Category: Special Topics

By Louise Foxcroft

ISBN-10: 0754687864

ISBN-13: 9780754687863

What does drug dependancy suggest to us? What did it suggest to others some time past? and the way are those meanings hooked up? In sleek society the belief of drug dependancy is a given and in general understood notion, but this was once no longer regularly the case some time past. This publication uncovers the unique affects that formed the construction and some of the interpretations of habit as a ailment, and of dependancy to opiates specifically. It delves into the remedies, regimes, and prejudices that surrounded the , a newly rising pathological entity and a sort of 'moral madness' in the course of the 19th century. The resource fabric for this booklet is wealthy and striking. Letters and diaries give you the so much relocating fabric, detailing own struggles with habit and the rigors of these who cared and despaired. Confessions of disgrace, deceit, distress and terror take a seat along these of deep sensual excitement, visionary manifestations and completely happy freedom from care. The reader can stick to the lifelong opium careers of literary figures, artists and politicians, glimpse a uncooked underworld of hidden drug use, or see the bleakness of city and rural poverty alleviated by way of day-by-day doses of opium. Delving into diaries, letters and confessions this ebook exposes the scientific case histories and the physician's mad, lazy, advertisement, contemptuous, determined, altruistic and annoyed makes an attempt to accommodate drug dependancy. It demonstrates that the various stigmatising prejudices arose from fake 'facts' and semi-mythical ideals and therefore has major implications, not just for the heritage of dependancy, but in addition for a way we view the this day.

By Katja Guenther

ISBN-10: 022628820X

ISBN-13: 9780226288208

By Jiří Janata

ISBN-10: 0387699309

ISBN-13: 9780387699301

Whilst first released in 1989 this used to be the top booklet on chemical sensors. due to the fact then, many undergraduate textbooks on chemical sensors were released, yet no graduate ones. This publication is the 1st complicated undergraduate/graduate textbook on chemical sensors, and as with the 1st variation it's going to additionally garner powerful curiosity as a reference quantity.

By Michael Goitein

ISBN-10: 0387726446

ISBN-13: 9780387726441

ISBN-10: 0387726454

ISBN-13: 9780387726458

This publication summarizes the radiation physics wisdom that execs operating in scientific physics have to grasp for effective and secure dealings with ionizing radiation. It includes 8 chapters, each one bankruptcy protecting a particular team of matters with regards to radiation physics and is meant as a textbook for a direction in radiation physics in medical-physics graduate courses. notwithstanding, the ebook can also be of curiosity to the massive variety of execs, not just scientific physicists, who of their day-by-day occupations care for a number of features of clinical physics and discover a have to enhance their knowing of radiation physics.

The major audience for this publication is graduate scholars learning for M.Sc. and Ph.D. levels in scientific physics, who haveto own the mandatory physics and arithmetic history wisdom so as to stick to and grasp the total textbook. scientific citizens, know-how scholars and biomedical engineering scholars may possibly locate yes sections too not easy or esoteric, but they are going to locate many sections attention-grabbing and valuable of their experiences.

Candidates getting ready for pro certification assessments in any of the scientific physics subspecialties should still locate the cloth important, and a few of the fabric might additionally support applicants getting ready for certification examinations in scientific dosimetry or radiation-related scientific specialties.

Numerous textbooks can be found masking many of the subspecialties of clinical physics yet they often make a transition from the common easy physics at once into the intricacies of the given clinical physics subspecialty. The purpose of this textbook is to supply the lacking hyperlink among the hassle-free physics at the one hand and the physics of the subspecialties at the different hand.

By Hedda Lausberg

ISBN-10: 3653042089

ISBN-13: 9783653042085

This e-book is an interdisciplinary consultant to empirical learn on nonverbal behaviour. It makes a speciality of instruments and approaches to enquire physique circulation and gesture and the relation to cognitive, emotional, and interactive approaches. NEUROGES is an target and trustworthy coding procedure for circulate behaviour and gesture. Its blend with the multi-media annotation device ELAN leads to a good flow analysis. Rater education and score techniques represent an immense part in move behaviour stories. a singular set of rules assesses interrater contract for the segmentation of the on.  Read more...

By Dr. med. Veit Harold Bauer (auth.)

