The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-Century Baghdad
ISBN: 9789004146969 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the knowledge and therapeutic use of opium and various species of poppy by physicians in ninth-century Baghdad (the leading medical centre then) as seen in key works by six outstanding physicians, with reference to others. The study opens with a brief look at early Islamic knowledge of the Graeco-Roman use of opium, while examining in detail entries on opium and poppy in the Arabic version of Dioscorides's influential and fundamental Materia medica. The core of the study aims to establish to what extent and how opium and poppy are used in the selected books of the six...
This book examines the knowledge and therapeutic use of opium and various species of poppy by physicians in ninth-century Baghdad (the leading medical...
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598,56 zł |
Counselling People on Prescribed Drugs
ISBN: 9780803988866 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is useful and interesting... counsellors will enhance their knowledge and skills in working with people taking prescribed medicine' - "Drug and Alcohol Review
" Hammersley explores the uses and limitations of drug therapy for patients suffering from depression, anxiety and related disorders... Although many therapists welcome psychopharmacology for their clients, there are still many who feel that drug treatment is a stop-gap measure at best. This book provides an examination of the issue and offers some good advice about helping clients withdraw from drugs and cope with their... This book is useful and interesting... counsellors will enhance their knowledge and skills in working with people taking prescribed medicine' - "Drug ...
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761,67 zł |
Helping the Patient with Advanced Disease: A Workbook
ISBN: 9781857759648 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helping others to learn about caring for people with advanced disease has always been a fundamental part of effective palliative care. This flexible learning material, formally evaluated by the Open University, is based on the Current Learning in Palliative Care (CLIP) worksheets to cover all aspects of palliative care. Easy to use, with activities throughout, they can be reproduced as handouts when presenting to a group, or used individually alongside a tutor, or within a group setting. Each worksheet is carefully structured and assigned a learning level from introductory to advanced, to...
Helping others to learn about caring for people with advanced disease has always been a fundamental part of effective palliative care. This flexible l...
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104,29 zł |
Integrative Pain Medicine: The Science and Practice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pain Management
ISBN: 9781588297860 / Angielski / Twarda / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The field of Pain Medicine has evolved over the last 20 years to include an increasing array of sophisticated and technologically complex diagnostic and the- peutic procedures. Concurrent to this advancement has been the development of a battery of pharmacological options to treat pain, from extended-release formulations of analgesics to antidepressants and anticonvulsants designed to treat specific types of pain syndromes. Despite (and perhaps because of) this phenomenal growth, it is not uncommon for patients with persistent pain to find themselves having gone through a number of procedures...
The field of Pain Medicine has evolved over the last 20 years to include an increasing array of sophisticated and technologically complex diagnostic a...
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781,79 zł |
The Pain Management Handbook: A Concise Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment
ISBN: 9780896034235 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt. SAMUEL JoHNSON, The Rambler, no. 48 (September 1, 1750) Who among us has not experienced the suffering of a patient with chronic disease, who in addition to the vicissitudes of fatigue, anxiety, and frustration, must also deal with the suffering of pain? Who among us has not considered, and then reconsidered, whether a patient's complaints are worthy of a narcotic and thence worried about the social and legal implications of chronic use? Who among us has not refused pain medications to our patients for fear that use was turning into...
Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt. SAMUEL JoHNSON, The Rambler, no. 48 (September 1, 1750) Who among us has not experienced the ...
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586,33 zł |
Counselling People on Prescribed Drugs
ISBN: 9780803988873 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describing the uses and limitations of psychotropic drugs, their effectiveness and impact on the counselling process, this book lays down guidelines for assessment, drug withdrawal and counselling approaches to consider while clients are still taking drugs or are withdrawing from drug use.
Describing the uses and limitations of psychotropic drugs, their effectiveness and impact on the counselling process, this book lays down guidelines f...
