Medicine

Gastrointestinal symptoms such as anorexia-cachexia, chronic nausea, vomiting and bowel obstruction are highly distressing for...

This book deals with child abuse and neglect as it presents itself in primary care....

Medicine and the arts have in common a concern for all aspects of people's lives....

Recent developments in methods of contraception have presented women with a wider range of options...

Patients with striking physical symptoms suggestive of a neurological disease, but no evidence of nervous...

The function of human white cells is dependent on a complex machinery involving a network...

Lesions of the oral cavity have an enormous impact on the quality of life of...

Psychotherapy is growing and changing rapidly and much of this development is integrative in nature....

Living with haemophilia has established itself as the complete guide to haemophilia and related disorders....

Many patients come to the Accident and Emergency department in pain or with conditions requiring...

BACK COVER COPY This third edition of The Genetics of Neurological Disorders incorporates the recent...

Healthy eating throughout childhood can be crucial in deterring many of the diseases that occur...

This important book makes the case for placing maternity care in the community. It has...

This book provides extensive clinical descriptions of the spondylarthritides, as well as reviews of the...

Cancer causes a quarter of all deaths in England and Wales. There is great professional...

In examining the relationship between nutritional exposure and disease aetiology, the importance of a carefully...

Disorders of menstruation are a major cause of morbidity in women. The treatment of such...

This book provides an up-to-date account of how to deal with the major chronic pain...

This book describes all aspects of the management of cardiopulmonary arrest in both adults and...

This book brings together in one handy volume all the information needed to understand -...

The Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine is acknowledged to be the most authoritative and...

A recent Harris Poll revealed some disturbing aspects of the current state of health care...

Peer review is especially effective in inducing change and improvement in practice in the long...

Dialysis amyloidosis is a syndrome observed in dialysis patients characterized initially by joint pain, followed...

Health care professionals are becoming increasingly aware of the moral dilemmas fundamental to their work....

Cardiovascular disease remains the greatest cause of morbidity and mortality. Over the past 10-15 years...

Most physiology textbooks tend to focus on a "snapshot" taken at a particular time of...

Following the launch of the new syllabus and new MRCPsych exam by the Royal College...

Complications following surgical procedures are not only associated with significant morbidity and mortality, but also...

This book is a case-based learning guide for neuromuscular diseases. This second volume in the...

This is a major revision of a standard reference work for neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, and neurologists....

The use of narrative methods has a long history in palliative care, pioneered by Dame...

Neuroscience has long had an impact on the field of psychiatry, and over the last...

Rheumatology is an ever-changing specialty in which the amount of available information is growing daily...

Many serious public health problems confront the world in the new millennium. Anthropology and Public...

Psychoanalytic theories have come in out of favour in the past hundred years. As a...

Modern culture tends to separate medicine and miracles, but their histories are closely intertwined. The...

Since its inception as an international requirement to protect patients and healthy volunteers taking part...

Joseph Babinski's contributions to French medicine have been well-documented, but there has yet to be...

Written by leading American practitioners, the Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine each offer a pocket-sized...

This is a practical book on neurological therapy. It is aimed at giving concise and...

This second edition of Epidemiologic Methods offers a rigorous introduction to the concepts and tools...