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Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Genetic technology has enabled us to test fetuses for an increasing number of diseases and impairments. On the basis of this genetic information, prospective parents can predict – and prevent – the birth of children likely to have those conditions. In developed countries, prenatal genetic testing has now become a...

Insulin Resistance: Insulin Action and its Disturbances in Disease

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Hormone resistance syndromes are typically thought of as rare, usually genetic, disorders with a severe but relatively stereotyped clinical and biochemical profile. While there are syndromes of severe insulin resistance that conform to this description, defective insulin action is of much more pervasive biomedical importance....

Prevention and Treatment of Age-related Diseases

Springer, 2006

During the last 40 years, biogerontology – the study of the biological basis of aging – has progressed tremendously, and it has now become an independent and respectable field of study and research. Numerous universities, medical institutes and research centers throughout the world now offer full-fledged courses on the...

Health and the Good Society: Setting Healthcare Ethics in Social Context (Issues in Biomedical Ethics)

Oxford University Press, 2005

In this book I explore some of the implications of looking at healthcare ethics in social context. My starting point is the contention that clinical ethics cannot be insulated from questions in public-health ethics; and the book is in large part an elaboration and defence of that contention. My purpose is partly substantive and...

Computational Cardiology: Modeling of Anatomy, Electrophysiology, and Mechanics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 2004

Biomedical research is at a critical point at present. The research has led to an enormous amount of data and models describing these data, but approaches for application, formalization and integration of this knowledge from the molecular to the system level are still topics of ongoing research and certainly far from fully...

New Methods for Culturing Cells from Nervous Tissues: (Biovalley Monographs,)

Karger, 2005

The last decades have seen the rise of neuroscience to one of the most dynamic biomedical disciplines. With the development of powerful new techniques it has been possible to investigate specific physiological and pathological neural mechanisms and thus to elucidate the etiology of many neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases.This first...

Fibrogenesis: Cellular and Molecular Basis (Medical Intelligence Unit)

Springer, 2005

This book is written to provide in-depth and current information on the molecular basis of fibrotic diseases in various tissues and organs. Why do we need a new book on fibrosis? Several currently available books on fibrosis are mostly devoted to specific tissue or organ systems; in contrast, this book is especially designed to...

Quality of Life: Assessment, Analysis, and Interpretation

John Wiley & Sons, 2000

'Winner of first prize in the Basis of Medicine Category of the BMA Medical Book Competition 2001'

The One Essential Comprehensive Volume on Quality of Life Research. Quality of life studies are now an essential part of the evaluation of any treatment. Written by two authors who are well respected within this...

Genetics in Ophthalmology (Developments in Ophthalmology) (v. 37)

Karger, 2003

The objective of this publication is to enhance mutual understanding and communication between ophthalmologists, molecular geneticists, genetic counselors and biomedical researchers. In the introductory chapter, current genetic paradigms and experimental genetic approaches relevant to the nature of hereditary disorders are discussed. The...

Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging

CRC Press, 2007

Interest in clinical cardiovascular imaging has skyrocketed over the past quarter century. Dozens of new imaging modalities have arisen from advances in the physical sciences, electrical engineering, information technology, chemical synthesis, and in pharmacology. Mostly driven by newly developed technology, these advances have...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Physical Principles and Applications (Electromagnetism)

Academic Press, 2000

This book is intended as a text/reference for students, researchers, and professors interested in physical and biomedical applications of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Both the theoretical and practical aspects of MRI are emphasized. The book begins with a comprehensive discussion of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) phenomenon based...

Plasma Processes and Polymers: 16th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry Taormina, Italy June 22-27, 2003

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

At the 16th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC-16) in Taormina, which took place in June 2003, we launched the idea to edit a new journal, named Plasma Processes and Polymers, and published by Wiley-VCH. The purpose was to collect under the same cover the great majority of articles dealing with plasma processing of...

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