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New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie (Theory and Practice in Medicalanthropology)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a cutting edge volume in honor of Charles Leslie, a highly respected medical anthropologist whose influential career has shaped this branch of anthropology as it is studied and theorized today. Written by former students and colleagues of Charles Leslie, this collection of papers deals with issues as diverse as […]

Good Practice Teacher’s Book: Communication Skills in English for the Medical Practitioner (Cambridge Exams Publishing)

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Good Practice is a course for doctors and medical students who need to communicate with patients in English, and can be used in the classroom or for self-study. Click For More Details

Performance and Practices of Successful Medical Groups: 2007 Report Based on 2006 Data

Friday, December 19th, 2008

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Medical Response to Terrorism: Preparedness and Clinical Practice

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

This comprehensive reference provides all the information emergency departments and personnel need to prepare for and respond to terrorist events. The first section covers all agents potentially used in terrorist attacks–chemical, biologic, toxicologic, nuclear, and explosive–in a systematic format that includes background, triage, decontamination, signs and symptoms, medical management, personnel protection, and guidelines for notifying […]

Compliance Guide for the Medical Practice: How to Attain And Maintain a Compliant Medical Practice

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

This new resource explains if government regulations apply to your practice, how to accomplish tasks related to compliance and how to change the culture so compliance is expected. Contains extensive information and instructions on creating a compliance program to help safeguard your practice from risk, both legal and financial. Topics include billing and reimbursement compliance, […]

Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines, 2nd

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

The practice guidelines are the official statement of the Wilderness Medical Society on the best methods of handling wilderness related trauma, illness, or environmental injury. This peer reviewed work has 31 contributors and has been reviewed by two panels of the society consisting of an additional 14 physicians. The practice guidelines discuss treatment goals for […]

Strange Bedfellows: How Medical Jurisprudence has Influenced Medical Ethics and Medical Practice

Monday, December 15th, 2008

The relationship between law and bioethics and the influence of both on medical research and clinical practice is a topic that is often mentioned but rarely subjected to sustained critical analysis. This book considers a number of issues in medicine in which the influence of the law has been most profound and positive including: informed […]

Integrated Behavioral Healthcare: Positioning Mental Health Practice with Medical/Surgical Practice (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional)

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

Healthcare is now practiced in a different financial and delivery system than it was two decades ago. Currently managed care defines what is treated, how, by whom and for what reimbursement. Mental health professionals have been greatly impacted by these changes to their practice, and yet, there is little understanding of exactly what it is […]

Physicians, Surgeons and Apothecaries: Medical Practice in Seventeenth-Century Edinburgh (Scottish Historical Review Monograph series)

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

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The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan (Carolina Academic Press Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anth) (Carolina Academic Press Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anth)

Friday, December 12th, 2008

The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan explores ideas and practices related to religious ritual and health among older people in northern Japan. Drawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork, Traphagan considers various forms of ritual performance and contextualizes these in terms of private and public spheres of activity. […]

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