Principles of Anaesthesia Equipment

Principles of Anaesthesia Equipment provides guidance on the safe use of a wide range of anaesthesia apparatus, edited by recognised experts based in Boston, USA and the University of the West Indies, Barbados. Safety tips are included in chapters on pre-use checks of anaesthetic equipment, elect...

Evidence Based Practices in Gastrointestinal & Hepatobiliary Surgery

Textbook of Hepatobiliary & Gastrointestinal Surgery is an extensive, illustrated, evidence-based review of complex liver and gastrointestinal surgery, edited by gastrointestinal expert Govind Nandakumar, based at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York. Textbook of Hepatobiliary & Gastro...

Clinical Medicine Made Easy

New edition providing latest guidelines for diagnosis and examination in clinical medicine. Includes self assessment questions to help revision. Second edition features new photographs, charts, X-Rays and ECGs. Previous edition (9788184481716) published in 2008.

Manual of Nephrology

This manual is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of common renal disorders. Each chapter is enhanced by images, illustrations and tables, and includes analytical and concept-based multiple choice questions to help revision.

Step by Step Manual of Laparoscopic Surgery

Laparoscopic Hernia Surgery is a concise and highly illustrated guide to the anatomy of the lower abdominal wall and laparoscopic repair of inguinal hernia. Over 100 illustrations and images enhance the procedures covered, and an accompanying DVD-ROM demonstrates each step with audio descriptions...

World Clinics: Diabetology - Complications of Diabetes, Volume 2, Number 1

World Clinics: Diabetology - Complications of Diabetes, Volume 2, Number 1 is the latest issue in the World Clinics Diabetology series, covering recent advances in the understanding of aetiopathogenesis, evaluation, and management of diabetic complications. This issue is divided into fourteen art...

Rhinology Handbook

Rhinology Handbook is a concise guide to common rhinologic conditions (disorders of the nose) in primary care. Enhanced by full colour images, illustrations and tables throughout, Rhinology Handbook is an invaluable resource for primary care providers, allowing them to effectively diagnose and tr...

Undergraduate Surgery Simplified

Undergraduate Surgery Simplified is a highly illustrated guide for undergraduate surgical students, authored by Peter Lee, former Head of the Department of Surgery at Penang Medical College, Malaysia, and General and Colorectal Surgeon at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals, UK. Each chapter provid...

Surgical Management in Snoring and Sleep-disordered Breathing

Obstructive sleep apnoea is a condition where the walls of the throat relax and narrow during sleep, interrupting normal breathing (NHS Choices). Surgical Management in Snoring and Sleep-Disordered Breathing is an illustrated guide to the diagnosis and treatment of patients who require surgery fo...

New Frontiers in Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery

Edited by a recognised team of experts from the USA and Italy, New Frontiers in Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery is an innovative, authoritative, and richly illustrated guide to the most recent procedures in plastic and cosmetic surgery, and their potential for future use. Enhanced by nearly 580 full...

Microinvasive Dentistry

This book is a comprehensive guide to techniques, technologies and tools used in microinvasive dentistry. Divided into four sections, the text begins with an overview of caries and its prevention. The following sections provide in depth discussion on diagnosis through various imaging devices, the...

Sclerotherapy in Dermatology

This book provides an introduction to sclerotherapy for practising dermatologists. Beginning with an overview of venous anatomy, the next chapters examine the pathophysiology of varicose veins and clinical signs of venous insufficiency. The following sections explain the techniques of sclerothera...

EFOST Surgical Techniques in Sports Medicine - Shoulder Surgery, Volume 2: Rotator Cuff and Shoulder Arthroplasty

EFOST Surgical Techniques in Sports Medicine – Shoulder Surgery Vol. 2: Rotator Cuff and Shoulder Arthroplasty provides orthopaedic surgeons with a collection of step by step surgical techniques for correcting shoulder injuries commonly encountered in sports and orthopaedic trauma.

Pocket Tutor Neurological Examination

New edition of the indispensable guide to performing a neurological examination, regarded the most complicated and difficult physical examination to master. Brand-new photos clearly illustrate how to perform an examination in practice. Fully-updated text, improved examination sequences and new re...

Manual of Blood Platelets: Morphology, Physiology and Pharmacology

This book is a comprehensive guide to blood platelets for haematologists. Beginning with discussion on platelet structure, morphology, function and physiology, the next chapters cover the role of calcium in platelet activation and calcium modulation by cyclic nucleotides. The following sections e...

