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Exploring End of Life Experience: Facing Death (Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society)
Par Helen Besemeres. 2024
The groundbreaking contribution made by this unique book draws on the experiences recorded by five people who are facing death –…
Jenny Diski, Philip Gould, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Mayne and Cory Taylor. Analysing the key themes that emerge from a psychodynamic perspective, the book describes how the memoirists respond to the first shock of receiving a terminal diagnosis, how they meet the challenge of continuing an active life when the illusion of an open-ended future has gone, and finally, how they struggle with accepting death as it overtakes them. The author argues that the ability to accept personal death is the key to resolving the paradox of our need to survive at all costs, while at the same time, however much we might deny it, we know that we must die. In a society where death and dying occur largely out of sight, this book provides information about what it is like to die – physically, psychologically and emotionally – and invites us to think about coming to terms with death. Exploring End of Life Experience is an important contribution to the interdisciplinary literature on death and dying, relevant to scholars and practitioners in medicine, nursing, psychology, and the wider medical humanities.Despite a long research tradition in visual neuroscience, the rehabilitation of cerebral visual deficits has, until recently, been neglected. This…
book is the first to report systematic observations on spontaneous recovery of cerebral visual deficits after acquired brain injury, and the outcome of treating these deficits. The whole range of human visual functions and capacities is covered: visual field, visual acuity and contrast sensitivity, visual adaptation, colour vision, visual space perception, and visual cognition. Additionally, there is a special section devoted to patients with central scotoma. All treatment procedures described are empirically founded.Nucleoside Analogs in Cancer Therapy
Par Bruce D. Cheson, Michael J. Keating, William Plunkett. 1997
Offering the most current and complete coverage of nucleoside analog activity in oncology and hematology, this single-source volume includes topics…
from pharmacology to previously unpublished clinical findings on the pivotal role of fludarabine, cladribine, and pentostatin in the management of diseases, such as chronic lymphocytic and hairy cell leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, membranous nephropathy, and rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis.British Regional Development Since World War I (Routledge Revivals)
Par Christopher M. Law. 1980
First published in 1981, British Regional Development Since World War I presents a comprehensive and balanced introduction to the problems…
of regional development in Britain. Since World War I it has been possible to talk of Britain as two nations, a prosperous South including the Midlands, and a poor North. Christopher Law examines the nature and causes of this division, including impact of industrial structure, London’s role as capital in the spatial economy, and the influence of better environments on development. This valuable study will be an essential read for anyone interested in any aspect of regional development and development studies in the last ninety years.Engage!: Transforming Healthcare Through Digital Patient Engagement (HIMSS Book Series)
Par Jan Oldenburg, Dave Chase, Kate T. Christensen, Brad Tritle. 2013
This book explores the benefits of digital patient engagement, from the perspectives of physicians, providers, and others in the healthcare…
system, and discusses what is working well in this new, digitally-empowered collaborative environment. Chapters present the changing landscape of patient engagement, starting with the impact of new payment models and Meaningful Use requirements, and the effects of patient engagement on patient safety, quality and outcomes, effective communications, and self-service transactions. The book explores social media and mobile as tools, presents guidance on privacy and security challenges, and provides helpful advice on how providers can get started. Vignettes and 23 case studies showcase the impact of patient engagement from a wide variety of settings, from large providers to small practices, and traditional medical clinics to eTherapy practices.Vitamin B-6 Metabolism in Pregnancy, Lactation, and Infancy
Par Daniel J. Raiten. 1995
This book provides a comprehensive review of our knowledge of vitamin B-6 requirements and metabolism throughout pregnancy and lactation. It…
concentrates on two primary points: adequacy of available methodologies and a presentation of the extant knowledge on vitamin B-6 metabolism and requirements in pregnancy, infancy, lactation, and in women of childbearing age. Many of the chapters offer new perspectives on how decisions have been and are being made with regard to the establishment of dietary recommendations about vitamin B-6 and the adequacy of research to support these decisions.Liberation Based Healing Practices
Par Rhea V. Almeida. 2019
In her groundbreaking book, Dr. Rhea Almeida offers an original, powerful, and clear roadmap for grappling with the legacies of…