ISBN-10: 3540065938

ISBN-13: 9783540065937

ISBN-10: 3642657680

ISBN-13: 9783642657689

By Louis Galambos

ISBN-10: 0511629516

ISBN-13: 9780511629518

ISBN-10: 0521563089

ISBN-13: 9780521563086

ISBN-10: 052162620X

ISBN-13: 9780521626200

Networks of Innovation bargains a ancient point of view at the demeanour within which inner most area companies have bought, sustained, and periodically misplaced the power to improve, manufacture, and marketplace new serum antitoxins and vaccines. the first concentration is at the H. ok. Mulford corporation, on Sharp & Dohme, which obtained Mulford in 1929, and on Merck & Co., Inc., which merged with Sharp & Dohme in 1953. through surveying a century of innovation in biologicals, the authors express how the actions of those 3 advertisement businesses have been concerning a sequence of complicated, evolving networks of medical, governmental, and scientific associations within the usa and out of the country.

By Kenneth F. Kiple

ISBN-10: 0511074158

ISBN-13: 9780511074158

ISBN-10: 0521530261

ISBN-13: 9780521530262

ISBN-10: 0521808340

ISBN-13: 9780521808347

The Cambridge international heritage of Human ailment (CWHHD) used to be first released by way of Cambridge in 1993. the foundation of this Dictionary is a component VIII, the final component of the paintings, that contains a background and outline of the world's significant ailments of the previous day and this day in chapters equipped alphabetically from "Acquired Immune poor Syndrome (AIDS)" to "Yellow Fever." The final component to CWHHD has been absolutely revised and the essays were condensed into shorter entries, with up to date details on AIDS, Alzheimer's sickness, Ebola, and Tuberculosis. The Dictionary additionally comprises 3 chapters from different elements of the CWHHD on "Heart-Related Diseases," "Cancer," and Genetic Disease." together with contributions from over a hundred clinical and social scientists around the globe, the Dictionary is a really interdisciplinary historical past of drugs and human sickness. Kenneth Kiple is a wonderful professor of background at Bowling eco-friendly kingdom collage. His examine and educating pursuits comprise Latin the USA and the heritage of drugs, ailment, and foodstuff. His paintings has been supported by means of supplies and fellowships from the Guggenheim origin, the nationwide Endowment for the arts, the Fulbright origin, the yankee Council of realized Societies, the yank Philosophical Society, and the nationwide Institutes of healthiness. he's the editor of The Cambridge heritage of global ailment (Cambridge, 1993) and with Kriemhild Coneé Ornelas, the award-winning Cambridge global historical past of nutrients (Cambridge, 2000).

By da Vinci Leonardo; Wells, F. C.; da Vinci Leonardo

ISBN-10: 1447145305

ISBN-13: 9781447145301

ISBN-10: 1447145313

ISBN-13: 9781447145318

Leonardo's center reviews symbolize the top of his anatomical endeavours. They combine structural shape and dynamic functionality in a manner that referred to as upon his wide adventure and data of hydrology, engineering, arithmetic and architectural layout. In his paintings at the center, his use of inventive diagrams in addition to precise representational drawings is cleverly mixed with rigorously crafted verbal descriptions of advanced physiological recommendations. a few of which, built via drawing, wereso complicated that purely now with the appearance of available know-how and advances in glossy wisdom of the guts, it truly is attainable to re-interpret his conclusions and show how actual his logical reasoning and natural commentary rather was once. numerous of his rules proceed to sit down good along our glossy realizing of cardiac body structure and center functionality. This booklet positive aspects all sixty four of Leonardo's drawings at the center and its body structure, observed by way of translations of his accompanying notes. Read more...

By Kirsten Ostherr

How do visible photos form the perform of drugs? What function does visible illustration play within the cultivation of scientific methods of seeing? and the way has medicine’s visible tradition replaced within the electronic age?

Kirsten Ostherr’s bold examine explores a hundred and twenty years of clinical image-making to give an explanation for how visible representations form clinical schooling and perform. Marshaling strong, vibrant examples she demonstrates how scientific pictures created via the healthcare undefined, documentary filmmakers, experimental artists, and the mass media gather cultural that means and effect medical professionals’ and sufferers’ understandings of health and wellbeing and ailment. Her research proceeds chronologically, turning from the earliest experiments with clinical filmmaking through the yank university of Surgeons, to where of wellbeing and fitness motion pictures within the “golden age” of educational movie within the Sixties. Ostherr considers the shift to tv because the dominant medium of overall healthiness schooling, highlighting the evolving prestige of realism, the recommendations hired to bridge the entertainment-education divide, the function of professional specialists and sponsors, and the tradeoffs made by means of pros to arrive a vast viewers. the increase of general practitioner recommendation segments on newsmagazines types a transition among clinical dramas like Marcus Welby, MD and newer truth indicates like Boston Med and health care provider 90210. Concluding with a piece on advertisements and social media within the well-being care surroundings, the ebook ends with ten key classes for the way forward for clinical media.