Living with the Genome: Ethical and Social Aspects of Human Genetics
ISBN: 9781403936202 / Angielski / Twarda / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings us up to date with important contributions from the authoritative Encyclopedia of the Human Genome on the urgent social, legal and ethical aspects of the Human Genome enterprise, accessibly written and introduced for the undergraduate, postgraduate and general reader.
This book brings us up to date with important contributions from the authoritative Encyclopedia of the Human Genome on the urgent social, legal and et...
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192,74 zł |
Globalization, Women, and Health in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781403970312 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are still only beginning to understand the increasingly complex set of interdependencies among gender, health and globalization. This book brings together a diverse group of distinguished scholars and activists to explore the new risks and freedoms for men and women in a global society and their health determinants. They map the gendered impact of these processes and present a health landscape that takes us beyond nation states into trans-border flows of capital, people, goods and services. Each chapter begins with a global analysis of specific trends followed by two 'In Perspective'...
We are still only beginning to understand the increasingly complex set of interdependencies among gender, health and globalization. This book brings t...
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192,74 zł |
Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950
ISBN: 9781403985378 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using interdisciplinary techniques and original research findings, this volume explores the shift from humoral to nervous interpretations of emotion; the emotional nature of the medical professional-patient relationship; and the extent to which gender might influence the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of pathological emotional conditions.
Using interdisciplinary techniques and original research findings, this volume explores the shift from humoral to nervous interpretations of emotion; ...
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192,74 zł |
Evidence-Based Medicine: In Sherlock Holmes' Footsteps
ISBN: 9781405157131 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lively handbook on the fundamentals of Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) leads the reader, step by step, through a process that proceeds from a patient's medical history, via information searches and critical appraisal of the literature, to recommendations for treatment.
Using a simple four-step approach, the author illustrates how to develop better questions and more effective searches, resulting in objective and clinically relevant information that can be evaluated and implemented in day-to-day practice. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, the famous fictional detectives, assist... This lively handbook on the fundamentals of Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) leads the reader, step by step, through a process that proceeds from a patie...
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125,07 zł |
Diabetes Without Complications
ISBN: 9781412072236 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until now, no book or long-term research (i.e., nearly forty years) has conclusively demonstrated that diabetes complications can be avoided for such a prolonged period of time.
Diabetes Without ComplicationsQ is the first book written that explores nearly forty years of a person's life with diabetes and how diabetes complications have been completely avoided, including valuable lessons learned over the years. The second half of the book contains information for building a successful diabetes management program. Diabetes Without ComplicationsQ covers type 1 and type 2 diabetes,... Until now, no book or long-term research (i.e., nearly forty years) has conclusively demonstrated that diabetes complications can be avoided for such ...
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109,77 zł |
Principles of Clinical Decision-Making
ISBN: 9781412086547 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The objective of this book is the development and description of a frame which shows how biological systems interact and coordinate and how such a frame can be used by physicians to improve clinical decision-making.
The objective of this book is the development and description of a frame which shows how biological systems interact and coordinate and how such a fra...
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164,99 zł |
Overcoming a Bad Gene: The Story of the Discovery and Successful Treatment of Phenylketonuria, a Genetic Disease That Causes Mental Retardati
ISBN: 9781418437466 / Angielski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of the unraveling of a profound medical mystery. It started 70 years ago in Norway, where Mrs Egeland was searching for a physician who could treat her two young children. At birth, both children appeared to be healthy, but they soon developed signs of severe mental retardation. Her search ended when she found Dr. Folling, who determined that the retardation was caused by a new genetic disease, later named phenylketonuria (PKU), that blocks the oxidation of the amino acid phenylalanine. Later, others devised an inexpensive test for PKU and an effective treatment- the low...
This is the story of the unraveling of a profound medical mystery. It started 70 years ago in Norway, where Mrs Egeland was searching for a physician ...