coloniality and white privilege. Almeida not only challenges standard therapeutic practice that focuses on individual diagnosis and separates the client from their family and larger societal contexts, she also presents strategies to empower clients in their therapeutic process. Through her innovative approach centered on healing circles and collective accountability, Almeida shows how collaboration results in a direct challenge to the legacies of power, privilege, and oppression. With support from trained therapists and their healing circles, clients are able to break through ingrained beliefs and heal. Therapists, in turn, learn how individuals, family systems, institutions, history, and current sociopolitical factors intersect. Numerous case studies and diagrams provide context. Scholars, clinicians, community workers, and students will find that this book will transform their work and practice, as well as those of their clients and communities.Medical Terminology: A Short Course
Par Davi-Ellen Chabner. 2023
Build a working medical vocabulary quickly with Chabner’s Medical Terminology: A Short Course, 9th Edition! Omitting time-consuming, nonessential information, this…
text helps you master the basics of medical vocabulary ― including the most frequently encountered suffixes, prefixes, and word roots. A text/workbook format lets you practice and interact with medical terminology on almost every page through exercises, labeling, and pronunciations. Case studies and real-world vignettes demonstrate how medical terms are used in practice. With all this plus medical animations, word games, and flash cards on the Evolve website, you'll be amazed at how easily medical terminology becomes part of your vocabulary.Proceedings of the Second International Nursing Conference "Nursing Profession in the Current Era" (Advances in Health Sciences Research #67)
Par Ahmad Rayan, Nidal Eshah, Ghada Abu Shosha, Latefa Dardas, Kristin Wainwright. 2024
This is an open access book. Nurses are the backbone of any healthcare system. Recently, the healthcare systems have witnessed various…
challenges of pandemics, nursing shortage, limited resources, wars, an increase in the burden of chronic illnesses and psychiatric disorders, and an increase in senior citizens. Nurses, in all practice settings, devote their time to helping people in need to cultivate hope for the survival of humanity. Hence the idea of the 2nd International Nursing Conference came to existence from various discussions between the Faculty of Nursing, at Zarqa University, jointly with the Jordanian Nursing Council and other Nursing Faculties worldwide to shed light on the situation of the nursing profession in present times. Holding this conference is an important station for discussion and exchanging views and experiences on the contemporary issues related to various aspects of the nursing profession in light of the challenges facing the health systems worldwide.Exploring the Contributions of Women in the History of Philosophy, Science, and Literature, Throughout Time (Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences #20)
Par Chelsea C. Harry, George N. Vlahakis. 2023
This book explores contributions by some of the most influential women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature. Ranging…
from Sappho and Sophie Germain to Stebbing and Evelyn Fox Keller, this work ultimately demonstrates the impact these non-canonical, sometimes unknown or hidden, sources had, or may have had, on the recognized male leaders in their fields, from Aristotle to Pascal, Kant, Whitehead, and Russell. Chapters reflect philosophical pluralism, both analytic and continental themes, and cover figures reaching across the entire history of ideas in the West, from pre-historic times to the twentieth century. Anyone interested in coming to know or in preparing to teach women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature will appreciate this collection and its myriad insights into the still unrecognized voices of non-canonical sources across these disciplines.Clinical Reasoning and Evidence-Based Practice: Deliberate Decision-Making by Nurses
Par Jos Dobber, José Harmsen, Margriet Van Iersel. 2023
This book helps nursing students increase the quality of their clinical reasoning and therefore the quality of care. It teaches…
students to recognize when clinical reasoning is needed, and what reasoning is involved, and to avoid reasoning errors. This is important for nurses, since good quality of their clinical reasoning leads to a good quality of their decisions. Thus, it is directly connected to better nursing care. This volume is based on current knowledge about learning complex cognitive skills. From this knowledge, four sets of standard questions have been formulated that allow students to develop cognitive scripts for reasoning about diagnosis, etiology, prognosis, and interventions. Special attention is payed to diversity-sensitive reasoning in this English edition. From the 4C/ID model, a scientific educational whole task model for learning and developing and complex cognitive skills, complexity levels, learning tasks and subtask exercises are included. Learning clinical reasoning is supported with case videos and flash lectures, among other things. It consists of three parts: the first part, on clinical reasoning, is written for first- and second-year bachelor students in nursing. Part two, on evidence-based practice (EBP), is also suitable for later years. It teaches students to read and critically appraise scientific articles, and to assess whether they can be used in their own practice. Part three contains more in-depth information, extra explanations, examples, and material that teachers can use in a flexible way. This book is illustrated with videos.The translation from Dutch to English was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The authors have subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically.Handbook for the Historiography of Science (Historiographies of Science)
