Published January, 2012
By Lawrence O. Gostin and John Coggon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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With a focus on the literature in ethics, law, politics, public health and health policy, John Coggon argues that the important question for analysts in public health law and ethics is 'what makes health public?' His argument will interest those working on health-related ethical, legal and political issues.

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Published January, 2012
By Mazyar Kanani and Leanne Harling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This concise clear pocketbook presents a structured, systems-based approach to revising for the MRCS examination, written to reflect recent changes in the exam. This volume reduces the need for bulky textbooks by providing a quick reference guide for busy surgical trainees.

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Published January, 2012
By Kesavan Sri-Ram
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Practice is critical when preparing for any examination; the written component of the FRCS (Tr and Orth) is no exception. Written by surgeons with recent exam experience, this book features both styles of exam questions and covers the syllabus topics. Essential for all orthopaedic surgeons facing postgraduate examinations.

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Published January, 2012
By John Peterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This 1959 book was written to assist medical students in viewing their child patients within a social context. It provides a framework within which trainee doctors can understand the broader needs of the patient, encouraging a more complex view of the medical environment than one limited to academic detachment.

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Published December, 2011
By Suzanne Shale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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What are the moral challenges that confront doctors as they manage healthcare institutions? Based on medical leaders' accounts of managing morally difficult situations, Moral Leadership in Medicine analyzes expectations of medical managers and explains how to build trust in organizations.

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Published December, 2011
By W. A. Seed, C. G. Caro, T. J. Pedley, R. C. Schroter and K. H. Parker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Finally back in print, this classic book is of value to students, researchers and practitioners in bioengineering, physiology and human and veterinary medicine, particularly those working in the cardiovascular field. It is also useful for engineers and physical scientists with multidisciplinary interests.

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Published December, 2011
By Joachim Frank
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Many essential processes that occur in the cell, including transcription, translation, protein folding and protein degradation, are carried out by molecular machines. This edited volume focuses on important molecular machines whose architecture is known and whose functional principles have been established by tools of biophysical imaging and fluorescence probing.

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Published December, 2011
By Deborah Bowman, John Spicer and Rehana Iqbal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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The literature on informed consent and its ethico-legal significance in clinical practice has grown rapidly. This unique book adopts a case-based approach to offer a practical description of the principles of consent and their application in daily clinical practice, written by a team of experts in medical ethics and law.

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Published December, 2011
By Marco Viceconti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Systematically working from the whole body down to the cellular level, this book presents an integrative, multiscale computational approach to skeletal research. Addressing biomechanical and mechanobiological processes, the reader will learn how computational modeling can determine the relationship between bone mechanics and disease.

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Published December, 2011
By John Davy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
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Published in 1862, John Davy's book is a comprehensive statistical analysis of disease in the British army, demonstrating that 45% of deaths among British troops serving abroad were caused by illness, not conflict. The work also includes detailed descriptions of his observations made during post mortems.

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