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Children and adolescents are affected by a large range of diseases with oral manifestations that may not be seen in adults. Such diseases include viral and bacterial infections, but many other conditions as well, for example, after swallowing caustic liquids. As with the author's immensely successful Color Atlas of Oral Diseases, this new work is lavishly illustrated with high-quality color photographs, providing the reader with an at-a-glance diagnostic guide. Succinct texts in tabular...
| Автор | George Laskaris |
The problem with most orthopedic surgery books is that they don't accurately portray what you see in a surgical setting. This outstanding atlas, featuring nearly 400 beautifully executed color photographs, provides the first visual guide to surgical anatomy as you see it. Special features of the atlas include:*Over 400 high-quality color photographs that vividly depict surgical anatomy* Fresh cadaver specimens portray the true colors of the anatomy involved* Step-by-step coverage of more...
| Автор | Christopher Jordan |
Allergy and asthma represent some of the most common chronic conditions presenting in primary care. Furthermore, up to 20% of patients with allergies struggle on a daily basis with the fear of anaphylactic shock or an asthma attack. This book guides readers through the basic immunology and pathophysiology and then provides details on all aspects of the clinical assessment of allergic patients:• History-taking• Clinical examination• Investigations and imagingA broad range of allergies is then...
| Автор | Amtul Salam Sami |
Die Einführung des G-DRG-Systems in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat die Entstehung einer völlig neuen Berufsgruppe begründet: die Medizincontroller. Die Aufgaben dieser Berufsgruppe sind vielschichtig, wobei zwei Zuständigkeiten eine besondere Bedeutung haben: die Fallkodierung/-abrechnung und die Bearbeitung von Rechnungsprüfungen durch die Krankenkassen. In die Version 2020 sind zahlreiche aktualisierte Informationen und praktische Hinweise für das MD-Management im Krankenhaus eingeflossen....
| Автор | Remco Salomé |
Against a backdrop of virtual intercourse, online porn, and burgeoning Viagra sales, Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals reveals how women’s sexual difficulties are being repackaged as symptoms of a new disorder. In this compelling book, award-winning journalist Ray Moynihan teams up with drug assessment specialist Barbara Mintzes to investigate the creation of female sexual dysfunction or FSD, and the marketing machine that promises to «cure» it.The authors go inside the corridors of...
| Автор | Ray Moynihan |
Subjektive Mundtrockenheit kann die Lebensqualität erheblich negativ beeinträchtigen. Mundbrennen, Zungenbrennen, Probleme bei der Phonetik und Artikulation, Schwierigkeiten beim Schlucken, lokale Beschwerden beim Verzehr härterer oder gewürzter Speisen, ständige Irritationen oder kleinere Verletzungen der Mundschleimhaut und nicht zuletzt Mundgeruch belasten die Betroffenen teilweise erheblich. Durch die zunehmende Lebenserwartung der Menschen und durch die Korrelation von Mundtrockenheit und...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
La globalización y los avances tecnocientíficos requieren innovaciones radicales tanto en la producción y la gestión del saber como en las políticas educativas y la producción cultural. Las tecnologías de la información son generalmente consideradas herramientas democráticas y eficientes para las nuevas exigencias de la sociedad, cuando, en realidad, son más el problema que la solución. Esta contradicción se radicaliza también porque la mayoría de los teóricos y críticos se limita a coleccionar...
| Автор | Umberto Roncoroni |
Este libro trata de forma amena las principales áreas de la física que debiera conocer un profesional de la salud. Temas de mecánica, termodinámica, electricidad y magnestismo, física ondulatoria, física nuclear y física de láser se explican en el contexto de las ciencias médicas, incluyendo un gran número de problemas resueltos y ejemplos. Pensado para estudiantes, es también material de referencia para aquellos profesionales con conocimientos básicos de cálculo que deseen profundizar o...
| Автор | Pablo Olmos |
The international bestseller from Dr. Jason Fung, one of the world's leading experts on intermittent fasting and weight loss, whose 5-step plan has helped thousands of people lose weight and transform their health. “Not only full of insights but also surprisingly funny. Read it to understand why the world became fat, how to reverse the epidemic—and how to stay thin yourself.”— Andreas Eenfeldt , MD, Founder of dietdoctor.comEverything you...
| Автор | Jason Fung |
Strange Harvest illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. In this rich and deeply engaging ethnographic study, anthropologist Lesley Sharp explores how these parties think about death, loss, and mourning, especially in light of medical taboos surrounding donor anonymity. As Sharp argues, new forms of embodied...
| Автор | Lesley A. Sharp |
As human society continues to develop, we have increased the risk of large-scale disasters. From health care to infrastructure to national security, systems designed to keep us safe have also heightened the potential for catastrophe. The constant pressure of climate change, geopolitical conflict, and our tendency to ignore what is hard to grasp exacerbates potential dangers. How can we prepare for and prevent the twenty-first-century disasters on the horizon? Rethinking Readiness offers an...
