Medicine

The case-based approach in Herbal Medicinals leads you through clinical considerations within the disease state of specific conditions and shows when to address your patients concerning the use or potential use of alternative medicines. You'll find this approach provides an unprecedented combination... More

This book covers material that could be included in Bioinorganic Chemistry course for undergraduate and advanced undergraduate students in Chemistry and Biochemistry. . Each chapter presents material at a more advanced level than that of other Bioinorganic textbook and provides students with the nec... More

PERSONAL TESTING is your guide to formulating, administering and evaluating these tests. When you want to assess many job applicants quickly, follow the nine-step scientific model that is designed to be both fair and highly accurate. The technique asks all applicants the same questions, scores respo... More

Physician's Drug Handbook, ninth edition, offers prescribers all the information they need about the drugs they most often prescribe. Monographs cover more than 900 geieric and 2,000 trade name drugs. This ninth edition is thoroughly updated with dozens of new FDA approvals and new indications. A 16... More

The Contributors / Acknowledgement / Introduction / Part 1: BACKGROUND - Counselling and Communication in Health Care - Ian Horton and Rowan Bayne / Looking After Yourself - Rowan Bayne / Part 2: GENERAL SKILLS - Listening: Some Basic Qualities and Skills - Rowan Bayne and Verena Tschudin / Listenin... More

Few medical problems are surrounded by as much ignorance and prejudice as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), a diverse illness of uncertain origins and indeterminate duration. Often unfairly dismissed as the "yuppie flu", this devastating condition afflicts increasing numbers of people throughout the w... More

More than 35 million Americans suffer from hives, rashes, wheezing, and sneezing associated with common allergies, but reactions may occur from causes ranging from everyday hay fever to asthma and from eczema to potentially life-threatening bee stings and penicillin. While most allergies can be reli... More

As a crucial component of the global smallpox eradication programme, which has been widely hailed as one of the greatest public health successes in the twentieth century, the Indian experience has some important stories to tell. Expunging Variola reveals these as it chronicles the last three decades... More

The Encyclopedia of Skin and Skin Disorders is the most comprehensive resource available on skin and skin disorders, as well as on a wide range of related topics, such as diseases, treatments and helpful resources and organizations. More than 1,100 entries, many new updated, present the latest infor... More

More than 40 million people worldwide are blind, and more than 120 million people struggle with disabling low vision. Advances in research have produced many new treatments and technologies to aid the blind and vision impaired. The Encyclopedia of Blindness and Vision Impairment, Second Edition prov... More

Frontispiece / Preface / An Appreciation / List of illustrations / Introduction / Caraka and his Legacy / Atharva Veda to Caraka / Diseases in Caraka's period / Doctrines and concepts / Five evacuative procedures (pancakarma) / Procedures for rejuvenation and enhanced virility (rasayana and vajikara... More

The bacteriologist who discovered Penicillin, the miracle drug that has saved millions of lives.... More

His ‘Reverence for Life’ and dedication to the cause of promoting health in the ‘dark continent’ prompted him to leave behind a brilliant career and wealth.... More

Essential guide to the therapeutic technique of shiatsu Principles of Shiatsu is an excellent overall guide, ideal for the beginner or student of this increasingly popular therapy. Chris Jarmey covers all aspects of Shiatsu -- the spiritual as well as the practical, concentrating on how the body wor... More

"Using examples drawn from biomedicine and biomedical engineering, this reference text provides comprehensive coverage of all the major techniques currently available to build computer-assisted decision support systems. You will find practical solutions for biomedicine based on current theory and ap... More

Sport and Safety Management is a comprehensive and practical handbook for all involved with the safe management of sporting events. Disasters such as Hillsborough have concentrated managers' minds on public safety and crowd control at all major events. Sport and Safety Management provides necessary... More