Published February, 2009
By Alasdair Maclean
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Alasdair Maclean examines the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment, arguing that consent should be approached in the context of the healthcare professional-patient relationship. Suggestions for reform are compared with the possible future development of the law if Neil Manson and Onora O'Neill's model of genuine consent is implemented.

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Published January, 2009
By Kate Loewenthal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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How does religion affect mental health and how does this vary in different societies and cultures? This book examines the religious and cultural influences on a range of psychiatric disorders, including positive states of mind, in order to analyse whether such practices are beneficial or detrimental to mental health.

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Published January, 2009
By Frederick P. Rivara, Peter Cummings, Thomas D. Koepsell, David C. Grossman, Ronald V. Maier and Peter T. Cummings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Injury Control: A Guide to Research and Program Evaluation addresses the growing need for a comprehensive source of knowledge on all research designs available for injury control and research. Epidemiologists, health service investigators, trauma surgeons and emergency medicine physicians will find this a useful source for understanding, reviewing and conducting research related to injuries.

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Published January, 2009
By John B. Zabriskie and Kevin J. Tracey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Designed as an introduction for practitioners and residents, this book explores how we can better understand disease and its treatment through clinical immunology. It discusses basic concepts of immunology and then the immunological aspects of various disease states involving major organs of the body.

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Published January, 2009
By John B. Zabriskie and Kevin J. Tracey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Designed as an introduction for practitioners and residents, this book explores how we can better understand disease and its treatment through clinical immunology. It discusses basic concepts of immunology and then the immunological aspects of various disease states involving major organs of the body.

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Published January, 2009
By Christopher Hamlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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By carefully retelling the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain not as the triumph of responsible government over urban filth but as a politically savvy choice to undermine the potential of a public medicine to provide a basis for radical criticism of laissez faire capitalism, this book opens the possibility for understanding health as a matter of justice.

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Published January, 2009
By A.F. Rowley, N.A. Ratcliffe, A. F. Rowley and N. A. Ratcliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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First published in 1988, Vertebrate Blood Cells provided a comprehensive review of our knowledge of the structure and function of vertebrate blood cells. This was the first book to attempt to draw together such a guide, and this volume was essential reading for this subject.

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Published December, 2008
By James L.A. Webb and James L. A. Webb, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Studies in Environment and History
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Humanity's Burden provides a panoramic overview of the history of malaria. It traces the long arc of malaria out of tropical Africa into Eurasia, its transfer to the Americas during the early years of the Columbian exchange, and its retraction from the middle latitudes into the tropics since the late nineteenth century.

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Published December, 2008
By James L.A. Webb and James L. A. Webb, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Studies in Environment and History
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Humanity's Burden provides a panoramic overview of the history of malaria. It traces the long arc of malaria out of tropical Africa into Eurasia, its transfer to the Americas during the early years of the Columbian exchange, and its retraction from the middle latitudes into the tropics since the late nineteenth century.

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Published December, 2008
By Laurence B. McCullough and Robert B. Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics, the first book of its kind, takes a global, multicultural, and interdisciplinary approach to the history of medical ethics. The book offers a chronology of major figures and texts, biographies of major figures, a comprehensive bibliography, and a history of the field itself.

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