Personality Disorder (PD) is one of the most difficult psychological conditions to classify and treat and in the past literature on the subject has tended to neglect the invaluable viewpoint of sufferers themselves. Drawing on extensive research carried out in conjunction with service users, Heather Castillo seeks to adjust this imbalance and...
The fifth edition of Clinical Physiology of Acid-Base and Electrolyte Disorders has been largely rewritten to include the many important advances that have been made and the controversies that have arisen in the past six years. As with the previous four editions, this book attempts to integrate the...
This volume of essays on neural networks and psychopathology is aimed
at an unusually diverse audience. On the one hand, we hope that the
volume will be read by psychiatrists, psychologists, and other clinicians
and researchers interested in psychopathology and its treatment. On the
other hand, we hope that it will be read by...
In thinking about a contribution we could make to the modern practice of medicine that
had not yet been achieved by others, we remembered what constituted the complete
physician at the time of Sir William Osler: A working knowledge of multiple disciplines
and of disease processes that affect many organ systems. This was perhaps...
Bayesian methods are being used more often than ever before in biology and
medicine. For example, at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
Center, Bayesian sequential stopping rules routinely are used for the design
of clinical trials. This book is based on the author’s experience working with
a variety of...
Thoroughly revised for its Third Edition, this volume is the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary text on genitourinary cancers. This edition has two new editors—Frans M.J. Debruyne and W. Marston Linehan—and more than 50% new contributors. Seventeen new chapters cover familial prostate cancer, biology of bone...
"A superb guidebook to basic dermatology....One of the best quick-reference dermatology sources....This little gem should be a favorite of family physicians around the world."—American Family Physician
Geared specifically to primary care practitioners,...
The eleventh edition welcomes the new Millenium.
Progress in basic and clinical hepatology remains exponential.
Since 1997, the advances have been wideranging,
with those in molecular and cellular biology,
and in diagnosis and treatment, leading the way. In a
world in which information technology gives all too
ready...
The history of medicine has been substantially defined by a small number of monumental
discoveries. Most of these breakthroughs have emerged from the biological sciences. One of
the first great breakthroughs was the recognition by Koch in 1884 that pathogens could be
transmitted from one living organism to another to cause disease....
This is the first part in a two-volume work on neuromodulation. It describes techniques and procedures applied in internal contact with non-neural tissues surrounding the nervous system (dura or cerebrospinal fluid), as in the case of epidural stimulation for pain or intrathecal drug application for the treatment of spasticity and pain. In...
'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...
This book is an undergraduate level textbook presenting a thorough discussion of state-of-the art
electronic devices. It is self-contained; it begins with an introduction to solid state semiconductor
devices. The prerequisites for this text are first year calculus and physics, and a two-semester
course in circuit analysis including...
