By Nicola Beisel
ISBN-10: 069102779X
ISBN-13: 9780691027791
ISBN-10: 1400810973
ISBN-13: 9781400810970
Drawing on Victorian debts of these deemed "immoral", this article argues that obstacle in regards to the ethical corruption of kids speaks to an ongoing parental predicament: that kids will fail to duplicate their parent's social place. In doing so it deals a theoretical method of reform pursuits.
By Biswamoy Pati, Mark Harrison
ISBN-10: 0415462312
ISBN-13: 9780415462310
This publication analyzes the various aspects of the social historical past of wellbeing and fitness and medication in colonial India. It explores a distinct set of subject matters that catch the variations of India, similar to public health and wellbeing, scientific associations, psychological disease and the politics and economics of colonialism. in keeping with inter-disciplinary learn, the contributions supply worthwhile perception into themes that experience lately got elevated scholarly cognizance, together with using opiates and the position of ads in using clinical markets. The individuals, either proven and rising students within the box, include resources starting from palm leaf manuscripts to archival fabrics.
This e-book should be of curiosity to students of historical past, particularly the historical past of drugs and the historical past of colonialism and imperialism, sociology, social anthropology, cultural thought, and South Asian experiences, in addition to to medical examiners and NGOs.
By Robert Lanza
ISBN-10: 0124366430
ISBN-13: 9780124366435
New discoveries within the box of stem phone examine have often seemed within the information and in medical literature. examine during this sector grants to steer to new cures for melanoma, middle affliction, diabetes, and a wide selection of different ailments. This two-volume reference integrates this intriguing quarter of biology, combining the must haves for a basic realizing of grownup and embryonic stem cells, the instruments, tools, and experimental protocols had to research and represent stem cells and progenitor populations, in addition to a presentation by means of the world's specialists of what's presently identified approximately every one particular organ method. The editors of the guide of Stem Cells contain: Robert Lanza, Helen Blau, John Gearhart, Brigid Hogan, Douglas Melton, Malcolm Moore, Roger Pedersen, E. Donnall Thomas, James Thomson, Catherine Verfaillie, Irving Weissman, and Michael West. The Editorial Board contains: W. French Anderson, Peter Andrews, Anthony Atala, Jose Cibelli, Giulio Cossu, Robert Edwards, Martin Evans, Elaine Fuchs, Margaret Fuller, Fred Gage, Richard Gardner, Margaret Goodell, Ronald eco-friendly, William Haseltine, Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor, Rudolf Jaenisch, Ihor Lemischka, Dame Anne McLaren, Richard Mulligan, Stuart Orkin, Martin Pera, Benjamin Reubinoff, Janet Rossant, Hans Scholer, Austin Smith, Evan Snyder, Davor Solter, Alan Trounson, and Leonard Zon.This complete set could be a much-needed addition to the library of scholars and researchers alike. * presents accomplished assurance in this hugely topical topic* includes contributions through the key professionals and foremost names within the box of stem cellphone study* The accompanying CD-ROM contains over 250 colour figures
By Aya Takahashi
ISBN-10: 0415305799
ISBN-13: 9780415305792
Within the years after 1868, while Japan's lengthy interval of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in some other point of lifestyles, the japanese appeared to the west. This booklet tells the tale of 'Florence Nightingale-ism' in Japan, displaying how jap nursing constructed from 1868 to the current. It discusses how jap nursing followed western types, imposing 'Nightingale-ism' in a wakeful, sketch means, and applied it extra totally, a minimum of at the floor, than in Britain. even as eastern nurses needed to cope, with nice hassle, with conventional eastern attitudes, that have been strongly against girls being concerned about professions of any style, and, because the publication indicates, western versions didn't in reality penetrate very deeply.
