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Compatibility Gene: How Our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves - Paperback

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by Daniel Jr. Davis (Author)This is the story of a few human genes and how we discovered what these genes do. We each have around 25,000 genes, but the genes in this story are those that vary the most from person to person. These genes--called compatibility genes--are, in effect, a molecular signature that distinguishes each of us as individuals. Davis tells the remarkable story of the discovery of compatibility genes, and how decades of patient scientific inquiry, punctuated with individual ...

Responsible Conduct of Research (Revised) - Paperback

$123.12

by Adil E. Shamoo (Author), David B. Resnik (Author)Since the early 2000s, the field of Responsible Conduct of Research has become widely recognized as essential to scientific education, investigation, and training. At present, research institutions with public funding are expected to have some minimal training and education in RCR for their graduate students, fellows and trainees. These institutions also are expected to have a system in place for investigating and reporting misconduct in res...

The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good - Hardcover

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by Donald W. Pfaff (Author)Since the beginning of recorded history, law and religion have provided "rules" that define good behavior. When we obey such rules, we assign to some external authority the capacity to determine how we should act. Even anarchists recognize the existence of a choice as to whether or not to obey, since no one has seriously doubted that the source of social order resides in our vast ethical systems. Debate has focused only on whose system is best, never for an instant ...

50 Studies Every Neurologist Should Know - Paperback

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by David Y. Hwang (Editor), David M. Greer (Editor), Michael E. Hochman (Editor)50 Studies Every Neurologist Should Know presents key studies that shape the current clinical practice of neurology. All neurologic subspecialties are covered, with a special emphasis on neurocritical care and vascular neurology. For each study, a concise summary is presented with an emphasis on the results and limitations of the study, and its implications for practice. An illustrative clinical case concludes eac...

The Heart of Justice Care Ethics and Political Theory (Paperback) - Paperback

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by Daniel Engster (Author)The Heart of Justice provides the first full account of the institutions and policies of a caring society, and should be of interest to anyone concerned with the nature of our moral obligations and the institutions of a just society. Integrating the insights of earlier care theorists with the aims of traditional justice theorists, Engster forges a new synthesis between care and justice, and argues that the institutional and policy commitments of care theory must be r...

Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience - Hardcover

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by Marco Catani (Author), Stefano Sandrone (Author)Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience is published on the 500th anniversary of the birth and the 450th anniversary of the death of Vesalius. The authors translated those Latin chapters of the Fabrica dedicated to the brain, a milestone in the history of neuroscience. Many chapters are accompanied by a commentary tracking the discoveries that paved the way to our modern understanding of the brain - from the pineal gland that ...

Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Philippa Levine (Author)In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word "eugenics" to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin's theory of evolution to human society, eugenics soon became a powerful, international movement, committed to using the principles of heredity and statistics to encourage healthy and discourage unhealthy reproduction. Early in the twentieth century and across the world, doctors, so...

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by Clayton & Hills (Author)This self-contained account of the statistical basis of epidemiology has been written specifically for those with a basic training in biology, therefore no previous knowledge is assumed and the mathematics is deliberately kept at a manageable level. The authors show how all statistical analysis of data is based on probability models, and once one understands the model, analysis follows easily. In showing how to use models in epidemiology the authors have chosen ...

Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance - Hardcover

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by Samuel K. Cohn Jr. (Author)Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop. This study of plague imprints, from academic medical treatises to plague poetry, ...

Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology - Paperback

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by Robert C. Roberts (Author), W. Jay Wood (Author)Out of the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood have developed an approach they call "regulative epistemology." This is partly a return to classical and medieval traditions, partly in the spirit of Locke's and Descartes's concern for intellectual formation, partly an exploration of connections between epistemology and ethics, and partly an approach that has never been tried before. Standing on the shoulde...

Analysis Longitud Data 2e Osss: Ncs P - Paperback

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by Peter Diggle (Author), Patrick Heagerty (Author), Kung-Yee Liang (Author)The first edition of Analysis for Longitudinal Data has become a classic. Describing the statistical models and methods for the analysis of longitudinal data, it covers both the underlying statistical theory of each method, and its application to a range of examples from the agricultural and biomedical sciences. The main topics discussed are design issues, exploratory methods of analysis, linear models for continuous ...

