Recent Trends in Medical Genetics (Advances in the Biosciences S.)
This volume contains a wide variety of topics of importance to medical genetics. The chapters deal with the subject on three different levels: cellular, including the chromosomal level, individual and group. At the cellular level there are chapters dealing with specific chromosomal abnormalities. Numerous chapters deal with oncological genetics, discussing subjects as diverse as estimation of genetic risk to oncogenes. Case studies of specific syndromes also feature. Various chapters deal with t...
Climate Change and Animal Health (CRC One Health One Welfare)
This benchmark publication assembles information on the current and anticipated effects of climate change on animal health. It empowers educators, managers, practitioners, and researchers by providing evidence, experience, and opinions on what we need to do to prepare for, and cope with, the largest threat ever to have faced animals on this planet. With expert contributors from across the globe, the text equips the reader with information and means to develop sustainable adaptation or mitigation...
Trauma and Serious Mental Illness
An exploration of the newfound connections between mental illness and trauma For decades, the idea that serious mental illnesses (SMIs) are almost exclusively biologically-based and must be treated pharmacologically has been commonplace in psychology literature. As a result, many mental health professionals have stopped listening to their clients, categorizing their symptoms as manifestations of neurologically-based disturbed thinking. Trauma and Serious Mental Illness is the groundbreaking seri...
Functional Brain Imaging
by William W Orrison, Jeffrey Lewine, Prof John Sanders, and Michael F Hartshorne
Symptom Solver ("Men's Health" Life Improvement Guides)
by Alisa Bauman and Paul Kaufman
Until 2003, Ulla-Carin Lindquist had balanced a high-flying media career with the demands of her four children. Then suddenly she was diagnosed with a terminal illness. In the last year of her life she wrote this heartbreaking memoir. Powerfully moving, yet also uplifting, it is an unforgettable story about the indomitable power of language and love, about motherhood and about finally letting go.
Your Body is a Self-Healing Machine Book 1 (Your Body's Self-Healing Machine)
by Dr. Gigi Siton
Dr. Gigi Siton's intention in writing book one in the trilogy of Your Body Is A Self-Healing Machine: Understanding Epigenetics - Why It Is Important To Know is to take epigenetics concepts from the ivory tower of the academics down to daily healthy practice. She used simple analogy for your body as a machine but self-healing. This book is about understanding epigenetics, why it important to know the basic concepts of epigenetics, applied epigenetics and your bio-individual metabolic physiolog...
Facing Disability, Disease, or Disorders
by Doe West and Kathleen Malley Morrison
Written by authors who have dealt with their own disabilities across decades, this book empowers people with disabilities to better navigate their challenges and provides great insight and help for those who live with, work with, and care for people with disabilities. Led by a woman who was the first Commissioner of Disability Services for the city of Boston, this team of authors explains and illustrates challenges that face people with disabling conditions across the physical and mental spectr...
The 2007 Report on Prepared Fresh Blue Crab Meat
by Philip M. Parker