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Различные книги в жанре МедицинаIn Quest of Justice
In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing on groundbreaking research in the Egyptian archives, this highly original book shows how the state affected those subject to it and their response. Illustrating how shari’a was actually implemented, how criminal justice functioned, and how scientific-medical knowledges and practices were introduced, Khaled Fahmy offers exciting new interpretations that are neither colonial nor nationalist. Moreover he shows how lower-class Egyptians did not see modern practices that fused medical and legal purposes in new ways as contrary to Islam. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Islam and modernity. 
Sports Pharmacy
Sports Pharmacy: Performance Enhancing Drugs and the Athlete provides a comprehensive compilation of information in a single location on performance enhancing substances by United States collegiate, amateur and professional athletes. The pharmacology of all classes of performance enhancing drugs is discussed as well as any data that supports their use, covering a wide range of laws, policies, regulations concerning the use of substances by athletes. Questions are included throughout the text as well as case studies to demonstrate the complexity of the issues associated with the general topic of performance enhancing drugs. KEY FEATURES • Comprehensive overview of drug polices for all amateur and professional sports organizations in the US • A single source handbook for clinicians and athletes as a comprehensive overview of performance enhancing drugs • Provides a comprehensive overview of therapeutic use exemptions in athletics • Overview of dietary supplement use in athletics, including risk vs. benefit, discussion of evidence, or lack of, for performance enhancing effects • Opportunities for pharmacists to specialize in “sports pharmacy” practice and their potential value as a member of a sports medicine team
My GP, My Mental Healthcare Provider
This book documents the journey of the Mental Health-General Practitioner (MH-GP) Partnership Programme in Singapore's Institute of Mental Health since its inception in 2003 and how it has developed over the years as a model of successful tertiary-primary care partnership in mental health.The programme provides an Asian perspective and showcases a successful collaboration of an integrated network between tertiary and primary care practitioners in the management of individuals with chronic major psychiatric disorders as well as individuals with minor psychiatric disorders.It can serve as a reference guide for agencies, both public and private in Singapore as well as agencies in the region who plans to develop similar partnerships between tertiary and primary care. This book may interest audiences from various fields, medical, allied health, administration and students in healthcare and education.<b>Contents:</b><ul><li>Vision <i>(Goh Yen-Li)</i></li><li>Mental Health-GP Partnership Programme (MH-GPPP): Process, Planning and Implementation <i>(Gina Teo)</i></li><li>Case Management <i>(Junie Seah and Margaret Hendriks)</i></li><li>Managing GP Engagement: Strategies and Lessons Learnt <i>(Alvin Lum and Christine Tan)</i></li><li>GP Training and Education in Mental Health <i>(Chiam Peak Chiang, Christine Tan, Alvin Lum and Nirhana Japar )</i></li><li>Research: An Explorative Journey Ahead <i>(Alvin Lum and Joshua Wee)</i></li><li>GP Perspectives: Managing Patients with Mental Illness in the Community <i>(Mark Yap, Kwek Thiam Soo, Grace Cheng, Rodney Lim, Joshua Wee and Gina Teo)</i></li><li>MH-GP Partnership Programme and Beyond: Working with the Community to Sustain Mental Healthcare <i>(Wei Ker-Chiah, Jayaraman Hariram, Jared Ng, Chan Mei Chern and Christina Low)</i></li></ul> <br><b>Readership:</b> For agencies who are interested in developing such a programme to promote patients care in the community; For external parties who are keen to know more about tertiary and primary care tie-ups; General Practitioners (GPs) who are keen on joining the programme; Libraries and reference text for the Graduate Diploma in Mental Health. Mental healthcare professionals, policy makers, administrators, educators, community agency counsellors, graduate and post-graduate students who conduct research on community mental health services.Community Mental Healthcare;GP;Tertiary and Primary Care0<b>Key Features:</b><ul><li>The unique and innovative MH-GP Partnership Programme has been integral in enhancing mental healthcare in Singapore. Its right-siting of stable psychiatric patients to the GPs has helped in their reintegration to the community and has also reduced the stigma</li><li>The continued development of its network of GP Partners to detect, treat and refer psychiatric patients, has raised the level of mental healthcare within Singapore's community. Lessons learnt and data gathered at individual care and programme development level, will inform practice and primary care policy development for care integration in the next lap</li></ul>
Computational Modeling of the COVID-19 Disease
The book is intended for readers who are interested in learning about the use of computer-based modelling of the COVID-19 disease. It provides a basic introduction to a five-ordinary differential equation (ODE) model by providing a complete statement of the model, including a detailed discussion of the ODEs, initial conditions and parameters, followed by a line-by-line explanation of a set of R routines (R is a quality, scientific programming system readily available from the Internet). The reader can access and execute these routines without having to first study numerical algorithms and computer coding (programming) and can perform numerical experimentation with the model on modest computers.<b>Contents:</b> <ul><li>Single Area ODE Model</li><li>Detailed Analysis of the ODE Model</li><li>Variants of the Basic ODE Model</li><li>Postulated Vaccine/Therapeutic Drug Treatment</li><li>ODE Model with Delays</li></ul><br><b>Readership:</b> Graduate students and professionals in life sciences/biology, computer science and engineering.COVID-19 Disease;Disease Mathematical Model;Numerical Analysis;Ordinary Differential Equations;ODE;R Programming0<b>Key Features:</b><ul><li>A detailed discussion of the mathematical model equations, including all of the equations, initial condition and parameters, (2) documented, tested R routines that implement the mathematical model</li><li>The reader/analyst/researcher can proceed to numerical solutions of the model without having to first study numerical algorithms, computer coding (programming)</li></ul>
