Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection Handbook (Hawker Jeremy)(Paperback)

Medicalising Borders: Selection, Containment and Quarantine Since 1800 (Trubeta Sevasti)(Pevná vazba)

Foci and vectors of communicable diseases are testing the efficacy of medical control at state borders. By drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of a network of researchers the book demonstrates that current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of bio-political power

Communicable Diseases: A Global Perspective (Webber Roger)(Paperback)

Completely updated and revised, and now published in its sixth edition, this best-selling text has provided an essential overview of the subject for almost 25 years. A comprehensive yet synoptic account of communicable diseases, it covers theory, epidemiology and control, then systematically groups

Handbook of Liver Disease (Friedman Lawrence S.)(Paperback)

Well-organized and vibrantly illustrated throughout, Handbook of Liver Disease is a comprehensive yet concise handbook providing authoritative guidance on key clinical issues in liver disease. The quick-reference outline format ensures that you'll find answers when you need them, and cover-to-cover

Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (Wald Priscilla)(Paperback)

How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines--of Patients Zero and

Oxford Handbook of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology (Trk Este)(Paperback)

Fully reviewed and revised for its second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology maintains its position as the must-have guide to all aspects of infectious diseases and microbiology. Reflecting the current approach to joint postgraduate training programmes, thehandbook

Health and Disease - Modular Workbook (Allan Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty (Das Veena)(Paperback)

Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues. First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the

Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine (Llewellyn Carrie D.)(Paperback)

This third edition of the much acclaimed Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine offers a fully up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource for doctors, health care professionals, mental health care professionals (such as psychologists, counsellors, specialist nurses),

Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease (Sagner Michael)(Paperback)

Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders (Edwards Mark J.)(Paperback)

This is the second edition of the Oxford Specialist Handbook in Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders aiming to provide its readership with the latest developments and innovation across the discipline. Alongside this update in content, the addition of new, insightful sections suggested

Oxford Handbook of Dialysis (Levy Jeremy)(Paperback)

The Oxford Handbook of Dialysis is a comprehensive and practical guide to all aspects of dialysis, the management of patients with end stage kidney disease, and all its complications. The fourth edition has been completely updated, and covers all aspects of dialysis from haemodialysis techniques

Designed to Move: The Science-Backed Program to Fight Sitting Disease and Enjoy Lifelong Health (Vernikos Joan)(Paperback)

Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice, Second Edition (Bateman Anthony W. M. a.)(Paperback)

Authoritative, comprehensive, and cutting-edge, the Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice is the single most important resource for clinicians and trainees learning about--and incorporating--MBT into their therapeutic

Handbook of Health Research Methods: Investigation, Measurement and Analysis (Bowling Ann)(Paperback)

Helps researchers to plan, carry out, and analyse health research, and evaluate the quality of research studies. This book is suitable for researchers and postgraduate students taking masters courses, or undertaking doctoral programmes, in health services evaluation, health sciences, health

Mental Health and Offending: Care, Coercion and Control (Trebilcock Julie D.)(Paperback)

This book explores the controversial relationship between mental health and offending and looks at the ways in which offenders with mental health problems are cared for, coerced and controlled by the criminal justice and mental health systems. It provides a much-needed criminological approach to

Genetic Epidemiology: Methods and Applications (Austin Melissa A.)(Paperback)

Genetic epidemiology plays a key role in discovering genetic factors influencing health and disease, and in understanding how genes and environmental risk factors interact. There is growing interest in this field within public health, with the goal of translating the results into promoting health

Human Infectious Disease and Public Health (Fullick William)(Paperback)

Infectious disease will affect most of us at some point in our lives, despite tremendous advances in medicine over the past century. We all still fall ill from pathogens in our everyday environments - but many of us now survive infections which would have proved fatal in the past. Our understanding

Heal Your Oral Microbiome: Balance and Repair Your Mouth Microbes to Improve Gut Health, Reduce Inflammation and Fight Disease (Nelson-Dooley Cass)(Paperback)

Emerging Infectious Diseases and Society (Washer P.)(Paperback)

Shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize in 2011 By the 1970s, medicine appeared to have conquered infectious diseases. A century before, newly discovered germ theory had laid the foundations for advances in vaccines and antibiotics, but

Bach Flower Remedies: Form and Function (Barnard Julian)(Paperback)

'Today, disease and death control us ever more strongly with a litany of viruses, cancers, and heart disorders. The causes may be vaccinations, environmental poisons, despoliation of food, or pollution of the elements-earth, water and air. For Bach the cause was clear and it is clear today: 'It is

Your Healthy Pregnancy with Thyroid Disease: A Guide to Fertility, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Wellness (Trentini Dana)(Paperback)

At minimum, 27 million Americans have thyroid disease. Despite being the majority of thyroid sufferers, women rarely know that thyroid problems increase their risk of pregnancy complications, including infertility, preeclampsia, miscarriage, premature delivery, and low birth weight. This awareness

Metabolism at a Glance (Salway J. G.)(Paperback)

Metabolism at a Glance presents a concise, illustrated summary of metabolism in health and disease. This essential text is progressively appropriate for introductory through to advanced medical and biochemistry courses. It also provides a succinct review of inborn errors of metabolism, and

Practising Critical Reflection: A Resource Handbook (Fook Jan)(Paperback)

Suitable for a variety of students across social work, health sciences and nursing, as well as health care and social welfare professionals, this handbook focuses on a description and analysis of the theoretical input as well as the approach involved in critical

Art of Colour Mixing - Using watercolours, acrylics and oils (Galton Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

A small practical handbook on choosing and mixing colours successfully. It shows how to create the maximum colour range from the minimum number of paints. The authors address watercolours, acrylics and oils, showing how to mix, blend and dilute in order to achieve a range of