Assisted Death: A Study in Ethics and Law - Paperback

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by L. W. Sumner (Author)Ethical and legal issues concerning physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are very much on the public agenda in many jurisdictions. In this timely book L.W. Sumner addresses these issues within the wider context of palliative care for patients in the dying process. His ethical conclusion is that a bright line between assisted death and other widely accepted end-of-life practices, including the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, pain control through high-dose ...

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by Kimberley Brownlee (Author), Adam Cureton (Author), Kimberley Brownlee (Editor)This book offers a much-needed investigation of moral and political issues concerning disability, and explores how the experiences of people with disabilities can lead to reconsideration of prominent positions on normative issues. Thirteen new essays examine such topics as the concept of disability, the conditions of justice, the nature of autonomy, healthcare distribution, and reproductive choices. The contribu...

Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen - Paperback

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by William Silen (Revised by)This classic text is much beloved by medical students and physicians-in-training throughout the English-speaking world, as its many editions indicate. It is chock full of the pearls of clinical wisdom that students and practitioners treasure, and many of these lessons apply to medicine in general. The book was well characterized by a reviewer of an earlier edition for The New England Journal of Medicine: 'If only one book about surgery could be made available to p...

Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Rodolfo Saracci (Author)Epidemiology plays an all-important role in many areas of medicine, from discovering the relationship between tobacco smoking and lung cancer, to documenting the impact of diet, the environment, and exercise on general health, to tracking the origin and spread of new epidemics such as Swine Flu. It is truly a vital field, central to the health of society, but it is often poorly understood, largely due to misrepresentations in the media. In this Very Short Introducti...

The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change - Paperback

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by Stephen P. Hinshaw (Author)Millions of people and their families are affected by mental illness; it causes untold pain and severely impairs their ability to function in the world. In recent years, we have begun to understand and develop a range of effective treatments for mental illness. Even with this shift from moralistic views to those emphasizing the biological and genetic origins of mental illness, punitive treatment and outright rejection remain strong. Public attitudes toward mental...

Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Resource for Voluntary Service Managers - Paperback

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by Rosalind Scott (Author), Steven Howlett (Author), Derek Doyle (Author)This book provides comprehensive, practical guidelines on the responsibilities of those who lead, coordinate, and manage volunteers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams. Volunteers are key workers who often perform difficult and important work. This updated second edition covers volunteer selection, training, supervision and support, and legal and ...

Protein Purification Techniques: A Practical Approach - Paperback

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by Simon Roe (Editor)Proteins are an integral part of molecular and cellular structure and function and are probably the most purified type of biological molecule. In order to elucidate the structure and function of any protein it is first necessary to purify it. Protein purification techniques have evolved over the past ten years with improvements in equipment control, automation, and separation materials, and the introduction of new techniques such as affinity membranes and expanded beds. T...

DNA Cloning: A Practical Approach Volume 2: Expression Systems - Paperback

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by Hames Glover (Author), D. M. Glover (Author), David M. Glover (Editor)Expression systems are in widespread use for cloning specific genes, for synthesizing the encoded proteins for structural and functional analysis, and for large-scale preparation of current use with background information and advice on the merits of each, step-by-step practical protocols, troubleshooting, and details of the latest applications. These two books, the first of four volumes are thoroughly revised and up-date...

Virus Hunt: The Search for the Origin of HIV - Hardcover

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by Dorothy H. Crawford (Author)In Virus Hunt, renowned virologist Dorothy H. Crawford takes us inside one of the great research quests of our time--the search for the origin of AIDS. From hospital intensive care wards to research laboratories to the African rain forests, Crawford follows the trail of the virus back to its roots deep in Africa. We track wild monkeys and apes through the jungle--gathering their DNA via hair and feces samples--to discover from which primates HIV first jumped to...

The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology - Paperback

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by Benjamin Koen (Editor), Jacqueline Lloyd (With), Gregory Barz (With)Medical Ethnomusicology is a new field of integrative and holistic research and applied practice that approaches music, health, and healing anew, engaging the biological, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual domains of human life that frame and inform our experiences of health and healing, illness and disease, life and death. The power of music to create health and healing at the individual, community, and socie...

Extraordinary Measures: Disability in Music - Paperback

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by Joseph Nathan Straus (Author)Approaching disability as a cultural construction rather than a medical pathology, this book studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music themselves. For composers with disabilities--like Beethoven, Delius, and Schumann--awareness of the disability sharply inflects critical reception. For performers with disabilities--such as Itzhak P...

