Cloning has the potential to be an extremely valuable tool across many fields. In agriculture, the reproductive cloning of farm animals could prove to be advantageous. In clinical medicine, the employment of therapeutic cloning for cell, tissue, and organ replacement appears to be imminent. However, as with any advancement that is poised to touch h
Last November, the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative held the Designing Nanostructures at the Interface Between Biomedical and Physical Systems conference at which researchers from science, engineering and medicine discussed recent developments in nanotechnology, directions for future research, and possible biomedical applications. The centerpiece of the conference was breakout sessions in which ten focus groups of researchers from different fields spent eight hours developing research...
A Treatise on Insanity in Its Medical Relations
by William A Hammond
Meeting the Nation's Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists
by Ira J Hirsh
Animal Clinical Chemistry
By presenting background information on the selection and application of biochemical tests in safety assessment studies, this text seeks to provide a basis for improving the knowledge required to interpret data from toxicological studies. In addition to chapters which discuss the assessment of specific organ toxicity (such as the liver, kidney and thyroid), the book also covers pre-analytical variables, regulatory requirements and statistical approaches, and highlights some of the major differen...
Swine Nutrition is a comprehensive text-reference for students and professionals interested in the proper husbandry of swine. Nutritional requirements of swine at all ages and stages of productivity are covered, and the development of nutritional capabilities of swine is examined from birth to maturity. The book examines classical nutrition from the standpoint of functions of nutrients and the factors which influence nutrient and energy utilization. It also looks at applied feeds and feeding of...
Written by leading academic researchers, The Neurobiology of Vocal Learning presents comparative approaches to vocal learning. This text examines the broad range of non-human species that exhibit this trait, including three groups of birds and four groups of mammals, in order to gain understanding of neural and behavioral mechanisms of human language and of cognitive behaviors in general. With a balanced focus on songbird and human neural systems, this book places an emphasis on the behavioral a...
How liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science. Ethics boards have become obligatory passage points in today's medical science, and we forget how novel they really are. The use of humans in experiments is an age-old practice that records show goes back to at least the third century BC, and it has been popular as a practice since the early modern period. Yet in most countries around the world, hardly any f...
Survival Analysis (Statistics for Biology and Health)
by J.P. Klein and M.L. Moeschberger
The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate
by Suzanne Holland, Karen Lebacqz, and Laurie Zoloth
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book for 2002Human embryonic stem cells can divide indefinitely and have the potential to develop into many types of tissue. Research on these cells is essential to one of the most intriguing medical frontiers, regenerative medicine. It also raises a host of difficult ethical issues and has sparked great public interest and controversy. This book offers a foundation for thinking about the many issues involved in human embryonic stem cell research. It considers questio...
Understanding the Behavioral and Medical Impact of Long COVID serves to expand the research around the illness in order to enable health care researchers and practitioners to address the questions that are imperative to individuals suffering from this condition. Through its multi-faceted approach, the book puts forth a maturation of research and interventions that are theoretically sound, empirically valid, innovative, and creative in the Long COVID area. As a scholarly and scientific compilati...
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the “disease model” of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery. The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease, based on evidence that brains change with drug use. But in The Biology of Desire, cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not...
Melanom-Aufklarung Und Melanom-Fruherkennung
by Eberhard Paul and Christoph Bauml
A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, Insanity and Toxicology (1903)
by Henry Cadwalader Chapman
International Research in Sports Biomechanics
This edited collection of papers presented at the 18th International Symposium of Biomechanics in Sport, highlights cutting-edge research material on sports biomechanics from many of the leading international academics in the field. The thirty-seven chapters presented are divided into nine sections: * biomechanics of fundamental human movement* modelling, simulation and optimisation* biomechanics of the neuro-musculo-skeletal system* sports injuries, orthopaedics and rehabilitation* the appli...