Blackwell Publishing
ABC of child protection, 4th ed.
Pediatricians and other medical specialists offer doctors and nurses a guide to recognizing and diagnosing child abuse. They emphasize those aspects of the clinical history, examination, and investigation that are useful in deciding whether the child's problems are the result of natural or abusive causes. Earlier published between 1989 and 1997, the reference continues to be updated to account for new information and new laws. Distributed in the US by Blackwell Publishers. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
ABC of clinical haematology, 3d ed.
Illustrated by color photographs, the 15 chapters in this guide summarize the clinical symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of anemias, myeloproliferative disorders, platelet disorders, multiple myeloma, and other blood problems. The chapters on myelodysplasia, leukemias, transplantation, lymphoma, and bleeding disorders have been rewritten by new British authors in the third edition (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
ABC of ear, nose, and throat, 5th ed.
Designed as a quick reference for general practitioners or other non-specialists, students and nurses, this compact but illustration-packed text has been updated to include the latest in technologies and terminology as well as new materials on facial pain, head and neck tumors, sleep ataxia, epistaxis and advances in CT and MRI imagery. The 19 chapters are sorted by presentation, including pain in the ear, discharge from the ear, hearing impairment in adults and children, acoustic neuromas, facial palsy, paranasal sinus diseases, breathing disorders, swallowing problems, voice disorders, traumas, halitosis, neck swellings and head and neck cancers. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
ABC of kidney disease.
Although designed to help those in general practice determine when to send a patient to a specialist, this text is so well-illustrated some specialists will learn a thing or two. The contributors offer extremely compact explanations of kidney structure, function and pathology, including sections on diagnostic tests in chronic kidney disease, screening and early intervention, prevention of progression of chronic disease and the associated cardiovascular implications, adult nephrotic syndrome, renal artery stenosis, urinary tract infections, renal stones and cysts, tumors, pregnancy in chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, dialysis and transplantation in children, dialysis and transplantation in adults and alternatives to dialysis, and social services to those with chronic kidney disease. Appendices address pharmacology, anemia management and the editors include a glossary. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
ABC of obesity.
Sattar and Lean (metabolic medicine and nutrition, U. of Glasgow, UK) offer a guide to obesity management for general practitioners, junior doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. They assemble 12 brief chapters by a variety of medical specialists from the UK and US who enumerate obesity statistics and discuss assessment and clinical implications and management through behavior change, diet, activity, drugs, and surgery. Other chapters cover prevention, risk factors for diabetes and coronary heart disease, and vascular disease, cancer, reproduction, and childhood obesity. Chapters include tips for management, guidelines, charts, and tables. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
ABC of patient safety.
In the US, the number of patients who suffer injury, disease or death from medical mistakes, sloppy paperwork or even inappropriate secondary care (such as bedsores, abuse or poor transfers) is appalling. Some argue that statistics on failures in patient safety run side by side with those for heart disease or certain cancers. This practitioner's guide to the basic elements of patient safety includes enough information to get early students in medicine, nursing, and various technical and therapeutic fields familiar with how to transport patients, keep them labeled correctly, give them the right meds, and avoid cutting off the wrong body part. Although intended for novices, some professionals could make use of this in in-service situations or retraining as a first step toward putting the patient first. It is also remarkably free of efforts to put the concerns of the insurers of the hospital or other care facility above the concerns of humane, gentle care. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Advances in thermal and non-thermal food preservation.
The technology of food preservation has advanced far beyond the thermal technique of cooking with fire and non-thermal techniques such as pickling. In this volume, Tewari (CEO and president, Tewari De-Ox Systems, Inc.) and Juneja (supervisory microbiologist and lead scientist for the US Department of Agriculture's Eastern Regional Research Center) present 13 paper that describe advanced thermal and non-thermal techniques of food preservation and place a special emphasis on considerations of commercialization of said techniques. In the realm of thermal techniques, contribution discuss thermal processing of liquid foods with or without particulates, aseptic processing, microwave and radio-frequency heating, novel thermal processing technologies, and sous-vide ("under vacuum") and cook- chill processing of foods. Nonthermal techniques discussed include active packaging, ozone treatment, electronic pasteurization, high- pressure processing, and pulsed electric fields. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Analysis of drug impurities.
