Critical Reflection
Critical Reflection

Author: Robert Malcolm Murray

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780773528802

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In an era of information overload, our need to learn how to critically evaluate the growing flood of information has never been greater. Critical Reflection showcases the role of reason in a world saturated by media-enhanced persuasion and complex scientific and technological jargon.Drawing from the classic philosophical texts, this engaging textbook on the art of analyzing arguments is also relevant to today's undergraduates in its use of real-life examples and exercises drawn mainly from media and politics. Malcolm Murray and Nebojsa Kujundzic cover the standard subjects in a one-semester course on critical thinking, offering ways to analyze arguments

A Personal History of Nuclear Medicine
A Personal History of Nuclear Medicine

Author: Henry N. Wagner

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-12-23

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1846280729

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A Personal History of Nuclear Medicine is an account of how nuclear medicine developed, and its basic philosophy in the past, present and future. The book outlines the history of the development of nuclear medicine as experienced by the author and describes the hurdles that nuclear medicine has had to face, in view of the perception of risk of radiation. It also explains how nuclear medicine solves medical problems in clinical practice and how it has contributed to a new definition of disease. The book concludes with future projections of the likely developments in this area in the next 50 years. Target market: nuclear medicine professionals as well non-nuclear medicine physicians and the public

Brain Imaging
Brain Imaging

Author: Henry N. Wagner

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-01-29

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1848003080

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This book describes what molecular imaging is, how it developed, what are its basic principles, and what it has told us and can tell us about the chemistry of the human brain. Everyone today is conscious of the fact that there is chemistry going on in the brain, and that it is affected by widely used pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs. This book will elucidate these topics in an interesting, historical and philosophical way. The book is a valuable reference resource for all those in nuclear medicine and radiology as well the educated general public.