(Izdošanas datums: 11-Sep-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199919802)
Susan B. Levin argues that Platos engagement with medicine is richer than previously recognized and that he views it as an important rival for authority on nature and flourishing. Levin shows further that Platos work, particularly the Laws, holds...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Jul-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199936632)
Gathering leading thinkers in social and clinical psychology, public health, medicine, and sociology, Interpersonal Relationships and Health considers theoretical and empirical issues relevant to understanding the social and clinical psychological m...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Jul-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199656066)
A team of experts explore the ethics of making families through adoption or technologically assisted reproduction. They examine the moral choices involved, and the social norms that can distort decision-making, such as the norm in favour of having b...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jun-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199993123)
Caring for Our Own explores why American families dont translate their unmet long-term care needs into political demands for policy reform. The book considers the ways in which existing social policies shape the political imagination and the condit...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Professional Perspectives on Deafness: Evidence & Applications
(Izdošanas datums: 29-May-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195381405)
Presenting an evidence-based approach to auditory (re)habilitation for adolescents with hearing loss, this book provides professionals with theoretical and practical strategies for intervention, targeting a historically overlooked population....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-May-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199564668)
Vision science has grown hugely in the past decades, but there have been few books showing readers how to adopt a computional approach to understanding visual perception, along with the underlying mechanisms in the brain. This book explains the comp...Lasīt vairāk
Kristin Voigt, Stuart G. Nicholls, Garrath Williams
(Izdošanas datums: 15-May-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199964482)
This book is the first to focus on the ethical and policy issues raised by childhood obesity. The authors, whose backgrounds are in philosophy, epidemiology, and community medicine, address topics including: parental responsibility; equity, stigma a...Lasīt vairāk
David Oliver, Gian Domenico Borasio, Wendy Johnston
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Mar-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199686025)
ALS (motor neurone disease) is a progressive disease that can have profound effects on the person, carers and their family. This book is for all health and social care professionals involved in the care of people with ALS. It enables the standard of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Mar-2014, Izdevniecība: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780198082880)
This book analyses a variety of issues concerning medicine and the application of law governing its practice, education, and research. The author addresses them in the light of recent developments in technology and views them from a comparative pers...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Feb-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199812134)
This book addresses the philosophical questions that arise when neuroscientific research and technology are applied in the legal system. The empirical, practical, ethical, and conceptual issues that Pardo and Patterson seek to redress will deeply in...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Jan-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199347216)
Should there be limits to the human alteration of the natural world? Through a study of debates about the environment, agricultural biotechnology, synthetic biology, and human enhancement, Gregory E. Kaebnick argues that such moral concerns about na...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Jan-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199682676)
This is the first book to bring West and East together in a broad investigation of contemporary bioethics. A distinguished international team of experts presents original research addressing issues that emerge from new medical technologies, address...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Jan-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199826988)
What makes our brain a brain? This is the central question posited in Unlocking the Brain. By providing a fascinating venture into different territories of neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy, the author takes a novel exploration of the brains...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Jan-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199826995)
What makes our brain a brain? This is the central question posited in Unlocking the Brain. By providing a fascinating venture into different territories of neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy, the author takes a novel exploration of the brains...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Jan-2014, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199856206)
This book explores the effectiveness of legal interventions aimed at promoting healthier lifestyles. In it, W.A. Bogart examines the complex effects of law and its relationship with norms, including the unintended consequences of regulation....Lasīt vairāk
Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Diana Kuh, Rachel Cooper, Rebecca Hardy, Marcus Richards
Sērija : Life Course Approach to Adult Health
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Dec-2013, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199656516)
A Life Course Approach to Healthy Age investigates the lifetime determinants of healthy ageing and their implications for policy and practice, bringing together authorities in ageing research and knowledge transfer from across the world in one wide-...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Dec-2013, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199977383)
Accidental Intolerance shows how medicine, science, and society jointly -- though not intentionally-stigmatize ADHD -- diagnosed people, while offering them few options. It also explores ways we can change our concepts and practices to improve factu...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Dec-2013, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195380590)
A study of Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny and her efforts to have her unorthodox methods of treating polio accepted as mainstream polio care in the United States during the 1940s. A case study of changing clinical care, and an examination o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Dec-2013, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199746750)
Underlying Americas robust private health care industry is an indispensible partner that has guided and supported it for over half a century: the government. This book demonstrates how government initiatives created American health care as we know...Lasīt vairāk