Beyond Bioethics
For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional emphasis on individual interests such as doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and personal autonomy is minimally helpful in confronting the social and political challenges posed by new human biotechnologies such as assisted reproduction, human genetic modification, and DNA forensics. <I>Beyond Bioethics</I> addresses these provocative issues from an emerging standpoint that is attentive to race, gender, class, disability, privacy, and notions of democracy—a "new biopolitics."<BR /><BR /> This authoritative volume provides an overview for those grappling with the profound dilemmas posed by these developments. It brings together the work of cutting-edge thinkers from diverse fields of study and public engagement, all of them committed to this new perspective grounded in social justice and public interest values.
States of Disease
Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. In <I>States of Disease, </I>Brian King advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrate how historical spatial formations contribute to contemporary vulnerabilities to disease and the opportunities for health justice. He examines how expanded access to antiretroviral therapy is transforming managed HIV in South Africa. And he reveals how environmental health is shifting due to global climate change and flooding variability in northern Botswana. These case studies illustrate how the political environmental context shapes the ways in which health is embodied, experienced, and managed.   
Encountering Poverty
Encountering Poverty challenges mainstream frameworks of global poverty by going beyond the claims that poverty is a problem that can be solved through economic resources or technological interventions. By focusing on the power and privilege that underpin persistent impoverishment and using tools of critical analysis and pedagogy, the authors explore the opportunities for and limits of poverty action in the current moment. Encountering Poverty invites students, educators, activists, and development professionals to think about and act against inequality by foregrounding, rather than sidestepping, the long history of development and the ethical dilemmas of poverty action today.  
Slum Health
Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. <I>Slum Health </I>exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy; reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents; and suggests how slum dwellers, scientists, and social movements can come together to make slum life safer, more just, and healthier. Editors Jason Corburn and Lee Riley argue that valuing both new biologic and “street” science—professional and lay knowledge—is crucial for improving the well-being of the millions of urban poor living in slums.
Purchasing Medical Innovation
Innovation in medical technology generates a remarkable supply of new drugs, devices, and diagnostics that improve health, reduce risks, and extend life. But these technologies are too often used on the wrong patient, in the wrong setting, or at an unaffordable price. The only way to moderate the growth in health care costs without undermining the dynamic of medical innovation is to improve the process of assessing, pricing, prescribing, and using new technologies. <I>Purchasing Medical Innovation </I>analyzes the contemporary revolution in the purchasing of health care technology, with a focus on the roles of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Medicare and private health insurers, physicians and hospitals, and consumers themselves. The FDA is more thoroughly assessing product performance under real-world conditions as well as in laboratory settings, accelerating the path to market for breakthroughs while imposing use controls on risky products. Insurers are improving their criteria for coverage and designing payment methods that reward efficiency in the selection of new treatments. Hospitals are aligning adoption of complex supplies and equipment more closely with physicians’ preferences for the best treatment for their patients. Consumers are becoming more engaged and financially accountable for their health care choices. This book describes both the strengths and deficiencies of the current system of purchasing and highlights opportunities for buyers, sellers, and users to help improve the value of medical technology: better outcomes at lower cost.
Mosquito Trails
Dengue fever is the world’s most prevalent mosquito-borne illness, but Alex Nading argues that people in dengue-endemic communities do not always view humans and mosquitoes as mortal enemies. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in urban Nicaragua and challenging current global health approaches to animal-borne illness, <i>Mosquito Trails</i> tells the story of a group of community health workers who struggle to come to terms with dengue epidemics amid poverty, political change, and economic upheaval. Blending theory from medical anthropology, political ecology, and science and technology studies, Nading develops the concept of «the politics of entanglement» to describe how Nicaraguans strive to remain alive to the world around them despite global health strategies that seek to insulate them from their environments. This innovative ethnography illustrates the continued significance of local environmental histories, politics, and household dynamics to the making and unmaking of a global pandemic.