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91,62 zł |
A First Step - Understanding Guillain-Barre Syndrome
ISBN: 9781553694113 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part one of A First Step - Understanding Guillain-Barre Syndrome is a true, blow-by-blow account of the Author's encounter, as a healthy Canadian businessman, with a rare and devastating disease, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (G.B.S. for short). It describes his seven-month long struggle for life in 'Intensive Care' after receiving a grim prognosis, and his subsequent dogged determination to overcome the effects of that disease.
The second part is devoted to short stories based on dreams and hallucinations experienced whilst he was in 'Intensive Care', which in themselves reveal something of... Part one of A First Step - Understanding Guillain-Barre Syndrome is a true, blow-by-blow account of the Author's encounter, as a healthy Canadian busi...
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147,39 zł |
Lost Voices : Women, Chronic Pain, and Abuse
ISBN: 9781560238645 / Angielski / Miękka / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Uses the personal stories of abused women to show the complexity of chronic pain, the healing process, and the role of psychology.
Uses the personal stories of abused women to show the complexity of chronic pain, the healing process, and the role of psychology.
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196,68 zł |
Chronic Fatigue Syndromes: The Limbic Hypothesis
ISBN: 9781560249047 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is now a recognized major and international medical concern. Neglected for many years because of its puzzling wide range of symptoms and inability to be "slotted" into any single mainstream medical discipline, CFS has gained government, academic, and public attention. In this innovative book, Dr. Jay Goldstein provides a medical narrative of an "evolving theory" of how the symptoms of CFS may develop through dysfunction of numerous physiological pathways. He describes the biologic basis of these assumptions, and, based on an analysis of basic medical...
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is now a recognized major and international medical concern. Neglected for many years because of its puzzling wide rang...
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253,63 zł |
Pain and Its Relief Without Addiction: Clinical Issues in the Use of Opioids and Other Analgesics
ISBN: 9781560249061 / Angielski / Twarda / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helps physicians and people in pain understand why their pain is not always adequately relieved, and addresses the failure of current medicine to effectively alleviate pain. Discusses the nature of pain, its connections to the emotional and psychological state of patients, and the impact particular drugs have on the body. Outlines the basic concept
Helps physicians and people in pain understand why their pain is not always adequately relieved, and addresses the failure of current medicine to effe...
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346,80 zł |
Lost Voices: Women, Chronic Pain, and Abuse
ISBN: 9781560249214 / Angielski / Twarda / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this illuminating book, Dr. Nellie Radomsky explores the complexity of chronic pain in women and evidence for its association with abuse--an issue largely unrecognized by medical practitioners. Modern medical training emphasizes diagnosis and cure, but chronic pain problems often have no identifiable organic cause, and the women who suffer are often not listened to in the doctor s office. Lost Voices: Women, Chronic Pain, and Abuse addresses how women, by gaining knowledge of the ways the medical culture--and the larger culture--have silenced them, may move into a healing process and learn...
In this illuminating book, Dr. Nellie Radomsky explores the complexity of chronic pain in women and evidence for its association with abuse--an issue ...
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750,67 zł |
Methods for Genetic Risk Assessment
ISBN: 9781566700399 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Genetic disease contributes to a major portion of our health care costs. While most of the human genetic burden is transmitted from generation to generation, environmental chemicals capable of reacting with germ cell DNA could produce new mutations, resulting in an even greater genetic liability for the next generation. The potential impact of environmental mutagens on the health and viability of other living things is important to consider as well.
Methods for Genetic Risk Assessment features contributions from international experts to provide a comprehensive review of the current status... Genetic disease contributes to a major portion of our health care costs. While most of the human genetic burden is transmitted from generation to gene...
