Published July, 2007
By Dinesh Bhugra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry
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Homelessness is an increasing global problem which poses particular challenges with respect to appropriate mental health care, assessment, and service delivery. Bringing together international experience of mental health care teams, this book provides a valuable and practical resource for all those working with the homeless on a day-to-day basis.

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Published July, 2007
By Richard Dybowski and Vanya Gant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Artificial neural networks provide a powerful tool to help doctors analyse, model and make sense of complex clinical data across a broad range of medical applications. Their potential in clinical medicine is reflected in the diversity of topics covered in this volume.

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Published July, 2007
By Neil Levy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Devoting equal attention to the ethical issues and to philosophical reflection, this book summarises our questions and understanding of free-will, self-control, self-deception and the foundations of morality. Written for graduate students and academics in the fields of neuroethics, applied ethics, bioethics, moral psychology, philosophy of mind and cognitive science.

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Published July, 2007
By J.K. Mason, Alexander McCall Smith and J. K. Mason
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Mason assesses the historic and contemporary legal reactions to the management of a pregnancy that is unwanted or undesired as a result of medical mismanagement or negligence. The text also explores the legal regulation of the treatment of the disabled fetus or newborn child.

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Published July, 2007
By J.K. Mason and J. K. Mason
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Mason assesses the historic and contemporary legal reactions to the management of a pregnancy that is unwanted or undesired as a result of medical mismanagement or negligence. The text also explores the legal regulation of the treatment of the disabled fetus or newborn child.

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Published July, 2007
By Daniel Shapiro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism - should converge in a rejection of central welfare state institutions. He examines how major welfare institutions actually work, comparing them to compulsory private insurance and private charities.

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Published July, 2007
By Daniel Shapiro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism - should converge in a rejection of central welfare state institutions. He examines how major welfare institutions actually work, comparing them to compulsory private insurance and private charities.

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Published July, 2007
By M. P. Ward Platt, R. A. Little and R.A. Little
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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The book describes the commonest causes and types of injury encountered in the young, including trauma, head injury, near drowning and burns. It also deals with essential aspects of effective management of injury in the hospital including trauma scoring, life support and nutritional support.

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Published June, 2007
By Alex Segura-Ubiergo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This book attempts to analyze how developing countries through the early twenty-first century have established systems of social protection and how these systems have been affected by the recent processes of globalization and democratization.

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Published May, 2007
By Larry L. Barton and W. Allan Hamilton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Sulphate-reducing bacteria play an important role in many biogeochemical processes. This timely update on research, from the basic biochemical mechanisms of these microorganisms to their environmental roles, will be a valuable resource for researchers in the fields of microbial ecology and physiology, bioengineering, biogeochemistry and related areas of environmental science.

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