More than 1,000 full-color images speed diagnosis of the dermatologic conditions most often encountered in primary care.
"Focusing on the essentials, McMinn's Concise Human Anatomy is a convenient, portable guide and revision aid. The clear, jargon-free text is supported by high-quality, labelled photographs of cadaver dissections and surface anatomy, radiological images captured using the latest …
This open access book presents a novel multidisciplinary perspective on the importance of human flourishing. The study of the good life or Eudaimonia has been a central concern at least since Aristotelian times. This responds to the common experience that we all seek happiness. …
This essay examines the entanglement between population science and population governance immediately after World War II. It analyzes debates on population and birth control research that contributed to the state-endorsed birth control campaign. Drawing on the existing works on …
4th edition. A comprehensive medical guide, with anatomical terms, disorders, tests and treatments, and 400 colour images. Covers more than 5000 medical terms, for health care students and professionals as well as for home use.
Maternal-Child Health is one of the greatest challenges the world has to cope with today. Every year, thousands of women, newborns and children die unnecessarily, particularly in resource-poor settings. There is a great disparity caused by food insecurity and hunger, environment…
'The Patient History' teaches students the steps in history taking, using an evidence-based approach. This edition features case studies which open each chapter, putting the principles in clinical context.
Catastrophes: views from natural and human sciences
In this book natural scientists, engineers, physicians as well as historians and social scientists define and describe geo-hazards and associated technical disasters, natural disasters as a business case, medicine and its catastrophes as well as after war aspects of the Shoah, a…
Textbook of plastic and reconstructive surgery
This handy workbook covers the essential components of electrocardiography (ECG or EKG) and is useful in helping the reader identify a number of conditions, including arrhythmias, conduction blocks and heart attacks. Basic Electrocardiography reviews the fundamentals of this mod…
This text covers core material in clinical medicine. Covering the major systems in 15 sections, each section includes eight cases. These cases mirror those which students and house officers will meet in outpatients and general practice.
This is an archive-based study examining how the four Allies - Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union - prepared for and conducted their occupation of Germany after its defeat in 1945. It uses the case of public health to shed light on the complexities of the im…
A book that changes the understanding of disability from a medicalised category to a social category.
Current preoccupations with the body have led to a growing interest in the intersections between religion, literature and the history of medicine, and, more specifically, how they converge within a given culture. This collection of essays explores the ways in which aspects of me…
"Offering fresh readings of numerous Neo-Latin texts, Medical Analogy in Latin Satire provides an introduction to medical issues in the tradition of Latin satire. The book explores what functions physical diseases and peculiarities had in early modern satires and how satire was …
La biografia e l'opera di Ferdinando Zannetti, medico, chirurgo, uomo politico, grande personalità dell'Ottocento toscano, acquistano nuova luce attraverso l'ordinamento e l'inventariazione delle carte del suo archivio. La storia della medicina e della chirurgia di questo period…