This comprehensive but simple manual addresses frequent and rare emergencies in hand surgery. Written by experienced hand surgeons, this guide covers the management of a variety of conditions, from a nailbed injury to an amputation or a gunshot wound.
This book reports on the current state and future of meristemotherapy (gemmotherapy). Based on clinical trials and research, it investigates preparation methods, collateral effects, posology, and administration methods.
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 on comparative anatomy will be useful to medical and high school students. It provides a better understanding of phylogenetically determined anomalies and malformations in the development of internal organs in humans.
This book introduces human motor control and neuroplasticity, explaining how the nervous system adapts to physical activity, training, and rehabilitation. Integrating research with clinical applications, it is an essential text for students, researchers, and clinicians.
This textbook explains the mechanical properties of smooth muscle, a vital tissue implicated in diseases like high blood pressure and asthma. It is the only book with functional models and easy-to-follow mathematical derivations, linking the muscle cell to the laws of physics.
This volume covers cancer epidemiology, drug development, and therapies, presenting tools to assess side effects. It also explores patient quality of life, palliative care, and the global disparities that prevent equal access to diagnosis and treatment.
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.
The Success Rates and Limits of Reproductive Medicine
More couples are leaving children until later, not realising “later” can be “too late”. While many trust in reproductive medicine, the biological clock cannot be turned back. This book explains the medical facts: what fertility treatments can achieve, and what they cannot.
Me and My Hormones
This jargon-free book offers a comprehensive account of hormone conditions affecting all ages. It covers common issues like puberty timing, thyroid disorders, diabetes, and weight, bringing clarity to how hormones impact your health, growth, and well-being.
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 volume offers concise, essential, and up-to-date information on the most common liver masses and lesions. For pathologists, trainees, hepatologists, and clinicians, its checklists provide guidance on initiating the workup and generating the report.
This volume provides concise, essential information on common non-neoplastic liver diseases. It is a useful guide for pathologists and trainees, with checklists to guide workup and reporting. It is also a good reference for hepatologists, other clinicians, and researchers.
The Book of Chinese Medicine, Volume 2
This volume applies Chinese medicine in clinical settings to prevent and treat disease. Using real patient examples, it covers herbal drugs and acupuncture techniques, and discusses the revolutionary innovations shaping the future of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
How Nurses Can Facilitate Meaning-making and Dialogue
Nurses hear patients’ stories daily. This book describes how to use narrative to realize therapeutic aims. With practical case studies, it explains how narrative achieves person-centred care, enabling a switch from care delivery to a dialogic, recovery-oriented approach.
Our world needs nurses now more than ever. Facing a significant shortage, the nursing profession offers complex, challenging, and rewarding roles. This book provides an overview of these vast opportunities and may persuade you to choose this rewarding profession.
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery combats leading causes of death. This volume discusses various aspects of CABG, with up-to-date information and practical experience from cardiovascular surgeons.
Bones regenerate, but teeth do not. This book introduces the world of apatites, the biomaterials composing our teeth and bones. It will boost your interest in biomaterials and improve your understanding of the daily efforts of dentists, dental technicians, and hygienists.
Chronic pelvic pain often has an unclear cause and a major impact on quality of life. The most successful treatment is a multidisciplinary approach. This book discusses pain abnormalities, various treatments, and delves into the psychological approach to such pain.
Solution Focused Interactions in Nursing
This book shows how Solution Focused Interactions can help nurses promote growth and change. Based on 25 years of experience and PhD research, this practical guide uses case studies to help you and your patients grow, while restoring your own enthusiasm for practice.