| Автор | Jeffrey Schlegelmilch |
The ultimate guide to managing the multifaceted business aspects of a dermatology practice Although board-certified dermatologists provide the best care for their patients, managing a practice and optimizing every facet of the business is a daunting endeavor. Business acumen is not taught in residency and is the most overlooked aspect of any given practice. The Business of Dermatology , written by esteemed dermatologists Jeffrey S. Dover, Kavita Mariwalla, and an impressive group of experts,...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Few surgical texts are able to provide readers with a level of descriptive and visual detail sufficient to be considered a primary manual for surgical procedures. Surgeons typically face the daunting task of extensive research through various texts to piece together a picture comprehensive enough to guide them through a new procedure. This prospect is especially formidable in the field of plastic and reconstructive breast surgery, in which techniques are constantly evolving and older texts...
| Автор | Glyn E. Jones |
Pocket-size, user-friendly roadmap outlines most common surgical procedures in neurosurgery! Surgery requires a combination of knowledge and skill acquired through years of direct observation, mentorship, and practice. The learning curve can be steep, frustrating, and intimidating for many medical students and junior residents. Too often, books and texts that attempt to translate the art of surgery are far too comprehensive for this audience and counterproductive to learning important basic...
| Автор | Paul E. Kaloostian |
We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy. In the last decades of the 20th century, environmental health scientists began to shift their focus deep within the human body, and to the molecular level, in order to investigate gene-environment interactions. In <i>Exposed Science</i>, Sara Shostak analyzes the rise of gene-environment interaction in the environmental...
| Автор | Sara Shostak |
This searing indictment, David Healy’s most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-inducing side effects of many anti-depressants, attributes our current state of affairs to three key factors: product rather than process patents on drugs, the classification of certain drugs as...
| Автор | David Healy |
This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on years of fieldwork in a community psychiatry outreach team, Brodwin traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. On the street, in staff room debates, or in private confessions, these psychiatrists and social workers confront ongoing challenges to their self-image as competent and compassionate advocates. At times they...
| Автор | Paul Brodwin |
Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer—an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Through a powerful combination of cultural analysis and memoir, this stunningly original book explores why cancer remains so confounding, despite the billions of dollars spent in the search for a cure. Amidst furious debates over its causes and treatments, scientists generate reams of data—information that ultimately obscures as much as it clarifies. Award-winning anthropologist S....
| Автор | S. Lochlann Jain |
The first three months of a baby’s life is an outside-the-uterus period of intense development, a biological bridge from fetal life to preparation for the real world. The fourth trimester has more in common with the nine months that came before than with the lifetime that follows. This comprehensive, intimate, and much-needed «operating manual» for newborns presents a new paradigm of a baby's early life that shifts our focus and alters our priorities. <br /><br />Combining the...
| Автор | Susan Brink |
In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. <i>Lead Wars</i> details how the nature of the epidemic has changed and highlights the dilemmas public health agencies face today in terms of prevention strategies and chronic illness linked to low levels of toxic exposure. The authors use the opinion by Maryland’s Court of Appeals—which...
| Автор | Gerald Markowitz |
Este libro es fruto de más de quince años de trabajo de un grupo formado por investigadores pertenecientes a la Universidad Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, España) y a la Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay), quienes trabajan en la temática de la formación corporal específica de los psicomotricistas, articulando las dimensiones teórica y práctica de esta disciplina. Si bien varias corrientes de trabajo en Psicomotricidad han puesto énfasis en la formación corporal del...
| Автор | Juan Mila |
Facial esthetics has become one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. As the field continues to evolve and patients demand more and more of practitioners, it is clear that both the beginner as well as the advanced practitioner seek convenient, safe, and effective therapies, and this book provides just that. Written in collaboration with international experts from various fields of medicine, including basic scientists, clinician-scientists, experts in laser therapy and photography, as...
| Автор | Catherine Davies |
"U.S. Army Survival Handbook" covers all survival skills and techniques that a person can use in order to sustain life in any type of natural environment. The techniques are meant to provide basic necessities like water, food and shelter… Nevertheless, it takes much more than the knowledge to build a shelter, get food and make fire in order to survive successfully. A key ingredient in any survival situation is the mental attitude. It will help you develop your survival skills, as well as...
| Автор | U.S. Department of Defense |
Written by a leading dermatologist,<i> The Blue Man and Other Stories of the Skin</i> provides a compelling and accessible introduction to the life of our largest organ, while also recounting the author’s experiences with memorable patients he has treated who suffer from mysterious skin conditions. Robert Norman begins by highlighting the qualities of the skin, tracing the history of its conditions and diseases, then examining the cultural, social and psychological impact of both...
| Автор | Robert A. Norman |