Basaglia's International Legacy: From Asylum to Community
Tom Burns and John Foot (eds)
Italian Law 180 of 1978 is probably the most radical Mental Health Act ever passed. It forbade the admission of any new patients to mental hospitals forthwith and called for the rapid ...
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Beyond Depression: A new approach to understanding and management (2 ed.)
Christopher Dowrick
This resource takes a critical insider's look at commonly held views about the diagnosis and management of depression, and argues that our belief in depression as a medical condition is ...
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Breast Disease Management: A Multidisciplinary Manual
James Harvey, Sue Down, Rachel Bright-Thomas, John Winstanley, and Hugh Bishop
Breast cancer affects 1 in 10 women and the majority of UK women will attend a breast clinic at least once during their lives. The patient's journey through assessment and management is one ...
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Current Topics in Occupational Epidemiology
Katherine Venables (ed.)
Current Topics in Occupational Epidemiology is an in-depth study of contemporary issues and emerging themes in the field. Divided into seven parts it discusses 'new' occupational diseases ...
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Diabetes Care: A Practical Manual (2 ed.)
Rowan Hillson
Diabetes is common, chronic, complicated, and costly. It causes distress, disability, and premature death. Most diabetes complications can be prevented or reduced. This new edition of ...
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Diabetes in Pregnancy (Oxford Diabetes Library)
Robert Lindsay (ed.)
Part of the Oxford Diabetes Library, this resource summarizes the key aspects of the medical management of diabetes during pregnancy, acting as a practical introduction particularly for ...
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The EACVI Echo Handbook
Patrizio Lancellotti and Bernard Cosyns (eds)
Echocardiography has become the most requested imaging modalities. It is the first line imaging in the diagnostic work-up and monitoring of most cardiac diseases. Echocardiography is ...
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Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection: A handbook for field professionals
Irene A. Kreis, Araceli Busby, Giovanni Leonardi, Jill Meara, and Virginia Murray (eds)
Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection guides front-line public health practitioners through the decisions they are likely to face when dealing with environmental ...
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Essentials of Toxicology for Health Protection (2 ed.)
David Baker, Lakshman Karalliedde, Virginia Murray, Robert Maynard, and Norman HT Parkinson (eds)
Essentials of Toxicology for Health Protection is ideal as both a course resource for students and a reference for field professionals involved in responding to chemical incidents and local ...
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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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From General Practice to Primary Care: The industrialization of family medicine
Steve Iliffe
This resource explores the many dimensions of the alleged industrialization of general practice as it has occurred to others in the past, and analyses the origins of the current wave of ...
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Global Mental Health: Principles and Practice
Vikram Patel, Harry Minas, Alex Cohen, and Martin Prince (eds)
The emergence of the discipline of global mental health as one of the most dynamic fields of global health underscores the need for this resource, which covers two major aspects of the ...
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Greening Health Care: How Hospitals Can Heal the Planet
Kathy Gerwig
The relationship between hospitals and the environment is defined by a glaring contradiction: as health care facilities deliver care at any cost, their environmental footprint — pollution, ...
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Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth (3 ed.)
Murray Enkin, Marc Keirse, James Neilson, Caroline Crowther, Lelia Duley, Ellen Hodnett, and Justus Hofmeyr
This resource summarizes the most authoritative evidence available on the effects of care practices carried out during pregnancy, childbirth, and immediately after birth, and in addition to ...
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The Hospice Companion: Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Care of Advanced Illness (3 ed.)
Perry G. Fine
The Hospice Companion is a guide to best practices in end-of-life care, informed by the most current evidence-based literature in the field. It is intended to be used “at the ...
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Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders
Roger M Kurlan, Paul E Greene, and Kevin M Biglan
This online resource covers the signs, the pathophysiology, the genetics (where applicable), and the treatment options of each form of hyperkinetic movement disorder. There is a ...
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Integrative Pain Management
Robert A. Bonakdar and Andrew W. Sukiennik (eds)
Integrative Pain Management takes a practical, patient-centered approach to integrative pain management, equipping clinicians to better understand the rationale for incorporation of ...
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The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5® (2 ed.)
Joel Paris
The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5®, Second Edition reviews the history of diagnosis in psychiatry, emphasizing the limitations for classification of our current lack of ...
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An Introduction to Population-level Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases
Mike Rayner, Kremlin Wickramasinghe, Julianne Williams, Karen McColl, and Shanthi Mendis (eds)
This book is based on the content covered during the non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention short course at the University of Oxford. It provides theoretical background and ‘real life ...
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Living Longer, Living Better: Exploring the Heart-Mind Connection
Lionel H. Opie
Living Longer: The heart-mind connection is written for all those who strive for optimal long-term health and the maximal functioning of their hearts and minds. Today's problem for the ...
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