Published November, 2006
By Michael G. Hennerici, Michael Daffertshofer, Louis R. Caplan, Kristina Szabo and M. Hennerici
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Case Studies in Neurology
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This selection of 60 common and unusual stroke cases will inform and challenge clinicians at all stages in their careers. Each case is illustrated, and includes history, examination and diagnosis of the clinical issues in which the main teaching points are emphasized.

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Published November, 2006
By Rod Edmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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An interdisciplinary study of why a disease that is so difficult to catch has caused such alarm. It examines how the fear of leprosy was part of nineteenth-century imperial expansion, as colonial officials and missionaries were thought exposed to the risk of infection, which might be carried back to Britain.

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Published November, 2006
By Shireen Jejeebhoy, Michael Koenig, Christopher Elias and Shireen J. Jejeebhoy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Women's reproductive tract infections and other gynaecological disorders are an enormous global health burden. This significant book will help focus research in this important though neglected area. The book takes an international perspective and recognizes that gathering information in this area in different societies, requires a sensitive, multidisciplinary approach.

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Published November, 2006
By Max Fink and Michael Alan Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This book, by two leading neuropsychiatrists, describes the features of catatonia, teaches the reader how to identify and treat the syndrome successfully, and describes its neurobiology. Patient vignettes illustrate the principles of diagnosing and treating patients with catatonia. It is an essential clinical reference for psychiatrists and neurologists.

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Published November, 2006
By Andrew Cunningham and Roger French
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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A series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and the increased use of reason.

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Published November, 2006
By Roger French
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This is the first full study for over twenty-five years of Harvey's doctrine of the action of the heart and of the circulation of the blood. Also examined are the views of those who wrote for, and against, his philosophy.

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Published November, 2006
By Jordan Goodman and Vivien Walsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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During the late 1980s and early 1990s, taxol was hailed for its efficacy as an anti-cancer drug while becoming embroiled in a number of political issues with wide policy implications. This book tells the story of arguably the most celebrated, talked-about and controversial natural product in recent years.

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Published November, 2006
By Malcolm Laurence Cameron, Simon Keynes and Andy Orchard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This is the first book to study Old English medical texts, comparing Anglo-Saxon medical practice with that of the Greeks and Romans, and concluding that it was as good as any previously practised in Western Europe.

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Published November, 2006
By Andreas Marneros and Hagop S. Akiskal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Many clinicians and researchers are convinced that there is an overlap between affective and schizophrenic spectra. In this book, an international team of experts discuss aspects of comorbidity, genetic models, clinical course, phenomenology and therapies. This is the first comprehensive overview of the schizoaffective spectra.

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Published November, 2006
By Jarl Risberg and Jordan Grafman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Series for the International Neuropsychological Society
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This book provides an overview of the properties of the frontal lobes. It covers the evolutionary significance of this area of the brain, typical and atypical developmental pathways, the role in normal cognition, memory and emotion, and in damaged states, resulting in a range of neurological syndromes and psychiatric disturbances.

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