies on its use in the physiotherapy process, contributing to a more complete patient assessment and forming the basis for a new diagnostic standard.
This unique book is the first ever dedicated to the anatomy and clinical relevance of the ligaments connecting the head to the spine. It is essential for radiologists, spine surgeons, therapists, and trainees treating the craniocervical junction.
The History of Medicine and Healthcare
This well-illustrated volume covers topics such as the history of psychiatry, biomedical ethics, and public health. Of special note is a paper by internationally renowned historian Dr Peter L. Twohig.
This introductory text helps physiotherapists integrate research evidence into their practice. It bridges the gap for those lost in the language of research, offering a platform to develop an understanding of critical appraisal and gain confidence.
In an era of biomedical technology, how do we account for the subjective experiences of illness and suffering? This unique book offers an international medical anthropology perspective on the ethics of care and the importance of the patient’s voice in healthcare.
Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle cell disease remains a leading scourge. This volume provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review from experts in the field. It highlights what is known about the disease and where future advances are needed, providing a solid foundation for future studies.
The Complete History of Plague in Norway, 1348-1654
This unique book provides a complete history of the entire Second Plague Pandemic in Norway, from the Black Death to 1654. It studies how plague epidemics evolve by comparing their spread and dynamics in late medieval society versus early modern society.
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.
Acetylcholine is a universal messenger, from bacteria to humans. While best known as a neurotransmitter, our understanding of its action has completely changed. This book explores its vital physiological and toxicological importance, since it can be perturbed by many substances.
This book chronicles the journey of the Epilepsy Society of Australia, from humble beginnings to a leading professional body. It details the society’s growth, its role in advancing knowledge and technology, and its contribution to training some of the world’s leading experts.
This book presents a humanistic framework for health promotion, arguing that the key is not to control behavior, but to cultivate autonomy. It reframes health as a matter of social justice—a moral endeavor to remove barriers so everyone can realize their innate capacities.
Neuro-intervention is one of medicine’s most exciting specialties, but it can be a source of misfortune. This book shows that problems in the field are not outlying incidents, but are systemic, insidious, and ubiquitous issues affecting research, education, and publications.
An excellent guide to clinical research for researchers in dentistry, medicine, and nursing. The book covers the entire research process, from formulating a question to presenting results. Based on authentic studies, it reviews methods and statistical applications.
In the high-risk world of aviation, psychology is a critical variable affecting performance, safety, and accidents. This book brings together detailed studies from the behavioural sciences to allow the reader to better understand this multifaceted relationship.
From Depression to Happiness
What do you do after symptoms of a mental disorder are controlled? How can you build a better life? Weaving together Positive Psychology and Aristotelian philosophy, this book details an approach to creating a path towards a flourishing life based on virtue and excellence.
This book explores the lives of Hungarian Jewish doctors between the World Wars. It answers how these doctors treated patients while inmates themselves, and why so many Jewish youth chose the medical profession in Hungary.
Pancreatic Endoscopic Ultrasound
Early detection is the key to surviving pancreatic cancer. This guide empowers physicians to master Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)—the primary diagnostic tool—providing clear techniques and algorithms for this complex, life-saving procedure.
Glucose transporters are vital for metabolism, and disturbances in their function can be fatal. This book discusses the link between these proteins and disease, including their potential as an anticancer and antidiabetic therapeutic target.