Medicine (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:Before Roe v. Wade, somewhere between one and two million illegal abortions were performed every year in the United States. Illegal abortion affected millions of women and their families, yet their stories remain hidden. In Creating Choice , citizens...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book is unique in providing a comprehensive overview of the human factors issues relevant to patient safety during acute care. By elucidating the principles of human behavior and decision-making in critical situations and identifying frequent so...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book provides a comprehensive overview of acute and chronic critical limb ischemia (CLI). Loss of an extremity, or a portion thereof, is not necessarily a life-ending process, but it is a debilitating experience whether involvement is of the upp...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:Expanding on the trailblazing ideas of Ellen Langer, this provocative volume explores the implications of critical mindfulness for making psychology more responsive and its practice more meaningful. Powerful critiques take the discipline to task for ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:Psychiatry is increasingly dominated by the reductionist claim that mental illness is caused by neurobiological abnormalities. Critical psychiatry disagrees with this and proposes a more ethical foundation for practice. This book describes an origina...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This volume intends to re-establish social gerontology as a discipline that has pragmatic links to policy and practice. Collectively, the chapters enrich public debates about the moral, cultural and economic questions surrounding aging, thereby ameli...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book explains every aspect of the role of radiographers in performing CT colonography (CTC) and interpreting CTC images with the aim of enabling radiographers to extend the scope of their practice. It provides all the information required with r...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book is intended to be a link between guidelines and clinical practice, a complementary tool to help physicians to be well informed regarding the important field of heart failure. It will be a useful tool for professionals from all the fields of...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:An up-to-date overview of a range of topics, covering contemporary concerns and therapeutic challenges in clinical psychiatry, written by distinguished psychiatrists who are leaders in their fields. This volume will help to shape the clinical practic...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Dirk Haller und Gabriele Hörmannsperger geben einen Überblick über die zentrale Rolle des Darms und seiner Bewohner für die Gesundheit und vermitteln zusätzlich einen ersten Eindruck von den komplexen und dynamischen Interaktionen zwischen D+armbakte...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Das Essential gibt eine systematische Übersicht zur Diagnostik und Therapie des Karpaltunnelsyndroms (KTS), des mit Abstand häufigsten Kompressionssyndroms eines peripheren Nervs. Führendes Symptom ist das „Einschlafen“ der Hände. Wenn die konservati...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:Die Arbeitsgruppe „Dialektisch Behaviorale Therapie für Adoleszente (DBT-A)“ am Universitätsklinikum Freiburg beschäftigt sich seit mehr als 5 Jahren mit der Implementierung und Weiterentwicklung der DBT-A im ambulanten und stationären Setting im deu...