Published December, 2016
By Michael Slouber
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Early Tantric Medicine explores the mantra-based systems for healing snakebite found in the ancient Hindu texts called the Garuda Tantras. It engages with broader questions of medical efficacy, and describes a worldview in which powerful gods and goddesses are available to anyone who learns the secret methods of propitiating them.

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Published December, 2016
By Michael Boarder, David Newby, Phyllis Navti, Jane Dixon, C. Jane Dixon and Tyra Zetterström
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This book adopts a novel patient-centred approach to introduce drug action at the cellular and molecular level while developing clinical topics in the context of individual patients and their experience of illness. In so doing, it takes the important step of relating the scientific basis of pharmacology to real-life pharmacy practice.

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Published December, 2016
By Chandra M. Kumar, Chris Dodds and Frederique Servin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Anaesthesia Library
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The second edition of Anaesthesia for the Elderly Patient offers a fully up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to the major clinical issues facing anaesthetists working with elderly patients.

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Published December, 2016
By John T. Hancock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Cell Signalling presents a carefully structured and accessible introduction to this intricate and rapidly growing field. A focus on common components and concepts, rather than mechanistic detail, allows the reader to gain a thorough understanding of the principles that underpin cell signalling.

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Published December, 2016
By Estee Torok, Ed Moran, Fiona Cooke, M. Estee Torok and Estee Toeroek
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Medical Handbooks
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Takes an integrated approach to both infectious disease and microbiology. Referenced to national frameworks and current legislation, it covers the basic principles of bacteriology and virology, specific information on diseases and conditions, and material on 'hot topics' such as bioterrorism and preventative medicine.

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Published December, 2016
By Professor Pamela K Keel and Pamela K. Keel
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Eating Disorders presents a comprehensive and accessible investigation of eating disorders, spanning topics such as historical and cross-cultural trends in prevalence of eating pathology, biological bases of eating disorders, and treatment and prevention.

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Published December, 2016
By David A. Karp and David Karp
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Speaking of Sadness, based on fifty in-depth interviews, provides first-hand accounts of the depression experience while discovering clear regularities in the ways that personal identities are shaped over the course of an "illness career."

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Published December, 2016
By Christian W. McMillen
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Very Short Introductions
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A concise and comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, including plague, tubercolosis, smallpox, malaria, cholera, and HIV.

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Published December, 2016
By Thomas J. Ward Jr. and H. Jack Geiger
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States.

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Published December, 2016
By Garrison Sposito
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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A revised edition to the bestselling "The Chemistry of Soils" incorporating new research from the last eight years in the fields of environmental chemistry, ecosystem biogeochemistry, and scientific agriculture.

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