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Medicine: general issues
Paperback. This book meets the needs of adults with disabilities. It is a comprehensive resource providing relevant, cognitively-suitable and age-appropriate information and exercises to aid trainers working with adults with physical and multiple disabilities, and is suitable for people with mild intellectual disability and severe communication impairment. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; JKSN2; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 9. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843103530
- ISBN
- 9781843103530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.58
€ 52.58
Paperback. This book shows how carefully planned and assessed treatment can help traumatized children. It outlines how to set up a process for measuring a child's progress towards recovery. Uniquely, the book describes a practical outcomes-based approach that can be provided by an integrated multi-disciplinary team. Series Editor(s): Tomlinson, Patrick. Series: Delivering Recovery. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSN; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 8. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843103301
- ISBN
- 9781843103301
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.64
€ 25.64
Paperback. The authors discuss risk factors for self-harm, including depression, substance abuse and antisocial behaviour, and critically examine key screening instruments that can be used to assess risk. They describe how suicidal behaviour can be managed and prevented, and look at the effectiveness of aftercare treatment for those who self-harm. Series: Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: MBPK; MMH; VFJ; VFXC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843102373
- ISBN
- 9781843102373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.64
€ 40.99
€ 40.64
Paperback. The authors consider how ethnicity is defined, and how the field of mental health has developed in the West according to Western concepts of health and well-being, and show how an understanding of the key practice issues and policy and academic debates can enable professionals to develop and fine-tune their cultural competence. Editor(s): Malek, Mhemooda; Joughin, Carol. Series: Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843102366
- ISBN
- 9781843102366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.13
€ 33.13
Paperback. The authors take a multidisciplinary approach and employ both medical and psycho-social models of depression. The medical model is used to identify symptoms, make diagnoses and work towards optimal treatment. Psycho-social perspectives provide insight into the scale and complexity of the condition and point to its social causes. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSG; MBPK; MJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 199.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843102342
- ISBN
- 9781843102342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.89
€ 26.89
Paperback. This book provides a comprehensive overview of good practice in caring for terminally-ill children, young people and their families. The material offers helpful suggestions on how to support families in making informed choices during distressing periods, such as where their child will die and how to prepare for the funeral. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSN2; MBP; MQCL3; MQCL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843101819
- ISBN
- 9781843101819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.38
€ 49.38
Paperback. Kingsley Norton takes the reader, step-by-step, through the entire process of setting up new services within the National Health Service. His wealth of hands-on experience and practical advice makes this book essential reading for anyone interested in management and the NHS or public services and attempting to innovate. Series: Community, Culture and Change. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; MBPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843101628
- ISBN
- 9781843101628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.94
€ 43.99
€ 43.94
Hardcover. This is a comprehensive guide to the place of third party assisted conception within health care provision, drawing on ethical and religious standpoints as well as political and economic factors. Blyth and Landau have brought together contributors to consider the social, legal and ethical aspects of assisted conception in thirteen countries. Editor(s): Blyth, Eric; Landau, Ruth. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JKSB1; MBDC; VFXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 589.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843100850
- ISBN
- 9781843100850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.54
€ 78.54
Paperback. This book presents a variety of experience-based perspectives on working in palliative care. Emphasising the use of self and the importance of reflective practice in professional work, the book will be of relevance to professionals in medical and social care who want to gain a deeper understanding of their work and of the motivation underlying it. Editor(s): Mason, Christina. Num Pages: 192 pages, index. BIC Classification: JKSN2; MBP; MMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 11. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843100300
- ISBN
- 9781843100300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.63
€ 35.63
Paperback. Anthony Jahn, M.D., internationally-acclaimed for his work as an "opera doctor" with some of the most prestigious opera companies in the world, brings together some of the profession's greatest doctors, performers, and instructors in a thorough and comprehensible guidebook on all aspects of health and disease that affect the voice. Num Pages: 496 pages, 35 halftone illustrations, 17 line drawings, 9 tables. BIC Classification: AVS; MBNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195374032
- ISBN
- 9780195374032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.19
€ 78.19
