Surgery

This new Mayo Clinic book on pregnancy provides you with practical information and reassurance on pregnancy and childbirth. Compiled by Mayo Clinic experts in obstetrics, it offers a clear, thorough and reliable reference for this exciting and sometimes unpredictable journey. This comprehensive book... More

Riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, and how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled professionThe struggle to perform well is universal, and nowhere is the drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In his new book,... More

In gripping accounts of true cases, Atul Gawande performs exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is—complicated, perplexing and profoundly human. He offers an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge, where science is ambigu... More

This book provides a practical step by step guide to general surgery and is meant for undergraduate students. It is liberally illustrated. The text is presented in simple and clear language. This book brings together knowledge in the field and explains in a simplified yet analytical way, almost all ... More

Image is a quality element essential to all businesses. Just as the personal image matters with friends or neighbours and in professional circuits, similarly the image of the business matters in the macro level of market prospecting.Gautam Chatterjea is a marketing and image management practitioner.... More

This title integrates basic science with clinical practice and also [revised case studies to help readers to take a problem-based approach treatment. Urology Handbook provides the simple but authoritative guidance medical students need to get them through the urology sections of their training. Thro... More

This handbook takes up the most common emergencies seen in the Indian context and is meant to be of use to those who are working in hospitals/nursing homes without tertiary care facilities. It advises them on the recommended and safe management options in such cases.... 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

Osteoporosis in Focus contains a clear, concise discussion of osteoporosis and reviews the role of the pharmacist in counselling patients on their illness, lifestyle and medicines. Chapter topics include prevention, monitoring the condition, interventions, drug treatment, hormone replacement therapy... More

This illustrated volume comprehensively covers the essentials of gynecology, providing up-to-date information to students, residents and practising gynecologists. The book has a detailed glossary and illustrated appendices on instruments and positions used in surgery and examination.... More

Written by outstanding authorities, Essentials of Mechanical Ventilation puts the focus on the effective delivery of therapy to patients. After thoroughly introducing mechanical principles, this text explains the use of mechanical ventilation in the clinical management of patients suffering from mor... More

Eyes--our most precious possession, need to be taken care of meticulously, for any damage to the eyes is truly an irreparable loss. This book offers in one wide sweep, a one-stop, easy-to-read, simple eye-care guide, complemented by illustrative photographs, encapsulating everything that a common r... More

In this breakthrough book, world-renowned hormone specialist Dr. Robert Greene explores the connection between two of the least understood--and yet most important--physiological factors: hormones and the brain. In "Perfect Balance, Dr. Greene presents a comprehensive program for reaching hormonal ba... More

This book documents and builds on the experiences of a team of special educators in south India who have been experimenting with a new and better strategy for providing services to children with special needs. This approach is based on training rehabilitation workers in physiotherapy, occupational t... More

A highly visual, clinically oriented text covering the key topics in geometrical and visual optics essential to optometric practice. Features over 300 illustrations and examples, as well as numerous worked-out problems, all designed to "demystify" clinical optics.... More

This book is a significant contribution to the state of the art in the field of computational bio-engineering--from the need for a living human database to meshless methods in biomechanics, from computational mechanobiology to the evaluation of stresses in hip prosthesis replacement, from lattice Bo... More