Par Mauro L. Condé, Marlon Salomon. 2023
This book aims to perform a critical and broad assessment of the historiography of science produced from the late nineteenth…
century to the early twenty-first century. It presents its main authors, concepts, ideas, conceptions, and schools. It also analyzes the historical circumstances of the rise of the discipline history of science and the relations of the historiography of science with related areas. These chapters do not understand the historiography of science as a mere description or record of the history of science. Instead, they understand the historiography of science from the epistemological criteria and choices that guided the writing of the history of science in its different contexts. In other words, more than describing the record of the various possibilities of historiographical approaches to science, the chapters carry out an epistemological reflection to assess the bases, possibilities, scope, and limits of different historiographical conceptions, authors, and traditions that have established the writing of the history of science. This book can be conceived as a reference work not only for professional historians and philosophers but also for academics from different backgrounds who are initiating themselves in the universe of history and philosophy of science, be they scientists from different fields or young researchers from different backgrounds who want to start studying the history and philosophy of science.This wide-ranging book focuses on the economic and political changes that have taken place between the advent of globalization and…
the COVID-19 pandemic and assesses how this may bring about a profound reconfiguration of the global political system. Sapelli considers a range of developments in different spheres, from international to national politics, military aggressions, and worldwide political trends such as the rise of populism, to illuminate the moment of neoliberal crisis in which we now live. He argues that Europe and its institutions in particular no longer demonstrate a model of diplomacy and statesmanship, with the rise of technocratic structures and elitism reflecting how an ideal of ‘global convergence’ towards liberalism and democracy no longer holds true. The book then considers how a new international order based on the reason of state can be brought about by global cooperation between the US, Russia and China, along with a return to properly regulated finance and a renewed focus on community in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The book will be of interest to those working in international economics and international relations, as well as academics of economic history and political economy.Pathology of Cardiac Valve Disease: Surgical and Interventional Anatomy
Par Cristina Basso, Gaetano Thiene, Marialuisa Valente, Stefania Rizzo, Mila Della Barbera, Uberto Bortolotti. 2023
Cardiac valve diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality around the globe. In third world countries, inflammatory rheumatic…
valve disease in the young represents an endemic calamity, while in Western countries, degenerative valve diseases like senile calcific aortic stenosis and mitral valve prolapse as a result of mucoid degeneration with incompetence are major causes of death in adults/the elderly. Since the 1960s, surgical valve replacement has been the only treatment option, requiring sternotomy, cardiopulmonary bypass and cardiac arrest. Permanent anticoagulation for mechanical valves and the limited durability of biological valves constituted significant drawbacks; moreover, these surgeries often requires surgical replacement. The cardiac registry at the University of Padua, Italy, has gathered more than twelve hundred cases of failed prosthetic valves, offering a unique resource for teaching and research. Conservative valve repair using minimally invasive technique showed that replacement of the native valve with sternotomy can be spared. Moreover, in the last decade venous or arterial approaches like TAVI were developed. Presenting the essential surgical and interventional anatomy and pathology in detail, this book offers a valuable tool for cardiologists, cardiac surgeons and pathologists, as well as people in training and scientists working in the field of medical devices and biological compatibility.The Quintessence of Basic and Clinical Research and Scientific Publishing
Par Gowraganahalli Jagadeesh, Pitchai Balakumar, Fortunato Senatore. 2023
The book, intended for biomedical researchers, attempts to foster a comprehensive understanding of the elements that impact scientific research, such…