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by Robert C. King (Author)This eighth edition of A Dictionary of Genetics contains over 7,500 up-to-date and cross-referenced entries, including 540 that are newly written. The entries include the latest terminology, concepts, theories, and techniques, covering not only genetics but also such overlapping disciplines as cell biology, medicine, and evolutionary biology. The fully revised six appendices are a unique source of detailed supplementary information, including a chronology of scientif...

Clinical Guide to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation - Paperback

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by Paul E. Holtzheimer (Editor), William M. McDonald (Editor)The Clinical Guide serves as a reference tool for clinicians in the administration of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for neuropsychiatric disorders. The primary intent of this Guide is to focus on the clinical applications of TMS and to offer detailed information on the safe and effective administration of TMS with consideration of the neurophysiological effects particularly in relation to safety, targeting specific cortica...

Roots of Bioethics: Health, Progress, Technology, Death - Hardcover

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by Daniel Callahan (Author)Daniel Callahan---whose cofounding of The Hastings Center in 1969 was one of the most important milestones in the history of bioethics--has written on an uncommonly wide range of issues over a long career. They have moved back and forth between clinical care of individual patients and the ethical problems of health care research and delivery. Through his many writings, four core problems have recurred in all of his work, and influence each of the others. What is hea...

Inequalities in Health: Concepts, Measures, and Ethics - Hardcover

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by Nir Eyal (Editor), Ole F. Norheim (Editor), Samia a. Hurst (Editor)Of every thousand children born in Iceland, two will die before their first birthday, but in Mozambique the death rate is sixty times higher. Even within countries - including some of the wealthiest - inequalities in longevity and health can be substantial. In recent years, epidemiologists have documented the extent of these inequalities both between and within countries, stimulating in turn research both on their sources a...

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by Apar Kishor Ganti (Editor), David E. Gerber (Editor)Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death in the world. Recently, better understanding of the biology of lung cancer has led to the development of newer targeted therapies for specific subpopulations of lung cancer patients. While this has led to multiple exciting advances that promise to improve outcomes in the future, there has also been a significant increase in the complexity of care of the lung cancer patient. Part...

Diagnosing Giants: Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World - Hardcover

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by Philip A. Mackowiak (Author)Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time. Today medical trauma teams help similar victims survive-including Gabby Giffords, whose injury was strikingly like Lincoln's. In Diagnosing Giants, Dr. Philip A. Mackowiak examines the historical record i...

This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture - Hardcover

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by Fay Bound Alberti (Author)How humans have felt and thought about the body-our bodies-has never been static. Rather, it has shifted across times and cultures, taking and losing definition due to any number of forces and trends-philosophical, religious, cultural, technological. Sometimes we imagine our identity purely as an extension of our fleshly self and its assemblage of functions, organs, and appendages, sometimes as something entirely separate and discrete-trapped as opposed to defined...

The Willowbrook Wars: Bringing the Mentally Disabled Into the Community - Paperback

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by David J. Rothman (Author)The Willowbrook Wars is a dramatic and illuminating account of the effort to close down a scandal-ridden institution and return its 5,400 handicapped residents to communities in New York. The wars began in 1972 with Geraldo Rivera's televised raid on the Willowbrook State School. They continued for three years in a federal courtroom, with civil libertarian lawyers persuading a conservative and conscience-stricken judge to expand the rights of the disabled, and they...

Navigating the Complexities of Stroke - Paperback

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by Louis R. Caplan (Author)Strokes afflict thousands of people every year. Yet, for every fatal case, many more victims survive, often going on to live long, productive lives. Of course, none of it is simple-not preventing a "brain attack," nor survival, rehabilitation, or living with cerebrovascular disease. The key is education, for both the moment of crisis and the long term. Navigating the Complexities of Stroke provides a practical guide for the lay public and medical professionals. Dr. ...

Hippocrates Cried: The Decline of American Psychiatry - Hardcover

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by Michael A. Taylor (Author)Hippocrates Cried offers an eye-witness account of the decline of American psychiatry by an experienced psychiatrist and researcher. Arguing that patients with mental disorders are no longer receiving the care they need, Dr. Taylor suggest that modern psychiatrists in the U.S. rely too heavily on the DSM, a diagnostic tool that fails to properly diagnose many cases of mental disorder and often neglects important conditions or symptoms. American psychiatry has come...