Medicine

Electromyography (EMG) and nerve conduction studies (NCS) are electrodiagnostic tests used for identifying neuromuscular diseases...

In anesthesia practice and treatment, pharmacology and therapeutics are intimately related, synergistic, and mutually reinforcing....

CT imaging has become a mainstay of medical imaging. After 30 years this is a...

Medical sociologist Gayle A. Sulik reveals the hidden costs of the pink ribbon as an...

The role that the placebo effect plays in many treatments is clear: it not only...

Daniel Callahan---whose cofounding of The Hastings Center in 1969 was one of the most important...

The use of human beings as research subjects poses distinctive ethical issues. Subjects of medical...

Nystagmus in Infancy and Childhood is a highly-illustrative and thoughtfully written text that provides clinicians...

The fifth edition of this popular collection of fifty-one anatomical case studies, now co-authored by...

Just over a century after the publication of Sir William Gowers' famous last book, The...

As recently detailed in an Institute of Medicine Report, pain represents one of the most...

Individuals with schizophrenia and related disorders experience significant functioning deficits in the community. The study...

In this book, the authors have placed culture in the forefront of their approach to...

Body MRI: Cases in Radiology serves as a ready reference of 141 cases and nearly...

Landmarks in Nephrology points the reader to some of the seminal observations which have led...

Neuroethics is concerned with the wide array of ethical, legal and social issues that are...

The philosopher Henry Richardson's short book is a defense of a position on a neglected...

Currently and for centuries past, sickness has been understood to be primarily the physical result...

Glaucoma surgery is difficult and fraught with complications. Some complications are common and mild, while...

This second edition of Seizures and Epilepsy, written almost a quarter of a century after...

Mental Health Informatics offers a comprehensive examination of contemporary issues in mental health that focuses...

The fourth edition of IMayo Clinic Cardiology: Concise Textbook continues the tradition of all previous...

Some twenty percent of us are afflicted with common anxiety and depressive disorders--not just brief...

Diabetes is one of the most common medical conditions to complicate pregnancy. Gestational diabetes (diabetes...

The care of pain patients often requires a specialized knowledge base and skill set that...

Landmark Papers in General Surgery will give surgeons, surgical trainees and other healthcare professionals an...

This book will demonstrate how to use novel, systematic method for recognizing psychological adaptive mechanisms...

With an ageing population, there is little doubt that the majority of hospital-based consultants and...

Genomics and Health in the Developing World provides detailed and comprehensive coverage of population structures,...

Interesting and important ethical questions confront researchers, regulators, institutional review boards, support personnel, and research...

Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Anaesthesia offer a concise, didactic way for medical and nursing staff...

The fourth edition of this highly successful textbook discusses the practical applications of the various...

This fifth edition of the Autonomic Failure covers the many recent advances made in our...

Child abuse is a complex subject and many health care workers and professionals such as...

Environmental chemical hazards are a highly contentious topic in modern life. Nearly every nation on...

Cardiovascular disease is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in people with diabetes, and...

Based upon the popular review course from Harvard Medical School, The Brigham Intensive Review of...

This is a collection of Ruth Macklin's previously published articles that appeared in scholarly journals...

Paradigms Lost challenges key paradigms currently held about the prevention or reduction of stigma attached...

Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population had...

Simulation-based training (SBT) has long been an important tool for students and trainees in multiple...

Featuring 150 cases and over 400 high-quality images, Pediatric Imaging Cases offers a complete survey...

The Migraine Brain, edited by David Borsook, Arne May, Peter J. Goadsby, and Richard Hargreaves,...

Behavioral neurology is founded on lesions of cortical gray matter, but recently the contributions of...

Myasthenia Gravis and Myasthenic Disorders, Second Edition is a thoroughly re-written and updated version of...