Medicine

Psychoanalysis has had to defend itself from a barrage of criticism throughout its history. Nevertheless,...

Our lives are dominated by technology. We live with and through the achievements of technology....

Ethical Practice in Brain Injury Rehabilitation helps rehabilitation professionals deal effectively with the difficult ethical...

Predicting survival and other outcomes is increasingly being recognized as an important skill for palliative...

A textbook aimed at nurses working with and in the homes of people with AIDS....

Written primarily for South African medical students in their fifth and sixth years, interns and...

This full-colour handbook is divided into four sections. The first two sections represent the two...

Outlines general principles and provides practical guidance on all child health issues in disadvantages, privileged,...

A comprehensive handbook providing core-curriculum knowledge of ear, nose, and throat physiology, disorders, and treatment.

This is a fully updated and revised edition of Principles of Critical Care (1999). Critical...

A very well written book with a wide sweep of erudition, tracing the developments of...

Breakthrough pain (BTP) is episodic pain that emerges through the treatment of otherwise well-managed chronic...

Patients with cancer can suffer from a bewildering variety of neurologic signs and symptoms. The...

All mental health and addiction practitioners want to provide their patients with the most effective...

Children who have autism require comprehensive educational and treatment services. There are a myriad of...

Ophthalmologists need to be familiar with a wide variety of optic nerve diseases that may...

[SERIES COPY] New to the Adolscent Mental Health Initiative series are books written specifically for...

An important milestone in medicine has been the recent completion of the Human Genome Project....

While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially...

Maintaining dignity for patients approaching death is a core principle of palliative care. Translating that...

This book integrates the role of gender in girls' and women's development across the life...

This book is an invaluable review of neurologic critical care in the intensive care unit....

The Second Edition of this single-authored volume integrates multiple disciplines of basic and clinical research...

Within the field of infectious diseases, medical mycology has experienced significant growth over the last...

Since 1989, American families have adopted more than 230,000 children from other countries. Many of...

This text provides a clinical framework for the diagnosis and management of more than seventy...

This book provides a comprehensive reference and diagnostic aid to the practicing pathologist or infectious...

This comprehensive reference source is a state-of-the-art guide to the scientific, clinical, rehabilitative, and policy...

Two decades have passed since publication of the first edition of Experimental and Clinical Neurotoxicology...

Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in...

POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCE formalizes an emerging discipline at the crossroads of social and medical sciences,...

Epidemiology, the so-called "science of public health," has undergone a boom in the last decade...

The number of individuals diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder has increased in the past decade,...

Health Protection: Principles and practice is a practical guide for practitioners working at all levels...

Preventive medical interventions and non-medicalised public health programmes that promise health benefits in the future,...

Over the past decade health care systems around the world have placed increasing importance on...

Global health has seen an influx of investment and interest over the last two decades,...

Emergency Ethics brings together leading scholars in the fields of public health ethics and bioethics...

The greatest public health victories of the last century -- public sanitation, vehicle safety measures,...

Food and its many aspects -- production, consumption, marketing, labeling, procurement, safety -- have become...

The entrenched separation of primary care and public health in the United States has been...

Healthcare faces unprecedented global challenges. Rapid advances in genomics, computational sciences, and technology -- as...

Children in the U.S. are not faring well. Despite major advances in public health, hygiene,...

Antimicrobial agents are essential for the treatment of life-threatening infections and for managing the burden...

Nutrition is an essential component of the work of all health and community workers, including...