This book investigates how stress causes life-threatening diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s, and what you can do to save yourself. A neurologist reveals that cutting the nerve supply to the adrenal glands can prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
This collection of essays addresses the absence of African voices in global bioethics. It explores issues from medical research and traditional medicine to reproductive health, showing how universal bioethics can be firmly anchored in local, continental realities.
Written by neurosonology experts, this volume details the ‘science’ and ‘art’ of performing these tests. With representative cases from clinical practice, it serves as a reference for sonographers and neurologists on transcranial Doppler and cervical duplex exams.
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.
Relating the achievements of women dental professionals in the 100 years since (some) women first achieved the right to vote in the UK, this volume profiles women working in all aspects of dentistry during the period, and celebrates those who are a credit to their profession.
This volume explores how healthcare can be improved by the humanities. Drawing on fiction, art, and history, it offers innovative perspectives on healing, illness, and patient care, showing why an interdisciplinary dialogue is needed to enrich both medicine and the humanities.
New Ways of Thinking about Nursing
The research-based, technical approach to nursing is failing our patients, students, and profession. This book challenges the assumptions of modern evidence-based practice, proposing a person-centred philosophy of nursing that addresses the needs of each individual patient.
Public fear of breast cancer obscures the facts. Treatments can increase other health risks, while fear itself can impair quality of life. This book explores the history and mystery of breast cancer, from Ancient Egypt to the future, to champion the totality of women’s health.
Dark Tales of Illness, Medicine, and Madness
A strange and mordant journey through the world of illness, doctors and patients. A forensic psychiatrist exposes the extremes of human nature in the dangerous relationships between them, revealing medical quacks, murders, and other crimes in the world of medicine.
A manual on constructing and using mathematical models of infectious disease transmission in animals. With veterinary examples, it shows how models inform disease control strategies, making it valuable for clinicians, policy makers, civil servants, and interested readers.
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.
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.
40 Years After In Vitro Fertilisation
Marking the 40th anniversary of IVF, this collection gathers its principal actors to summarize the technique’s achievements, current state, and future. It provides a passionate story of IVF’s evolution, understandable to health professionals and the lay public alike.
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.
A Global Compendium of Oral Health
This book summarizes 30 countries’ epidemiological profiles on tooth eruption and dental tissue anomalies. It introduces the full spectrum of anomalies, addresses teething myths and misconceptions, and maps what we currently know and what remains to be studied.
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.
Hereditary Effects of Parental Lifestyle on the Health of Offspring
Parental and grandparental lifestyle choices can affect the health of their children and grandchildren. Eating habits, smoking, or drinking can “program” their offspring to be more susceptible to diseases, even if the children themselves adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Shell Shock Doctors
Shell shock was WWI’s signature injury. Military doctors witnessed psychiatric states never seen before, evolving interventions still in use today. This text reconsiders their forgotten writings. Neuropsychiatry was founded in the shell craters of Flanders.
Practical Cardiology Review
This book covers real and practical issues in cardiology. Each chapter features key point summaries and multiple-choice questions for self-assessment. Complete with comprehensive answers, real pictures, and charts, this guide is perfect for rapid review and easy learning.
Italy’s 1978 Psychiatric Reform closed all psychiatric hospitals, a move praised worldwide. But this transition had notable setbacks. This book provides a much-needed appraisal, highlighting the reform’s often-overlooked shortcomings with a multi-faceted, independent viewpoint.