Brittle Bones, Stout Hearts and Minds
Brittle Bones, Stout Hearts and Minds

Author: Joan Ablon

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2008-12-26

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0763760056

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Brittle Bones, Stout Hearts and Minds is written for patients with with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), their families, and those who treat them--including physicians, nurses, social workers, genetic counselors, and others. This book gives you up-to-date, authoritative, information about the disease, including risk factors and prevention, diagnosis and treatment options, sources of support, and much more. The most comprehensive book on the market on the topic of OI, this text covers the social, practical, medical, and behavioral aspects of the disease.

Brittle Bones, Stout Hearts and Minds: Adults with Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Brittle Bones, Stout Hearts and Minds: Adults with Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Author: Joan Ablon

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2010-10-22

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1449671438

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Brittle Bones, Stout Hearts and Minds is written for patients with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), their families and those who treat them including physicians, nurses, social workers, genetics counselors, and other persons with interests in differing kinds of physical disabilities. The book chronicles life experiences, coping patterns, and strategies for daily living of adults with OI, through personal accounts of medical experiences, education, economics, physical intimacy, dating, marriage, and general lifestyle issues. There are no other comparable books that deal with psychosocial issues of adults with OI.

The SAGE Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine
The SAGE Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine

Author: Susan C. Scrimshaw

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2021-12-01

Total Pages: 649

ISBN-13: 1529761948

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With new chapters on key topics such as mental health, the environment, race, ethnicity and health, and pharmaceuticals, this new edition maintains its multidisciplinary framework and bridges the gap between health policy and the sociology of health. It builds upon the success of the first by encompassing a range of issues, studies, and disciplines. The broad coverage of topics in addition to new chapters present an engagement with contemporary issues, resulting in a valuable teaching aid. This second edition brings together a diverse range of leading international scholars with contributors from Australia, Puerto-Rico, USA, Guatemala, Germany, Sri Lanka, Botswana, UK, South Sudan, Mexico, South Korea, Canada and more. The second edition of this Handbook remains a key resource for undergraduates, post-graduates, and researchers across multidisciplinary backgrounds including: medicine, health and social care, sociology, and anthropology. PART ONE: Culture, Society and Health PART TWO: Lived Experiences PART THREE: Health Care Systems, Access and Use PART FOUR: Health in Environmental and Planetary Context

Health, Disability and the Capability Approach
Health, Disability and the Capability Approach

Author: Sophie Mitra

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-04-17

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1351797654

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This book focuses on two areas of substantial and growing importance to the human development and capability approach: health and disability. The research on disability, health and the capability approach has been diverse in the topics it covers, and the conceptual frameworks and methodologies it uses, beginning over a decade and a half ago in health and more than a decade ago in disability. This book shares a set of contributions in these two areas: the first set of chapters focusing on disability; and the second set focusing on health and the health capability paradigm (HCP), in particular. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.

Neurofibromatosis Type 1
Neurofibromatosis Type 1

Author: Meena Upadhyaya

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-01-29

Total Pages: 711

ISBN-13: 3642328644

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Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), caused by mutational inactivation of the NF1 tumour suppressor gene, is one of the most common dominantly inherited human disorders, affecting 1 in 3000 individuals worldwide. This book presents in concise fashion, but as comprehensively as possible, our current state of knowledge on the molecular genetics, molecular biology and cellular biology of this tumour predisposition syndrome. Written by internationally recognized experts in the field, the 44 chapters that constitute this edited volume provide the reader with a broad overview of the clinical features of the disease, the structure and expression of the NF1 gene, its germ line and somatic mutational spectra and genotype-phenotype relationships, the structure and function of its protein product (neurofibromin), NF1 modifying loci, the molecular pathology of NF1-associated tumours, animal models of the disease, psycho-social aspects and future prospects for therapeutic treatment.

Medical Anthropology at the Intersections
Medical Anthropology at the Intersections

Author: Marcia C. Inhorn

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2012-07-19

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0822352702

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This work offers productive insight into the field of medical anthropology and its future, as viewed by some of the world's leading medical anthropologists.

Bisphosphonates in Medical Practice
Bisphosphonates in Medical Practice

Author: Reiner Bartl

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-07-14

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 3540698701

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Bones are everybody’s business. This means that clinical osteology, now an independent specialty, nevertheless encompasses all branches of medicine and affects each and every one of us. Intended for doctors who seek precise information on bisphosphonates in medical practice, this book has been designed as an up-to-date manual to deal with the currently recognized indications for bisphosphonates, to outline situations and conditions for prevention of skeletal disorders, and to provide practical guidelines for treatment.

Forensic Medicine of the Lower Extremity
Forensic Medicine of the Lower Extremity

Author: Jeremy Rich

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-02-24

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 158829269X

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Annotation This book covers human identification, trauma analysis, and forensic biomechanics of the foot, ankle, tibia, and femur as frequently encountered in mass casualty incidents, human decomposition, and human rights abuse investigations.

Black's Medical Dictionary
Black's Medical Dictionary

Author: William Archibald Robson Thomson

Publisher: London : A. & C. Black

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 1008

ISBN-13: 9780713623673

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Encyclopedic dictionary revised to cover new medical developments while adhering to original purpose of informing the public. Includes over 90 new "sections" that cover such subjects as glue sniffing, embryo transfer, and nuclear magnetic resonance. Entries vary from short to long. 1st ed., 1906; 33rd ed., 1981.