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  • Social Support
    Sara Sarason
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    403,26 €

  • Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine
    On May 13-15, 1982, some 50 scientists and scholars - physicians, philos­ ophers and social scientists - convened at Hasselby Castle in Stockholm for the first Nordic Symposium on the Philosophy of Medicine. The topics for the symposium included (1) the concepts of health and disease, (2) classification in medicine, and (3) causality and causal explan...
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    133,90 €

  • Evaluation and Explanation in the Biomedical Sciences
    This volume inaugurates a series concerning philosophy and medicine. There are few, if any, areas of social concern so pervasive as medicine and yet as underexamined by philosophy. But the claim to precedence of the Proceedings of the First Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philos­ ophy and Medicine must be qualified. Claims to be 'first' are notorious ...
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    66,47 €

  • Medical Genetics Casebook
    Colleen D. Clements
    The Direction of Medical Ethics The direction bioethics, and specifically medical ethics, will take in the next few years will be crucial. It is an emerging specialty that has attempted a great deal, that has many differing agendas, and that has its own identity crisis. Is it a subspecialty of clinical medicine? Is it a medical reform movement? Is it ...
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    66,45 €

  • Persistent Pain
    Chronic and persistent pain, which is a problem for the individual who suffers and the society that has to deal with it, has become increasingly appreciated. Over the last three decades, several books and journals have been specifically devoted to the topic of pain, especially chronic and persistent pain. It has been increasingly recognized that chron...
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    244,90 €

  • Environmental Geochemistry and Health
    One of the main outcomes of the eleven meetings of the Working Party was the recognition of the importance of interdisciplinary studies linking regional geochemistry with plant, animal and human health. The effects of major element deficiencies or excesses on plant health are well known; this is not the case for trace elements. In fact, rapid and reli...
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    134,56 €

  • Residue Reviews
    Francis A. Gunther / Jane Davies Gunther
    Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com­ munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports, and archival documentations. These three publica...
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    134,23 €

  • Selected Topics in Medical Artificial Intelligence
    Perry L. Miller
    Computer technology has impacted the practice of medicine in dramatic ways. Imaging techniques provide noninvasive tools which alter the di­ agnostic process. Sophisticated monitoring equipment presents new levels of detail for both patient management and research. In most of these tech­ nology applications, the computer is embedded in the device; its...
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    66,47 €

  • Educational Alternatives for Students with Learning Disabilities
    Susan A. Vogel
    Educational Alternatives for Students with Learning Disabilities responds to the pressing need to provide teachers of learning-disabled students with practical knowledge regarding state-of-the-art intervention strat- egies. This book provides examples of validated alternative educational practices which avoid the pitfalls and stigmatizing effects on ...
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    66,47 €

  • Advocacy in Health Care
    Joan H. Marks
    The roles of both the consumer and the health advocate professional have become increasingly significant in to­ day’s climate of 'rationed' health care. It seems clear that the timely exchange of ideas among seasoned health care advocates is necessary if we are to deal with the complex problems of a technologically advanced so­ ciety seeking to ration...
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    66,89 €

  • Klinische Sudeckprophylaxe und Therapie
    J. L. Bircher
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    48,17 €

  • Psychophysiology of the Gastrointestinal Tract
    Rupert Holzl
    Over a quarter century ago, Flanders Dunbar, in her 1954 compendium on 'Emotion and Bodily Changes,' surveyed over 5,000 references on psychoso­ matic interrelationships, including a literature on psychic factors in gastrointesti­ nal disorders dating back to 1845. The title of the present volume suggests a line of descent from these early initiatives...
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    133,43 €

  • Residue Reviews
    Francis A. Gunther
    Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com­ munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports, and archival documentations. These three publica...
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    134,46 €

  • Tobacco Control in Africa
    Jeffrey Drope
    This collection is an important contribution to the literature on global public health and international development, featuring the  most comprehensive evidence-based analysis of tobacco policy in the African region. ...
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    141,90 €

  • Radiation and Health
    William Mayneord
    While many people argue that health is a definable and measurable quantity, characteristically expressing it in a negative way via mortality or morbidity statistics, Mayneord argues that the patterns of life throughout the world vary so greatly that no standard can be set for all people, or even for the same people at different times ...
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    79,16 €

  • Musculoskeletal Examination of the Foot and Ankle
    Selene Parekh / Shepard Hurwitz
    The physical examination of the foot and ankle can be a complex topic for professionals with all levels of clinical experience. ...
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    100,28 €

