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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 |
The area of molecular imaging has matured over the past decade and is still growing rapidly. Many concepts developed for molecular biology and cellular imaging have been successfully translated to in vivo imaging of intact organisms. Molecular imaging enables the study of processes at a molecular level in their full biological context. Due to the high specificity of the molecular readouts the approach bears a high potential for diagnostics. It is fair to say that molecular imaging has become...
| Автор | Markus Rudin |
Integrative Medicine seamlessly blends Eastern and Western medical traditions into an informative and readable resource.Author, Kathleen Phelan brings her skills as an investigative reporter and her experience as a medical writer to bear in a tour de force-part history. part story. part resource- for any reader seriously interested in his or her own well-being and in the future of medicine and medical treatment in this country Once considered "alternative; Eastern medicine has gained widespread...
| Автор | Kathleen Phalen |
En 2013, a los 93 años, se enterraba en Washington a Edmund D. Pellegrino, y quizá con él toda una era de la medicina. Desaparecía uno de los mas grandes maestros de la ética médica; y sin duda el profesor de medicina mas inquieto frente al deterioro moral progresivo de la práctica médica de su país, y por extensión de otras partes del mundo. En horas en las que se reclama la vuelta a un humanismo profesional, la competencia y la calidad del acto médico no son suficientes, la sociedad exige...
| Автор | Edmund Pellegrino |
"Ante nuevas realidades en la atención médica aparecen también nuevas responsabilidades éticas. En consecuencia, la nueva realidad del uso masivo de tecnologías —que incluyen la difusión de datos e imágenes clínicas en la práctica médica— exige un análisis cuidadoso de sus implicaciones y el planteamiento de principios éticos que sustenten la construcción de políticas y normas al respecto y orienten a nativos e inmigrantes digitales frente a su adecuada utilización. Es innegable que la...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Despite decades of well-established nonsurgical and surgical protocols and techniques, the treatment of deep intraosseous lesions still represents a challenge for clinicians. Therefore, the purpose of this textbook is to present simplified procedures that can be used to treat even the most difficult clinical scenarios. Both surgical and nonsurgical regenerative treatment options are presented and discussed in great detail, including types of instruments and regenerative materials to use, patient...
| Автор | Leonardo Trombelli |
When a diagnosis topples your life, you can identify those factors you can control in order to pursue the best care possible. This work shows you how. In the United States cancer is overtaking heart disease as the leading cause of death. Although a devastatingly common disease, the average person in the US has minimal practical or scientific knowledge about cancer and its treatment. And fewer still are aware of the pitfalls and obstacles inherent in cancer care. Here, Stephen Rosenberg, MD,...
| Автор | M. D. Rosenberg |
Quickly find an in the moment solution! Now more than ever, states are mandating that children with special needs be included in the general education classroom. As a result, all educational professionals, from teachers to administrators, need specific training on how to handle unusual behaviors. This book builds on the success of the first one by expanding the focus from within the classroom to all areas of the school environment in the hallways, cafeteria, and auditorium, on the playground,...
| Автор | Beth Aune |
Social Engagement & the Steps to Being Social is a unique, visual and easy to use model that was developed to guide assessment and intervention across severity levels and age groups for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This user friendly book defines social engagement in observable language and breaks down social skills into a series of clearly defined steps. Each step is further broken down into pivotal skills that can be taught directly, and matched with evidence based...
| Автор | Kathleen Taylor, ORL/L |
If, like many parents of children with autism, you are tackling the job of raising your child on your own, Plan B: Parenting Solo With a Child on the Autism Spectrum is the resource you need. Plan B will help you to make your own road map towards thriving while you solo parent. How will you explain divorce, separation or death to your child with autism? How can you maintain consistency across two households? How can you adjust your budget and therapy schedule? What resources will you need? How...
| Автор | Karra Barber-Wada |
The Special Needs SCHOOL Survival Guide is the handbook that will answer your questions about school accommodations, how to work with school personnel for government assisted programs, autism, Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) in the classroom, learning disabilities, handwriting, ADHD, Individual Education Programs (IEPs), behavior, dysgraphia, and more! Cara's knowledge is quite in-depth as to how to acquire the necessities for your child's success by utilizing various government or...
| Автор | Cara Koscinski |