By Laura Otis
ISBN-10: 019530697X
ISBN-13: 9780195306972
Many constructions within the human physique are named after Johannes Muller, probably the most revered anatomists and physiologists of the nineteenth century. Muller taught some of the best scientists of his age, a lot of whom might move directly to make trail-blazing discoveries in their personal. between them have been Theodor Schwann, who confirmed that each one animals are made from cells; Hermann Helmholtz, who measured the speed of nerve impulses; and Rudolf Virchow, who confident medical professionals to think about sickness on the mobile point. This e-book tells Muller's tale through interweaving it with these of 7 of his most renowned students.Muller suffered from melancholy and insomnia even as he was once doing his most vital clinical paintings, and will have devoted suicide at age fifty six. Like Muller, his so much well known scholars confronted own and social demanding situations as they practiced state-of-the-art technology. Virchow was once fired for his political activism, Jakob Henle used to be jailed for club in a dueling society, and Robert Remak used to be barred from Prussian universities for refusing to give up his Orthodox Judaism. by means of recounting those tales, Muller's Lab explores the ways that own existence can have an effect on scientists' expert offerings, and as a result impact the nice discoveries they make.
By Riva Touger-Decker, Connie Mobley, Joel B. Epstein
ISBN-10: 1607614898
ISBN-13: 9781607614890
ISBN-10: 1607614901
ISBN-13: 9781607614906
This moment variation addresses the complicated, multifaceted relationships among foodstuff and oral well-being, explores proposed relationships among oral, systemic and dietary future health and gives insights into interprofessional, finished deal with members. Chapters specialise in vitamin, foodstuff and oral future health promoting and disorder prevention around the lifespan, oral and dental ailments and problems, oral manifestations of systemic illnesses, and discussions of the synergy among oral tissues and foodstuff. leading edge learn concerns concerning the dating of person antioxidants, hint parts, polyphenols and different nutrient substrates and oral health/disease, nutrigenomics, screening for meals and oral chance and different parts are lined intimately. Editors and authors comprise specialists in food and oral healthiness from around the globe. This moment version is a beneficial source for wellbeing and fitness execs within the fields of meals and dentistry in addition to different disciplines whose examine, perform and schooling contains nutrients and oral medication. it's a superb source for graduate point food and dental scholars, dental and nutrients practitioners, educators and researchers in addition to different wellbeing and fitness pros.
By Gerald F. Harris, Peter A. Smith
ISBN-10: 0849339715
ISBN-13: 9780849339714
ISBN-10: 142000574X
ISBN-13: 9781420005745
Human movement research or gait research is used during the kingdom and the area in clinics for pre-surgical making plans and postsurgical follow-up. just recently have technological advances really started to satisfy clinical wishes via providing extra exact analytical information from which to make proficient tests of dynamic foot and ankle pathology. A accomplished evaluate of present and rising tools is important for practitioners to successfully combine the recent suggestions into greater pre-treatment making plans, surgical and rehabilitative care, and post-treatment follow-up. Originating as a one-day workshop backed via the Shriner’s Hospitals and the nationwide Institutes of overall healthiness, Foot and Ankle movement research: scientific remedy and know-how presents a unmarried resource reference for the newest applied sciences and their medical functions. With contributions from a world panel of specialists from orthopaedic, rehabilitation, engineering, educational, medical-industrial, and medical disciplines, this article makes a speciality of the suitable clinical advances with an emphasis on functions, boundaries, and difficulties to be solved. Divided into components, the textual content starts off via proposing simple and complicated scientific functions and possibilities in foot and ankle movement research in either pediatric and grownup situations. the second one half introduces the technological advances themselves from a quantitative point of view. Modeling options, seminal advancements, and novel methods are defined in addition to rising horizons regarding mechanical paradigms, imaging, kinetics, robotics and simulation, tri-planar strength sensing, and extra. The e-book additionally contains a bankruptcy of references and resources of aid for destiny learn and improvement clients. medical and learn functions in movement research have ended in greater sensible overview, fewer, greater surgical procedures, and longer-term follow-up care. Foot and Ankle movement research: medical remedy and know-how offers a foundation for increasing those contributions to the wider neighborhood of practitioners taking good care of either grownup and pediatric sufferers.