For practicing and student analytical chemists, this volume is an overview of challenges and techniques in identifying and quantifying drug impurities. The eight chapters, written by individuals from pharmaceutical companies, the FDA, and research institutes from the UK and US, cover organic impurities in drug substances and products, stereochemical impurities, and low-level measurement of potent toxins. A systematic approach to impurity identification is described, as well as the use of chromatography and online structure elucidation, preparative isolation, and the impact of continuous processing. Smith and Webb work in analytical sciences at GlaxoSmithKline in the UK. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Animal physiotherapy; assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of animals.
The three editors (all: animal studies, U. of Queensland, Australia) present this reference for students and practitioners of animal physiotherapy. Background, assessment methods, and treatments are discussed for physiological problems and performance concerns in canines and horses (addressed collectively with a few exceptions). Early chapters offer skills from applied animal behavior, nutrition, and biomechanics as well as comparative exercise physiology. These are followed by characterizations of problems such as lameness and neurological and muscular conditions; and finally therapy options including electro- and hydrotherapy, acupuncture, and manual therapy. The two concluding chapters separately address canine and equine rehabilitation for osteoarthritis, respiratory and cardiac problems, injury, and other conditions. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Basic family therapy, 5th ed.
Barker (psychiatry, U. of Calgary, Canada) provides an introduction to family therapy for those new to the field or in the early stages of training. He enumerates a variety of methods and includes new therapeutic techniques and theories in this edition, as well as discussion of cultural issues, therapeutic challenges, and evidence-based practice and the evaluation of outcomes. More emphasis has been placed on family therapy as a collaborative activity. Topics range from assessment and diagnostic interviews to common and complex problems, marital and sex therapies, research, and ethics. Both authors and subjects are indexed. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Biogerontology; mechanisms and interventions; proceedings.
Rattan (molecular biology, U. of Gustav Weids, Denmark) and Akman (biochemistry, Gülhane School of Medicine, Turkey) present this proceedings from the 5th European Congress of Biogerontology (Istanbul, 2006). Sixty-one contributions address, among other things, biological and nonbiological factors affecting life span and quality of life, ethical and social issues related to life- and health-span extension; physiological, cellular, and molecular aspects of aging; new technologies; successful approaches in the prevention and treatment of age-related diseases; and aging intervention, prevention, and modulation by genes, natural and synthetic molecules, and lifestyle modifications. This volume contains an author index only. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Biology of emerging viruses; SARS, avian and human influenza, metapneumovirus, Nipah virus, West Nile, and the Ross River virus.
They have come and gone since the beginning of time and few people knew or cared much about them. Now we know more about what they can do, the devastation they can cause, and the cost in human life and well-being. This collection from the April 2005 meeting titled "Emerging Viral Infectious Diseases" in Hanoi details the viruses causing the most concern and acknowledges the role of globalization in the initiation and spread of viruses to which humans are vulnerable. They note that whole economies, particularly those of developing countries, can collapse or be irretrievably impaired by the onset of a pandemic or suspicion that one may be coming. Each of the papers focuses on a different strain, and includes recent findings about the virus at the molecular level, indicators of progress and current efforts to medically eradicate or control the virus in question. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Carbon capture and sequestration; integrating technology, monitoring, and regulation.
Carbon capture and sequestration basically consists of capturing carbon dioxide emitted from power plants or other industrial sources, transporting to a sequestration site, and then injecting and storing it in either subterranean or subseabed geological formations. This technology, suggest Wilson (energy and environmental policy and law, U. of Minnesota) and Gerard (engineering and public policy, Carnegie Mellon U.) is both technologically feasible and commercially viable and has the potential to allow humanity to continue to use fossil fuels while simultaneously diminishing carbon emissions that are responsible for global climate change. In this volume they present 11 chapters that first describe the technological challenges of carbon capture and sequestration and then place them in the larger societal context of legal, regulatory, and societal acceptance factors. Technical issues addressed include modeling and simulation of physico-chemical processes of CO2 storage; monitoring, risk assessment and management; and potential impacts of leakage and seepage. Public policy issues explored include cost calculation, US regulatory issues, public perception, and siting issues. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Cardiovascular genetics and genomics for the cardiologist.