  • New Strategies in Locust Control
    In the late eighties large-scale control operations were carried out to control a major desert locust upsurge in Africa. For the first time since the banning of organochlorine pesticides these operations relied mainly on non-persistent pesticides such as organophosphates and pyrethroids. The amount of pesticides sprayed and the area covered were proba...
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    65,04 €

  • Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera
    John B. Heppner
    This checklist does not supercede any other because it is the first of its kind for the Neotropical region. It represents the cUlmination of several years preparation by the con­ tributing authors and editor, following the initiation of the 'Atlas' project in the autumn of 1978. The collaborators to the project continue their work, either for 'Atlas' ...
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    67,55 €

  • Sir Thomas Lewis
    Arthur Hollmann
    Sir Thomas Lewis has become one of the greatest cardiologists of this century. He was foremost in using the newly invented electrocardiograph to diagnose heart disease and was a pioneer of cardiac electro-physiology. This is the first biography of Sir Thomas Lewis, who became famous, whilst still quite young, for his outstanding pioneer work in electr...
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    133,76 €

  • Micromanipulation by Light in Biology and Medicine
    Karl Otto Greulich
    There are probably few people who do not dream of the good old times, when do­ ing science often meant fascination, excitement, even adventure. In our time, do­ ing science involves often technology and, perhaps, even business. But there are still niches where curiosity and fascination have their place. The subject of this book, technological as its t...
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    269,05 €

  • Emerging Themes in Cognitive Development
    Emerging Themes in Cognitive Development, Volumes I and II offer the full spectrum of current knowledge and research trends in cognitive developmental psychology. The first volume provides a foundation by describing key discoveries in new areas of research and by thoroughly examining fundamental aspects of the field, including several demonstrations o...
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    133,81 €

  • Emerging Themes in Cognitive Development
    Emerging Themes in Cognitive Development presents two volumes of the newest research and theory in cognitive development available at the outset of the 1990s. These ideas are firmly rooted in research from the 1980s and, in some sense, these volumes represent a culmination of that research and of even earlier work. Nevertheless, these volumes are offe...
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    133,98 €

  • Psycholinguistics
    Hans Hörmann / Hans H. Stern / P. Leppmann
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    65,98 €

  • The AIDS Health Crisis
    Janet S. St. Lawrence / Jeffrey A. Kelly
    Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) poses a health threat unparalleled in modem times. Identified just a few years ago, AIDS and the human inunlmodeficiency virus (IDV) responsible for it affect millions of persons worldwide. AIDS has already become the leading cause of death among persons under 40 in some large American cities. From the beginn...
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    66,61 €

  • Beneficence and Health Care
    E.E. Shelp
    The meaning and application of the principle of beneficence to issues in health care is rarely clear or certain. Although the principle is frequently employed to justify a variety of actions and inactions, very little has been done from a conceptual point of view to test its relevance to these behaviors or to explore its relationship to other moral pr...
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    133,91 €

  • Knowledge Coupling
    Lawrence L. Weed
    Knowledge Coupling discusses the premises upon which the coupling of knowledge to every action is based in the practice of medicine, as well as why these premises must change. In concrete terms, the volume explores the methods of structuring and using medical knowledge and medical records that enables implementation of new premises; it sets forth a sp...
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    133,41 €

  • Formal Methods in Developmental Psychology
    Current and comprehensive, Formal Methods in Developmental Psychology reviews and explains the advantages and details of recent methodological advances in developmental psychology. The latest progress in the use of mathematical and computer-based tools in the formulation of theories and data analysis are discussed. Individual chapters describe differ...
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    65,61 €

  • Advances in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
    Since the late 19505, revolutionary devel­ in and the potential future of emergency opments of basic knowledge, techniques, resuscitation. This meeting was initiated by teaching, and practice of cardiopulmonary james Elam. james jude, owner of the Wolf Creek Lodge (Blairsville, Georgia 30512), acted resuscitation (CPR) have resulted in the saving of u...
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    135,77 €

  • Evaluation of Advanced Semiconductor Materials by Electron Microscopy
    David Cherns
    The last few years have ~een rapid improvements in semiconductor growth techniques which have produced an expanding range of high quality heterostructures for new semiconductor devises. As the dimensions of such structures approach the nanometer level, it becomes increasingly important to characterise materials properties such as composition uniformit...
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    65,62 €

  • Pain Mechanisms
    W. Livingston
    The field of pain research and theory has suddenly come alive~full of new concepts and therapeutic approaches. No one in this century has contributed more to this breakthrough than William Kenneth Livingston. Pc/ill MecballiJnlJ. which he published in 1l)-1. '1. was the first major critique of the traditional specificity theon’ of pain and marked the ...
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    66,32 €