By James Wynbrandt
ISBN-10: 0312263198
ISBN-13: 9780312263195
For these on each side of the feared dentist's chair, James Wynbrandt has written a witty, colourful, and richly informative background of the artwork and technology of dentistry. To all of these dental sufferers whose whine rises in tandem with that of the drill, be mindful: you are going to do good to stifle your terror and in its place provide due to Apollonia, the consumer saint of toothache victims, that you simply face simply fleeting soreness instead of the disfiguring misery, or sluggish agonizing loss of life oft meted out by way of dental-care prone of the prior. The transition from yesterday's lack of expertise, misapprehension, and superstition to the enlightened and nerve-deadened protocols of this present day has been a protracted, sluggish, and intensely painful process.
For instance, were you aware that:
*Among the toothache treatments favourite through Pierre Fauchard, the daddy of dentistry, was once rinsing the mouth liberally with one's personal urine.
*George Washington by no means had wood the teeth. even though, his persistent dental difficulties could have impacted the result of the yank Revolution.
*Soldiers within the Civil struggle wanted no less than opposing entrance enamel to tear open powder envelopes. a few males referred to as up for induction had their entrance tooth extracted to prevent provider.
*Teeth have been harvested from as many as fifty thousand corpses after the conflict of Waterloo, an incredible crop later used for dentures and transplants that grew to become referred to as "Waterloo Teeth."
By Carla Nappi
ISBN-10: 0674035291
ISBN-13: 9780674035294
This is often the tale of a chinese language general practitioner, his publication, and the creatures that danced inside its pages. The Monkey and the Inkpot introduces common background in sixteenth-century China throughout the iconic Bencao gangmu (Systematic materia medica) of Li Shizhen (1518–1593). The encyclopedic Bencao gangmu is largely lauded as a vintage embodiment of pre-modern chinese language clinical notion. within the first book-length learn in English of Li’s textual content, Carla Nappi unearths a “cabinet of curiosities” of gemstones, beasts, and oddities whose writer used to be dedicated to utilizing normal background to steer the appliance of traditional and synthetic gadgets as clinical medicines. Nappi examines the making of proof and weighing of proof in an incredible assortment the place stories of wildmen and dragons have been recorded along recipes for ginseng and peonies. Nappi demanding situations the assumption of a monolithic culture of chinese language natural drugs via displaying the significance of discussion and war of words in early glossy scholarly and scientific tradition. The Monkey and the Inkpot additionally illuminates the fashionable destiny of a e-book that keeps to form replacement therapeutic practices, worldwide pharmaceutical markets, and chinese language tradition. (20100401)
By Henry N. Wagner
ISBN-10: 1848003072
ISBN-13: 9781848003071
ISBN-10: 1848003080
ISBN-13: 9781848003088
Taking either a ancient and philosophical stance, mind Imaging: The Chemistry of psychological job presents a close account of molecular imaging at its best. Written through Dr. Henry N. Wagner Jr, a hugely acclaimed writer and foreign authority within the box of nuclear drugs, the e-book brings to this point all of the fascinating paintings found in mind imaging, displaying the diversities one of the a variety of imaging modalities, and reviewing the information of chemical reactions within the mind.
Suitable for either execs and the general public alike; this e-book spans uncomplicated rules via to historic and present makes use of of molecular imaging. The colossal application of imaging is highlighted via analyzing universal issues and themes sought after in human lifestyles; love, aggression, altruism, violence, crime, and substance abuse to call a couple of.
Dr. Henry N. Wagner Jr, a pioneer in nuclear medication, has made groundbreaking contributions to advancing the fields of radiology and nuclear drugs, particularly within the parts of mind body structure and pathophysiology, and habit and drug layout. he's a member of the Institute of medication of the united states nationwide Academy of Sciences, in addition to a number of editorial forums and lots of different scientific and radiological societies, and is an honorary member of the British Institute of Radiology (2000). in the course of his time on the John Hopkins college he has informed greater than 500 radiologists, internists, physicians, and scientists, 8 of whom have held, as he has, the location of President of the Society of Nuclear drugs. In 1985 he was once presented the Georg Von Hevesy Award and in 1993 Dr. Wagner was once presented the 1st Annual Society of Nuclear drugs President’s Award for extraordinary Contributions to nuclear medicine.