Pocket Tutor ECG Interpretation

New edition of the best-selling title that breaks down a complex and daunting subject using clearly-labelled, full-page ECG traces and concise but informative text. Revised text and brand-new ECG traces bring the new edition fully up-to-date. New chapters cover electrolyte and homeostatic disorde...

Key Clinical Topics in Cardiology

Key Clinical Topics in Cardiology presents a brand new addition to the Key Clinical Topics series. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the subject, comprising over 60 carefully selected topics in alpha order that together provide an extensive understanding of the management of cardiovas...

Pocket Tutor Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Logical, building-block approach to content: initial chapter on obesity and causes of diabetes, followed by focus on clinical features and management. Subsequent chapters address the complications of diabetes, including their epidemiology and management. Additional focus on prevention, psychologi...

Yearbook of Cardiology 2017

Collection of recent articles from peer reviewed journals in the field of cardiology. Divided into three sections the book covers coronary heart disease, noncoronary heart disease, and preventive cardiology. Each section is further divided into two subsections - Critical Journal Review (providing...

EFOST Surgical Techniques in Sports Medicine - Shoulder Surgery, Volume 1: Instability and Trauma

EFOST Surgical Techniques in Sports Medicine – Shoulder Surgery Vol.1: Instability and Trauma provides orthopaedic surgeons with a collection of step by step surgical techniques for correcting shoulder injuries commonly encountered in sports and orthopaedic trauma.

Handbook of Direct Immunofluorescence

Handbook of Direct Immunofluorescence covers not only day-to-day findings but also less common patterns and rarities, and gives information on important diagnostic pitfalls. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific disease and is introduced by concise text that describes the clinical presentation ...

Mastering Cancer Reconstructive Surgery with Free Flaps

This book is a guide to cancer reconstructive surgery with free flaps. Beginning with an overview of surgical techniques, preoperative considerations, anaesthesia and discussion on thromboprophylaxis (prevention of blood clot formation), the following chapters cover free flaps for reconstruction ...

Clinical Simulation in Medicine

Comprehensive guide to clinical simulations in cardiology and critical care. Covers variety of scenarios in echocardiography, surgery and monitoring. Covers recent AHA guidelines on resuscitation. Includes nearly 600 images and tables.

Atlas of Endocrine Surgical Techniques

Comprehensive guide to complete field of endocrinology written by internationally recognised editor and author team. Includes CD ROM demonstrating surgical techniques. Highly illustrated with anatomical drawings and photographs. 

Differential Diagnosis in Dermatology

This book presents both common and uncommon dermatologic differential diagnoses in a problem-oriented manner. Unlike other atlases that catalogue diseases, it stresses the viewpoint of the clinician. A repeatable and discerning approach to evaluating skin diseases is the unifying theme. Algorithm...

Primary FRCA: 450 MTFs & SBAs

Primary FRCA: 450 MTFs and SBAs offers a comprehensive selection of practice questions for candidates preparing for the Primary FRCA exam. Chapters cover the full breadth of the syllabus with detailed answers and explanations to reinforce understanding, while accompanying references facilitate in...

FRCS General Surgery Section 1: 500 SBAs and EMIs

FRCS General Surgery Section 1: 500 SBAs and EMIs, Second Edition has been thoroughly revised to ensure the content remains completely up to date and accurate. With 50 new questions, FRCS General Surgery Section 1: 500 SBAs and EMIs offers the most relevant and comprehensive set of practice quest...

Essential Anatomy for Finals and MRCS: 300 SBAs

This book is a practical revision aid for postgraduates preparing for MRCS (Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons) examinations. It will also be of interest to undergraduate medical students. Presented in ‘single best answer’ (SBA) format, the book provides candidates with 300 questions on ...

MRCOG Part 2: 500 SBAs and EMQs

Reflecting recent changes to the exam, MRCOG Part 2: 500 SBAs and EMQs, Second Edition has been completely updated to include questions and answers in the new SBA format.

MFDS PART 2: 60 OSCE stations

This book is a practical revision guide for postgraduates preparing for the OSCE element of the MFDS (Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgery) examination. Presented with 60 OSCE stations, students are encouraged to apply the theory and knowledge they have acquired in simulated patient encoun...

