E-books: Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health

Edited by Maneesh Bhatia

Musculoskeletal injections for joint or tendon problems are performed commonly and their use, which can result in a marked improvement in acute symptoms as well as delay or postpone surgery, is on the rise. Key features: Provides concise, current and portable information Covers the latest…

eBook – 2019-02-14
CRC Press

Edited by Ananda M. Chakrabarty, Arsénio M. Fialho

This book deals with the emerging concept that certain pathogenic bacteria and viruses, when infecting people with cancer, actively fight tumors, allowing their regression. Although such observations go back more than 100 years, use of specific bacterial strains, or viruses, usually genetically…

eBook – 2019-02-13
Pan Stanford

By Patrick E. McMahon, Rosemary McMahon, Bohdan Khomtchouk

This work evolved over thirty combined years of teaching general chemistry to a variety of student demographics. The focus is not to recap or review the theoretical concepts well described in the available texts.Instead, the topics and descriptions in this book make available specific, detailed…

eBook – 2019-02-13
CRC Press

Edited by Waldemar Wójcik, Sergii Pavlov, Maksat Kalimoldayev

For many centuries, mankind has tried to learn about his health. Initially, during the pre-technological period, he could only rely on his senses. Then there were simple tools to help the senses. The breakthrough turned out to be the discovery of X-rays, which gave insight into the human body.…

eBook – 2019-02-13
CRC Press

Edited by Jorge Belinha, R.M. Natal Jorge, J.C. Reis Campos, Mário A.P. Vaz, João Manuel R.S. Tavares

Dentistry is a branch of medicine with its own particularities and very different fields of action, and is generally regarded as an interdisciplinary field. The use of new technologies is currently the main driving force for the series of international conferences on Biodental Engineering (…

eBook – 2019-02-13
CRC Press

By Saif Aldeen Saleh AlRyalat, Shaher Momani

Open Access Data is emerging as a source for cutting edge scholarship. This concise book provides guidance from generating a research idea to publishing results. Both young researchers and well-established scholars can use this book to upgrade their skills with respect to emerging data sources,…

eBook – 2019-02-12
CRC Press
Pocket Guides to Biomedical Sciences

Edited by V.R. Mohan, A. Doss, P.S. Tresina

Ethnomedicinal Plants with Therapeutic Properties provides detailed information on locally important medicinal plants, discusses the pharmacological properties of selected medicinal plants, and looks at the phytodrug aspects of selected plants. In 24 important chapters, the volume covers…

eBook – 2019-02-11
Apple Academic Press

Edited by Mark Evans, Konstantinos Thomaidis, Libby Worth

Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes and conceptual thinking of performer training. Notions of time are embedded in almost every aspect of performer training, and so contributors to this book look at: age/aging…

eBook – 2019-02-08
Routledge

Edited by K Balamurugan, Prithika Udayakumar

Pocket Guide to Bacterial Infections provides information pertinent to the behaviour of bacterial cells during their interactions with different cell types of multiple host systems. This book will present the role of various bacterial pathogens affecting the host system. The book is to be organized…

eBook – 2019-02-07
CRC Press
Pocket Guides to Biomedical Sciences

By Frank Dye

This textbook presents essential and accessible information about human embryology including practical information on human health issues and recent advances in human reproductive technology. Starting with biological basics of cell anatomy and fertilization, the author moves through the development…

eBook – 2019-02-07
CRC Press

Edited by Wilbert S. Aronow, Jerome L. Fleg, Michael W. Rich

With an exponential growth in the number of older adults, understanding the common disorders of the elderly patient requiring cardiac care is becoming increasingly important. Incorporating recent advances in the field, Tresch and Aronow's Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly 6th Edition has been…

eBook – 2019-02-06
CRC Press

Edited by Andrew Graciano

This book expands the art historical perspective on art’s connection to anatomy and medicine, bringing together in one text several case studies from various methodological perspectives. The contributors focus on the common visual and bodily nature of (figural) art, anatomy, and medicine around the…

eBook – 2019-02-06
Routledge
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