Hardback. This book consists of the edited papers from the IOC Conference on Sports Nutrition, held in Lausanne in June 2003. It represents the cutting edge in international sports nutrition research and is an update on the 1991 Conference papers, published Editor(s): Maughan, Ron; Coyle, Edward F.; Burke, L. M. Num Pages: 256 pages, 37 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBNH3; WSDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415339063
- ISBN
- 9780415339063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 210.23€ 186.47
€ 210.23
€ 186.47
Paperback. Brings together the findings on the causes and consequences of human happiness and well-being. This book covers a variety of disciplines, encompassing evolutionary biology, positive psychology, economics and social science, neuroscience, and peace studies. Editor(s): Huppert, Felicia A.; Baylis, Nick; Keverne, Barry. Num Pages: 560 pages, 2 pages colour plates, numerous black & white photographs and line illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; JMH; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 170 x 33. Weight in Grams: 952.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 562
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198567523
- ISBN
- 9780198567523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 144.95
€ 144.95
Paperback. Communication and Professional Relationships in Healthcare Practice focuses on the crucial role that spoken interactions play in shaping relationships in contemporary healthcare practice. The authors apply theoretical concepts of communication to the workplace of healthcare, drawing upon scenarios based in the settings of clinical experience. Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: CF; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 170 x 12. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908049971
- ISBN
- 9781908049971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.24
€ 59.24
Paperback. This book seeks to explain why, among the innumerable problems faced by societies, some problems in some places become viewed as critical public issues that shape health policy. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; LNTJ; MBX; MJC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413037
- ISBN
- 9781421413037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.82
€ 34.99
€ 29.82
Hardback. This stimulating volume is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement. It is unique in its examination of the ethical and policy implications of these technologies from a broad range of perspectives, including philosophy, the biological and neurosciences, and the social sciences. Editor(s): Savulescu, Julian; ter Meulen, Rudd; Kahane, Guy. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFMG; MBDC; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 177 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1174.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405195812
- ISBN
- 9781405195812
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.18
€ 111.18
Paperback. Managing School Absenteeism at Multiple Tiers provides an integrative strategy for preventing, assessing, and addressing cases of youth with school absenteeism at multiple levels of severity and complexity. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JKSN; JMC; JMS; MBPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 9. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199985296
- ISBN
- 9780199985296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.28
€ 73.28
Paperback. This volume records the speed and nature of the public and official response to AIDS in the UK, describing how, in less than 15 years, a network of organizations developed, devoted to the study, containment and treatment of this new, critical disease. Num Pages: 404 pages, line figures, tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFFH2; MBN; MBX; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 404
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198204732
- ISBN
- 9780198204732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.82
€ 72.82
Hardcover. A text on the methods - dietary, anthropometric, laboratory and clinical - of assessing the nutritional status of populations and individuals in the hospital or the community. This second edition includes: data from national nutritional surveys in the US and Europe; information about iron, vitamin A and iodine; and improvements in data handling. Num Pages: 928 pages, numerous figures and tables. BIC Classification: MBNH3; MBPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 183 x 258 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Australia Australia
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 944
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195171693
- ISBN
- 9780195171693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 248.80
€ 248.80
Paperback. This A-Z book aims to equip the reader with the practical knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to deliver powerful research evidence for health policy-makers, in the government, not-for-profit, and private sectors. It focuses on describing the genre of policy-relevant research in a heuristic, practice-based way. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 black and white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBGR; MBN; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199549337
- ISBN
- 9780199549337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 114.18
€ 114.18
Paperback. This book provides a detailed, stepwise approach to performing ultrasound guided regional anesthesia, identifying pearls and pitfalls to ensure success. Basic principles are covered, followed by techniques for upper extremity, lower extremity, and chest, trunk and spine nerve blocks. Editor(s): Grant, Stuart A.; Auyong, David B. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: MBG; MMB; MMK; MMPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 191 x 13. Weight in Grams: 711.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Publication date
- 2016
- SKU
- V9780190231804
- ISBN
- 9780190231804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 236.57
€ 236.57