Success in The Duke Elder Examination: 180 MCQs

Compiled by authors who have all passed the Duke Elder examination, this book presents 180 multiple choice questions and answers with clear and in depth explanations. The first section provides a structured practice paper sectioned out by topic to assist revision, and the second section consists ...

Final FRCA: 60 CRQs

This book is a practical revision aid for postgraduates preparing for Final FRCA (Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists) written examinations. Presented in the style of the newly introduced CRQ (Constructed Response Questions) format, the book features five complete papers, each contai...

Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery

This book provides a timely, comprehensive and evidence-based review of minimally invasive surgery of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. This book thoroughly reviews the preclinical and clinical data on minimally invasive spinal surgery and describes and illustrates the current effective te...

Diagnostic Dermatopathology: A Guide to Ancillary Tests Beyond the H&E

The practice of dermatopathology has evolved from viewing predominantly haematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained sections through the microscope to include an array of more specialized tests. These are used as stand-alone tests or in addition to the H&E. Diagnostic Dermatopathology: A Guide t...

Understanding OCT Angiography

This handbook provides ophthalmologists and trainees with the latest advances in the rapidly developing field of OCT Angiography. Beginning with an overview of the technology and terminology, the next chapter explains how to perform an OCTA examination. The following sections describe the pathoph...

Recent Advances in Dermatology: 1

Recent Advances in Dermatology: 1 is the ideal resource for keeping abreast of new developments in this constantly changing field. Written by expert authors and featuring topics such as oral lichen planus, allergic contact dermatitis to cosmetics and toiletries, and benign and malignant penile le...

Dermatopathology of Tropical Diseases

Dermatopathology of Tropical Diseases covers the pathology and clinical correlations of the most important tropical diseases. Each entity is described using brief text that summarises its epidemiology, pathogenesis and clinical features. The diagnostic process is then described and illustrated us...

Recent Advances in Paediatrics: 28

Recent Advances in Paediatrics: 28 is the ideal resource for keeping abreast of new developments in this constantly changing field.

Pocket Tutor Gynaecology

Logical, building-block approach to content: initial chapters outline the basic approach to gynaecological history and examination, and essential pelvic anatomy. Subsequent chapters describe physiology and pathology of women at all stages of life from puberty, to reproductive age, to menopause; a...

Handbook of Focal Therapy for Prostate and Renal Cancer

Provides a comprehensive, timely review of targeted ablation methods to treat prostate and renal cancers. It describes the most effective techniques in current practice, with discussion of the selection criteria, ablation technologies and their limitations, and advice on the management of common ...

Short and OSCE Cases in Internal Medicine Clinical Exams

This book is a practical revision guide for postgraduate students preparing for clinical examinations in internal medicine. Authored by an experienced postgraduate examiner, the book presents a series of short and OSCE cases presented in a uniform format, offering guidance on examination techniqu...

Clinical OCT Angiography Atlas

This atlas provides clinicians with state-of-the-art principles of clinical OCTA imaging, helping them interpret and understand the features of the angiographic images. Following the success of the first edition (9789351528999) published in 2015, this second edition has been fully revised, with a...

Pocket Tutor Chest X-Ray Interpretation

Practical guidance on subjects that medical students and foundation doctors need help with ‘on the go’, at a highly-affordable price that puts them within reach of those rotating through modular courses or working on attachment. Guide to appearance of normal images and abnormal signs helps you na...

100 Cases in Pulmonary Medicine

This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of respiratory diseases and disorders. The text presents 100 cases, guiding clinicians and trainees step by step through history taking, signs and symptoms, and clinical examination, to investigations, diagnosis and treatment.  Ea...

Hair Transplant 360: Follicular Unit Excision (FUE)

With the advent of hybrid-punch technology for follicular unit excision (FUE) in 2017, the first edition of this book became outdated and required a major revision. The new edition more than doubles the scope of the prior edition from 25 chapters in a single book, to 60 chapters in two hardcover ...

Vaccination Wars

This is the history of the grassroots anti-vaccination movement in nineteenth-century Cornwall. The book examines the lives of those who publicly opposed the procedure, the earliest phases of vaccine objection, the rise of middle class resistance and opposition societies, and the influence of pro...

Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Straßburg

Examines the experience of paediatric patients, and the staff who determined their treatment, in the Reichsuniversitat Strasbourg, a Nazi-run hospital in occupied France from 1941 to 1944.

