Medical

Endoscopic Ear Surgery

by Livio Presutti & Daniele Marchioni

Endoscopic Ear Surgery: Principles, Indications, and Techniques

Increasingly used as an adjunctive tool in the diagnosis and management of ear disease, middle ear endoscopy has the potential to decrease patient...

Plastic Surgery Review

by Gregory E. Lakin

This high-yield, compact review book covers all topics that appear on the exams that lead to initial certification and recertification by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Topics are presented in outline...

Casts, Splints, and Support Bandages

by Klaus Dresing & Peter Trafton

Casts, Splints, and Support Bandages: Nonoperative Treatment and Perioperative Protection provides an extensive overview of the history, principles, methods, and techniques for applying a modern plaster or synthetic...

Calvert's Descriptive Phonetics

by Pamela G. Garn-Nunn

A revised edition of a classic introductory phonetics guide and workbook

For years both students and instructors have found that the key to mastering phonetics is careful listening and extensive transcription...

Interventional Ultrasound

by Chistoph F. Dietrich & Dieter Nuernberg

The first comprehensive, multi-specialty text on ultrasound guidance in interventional procedures, this book uses the authors' extensive clinical experience to provide a full overview of modern interventional...

Color Atlas of Human Anatomy, Vol. 2: Internal Organs

by Helga Fritsch & Wolfgang Kuehnel

The sixth edition of this classic work makes mastering a vast amount of information on internal organs much less daunting. It offers a vivid review of the human body and its structure, and it is an ideal study...

Black Skin in the Middle Ages / La Peau noire au Moyen Âge

by Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Benjamin Braude, Anne Grondeux & Philippe Mudry et al.

A. Paravicini Bagliani, Preface - B. Braude, Black Skin/White Skin in Ancient Greece and the Near East - A. Grondeux, Cutis ou pellis: les dénominations médiolatines de la peau humaine - P. Mudry, La peau...

Reconstructive Facial Plastic Surgery

by Hilko Weerda

A beautifully illustrated, step-by-step surgical guide to the key procedures in reconstructive facial plastic surgery

Drawing on decades of operating room and teaching experience, Dr. Weerda and his team offer...

Multidisciplinary Public Health

by Jenny Wright & Fiona Sim

Including the voices of key protagonists in the development of the public health workforce, this book is an important addition to the history of public health in England. It charts events leading to the unique...

The political economy of health care (Second Edition)

by Julian Tudor Hart

With a foreword by Tony Benn. Drawing on clinical experience dating from the birth of the NHS in 1948, Julian Tudor Hart, a politically active GP in a Welsh coal mining community, charts the progress of the...

Organisational innovation in health services

by John Gabbay & Andrée le May

Amid a welter of simultaneous policy initiatives, treatment centres were a top-down NHS innovation that became subverted into a multiplicity of solutions to different local problems. This highly readable account...

Partnership Working 2e

by Jon Glasby & Helen Dickinson

UK health and social care are increasingly being asked to work together across traditional agency boundaries. Although this sounds easy in theory, doing it in practice is complicated and difficult. In many cases,...

Delivering Personal Health Budgets

by Vidhya Alakeson

Personal health budgets are an important new tool to improve the lives of people living with long-term conditions and disabilities by giving them greater choice and control over their healthcare.This is the...

Health Inequalities

by Danny Dorling

The third digital-only ebook taster of Unequal health: The scandal of our times by Danny Dorling. Competitively priced, it gives a flavour of one of the major themes: health inequalities and contains three chapters...

Social Medicine

by Danny Dorling

The second digital-only ebook taster of Unequal health: The scandal of our times by Danny Dorling. Competitively priced, it gives a flavour of one of the major themes: social medicine and contains three chapters...

Public Health

by Danny Dorling

The first digital-only ebook taster of Unequal health: The scandal of our times by Danny Dorling. Competitively priced, it gives a flavour of one of the major themes: public health and contains three chapters...

Towards the emancipation of patients

by Charlotte Williamson

Despite a policy focus on involving patients in health care and increasing patient autonomy, much covert coercion of patients takes place in everyday healthcare. This book, by a leading patient activist, examines...

Rationing in health care

by Iestyn Williams & Suzanne Robinson

The challenges faced by those rationing scarce health care resources have intensified following the economic downturn. This book tackles this challenge by exploring the latest thinking and practice on priority...

Credit crunch health care

by Cam Donaldson

World-leading health economist Cam Donaldson defends NHS-type systems on the same basis as their detractors: economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough: scarcity...

Fracture

by Ann Oakley

The starting point of Ann Oakley's fascinating book is the fracture of her right arm in the grounds of a hotel in the USA. What begins as an accident becomes a journey into some critical themes of modern Western...