Published January, 2009
By Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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To what extent should we use technological advances to try to make better human beings? Leading philosophers debate the possibility of enhancing human cognition, mood, personality, and physical performance, and controlling aging. Would this take us beyond the bounds of human nature? These are questions that need to be answered now.

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Published January, 2009
By Gavin Mooney
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This book mounts a critique of current health economics, arguing it has been too dominated by the economics of health care and has largely ignored the impact of poverty, inequality, and lack of education on health. The author proposes a form of collective decision making through communitarianism as a basis for a new paradigm.

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Published January, 2009
By David Coghill, Sally Bonnar, Sandra Duke, Johnny Graham and Sarah Seth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Psychiatry
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The importance of the mental health of young people is increasingly recognised, leading to a much needed expansion of services and significant increase in staff numbers, including doctors, psychologists and specialist nurses. This handbook is an authoratitive and comprehensive but also rapidly accessible text in this growing speciality.

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Published January, 2009
By Gareth Gaskell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics brings together the views of 75 leading researchers in psycholinguistics to provide a comprehensive and authoritative review of the current state of the art in psycholinguistics. With almost 50 chapters written by experts in the field, the range and depth of coverage is unequalled.

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Published January, 2009
By Daniel Perlman and Ananya Roy
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published January, 2009
By Robert Bud
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. Using a wealth of new research, Robert Bud sets the discovery and use of penicillin in the broader context of social and cultural change across the world. His book will be of great interest to historians, scientists, and anyone wishing to understand this drug's seismic impact on our lives.

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Published January, 2009
By Oliver W J Quarrell, Oliver W.J. Quarrell, Helen M. Brewer, Ferdinando Squitieri, Roger A. Barker, Martha A. Nance and G. Bernhard Landwehrmeyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited progressive neurodegenerative disorder. Although onset of HD usually occurs in adulthood, a small percentage of cases develop symptoms before 20 years of age (juvenile-onset Huntington's Disease or JHD). This book summarises, for the first time, the clinical and scientific knowledge available on JHD.

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Published January, 2009
By Maria Adele Giamberardino and Maria Adele Giamberadino
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This concise pocketbook addresses the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of visceral pain, and provides practical information for the consultation and treatment.

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Published December, 2008
By Lewis P Rowland M.D. and Lewis P. Rowland
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published December, 2008
By Jacques MD Philippon, Jacques MD Poirier, Jacques Philippon and Jacques Poirer
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