Published June, 2011
By Edyta J. Frackiewicz, Thomas M. Shiovitz and Stanford S. Jhee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This 2002 book presents an overview of ethnic and racial differences in response to medications and offers insight into the genetic and non-genetic reasons for these differences. The roles of pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics in drug development and regulatory aspects of representing minorities in clinical trials are examined in detail.

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Published June, 2011
By Angus Dawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Public health ethics is a discipline concerned with the health of the public or a population as a whole, rather than focusing on the individual. This book introduces a number of this new field's central concepts and explores the key and controversial issues arising.

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Published June, 2011
By David Wright and Roy Porter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This 2003 collection of essays explores the rise of the lunatic asylum, and the confinement of those deemed insane, in different national contexts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is therefore a truly international history of the mental hospital, and an important comparative study in the history of medicine.

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Published June, 2011
By T. Helgason
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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First published in 1983, this book is a review of psychiatric treatment by experts in the field from the member countries of the European Medical Research Councils, organized by the European Science Foundation. The volume starts by enumerating the various methods for evaluating psychiatric treatment, finishing with ethical and practical problems.

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Published June, 2011
By T. Helgason, E. E. Anttinen, B. Cronholm, R. Daly, H. Hippius, E. A. Sand and Hanns Hippius
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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In this 1985 text organizational, patient and public health aspects of long-term treatment of functional psychoses are described and areas are pinpointed where more information is required. The workshop on which the volume is based was arranged by the European Medical Research Councils.

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Published June, 2011
By Robert G. Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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In this 1992 book, Professor Edwards brought together the research experience of prominent scientists and clinicians. The most advanced scientific and clinical developments and techniques were presented, including both the transplantation of fetal tissue into mature recipients and the grafting of donor cells into fetuses known to be carrying a genetic disease.

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Published June, 2011
By Robert Peter Gale, Christopher A. Juttner and Philippe Henon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This well-structured 1994 text opens with an overview of the concepts behind and advantages of blood stem cell transplants. Detailed concepts of their use are later expanded upon and critically reviewed by experts. Among the important issues discussed are hematopoietic recovery, tumor contamination and techniques used to purify stem cells.

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Published June, 2011
By A. B. Miller, J. Chamberlain, N. E. Day, M. Hakama and P. C. Prorok
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Screening is regarded as a cost-effective and clinically useful approach for the early diagnosis of several malignancies, especially common cancers. This 1991 publication was organized by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), one of the world's foremost agencies in the field of cancer epidemiology and control.

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Published June, 2011
By David J. Kirkland and Margaret Fox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Originally published in 1993, this volume describes a complementary selection of tests to those described in the companion volume Basic Mutagenicity Tests (Cambridge University Press, 1990). These supplementary tests were used to assess risks of in vitro mutagenicity in those instances where the basic safety tests were inconclusive.

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Published June, 2011
By William Lijinsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Monographs on Cancer Research
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Originally published in 1992, this volume looks in depth at the carcinogenic properties of N-nitroso compounds. These compounds occur widely in smoked foods and in meat and fish cured with nitrates; they are also formed in some industrial processes and in addition are found in cosmetics, tobacco and tobacco smoke.

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