Amidst the rise of chronic diseases, this book provides insight into physiology, molecular biology, and genetics to raise awareness about nutrition. It shows how food is not only for disease prevention, but for co-adjuvant and sustainable treatment.
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.
Autism Decoded
Paediatrician Professor May Ng demystifies autism with clarity and empathy in ‘Autism Decoded.’ This jargon-free roadmap offers practical insights and fosters appreciation for the diverse strengths of the neurodiverse community, empowering readers to build a world of acceptance.
This book provides a general overview of more than 350 medicinal plants. It covers the health benefits and uses of each plant in teas, tinctures, creams, and more. Brief, straightforward explanations are accompanied by high-quality, colourful photos.
Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Viral Age
In the post-COVID viral age, social contagions and irresistible technology create new techno-psychopathologies. As the cybersphere rewires our minds, the checklist diagnostics used to define mental illness have become obsolete. The human mind is fundamentally different.
American medicine’s history is filled with triumph and controversy. This book examines its convoluted course from colonial society to the 20th century, exploring accomplishments and misadventures, from the Mayo Clinic to the Tuskegee affair, to reveal its conflicting tenets.
Voice Classification by Phonetography
An essential guideline for all voice professionals. This book uses phonetographic analysis to present an age- and gender-specific pattern card of the human voice, based on a database of more than 1000 phonetograms, enabling basic voice classification for education and therapy.
Hip-Spine Syndrome is a common clinical finding, yet controversy surrounds best surgical practices. This book reviews the syndrome, presents approaches to management with a focus on surgical indications and considerations, and identifies areas that require further research.
Human beings undergo hormonal and metabolic changes throughout life that can alter health and trigger pathologies. This volume focuses on these changes, presenting the screenings best suited for each life stage and the diseases they allow for diagnosis.
Food Safety, from Farm to Fork
This volume explores global food safety issues, presenting key findings from scientific studies. It details threats along the food chain—from pathogens, pesticides, and heavy metals to allergens—and shows how adhering to good practices is crucial in ensuring safe foods.
This book proposes that the physiological motif of plastocyanin dimorphism is a hallmark of higher plants. It also serves as a methodological guide to photosynthesis, offering various methods for the study of proteins.
Conversations on Cardiac Physiology
This book corrects widespread misconceptions about heart physiology. It argues that depolarisation can be explained by electron outflow, hypertension is not caused by a salty diet, and coronary artery disease risk is not correlated with total cholesterol.
Based on research on human cadavers, this book explores the connections and variabilities of the autonomic nervous system. Detailed illustrations and schemes help the reader understand its function and peculiarities within the whole peripheral nervous system.
Problem-Based Learning is an effective method of medical instruction that teaches students to think critically in a group environment. This book will help you harness the power of active learning and conduct an outstanding session and properly prepare for it.
This text leads the reader on an evolutionary journey through cancer pain, palliative care, and supportive care. It highlights new research in these fields, reflecting the link between clinical activity and scientific data.
Infections in Hematology
With resistance to antibiotics growing and new forms of infectious diseases emerging, the findings of this text—which draws on extensive clinical experience and the results of modern research to identify new directions in the field—are particularly timely.
Insights into Portuguese Medical History
This book uncovers the understudied history of medicine in Portugal. International scholars reveal the lives of physicians, responses to past pandemics, and analyses of medical culture, from defence against plague to the history of medicinal emeralds and spectacles.
This systematic, illustrated guide presents methods for bone marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy. It offers a step-by-step approach to obtaining and processing samples safely and effectively, with practical advice on resolving common problems and complications.
This book critically examines the US COVID-19 crisis, arguing the nation’s response was out of proportion to the actual threat. This led to needless suffering, driven by the misrepresentation of public science by government officials and the news media.
An introduction to point of care ultrasound, applied to improve care in acute and perioperative settings. Each section offers a succinct background, illustrated guidance on image acquisition, and essential pathology identification.