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213,84 zł |
The Antipodes of the Mind : Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience
ISBN: 9780199252923 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive charting of the various facets of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, and analyzes them from a cognitive psychological perspective. He also presents some philosophical reflections. Empirically, the research presented in this book is based on the systematic recording of the author's extensive experiences with the brew and on the interviewing of a large number of informants: indigenous people, shamans, members of different religious sects...
This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive char...
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342,38 zł |
Focus on Serotonin Uptake Inhibitor Research
ISBN: 9781594549267 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most significant class of antidepressants marketed is the selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Claims of decreased adverse effects (ADRs) and increased safety have led to extensive use of these drugs by non-psychiatrists. This book present
The most significant class of antidepressants marketed is the selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Claims of decreased adverse effects (A...
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Pain Management: Expanding the Pharmacological Options
ISBN: 9781405178235 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conventional pharmaceutical approaches to pain management are not always successful. Using only those medications that have an official indication for a certain condition reduces substantially the chance of the patient gaining pain relief and may expose them to intolerable side effects, However evidence now exists on the use of other drugs, produced for non-pain conditions, and how they can substantially increase the chances of pain relief. Covering the most recent developments in this field, McCleane offers an alternative solution to pain treatment when conventional treatments fail. This...
Conventional pharmaceutical approaches to pain management are not always successful. Using only those medications that have an official indication for...
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515,93 zł |
Calcium Ion Modulators: The New Wave of Pschotropic Drugs
ISBN: 9789057020803 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title primarily focuses on the functional mechanisms and roles of Ca2+ channels in the central nervous system, and the effects of Ca antagonists on cytosolic CA2+ by blocking voltage sensitive channels. These findings are an important contribution to understanding the mechanisms of brain dysfunctions, including Alzheimer's disease, cerebral ischemia and affective disorders, as well as the effects of cytosolic CA2+ modulators on neuronal cell death. In addition the results of clinical trials are reported using typical and atypical Ca antagonists in the treatment of neuropsychiatric...
This title primarily focuses on the functional mechanisms and roles of Ca2+ channels in the central nervous system, and the effects of Ca antagonists ...
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Behavioral Pharmacology of 5-ht
ISBN: 9780805801354 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume reviews the current state of research within the behavioral pharmacology of 5-HT. The book opens exciting new approaches to the interdisciplinary study of behavior and pharmacology with special reference to ethology, endocrinology, neuroanatomy and comparative aspects of drug action, and notes new developments in therapeutic drugs of the future.
This volume reviews the current state of research within the behavioral pharmacology of 5-HT. The book opens exciting new approaches to the interdisci...
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469,48 zł |
Nicotine, Caffeine and Social Drinking: Behaviour and Brain Function
ISBN: 9789057022180 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Often, people use nicotine, caffeine, and some level of alcohol in varying combinations at different times of the day in order to optimize their functioning and feelings of well-being, whether at work, in leisure time, or in a social context. However, until now, studies on the effects of this everyday practice have been diverse, widespread, and insufficiently summarized. Recently developed methods to study the effects in more detail have received little attention, especially among a nonscientific readership.
Nicotine, Caffeine and Social Drinking focuses readers' attention on the... Often, people use nicotine, caffeine, and some level of alcohol in varying combinations at different times of the day in order to optimize their funct...
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Methods in Pain Research
ISBN: 9780849300356 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With each topic presented by one or more of the leading experts in the field, it examines the major modern techniques used in studying pain, including gene linkage, brain imaging methods, the use of transgenic rodent models, painful sensory neuropathy models, and more. The materi al also covers conventional methods of pain study, such as anatomical and electophysiological techniques. Methods in Pain Research provides up-to-date methodology and a guide to the strategies of experimental d esign.
With each topic presented by one or more of the leading experts in the field, it examines the major modern techniques used in studying pain, including...