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1553,11 zł |
The First Year Lupus: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
ISBN: 9781569245095 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lupus affects an estimated 1.5 million people in the U.S.90 percent of whom are womenbut due to the diversity of its symptoms and severity, it remains one of the most difficult conditions to identify and diagnose. In the tradition of the other titles in the First Year series, The First Year Lupus uses a unique approachguiding readers through their first seven days following diagnosis, then the next three weeks of their first month, and finally the next eleven months of their first yearto provide answers and advice that will help everyone newly diagnosed with lupus come to terms with their...
Lupus affects an estimated 1.5 million people in the U.S.90 percent of whom are womenbut due to the diversity of its symptoms and severity, it remains...
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Assessment in Behavioral Medicine
ISBN: 9781583912270 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A resource for students, researchers, clinicians and teachers who are involved in education, research or clinical work in which behavioural medicine takes a crucial position.
A resource for students, researchers, clinicians and teachers who are involved in education, research or clinical work in which behavioural medicine t...
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Recrafting a Life: Solutions for Chronic Pain and Illness
ISBN: 9781583913567 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title explores the areas of chronic illness and pain, which are seen as major problems in the health care system. Because they are unresponsive to both antibiotics and surgery, they are seen as elusive and mysterious.
This title explores the areas of chronic illness and pain, which are seen as major problems in the health care system. Because they are unresponsive t...
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138,31 zł |
Psychosocial Treatment for Medical Conditions: Principles and Techniques
ISBN: 9781583913666 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mental Health and Physical Health are undeniably connected. One cannot recover physically, if there is still mental suffering, and vice versa. The essays collected here examine the relationship between mental and physical health, and how that relationship flourishes or suffers in a managed care environment. Understanding more about how the psychological aftereffects of an illness, and the best ways to respond to them, will ultimately enhance the care offered to patients. The contributors offer a wide range of examples of linked physical and mental illnesses, with advice on how best to...
Mental Health and Physical Health are undeniably connected. One cannot recover physically, if there is still mental suffering, and vice versa. The ess...
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429,64 zł |
Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy: Methods and Protocols
ISBN: 9781588290199 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy: Methods and Protocols consists of 30 ch- ters detailing the use of herpes viruses, adenoviruses, adeno-associated viruses, simple and complex retroviruses, including lentiviruses, and other virus systems for vector development and gene transfer. Chapter cont- butions provide perspective in the use of viral vectors for applications in the brain and in the central nervous system. Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy: Methods and Protocols contains step-by-step methods for successful rep- cation of experimental procedures, and should prove useful for both experienced...
Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy: Methods and Protocols consists of 30 ch- ters detailing the use of herpes viruses, adenoviruses, adeno-associated viru...
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578,30 zł |
Cell Migration in Inflammation and Immunity: Methods and Protocols
ISBN: 9781588291028 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chemokines and their receptors play a central role in the pathogenesis of numerous, perhaps all, acute and chronic inflammatory diseases. About 50 distinct chemokines produced by a variety cell types and tissues either c- stitutively or in response to inflammatory stimuli are involved in a plethora of biological processes. These small secreted proteins exert their exquisitely variegated functions upon binding to a family of seven-transmembrane spanning G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) composed of almost 20 distinct entities. The biological activities of chemokines range from the control of...
Chemokines and their receptors play a central role in the pathogenesis of numerous, perhaps all, acute and chronic inflammatory diseases. About 50 dis...
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385,52 zł |
Principles of Molecular Medicine
ISBN: 9781588292025 / Angielski / Twarda / 1268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The concept of molecular medicine dates back to Linus means that there are many new opportunities and challenges Pauling, who in the late 1940s and early 1950s generalized for clinical medicine. One of the effects of the completion of from the ideas that came from the study of the sickle cell the Human Genome Project is the increasing application of hemoglobin molecule. With the first cloning of human genes the fields of molecular biology and genetics to the und- about 1976, molecular genetics took the molecular perspec- standing and management of common diseases. Assimi- tive on disease to...
The concept of molecular medicine dates back to Linus means that there are many new opportunities and challenges Pauling, who in the late 1940s and ea...
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1191,38 zł |