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1. Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine

   Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China

   By Marta Hanson

   Series: Needham Research Institute Series

   This book traces the history of the Chinese concept of "Warm diseases" (wenbing) from antiquity to the SARS epidemic. Following wenbing from its birth to maturity and even life in modern times Marta Hanson approaches the history of Chinese medicine from a new angle. She explores the possibility of...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Approaching Multivariate Analysis, 2nd Edition

   A Practical Introduction

   By Pat Dugard, John Todman, Harry Staines

   This fully updated new edition not only provides an introduction to a range of advanced statistical techniques that are used in psychology, but has been expanded to include new chapters describing methods and examples of particular interest to medical researchers. It takes a very practical approach...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Sars

   Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities

   Edited by Deborah Davis, Helen F. Siu

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Handbook of Neurological Rehabilitation

   Edited by Richard J. Greenwood, Thomas M. McMillan, Michael P. Barnes, Christopher D. Ward

   Changes in the focus of neurological practice worldwide have led to the need for new standard texts that reflect the current state of this expanding area of clinical expertise. The second edition of the Handbook of Neurological Rehabilitation is a major reference source that fulfils this need,...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
5. Brain Injury Treatment

   Theories and Practices

   By Jose Leon-Carrion, Klaus R. H. von Wild, George A. Zitnay

   Series: Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition

   Brain Injury Treatment: Theories and Practices is a thorough and wide-ranging account of the rehabilitation of brain injury. Written from an international perspective, this book presents a detailed discussion of the basic science of brain injury. It explains the treatments used in brain injury...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Taylor & Francis
6. The Handbook of Clinically Tested Herbal Remedies, Volumes 1 & 2

   By Marilyn Barrett

   A single source for accurate scientific information on herbal remedies!This comprehensive handbook (comprised of two volumes of 700+ pages each) provides a snapshot of 160 herbal products that have been tested in clinical trials. Details of the products and the clinical trials they underwent are...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic'

   Governing Bodies

   Edited by Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood

   Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

   Biopolitics and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ is the first edited collection of critical perspectives on the 'obesity epidemic.' The volume provides a comprehensive discussion of current issues in the critical analysis of health, obesity and society, and the impact of obesity discourses on different...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. Children and Exercise XXV

   The proceedings of the 25th Pediatric Work Physiology Meeting

   Edited by Georges Baquet, Serge Berthoin

   Children and Exercise XXV presents the latest research in the field of paediatric exercise sciences, focusing on the interaction between physical activity, exercise or sport on the one hand, and nutrition, metabolism regulation, cardio-respiratory function or muscle function on the other....

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity

   Morality, Mortality and the New Public Health

   Edited by Kirsten Bell, Darlene McNaughton, Amy Salmon

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred years, over the past few decades they have come under intense attack from the field of public health as an ‘unholy trinity’ of lifestyle behaviours with apparently...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal

    Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity

    By Waltraud Ernst

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact. The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the...

    Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge