Advancing the Science of Implementation across the Cancer Continuum
David A. Chambers, Cynthia A. Vinson, and Wynne E. Norton (eds)
While many effective interventions have been developed with the potential to significantly reduce morbidity and mortality from cancer, they are of no benefit to the health of populations if ...
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Are Workarounds Ethical?: Managing Moral Problems in Health Care Systems
Nancy Berlinger
How work gets done in complex health care systems is ethically important. When health care professionals and other staff experience moral uncertainty or distress in their own work and ...
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Advances in Research and Clinical Practice
Katharine A. Phillips (ed.)
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a devastating yet underrecognized illness. People with BDD are preoccupied with the belief that they look abnormal or ugly—when they actually do not. Their ...
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Complementary and Integrative Therapies for Mental Health and Aging
Helen Lavretsky, Martha Sajatovic, and Charles Reynolds III (eds)
This book is intended to target a broad audience of clinicians, clinical researchers, students in geriatrics and gerontology fields, and family caregivers of older adults interested in ...
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Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry: A Paradigm for Integrated Care (2 ed.)
Mary Ann Cohen, Jack M. Gorman, and Scott L. Letendre (eds)
Psychiatric factors play a significant role in the ongoing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic. In less than four decades, advances in HIV medical care and research have transformed ...
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Concepts of Epidemiology: Integrating the ideas, theories, principles, and methods of epidemiology (3 ed.)
Raj S. Bhopal
Epidemiology is a population science that underpins health improvement and health care, and is concerned with the pattern, frequency, trends, and causes of disease. This book teaches its ...
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Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business
John A. Quelch (ed.)
This unique collection of interactive case studies covers diverse topics at the intersection of public health and business, including direct-to-consumer genetic testing, programs to impact ...
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Critical Thinking in Clinical Research: Applied Theory and Practice Using Case Studies
Felipe Fregni and Ben M.W. Illigens (eds)
Critical Thinking in Clinical Research explains the fundamentals of clinical research in a case-based approach. The core concept is to combine a clear and concise transfer of ...
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Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children
Robert Klitzman
Since the first “test tube baby” was born over 40 years ago, in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have advanced in extraordinary ways, producing ...
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Diseases in the District of Maine 1772 - 1820: The Unpublished Work of Jeremiah Barker, a Rural Physician in New England
Richard J. Kahn
This previously unpublished primary source allows modern readers to reimagine medicine as practiced two hundred years ago by a rural physician in New England through his case histories, ...
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The Dreams of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Benjamin Ehrlich
This book contains the first English translation of the lost dream diary of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), the Nobel Prize-winning “father of modern neuroscience.” In the late ...
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Drug Use in Prisoners: Epidemiology, Implications, and Policy Responses
Stuart A, Kinner and Josiah D. Jody Rich (eds)
The majority of people who experience incarceration have a history of harmful alcohol, tobacco, and/or illicit drug use. Some discontinue use of these substances while in custody. ...
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Embodied Selves and Divided Minds
Michelle Maiese
Embodied Selves and Divided Minds examines how research in embodied cognition and enactivism can contribute to our understanding of the nature of self-consciousness, the ...
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Ensuring a Sustainable Future: Making Progress on Environment and Equity
Jody Heymann and Magda Barrera (eds)
This resource examines the current trends in increased air/water pollution and energy consumption, and the depletion of natural resources, and the disproportionate impact on the poor and ...
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Epidemiologic Methods: Studying the Occurrence of Illness (2 ed.)
Noel S. Weiss and Thomas D. Koepsell
This second edition of Epidemiologic Methods offers a rigorous introduction to the concepts and tools of epidemiologic research. Aimed chiefly at future epidemiologists, it offers clear ...
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Epidemiology Matters: A New Introduction to Methodological Foundations
Katherine M. Keyes and Sandro Galea
Epidemiology Matters offers a new approach to understanding and identifying the causes of disease — and with it, how to prevent disease and improve human health. Utilizing visual ...
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Ethical Dilemmas in Genetics and Genetic Counseling: Principles through Case Scenarios
Janice Berliner (ed.)
Knowledge of the genetic basis of human diseases is growing rapidly, with important implications for pre-conception, prenatal, and predictive testing. While new genetic testing offers ...
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Genomic Medicine: Principles and Practice (2 ed.)
Dhavendra Kumar and Charis Eng (eds)
This completely revised second edition of Genomic Medicine reflects the rapidly changing face of applied and translational genomics in the medical and health context and provides a ...
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Health for all Children (5 edn)
Alan Emond (ed.)
This book provides an evidence-based review of the child health programme (CHP) in the UK, for children from pregnancy to the age of 7 years. The book takes account of different government ...
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Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine
Michael J. Balboni and Tracy A. Balboni
Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power—an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion and ...
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