as clinical trial design, communication, and publication methods. It introduces the process of idea generation and creative/critical thinking, leading to the development of key concepts that coalesce into theoretical constructs and working hypotheses. The book systematically delineates research phases associated with a bench-to-bedside translational approach, providing the full depth and breadth of drug discovery and development: design, synthesis, and optimization of drug candidates interacting with targets linked to diseases, as well as clinical trial design to acquire substantial evidence of efficacy and safety for candidate drugs in the target patient population. New and evolving topics such as artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning, drug repurposing approaches, and bioinformatics, are incorporated into the text as these features are becoming integrated into drug research and development. Additionally, it covers publication strategies, including literature search, manuscript preparation, data presentation, relevant discussion, editorial processes, elements of peer review, and bibliometrics. Finally, the book addresses grantsmanship, key strategies for building effective networks, mentorships, maintaining research integrity, and forging career advancement opportunities, including entrepreneurship.Environmental History, volume 28 number 4 (October 2023)
Par Environmental History. 2023
This is volume 28 issue 4 of Environmental History. Environmental History (EH) is the world’s leading scholarly journal in environmental…
history and the journal of record in the field. Scholarship published in EH explores the changing relationships between humans and the environment over time. This interdisciplinary journal brings together insights from geography, anthropology, the natural sciences, and many other disciplines to inform historical scholarship.Robotic Surgery Devices in Surgical Specialties
Par João Pádua Manzano, Lydia Masako Ferreira. 2023
This engaging book is focused on surgical devices applied to several robotic systems, besides the da Vinci Robotic System, covering…
more than ten surgical medical specialties. The eighteen well written, objective and didactic chapters are divided into types of devices, their limitations and indications. Great exponents of surgery in Robotic System science and technology provides the readers with innovations in the field of Plastic Surgery, Orthopedics, Gynecology, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Cardiac Surgery, Gastrosurgery, Head and Neck Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Urology and Thoracic Surgery in Solo Surgery Robots. Robotic Surgery Devices in Surgical Specialties will cover a target audience that goes beyond a single specialty; medical students, residents, fellows and even experts on the subject will find this title of great value. It will certainly be the bedside book for several professionals and a source of inspiration for many to follow the field of robotic surgery.Vascular Hyperpermeability: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology #2711)
Par Binu Tharakan. 2024
This volume focuses on the latest research methods and techniques used by researchers to study vascular permeability/hyperpermeability in a science…
laboratory setting. The chapters in this book cover topics such as determination of solute permeability of microvascular endothelial cell monolayers in vitro; evaluation of barrier integrity used in a two-layered microfluidic device mimicking the blood-brain barrier; isolation and culture of human umbilical vein endothelial cells; measurement of blood-brain barrier hyperpermeability using Evans Blue extravasation assay; lymphatic vascular permeability determined from direct measurements of solute flux; intravital imaging of leukocyte-endothelial interaction by intravital multiphoton microscopy; and evaluation of tight junction integrity in brain endothelial cells using confocal microscopy. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.Thorough and cutting-edge, Vascular Hyperpermeability: Methods and Protocols is a valuable resource that will aid novice researchers with creating new and affordable research projects, and for expert researchers to initiate new strategies and collaborations in their ongoing programs.This book examines the rising global prominence of China’s art market throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. To understand the…
far-reaching impact of Chinese art on global consumption, this book traces the shift from regional markets to global markets. It asks how the Chinese art market re-emerged from its politicized past, innovated within the private economy boom, remained resilient despite the global financial crisis, and flourished on the global stage despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Ultimately, it argues that cultural entrepreneurship enabled Chinese art professionals to reinvent their space and to participate in the global artworld.Latin Historians (Routledge Revivals)
Par T. A. Dorey. 1966
First published in 1966, Latin Historians gives an account of some of the most important Latin historians. There are chapters…
on Caesar, Sallust, Livy and Ammianus Marcellinus, together with an account of earlier historians, and on Polybius, the Greek who had much influence on the Roman World. Bede, the earliest of the great Christian historians in England, is also discussed. This book will be of interest to students of history, literature and classical studies.