Joint Construction of Narratives in the Psychoanalytic Setting

In psychotherapy, the client’s narratives serve as a starting point. Therapeutic work involves the reconstruction of such narratives, with both client and therapist taking an active role: the therapist helping to transform various aspects of the stories by asking questions, offering interpretatio...

Medicine and Science at Exeter Cathedral Library

Exeter Cathedral Library, established in the eleventh century, houses medical and scientific books from all periods. This catalogue is the first comprehensive treatment of the collection to be published, and has over 2700 entries, including material added in the 1990s.

Fatal Flaws

Part psychiatric textbook and part self-help manual for patients and clients, Fatal Flaws reviews comprehensively the course, treatment, genetics, biology, psychology, and destructive consequences of hysterical (histrionic), narcissistic, antisocial, paranoid, obsessive-compulsive, addictive, bor...

‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950

The volume explores the shaping of ‘everyday health’ in different contexts since 1950. It shows how different aspects of identity affected experiences of health and wellbeing.

Publics and their health

Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health? How does this change over time and place? Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of ‘problem publics’ and their relationship with public health authorities.

Eighteenth-Century Dermatological Handbook

The book contains the English translation of a pivotal 18th-century Latin treatise on skin diseases by the Austrian surgeon Joseph Jacob Plenck (1738–1807) titled Doctrina de Morbis Cutaneis (Instruction on Cutaneous Diseases). The work is significant because in it Plenck demonstrated the value o...

The Graft

The Graft provides insight into a long-forgotten kidney transplant that helped spark the modern age of organ transplantation.

Occupational health and social estrangement in China

This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers.

Balancing the self

Balancing the Self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity and balance. This volume’s wide-ranging discussions will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists, social policy analysts, and social and political historians, as well as lay and profes...

Motherhood confined

When we imagine life behind the high walls of the fortress-like prisons that were built and modified as the modern prison system was created in the mid-nineteenth century, we conjure up scenes where strict regulation prevailed to control people in body and in mind. An image that poses something o...

Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe

This edited collection showcases exciting new work on lesser-known histories of HIV/AIDS, from the earliest days of the crisis to the present day. Focusing on regions of western Europe, it offers new perspectives on the development and implementation of policy, the nature of activism and expertis...

Cold, hard steel

Cold, hard steel anatomises the surgical stereotype in modern and contemporary Britain. It offers a new social, cultural and emotional history of this specialty, explores the development of its professional identity and foregrounds experiences of surgeons at work.

Citizen Voices

Citizen Voices explores the ways in which citizen voices on science and environmental issues are articulated, heard, marginalized and silenced in mass media, policymaking, and other public venues. In a range of case studies from countries across Europe and North America, contributors offer empiri...

Ghostbodies

How is illness represented in today's cultural texts? In Ghostbodies, Maia Dolphin-Krute argues that the illusive sick body is often made invisible – a ghost – because it does not always fit society's definition of disability. In these pages, she reflectively engages in a philosophical discussion...

Forensic cultures in modern Europe

This book makes an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices. It shows how the performance of forensic scientists has been shaped by political regimes, law and ideology, leading to different forensic cultures.

Situating religion and medicine in Asia

This volume presents studies of the mobilisation of practices for health and spiritual well-being in various regions and times across Asia. The chapters use a common structure to situate these practices within their regions and times, demonstrating how they circulated across religious, medical an...

Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture

This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants.

Physick and the family

Offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales

Migrant architects of the NHS

Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS.

The English System

A history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century

The malleable body

This invaluable study reveals how practices for treating the loss of limbs in early modern Germany transformed western medicine. From amputations to mechanical arms, surgical and artisanal interventions forged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the bod...

Brutal treatments

This book 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 th...

Tobacco Control in Africa

This collection is an important contribution to the literature on global public health and international development, featuring the  most comprehensive evidence-based analysis of tobacco policy in the African region.

Medical Multimedia

Visual Language for the World Wide Web

Linking the hieroglyphs of ancient Mayan and Sumerian culture with icons on the modern computer interface, this book shows that human visual communication has come full circle from the earliest representations. Honeywill's analysis shows how ancient visual languages now serve as a source for rene...

The Grey Zone of Health and Illness

In this book, Alan Blum outlines a nuanced theoretical approach to health and health care. Drawing on a range of thinkers, Blum explains how our current understanding of health care posits it as a sort of state of permanent emergency. To move beyond that will require a complete rethinking of heal...