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This book is the outcome of a path-breaking symposium on HIV and human rights organized by the University of the West Indies Cave Hill, Barbados, together with the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). An impressive gathering of international agencies, the judiciary, human rights experts, lawyers, nongovernmental organizations, academics, activists, business persons, union...
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Personal essays relating key issues and insights from women in medicine.
What We Bring to the Practice of Medicine brings together a collection of short essays from women physicians working in diverse fields of medicine around the world. Through compassion, humor, and resiliency, their stories reveal the truth of what life is like for a variety of women in medicine.
While men and women physicians face different challenges and bring different historical...
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Have you ever
-Wondered how to deal with a family that repeatedly fails to keep clinic appointments?
-Disagreed with colleagues over a proposed course of treatment for a child?
-Considered ways to 'bump' a child on a waiting to speed up their assessment?
These are a few of the scenarios faced by clinicians in neurodisability on a daily basis. Ethics in Child Health explores the ethical dimensions of these issues that have either been ignored...
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This classic text on paediatric neurology is now in its fourth edition. Leading academics from around the world present evidence from their various areas of expertise, placing it firmly in the clinical context. Each chapter covers the basic science of the disorder and relevant genetic advances. New to this edition are chapters on fetal neurology, movement disorders, basal ganglia disease and psychogenic disorders. References at the end of each chapter...
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Providing well over 1,500 questions to test your knowledge of clinical farm animal medicine, the book has been produced in a convenient format so that it can be used at any time in any place. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction to the topic before providing relevant multiple-choice questions.
Covering clinical veterinary medicine for common livestock species, this book includes questions about:
- clinical examination;
- electrolyte balance...
8) Key Questions in Clinical Farm Animal Medicine, Volume 3: Therapy, Prevention and Control of Disease
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Providing well over 1,500 questions to test your knowledge of clinical farm animal medicine, the book has been produced in a convenient format so that it can be used at any time in any place. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction to the topic before providing relevant multiple-choice questions.
Covering clinical veterinary medicine for common livestock species, this book includes questions about:
- diseases of the haemolymphatic and immune...
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Providing well over 1,000 questions to test your knowledge of preventative farm animal medicine, the book has been produced in a convenient format so that it can be used at any time in any place. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction to the topic before providing relevant multiple-choice questions.
Covering preventative veterinary medicine for common livestock species, the book includes questions about:
- rickettsial and protozoan diseases;
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Providing well over 1,000 questions to test your knowledge of preventative farm animal medicine, the book has been produced in a convenient format so that it can be used at any time in any place. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction to the topic before providing relevant multiple-choice questions.
Covering preventative veterinary medicine for common livestock species, the book includes questions on:
- general concepts of preventative medicine;
-...
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Providing well over 1,500 questions to test your knowledge of clinical farm animal medicine, the book has been produced in a convenient format so that it can be used at any time in any place. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction to the topic before providing relevant multiple-choice questions.
Covering clinical veterinary medicine for common livestock species, this book includes questions about:
- diseases of the reproductive, integumentary...
12) First Do No Harm
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The EU-funded HeaRT (Health Reporter Training) project 2010-2012 laid an important foundation by investigating the existing (very limited) provision of specialist education and training courses for health journalists throughout the EU and also in the USA, where the existence of a large professional body has influenced the availability of training resources. Their findings indicate a widespread-almost universal-lack of an institutional investment in...
13) The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology: Definitions, Criteria and Explanatory Notes
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This atlas is the offspring of the "The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) State of the Science Conference," hosted by the NCI and organized by Dr. Andrea Abati. Preparations for the conference began 18 months earlier with the designation of a steering committee and the establishment of a dedicated, p- manent web site. The meeting took place on October 22 and 23, 2007 in Bethesda, Maryland and was co-moderated by...
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En los últimos años, el deporte en nuestro país ha tenido un auge importante en la práctica que ha trascendido al ocio, por tanto, no enmarcándose necesariamente en los deportes de alto rendimiento u olímpicos. Esto ha implicado que el equipo de profesionales de las Ciencias Aplicadas al Deporte, especialmente en el área de la fisioterapia deportiva, se fortalezca y adquiera un papel protagónico en la promoción de la salud, el bienestar y...
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Esta obra, dedicada a los animales de compañía, proporciona respuesta a todas las preguntas sobre salud que se puede plantear el propietario de uno de estos animales. Aquí encontrará todo tipo de informaciones al respecto:
- consejos prácticos para el día a día;
- actuaciones que se pueden llevar a cabo en situaciones de emergencia;
- prevención y control veterinario.
Los autores, con gran experiencia en la práctica veterinaria, desarrollan...
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Biotechnology and Culture
Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics
Edited by Paul Brodwin
Untangles the broad cultural effects of biotechnologies
"A timely and perceptive look from many acute angles, at some of the most anxiety producing issues of the day." -Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley
"This impressive collection offers a number of rich examples of why the development of anthropological studies of science, technology, and their disruptive...
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This bioethics anthology exploring the questions and controversies surrounding the innovations of 21st century genetics.
When the Human Genome Project completed its work in the early 2000s, it was hailed as a watershed moment in the history of medicine. But, not everyone felt the same optimism about where the breakthrough might lead. The Double-Edged Helix explores the impact of recent genetic discoveries on society as a whole as well as individual...
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Sages-femmes, religieuses, sœurs hospitalières, bénévoles, infirmières de la Croix-Rouge, de colonie, militaires, en psychiatrie, assistantes sociales et professionnelles de la santé sont ici sujets de l'histoire dans le large champ des services de santé au Québec et au Canada. Plus qu'un sujet, il est ici question d'une extraordinaire caste. Soucieux de fermer le fossé linguistique qui divisa non seulement la pratique, mais aussi l'historiographie...
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One need not look far to find breathtaking acts of stupidity committed by people who are smart, or even brilliant. The behavior of clever individuals-from presidents to prosecutors to professors-is at times so amazingly stupid as to seem inexplicable. Why do otherwise intelligent people think and behave in ways so stupid that they sometimes destroy their livelihoods or even their lives?
This is an investigation of psychological research to see what...
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This book covers both molecular and clinical aspects of Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) and premutation disorders so that new targeted treatments can be understood by clinicians and parents. It covers all premutation disorders including FXTAS, FXPOI and FXAND problems. The main focus is to help clinicians to give the best care possible to patients with FXS and to understand a multidisciplinary treatment approach. Underserved populations such as babies and...
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