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Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Ba…
This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and what to do ab…
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- 9783030191863
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- xiv, 366 p.
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- -
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- 636.208945420941 VER A
Bedside and community : 50 years of contributions to the health of Albertans …
The University of Calgary’s innovative and collaborative approach to health care education is celebrated in an interdisciplinary collection. Bedside and Community is the inside story of fifty years of health care and health research at the University of Calgary. Drawing on the first-person accounts of researchers, administrators, faculty, and students along with archival research, and faculty…
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- 9
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- 9781773850733
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- xix, 242p.
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- 610.70712338 BED s
Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests through Ethical Governance…
Increasing quantities of information about our health, bodies, and biological relationships are being generated by health technologies, research, and surveillance. This escalation presents challenges to us all when it comes to deciding how to manage this information and what should be disclosed to the very people it describes. This book establishes the ethical imperative to take seriously the p…
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- 9781108652599
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- xiv, 316p: ill,
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- Cambridge Bioethics and Law
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- 610 EMI e
Medical histories of Belgium : new narratives on health, care and citizenship…
This edited volume offers the first comprehensive historical overview of the Belgian medical field in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its chapters develop narratives that go beyond traditional representations of medicine in national overviews, which have focused mostly on stateprofession interactions. Instead, the chapters bring more complex histories of health, care and citizenship. Th…
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- 9781526151087
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- xiv, 400 p. : ill.
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- 610.9493 VAN m
Civilian lunatic asylums during the first world war : a study of austerity on…
This open access book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects of wartime austerity and deprivation on the provision of care. While a substantial body of literature on ‘shell shock’ exists, this study uncovers the mental wellbeing of civilians during the war. It provides the first comprehensive account of wartime asylums…
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- 9783030548711
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- ill. :294 p.
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- 362.210942109041. CLA c
Healthcare Biotechnology : A Practical Guide
Foreseeing and planning for all of the possibilities and pitfalls involved in bringing a biotechnology innovation from inception to widespread therapeutic use takes strong managerial skills and a solid grounding in biopharmaceutical research and development procedures. Unfortunately there has been a dearth of resources for this aspect of the field.
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- 9781439894125
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- 689p.
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- 615.19 DIM h
Preclinical mri of the kidney : methods and protocols
This Open Access volume provides readers with an open access protocol collection and wide-ranging recommendations for preclinical renal MRI used in translational research. The chapters in this book are interdisciplinary in nature and bridge the gaps between physics, physiology, and medicine. They are designed to enhance training in renal MRI sciences and improve the reproducibility of renal ima…
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- 9781071609781
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- xiii. : 713 p.
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- 543 AND p
Movement of knowledge : medical humanities perspectives on medicine, science,…
Medical knowledge is always in motion. It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servant’s desk and then on to a policymaker. Knowledge is deconstructed, reconstructed, and transformed as it moves. The dynamic, ever-evolving nature of medical knowledge has given rise to different concepts to explain it: diffusion, translation, …
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- 9789188909367
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- 261 p.
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- -
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- 610.1 HAN m
Vaccines, medicines and COVID-19: how can WHO be given a stronger voice?
This open access book is a collection of research papers on COVID-19 by Germán Velásquez from 2020 and early 2021 that help to answer the question: How can an agency like the World Health Organization (WHO) be given a stronger voice to exercise authority and leadership? The considerable health, economic and social challenges that the world faced at the beginning of 2020 with COVID-19 continue…
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- 9783030891251
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- XVI,
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- SpringerBriefs in Public Health
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- 615.372 VEL v
Making healthcare safe: the story of the patient safety movement
This unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably the movement’s founder, Lucian L. Leape, MD. Covering the growth of the field from the late 1980s to 2015, Dr. Leape details the developments, actors, organizations, resear…
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- 9783030711238
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- xxviii, 450 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 362.110289 LEA m
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