History of Circumcision From the Earliest Times to the Present
Giving a Voice to Those Living with Locked-In Syndrome
This is a unique book that provides a way for the life experiences of people living with Locked-In Syndrome (LiS) to be heard. It combines the personal experiences of those living locked-in, with the biomedical aspects of LiS.
Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia
This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book's central question is to what extent 'religion' and 'medicine' have overlapped or interrelated in various Asian societies. Collectively, the contributions explore a number of related issues, such as: which societies separated out religious from medical concerns, at which times and in what ways? Where have medicine and religion converged, and how has such knowledge been defined by scholars and cultural actors? Are 'religion' and 'medicine' the best terms by which scholars can grapple with knowledge about the sacred and the self, destiny and disease?
The Malleable Body
This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the writings of craft surgeons and learned physicians to follow the heated debates that arose from changing practices of removing limbs, uncovering tense moments in which decisions to operate were made. Importantly, it teases out surgeons' ideas about the body embedded in their technical instructions. This unique study also explores the material culture of mechanical hands that amputees commissioned locksmiths, clockmakers, and other artisans to create, revealing their roles in developing a new prosthetic technology. Over two centuries of surgical and artisanal interventions emerged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body -- that it was malleable.
Brutal Treatments
Brutal treatments explores the role medical doctors played in the colonial counterinsurgency campaigns in British Kenya (1952-1960) and French Algeria (1954-1962) in the final years of empire. It not only examines how these medical professionals became embroiled in the conflict, but also how they used their knowledge to further the interests of the state. The book makes a substantial and significant contribution to the history of medicine, the history of medical ethics, and the history of colonialism.
Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Medicine
This open access collection brings together a team of leading scholars and rising stars to consider what experimental philosophy of medicine is and can be.While experimental philosophy of science is an established field, attempts to tackle issues in philosophy of medicine from an experimental angle are still surprisingly scarce. A team of interdisciplinary scholars demonstrate how we can make progress by integrating a variety of methods from experimental philosophy, including experiments, sociological surveys, simulations, as well as history and philosophy of science, in order to yield meaningful results about the core questions in medicine. They focus on concepts central to philosophy of medicine and medical practice, such as death, pain, disease and disorder, advance directives, medical explanation, disability and informed consent. Presenting empirical findings and providing a crucial foundation for future work in this dynamic field, this collection explores new ways for philosophers to cooperate with scientists and reveals the value of these collaborations for both philosophy and medicine.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant.
Determination of reagent efficiency in obtaining potassium chloride
Multi-Class Classification of Alzheimer's/Dementia using Deep Learning
How To Protect Your Family's Assets From Devastating Nursing Home Costs
Learning Health Systems
Despite enormous efforts at healthcare improvement, major challenges remain in achieving optimal outcomes, safety, cost, and value. This Element introduces the concept of learning health systems, which have been proposed as a possible solution. Though many different variants of the concept exist, they share a learning cycle of capturing data from practice, turning it into knowledge, and putting knowledge back into practice. How learning systems are implemented is highly variable. This Element emphasises that they are sociotechnical systems and offers a structured framework to consider their design and operation. It offers a critique of the learning health system approach, recognising that more has been said about the aspiration than perhaps has been delivered. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Application of Platelet Rich Fibrin in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
On the Parts of Medicine. on Cohesive Causes. on Regimen in Acute Diseases in Accordance with the Theories of Hippocrates
Galen, on the Parts of Medicine. on Cohesive Causes. on Regimen in Acute Diseases in Accordance with the Theories of Hippocrates
Disease Control Priorities, Fourth Edition (Volume 1)
Building on the foundation of the three previous editions of Disease Control Priorities (DCP), published from 1993 through 2019, this new fourth edition, DCP4, uses a country-specific approach based on collaboration to summarize, produce, and help translate economic evidence into better priority setting and capacity strengthening for universal health coverage, public health functions, pandemic preparedness and response, and intersectoral and international action for health. Volume 1--Country-Led Priority Setting for Health--presents the overall lessons learned in defining and implementing essential health service packages (EHSPs). The volume is divided into three parts that highlight successes and failures and the way forward. - Part 1 focuses on the experiences of selected countries in developing their EHSPs, including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, the Arab Republic of Iran, Malawi, Pakistan, Somalia, and Zanzibar; Nigeria's Lancet Commission; India's Ayushman Bharat Health System Reforms; the success and failures of Colombia's health benefit package; and the evolution of priority setting in Mexico. - Part 2 presents cross-cutting insights on the development and implementation of EHSPs based on the experiences of Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, and Zanzibar. It includes key steps and parameters for successful development and implementation; lessons learned related to costing and financing; monitoring and evaluation; and the role of the private sector in the development and delivery of EHSPs. - Part 3 presents three case studies: cross-national experiences on child health and development during school age and adolescence (the next 7,000 days), as well as the implementation of both the DCP3 essential noncommunicable diseases and surgery packages.
Strengthening Health System Governance in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
