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  • Personalized Medicine in the Making

    Philosophical Perspectives from Biology to Healthcare

    Edited by Chiara Beneduce, Marta Bertolaso ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a multidisciplinary look at the much-debated concept of “personalized medicine”. By combining a humanistic and a scientific approach, the book builds up a multidimensional way to understand the limits and potentialities of a personalized approach in medicine and healthcare. The book reflects on personalized medicine and complex diseases, the relationship between personalized ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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    by Jacob Stegenga ...
    This book argues that if we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in medical interventions ought to be low. ... Read more

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  • Drugs for Life

    How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health

    by Joseph Dumit ...
    Series series Experimental futures
    Every year the average number of prescriptions purchased by Americans increases, as do healthcare expenditures, which are projected to reach one-fifth of the U.S. gross domestic product by 2020. In Drugs for Life, Joseph Dumit considers how our burgeoning consumption of medicine and cost of healthcare not only came to be, but also came to be taken for granted. For several years, Dumit attended ... Read more

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  • A Sociological Exploration of Antidepressants

    by Azure Ides-Grey ...
    Mental health is a hot topic, including treatment for mental illness. In this essay, I approach antidepressants in a sociological fashion. The dimensions I consider include: general information, the statistics of antidepressant usage, how antidepressants relate to the medical model, the efficacy of antidepressants, and how antidepressants can be understood through sociological frameworks. ... Read more

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  • Statistical Bioinformatics with R

    by Sunil K. Mathur ...
    Statistical Bioinformatics provides a balanced treatment of statistical theory in the context of bioinformatics applications. Designed for a one or two semester senior undergraduate or graduate bioinformatics course, the text takes a broad view of the subject – not just gene expression and sequence analysis, but a careful balance of statistical theory in the context of bioinformatics applications. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • P5 eHealth: An Agenda for the Health Technologies of the Future

    Edited by Gabriella Pravettoni, Stefano Triberti ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This open access volume focuses on the development of a P5 eHealth, or better, a methodological resource for developing the health technologies of the future, based on patients’ personal characteristics and needs as the fundamental guidelines for design. It provides practical guidelines and evidence based examples on how to design, implement, use and elevate new technologies for healthcare to ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Evidence-based Medicine

    by Jeremy H. Howick ...
    Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has become a required element of clinical practice, but it is critical for the healthcare community to understand the ongoing controversy surrounding EBM. Seeking to address questions raised by critics, The Philosophy of Evidence-based Medicine challenges the over dependency of EBM on randomized controlled trials. This book also explores EBM methodology and its ... Read more

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  • The Fibromyalgia Story

    Medical Authority And Women'S Worlds Of Pain

    by Kristin Barker ...
    More than six million Americans—most of them women—have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), a disorder that produces musculo-skeletal pain and fatigue. In the absence of visible evidence, a well-understood cause, or effective treatment, many have questioned whether FMS is a "real" illness. Amidst the controversy, millions of women live with their very real symptoms.Rather than taking ... Read more

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  • How To Read And Critique A Scientific Research Article: Notes To Guide Students Reading Primary Literature (With Teaching Tips For Faculty Members)

    by Foong May Yeong ...
    Given the explosion of information and knowledge in the field of Life Sciences, adapting primary literature as materials in course work as part of active learning seems to be more effective in improving scientific literacy among science undergraduates than the pure transmission of content knowledge using traditional textbooks. In addition, students also read research articles as part of ... Read more

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  • The Alzheimer Conundrum

    Entanglements of Dementia and Aging

    by Margaret Lock ...
    Because of rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing and the projections are grim. Despite hundreds of millions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Conundrum exposes the predicaments embedded in current efforts to slow down or ... Read more

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  • Enhancing Human Capacities

    Edited by Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen, Guy Kahane ...
    Enhancing Human Capacities is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement. It is unique in its examination of the ethical and policy implications of these technologies from a broad range of perspectives.Presents a rich range of perspectives on enhancement from world leading ethicists and scientists from Europe and North AmericaThe most comprehensive volume yet ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health

    Edited by Joachim P Sturmberg, Carmel Martin ...
    This book is an introduction to health care as a complex adaptive system, a system that feeds back on itself. The first section introduces systems and complexity theory from a science, historical, epistemological, and technical perspective, describing the principles and mathematics. Subsequent sections build on the health applications of systems science theory, from human physiology to medical ... Read more

    $170.09 USD