Dzau (medicine, Duke U.) and Liew (laboratory medicine and pathobiology, U. of Toronto, Canada) compile 12 chapters by medical specialists and researchers from North America and the UK who explain the concepts of cardiovascular genetic and genomics for cardiologists. First presented is a historic overview of genetics and genomics concepts and a specific application of blood-based microarray technology, and then they discuss single-gene and polygenic cardiovascular disorders. The final section addresses genetic and genomic-based therapeutics, such as stem cell therapy, pharmacogenics, and blood-based gene profiling. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The chemical physics of food.
Belton (chemistry, University of East Anglia, UK) brings together international contributors to demonstrate a chemical physics approach to food. Combining the applications of chemical and physical methods with the quantitative consideration of data, the book covers major materials such as emulsions, starches, powders and granular materials, gels, and gluten, and also examines water transport and dynamics in food. The book is of interest to those involved in research into food structure, including food scientists, food technologists, food chemists, and physicists. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Comprehensive atlas of high resolution endoscopy and narrow band imaging. (DVD-ROM included)
New technologies have made optical diagnosis through endoscopy even more accessible to the general gastroenterologist, but the learning curve is steep because the results on such systems as high resolution endoscopy (HRE) and narrowband images (NBI) are distinctly different from those on last generation's machines. This comprehensive collection of images fills the gap by presenting over 900 endoscopic images, focusing on those conditions for which NBI has been shown to be particularly effective. Cohen (medicine, New York U. School of Medicine) and contributors allow for the needs new students as well as practitioners in covering the basics of NBI and potential applications, including pharynx, esophagus, stomach, duodenum and colon. The DVD includes hours of narrated video, a searchable database and the complete text. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The complete guide to nutrition in primary care.
Deen (clinical, family, and social medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) and Hark (director, Nutrition Education Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) overview what primary care professionals and registered dieticians should know about nutrition. Coverage encompasses nutrition as preventative medicine, nutrition through the lifecycle, improving health through changes in diet and lifestyle, and vitamins, minerals, dietary supplements, and alternative medicine. In addition to specific information on foods, diet, weight control, and diseases, there are also case vignettes on providing nutrition counseling in the office setting, and advice on changing the office culture to incorporate nutrition into everyday practice. Final chapters describe ways to advocate for change in patients' lives and communities. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Cysts of the oral and maxillofacial regions, 4th ed.
Aimed at students, general dental practitioners, surgeons, radiologists, and pathologists, this work by Shear (emeritus, U. of Witwatersrand and U. of the Western Cap, South Africa) and Speight (School of Clinical Dentistry, U. of Sheffield, UK) is intended as a review of current knowledge of cysts of the jaws and mouth. Following discussion of the classification and frequency of cysts of the oral and maxillofacial tissues, 17 chapters review specific types of cysts, with each chapter discussing clinical features, radiology, pathogenesis, histopathology, and general principles of treatment for each type. For the fourth edition, the title has been changed from the original Cysts of the Oral Region to better reflect the text's scope and the material has been updated in accord with the expanded literature of the field, particularly in reference to the odontogenic keratocyst. The new edition also now presents the clinical photographs and photomicrographs in color. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Differential diagnosis in small animal medicine.
This reference compiles differential diagnosis information for veterinary practitioners and students. It contains differential diagnosis lists of major problems in small animal medicine, including common and uncommon conditions, and it is organized by signs relating to history, physical symptoms, radiography and ultrasonography, laboratory findings, electrodiagnostic testing, and diagnostic procedures and algorithms. Gough is associated with a referral and first opinion practice in Bristol, UK, where he sees referrals in small animal medicine and cardiology. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Diseases of sheep, 4th ed.
In this update of the 2000, 1991, and 1983 editions, Aitken (former director, Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh) disseminates the work of international researchers on diseases afflicting sheep to producers, veterinarians, and the allied scientific community. After introductory chapters on Ovis aries (domesticated sheep) production and welfare from a UK perspective, chapters on specific diseases of the various bodily systems review the cause, clinical signs, pathology, diagnosis, epidemiology, and control and treatment. Other chapters treat regional problems from the Americas to Africa, and technical issues relating to flock health, therapeutic drugs and procedures, and necropsy. The volume features color plates of macroscopic and microscopic views of sheep diseases and plants that are poisonous to them, and tables of clinical reference values. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
