Medical: Newest books
Anatomy of the Horse
with Aaron Horowitz and Rolf Berg
by Klaus Dieter..., W. O. Sack, and Sabine Röck
Anatomy of the Horse has been accepted as a highly successful text-atlas of equine anatomy. - Fully illustrated with color line diagrams, including unique three-dimensional cross-sectional anatomy, together with radiographs and ultrasound scans - Includes topographic and surfa...
(2012)
The Neuroscientific Turn
Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain
by Melissa M. L... and Jenell Johnson
The Neuroscientific Turn brings together 19 scholars from a variety of fields to reflect on the promises of and challenges facing emergent "neurodisciplines" such as neuroethics, neuroeconomics, and neurohistory. In the aftermath of the Decade of the Brain, neuroscience has be...
(2012)
The Challenge of Regulat...
Representatives of industry, government, caregivers, and consumers join scholars and policy analysts in comparing market forces to regulation as potential means for righting what is wrong with managed care. The contributors that John E. Billi and Gail B. Agrawal have gathered ...
(2010)
The DNA Mystique
The Gene as a Cultural Icon
by Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee
The DNA Mystique is a wake-up call to all who would dismiss America's love affair with 'the gene' as a merely eccentric obsession. --In These Times "Nelkin and Lindee are to be warmly congratulated for opening up this intriguing field [of genetics in popular culture] to furthe...
(2010)
Inside/Outside
A Physician's Journey with Breast Cancer
To doctors, cancer means cells growing out of control; to patients, cancer means a life spinning out of control. Janet R. Gilsdorf, who writes with quiet but devastating honesty about her experience with breast cancer, offers an eye-opening glimpse, through her unique dual per...
(2009)
Formative Years
Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000
Alexandra Minna Stern is Associate Director of the Center for the History of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and American Culture at the University of Michigan. Howard Markel is the George Edward Wantz Professor of the History of Medicine, Profess...
(2009)
Bovine Anatomy
by Klaus Dieter... and Robert E. Habel
Die zweite englische Auflage dieses erfolgreichen Lehrbuches ist nun auch nach dem bewährten Konzept der „Budras-Atlanten” durch namhafte Experten aus der Anatomie und der klinischen Medizin um die klinisch-funktionelle Anatomie erweitert.
(2011)
Neurobehavioral Anatomy,...
Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect key advances in behavioral neurology, Neurobehavioral Anatomy, Third Edition is a clinically based account of the neuroanatomy of human behavior centered on a consideration of behavioral dysfunction caused by disorders of the brain. A ...
(2011)
Interactions between the...
The influence of an unilateral change of occlusion on the upper cervical range of motion
This prospective, randomized, double-blind investigation evaluated the influence of a short-time artificial change of occlusion to the upper cervical spine mobility. Twenty 14-19 aged female dancers were investigated in a cross- over-design on head movement rotation in antefle...
(2008)
Farriery
The Whole Horse Concept
by David W Gill
his book has been written to appeal to all relevant audiences, i.e. in the tack-room, the forge and the surgery. It is easy to read and understand and above all, the book is informative and thought provoking. ..The gulf of understanding between owner, farrier and veterinary su...
(2007)
Who's In Charge?: Leader...
Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises
An imminent threat to the public health, such as the swine flu outbreak, is no time for a muddled chain of command and contradictory decision making. _Who's In Charge? Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises_ explores the crucia...
(2009)
Nursing, Revised Edition
Jean Watson's first edition of Nursing, now considered a classic, introduced the science of human caring and quickly became one of the most widely used and respected sources of conceptual models for nursing. This completely new edition offers a contemporary update and the most...
(2011)
A Caring Approach in Nur...
Caring Approach in Nursing Administration
Current mainstream books and publicity about management and administration in health care are concerned with the takeover of health care by managed-care organizations. Many provide lots of quick and externally focused answers. Many of them are economically driven, to the exclu...
(2011)
English in Singapore
Modernity and Management
by Lisa Lim, Anne Pakir, and Lionel Wee
2010 世界胸肺年 The Year of the LUNG Live. Learn. Breathe. 香港胸肺學會由本港的胸肺科醫生、護士和醫護助理人員組成,是香港首要的胸肺科學會,也是亞太胸肺學會成員之一。本會有鑑於近年香港的胸肺疾病比預期嚴重,又適逢今年為關注胸肺健康的國際組織認定為「胸肺年」,遂決定出版這本小冊子,以促進各界人士對這個問題的關注和加強市民大眾對胸肺疾病的認識。 本書由香港和加拿大的知名學者和國際權威執筆,讀者對象為胸肺疾病患者、病人親友、助理醫護人員、醫科學生和一般市民。我們希望這本小冊子能...
(2007)
Melancholy Drift
Marking Time in Chinese Cinema
by Jean Ma
Having experienced benign neglect and inertia since the last major set of reforms when all public and subvented hospitals were corporatised in the early 1990s, Hong Kong's health system now faces another round of consultation about reform. This book provides a significant cont...
(2007)