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965,13 zł |
Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness
ISBN: 9780387095929 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last two decades, Eastern psychology has provided fertile ground for therapists, as a cornerstone, a component, or an adjunct of their work. In particular, research studies are identifying the Buddhist practice of mindfulness--a non-judgmental self-observation that promotes personal awareness--as a basis for effective interventions for a variety of disorders. The Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness is a clearly written, theory-to-practice guide to this powerful therapeutic approach (and related concepts in meditation, acceptance, and compassion) and its... Over the last two decades, Eastern psychology has provided fertile ground for therapists, as a cornerstone, a component, or an adjunct of their wor... |
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Peptides
ISBN: 9780896031050 / Angielski / Twarda / 489 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Techniques in the neurosciences are evolving rapidly. There are currently very few volumes dedicated to the methodology - ployed by neuroscrentists, and those that are available often seem either out of date or limited in scope. This series is about the methods most widely used by modern-day neuroscientists and is written by their colleagues who are practicing experts. Volume 1 will be useful to all neuroscientists since rt concerns those procedures used routmely across the wrdest range of s- disciplines. Collecting these general techniques together in a single volume strikes us not only as a...
Techniques in the neurosciences are evolving rapidly. There are currently very few volumes dedicated to the methodology - ployed by neuroscrentists, a...
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390,87 zł |
Human Experimental Therapeutic Models in Opioid Dependence
ISBN: 9781604568073 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a selective discussion of advances in human experimental models relating to the treatment of opioid dependence. The author critically reviewed three independent lines of research conducted during the past decade with heroin-dependent volunteers.
This is a selective discussion of advances in human experimental models relating to the treatment of opioid dependence. The author critically reviewed...
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208,62 zł |
Accidental Falls: Causes, Prevention & Intervention
ISBN: 9781604567663 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accidental falls are the leading cause of death among older adults in the United States. One third of all adults aged 65 and older report falling each year. This book presents research findings on the causes, preventions and interventions that impact fall
Accidental falls are the leading cause of death among older adults in the United States. One third of all adults aged 65 and older report falling each...
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Radiology of Non-Spinal Pain Procedures: A Guide for the Interventionalist
ISBN: 9783642004803 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handy, well-illustrated manual has been designed to meet the need of interventional pain physicians to understand the radiologic imaging involved in the performance of non-spinal pain procedures. It provides information on such topics as radiologic anatomy, the radiologic manifestations of indications and contraindications to interventional procedures, and the radiologic appearance of complications that may arise from these procedures. In addition, it will be useful for the diagnostic radiologist, who may be unaware of many of the interventional pain procedures. The chosen format will... This handy, well-illustrated manual has been designed to meet the need of interventional pain physicians to understand the radiologic imaging invol... |
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The Benzodiazepine Receptor: Drug Acceptor Only or a Physiologically Relevant Part of Our Central Nervous System?
ISBN: 9780521115278 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Benzodiazepines are the most commonly used psychotropic drugs, prescribed for their action as tranquillizers, hypnotics and anti-epileptics. They act in the brain by binding to specific, highly selective recognition sites, the benzodiazepine receptors. This book, first published in 1987, summarises our knowledge of these receptors for a student and professional audience and is divided into two sections. In the first part, the general properties of the receptors and their involvement in the mechanisms of action of benzodiazepines are described. The second part discusses the function of the...
Benzodiazepines are the most commonly used psychotropic drugs, prescribed for their action as tranquillizers, hypnotics and anti-epileptics. They act ...
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Orofacial Pain
ISBN: 9780199236695 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Orofacial pain - defined aspain lasting over three months in the mouth or face - is increasing in prevelance, with approximately 7% of the UK population having experienced it. It is currently managed by either dentists or general medical practitioners, both of whom have radically different approaches to treatment. While management of orofacial pain has improved quite dramatically over recent years, it is essential that dentists and general practitioners are aware of these advances and of the differences in their approaches. This concise handbook takes an evidence-based psychosocial approach...
Orofacial pain - defined aspain lasting over three months in the mouth or face - is increasing in prevelance, with approximately 7% of the UK populati...
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268,24 zł |