Human Anatomy
Human Anatomy, Media Update, Sixth Edition builds upon the clear and concise explanations of the best-selling Fifth Edition with a dramatically improved art and photo program, clearer explanations and readability, and more integrated clinical coverage. Recognized for helping students establish the framework needed for understanding how anatomical structure relates to function, the text’s engaging descriptions now benefit from a brand-new art program that features vibrant, saturated colors as well as new side-by-side cadaver photos. New Focus figures have been added to help students grasp the most difficult topics in anatomy.
This updated textbook includes access to the new Practice Anatomy Lab™ 3.0 and is also accompanied by MasteringA&P™, an online learning and assessment system proven to help students learn. In addition to providing instructors and students with access to PAL 3.0, MasteringA&P for Marieb’s Human Anatomy Media Update, also features assignable content including: quizzes and lab practicals from PAL 3.0 Test Bank, activities for A&P Flix for anatomy, art activities, art questions, chapter test questions, reading quiz questions, clinical questions, and Test Bank from the textbook.
Encyclopedia of Biology
Encyclopedia of Biology is a definitive reference that provides current, authoritative information on the subject for high school and college students. The encyclopedia contains approximately 800 A-to-Z entries, nine prose essays on important topics, 80 line illustrations, and 75 black-and-white photographs. Comprehensive coverage of leading discoveries in biology along with general biology definitions, thought-provoking essays, and biographies of notable biologists present a wide range of valuable information compiled into a single source.
The Manual Home Health Handbook
Millions of people around the world have relied on The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook for quick access to authoritative, accessible health information. Written by more than 300 internationally respected medical experts, this comprehensive medical resource features extensive, up-to-date coverage of health care for newborns, the elderly, and everyone in between.
Contains reliable, up-to-date information on a broad range of medical conditions, illnesses, and situations, including accidents and injuries, aging, cancer, diabetes, digestive disorders, heart disease, mental health disorders, and many others
Covers men's, women's, pediatric (both newborns and older children), and geriatric health issues
Well organized and extensively indexed to make information easy to find
An extraordinary bargain at a penny a page
The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook is filled with essential medical information that’s both easy to find and easy to understand in order to help you communicate more effectively with your doctor, understand a diagnosis or treatment option, or simply know more about your health and the health of those you care about.
CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2012, Fifty-First Edition
Features and content critical to clinical practice:
Strong emphasis on the practical aspects of clinical diagnosis and patient management in all fields of internal medicine
Full review of all internal medicine and primary care topics, including gynecology and obstetrics, dermatology, neurology, ophthalmology, geriatrics, and palliative care
The only text with an annual review of advances in HIV treatment
Specific disease prevention information
Drug treatment tables, with indexed trade names and updated prices – plus helpful diagnostic and treatment algorithms
Recent references with PMID numbers
Six online-only chapters available at no additional cost
Full-color photographs and illustrations
NEW TO THIS EDITION:
New chapter on Sports Medicine & Outpatient Orthopedics
Extensive revision of medical and surgical conditions of pregnancy
Updated coverage of evaluating fertility in women, immunization requirements, and the use and safety of nonsteroidal and anti-inflammatory drugs
Extensive revision of Kidney Disease chapter
New topics include snoring a selection of common musculoskeletal problems such as subacromial impingement syndrome, rotator cuff tear, anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus injuries, patellofemoral pain syndrome, and inversion and eversion ankle sprains
New online-only chapter on Women’s Health Issues
S.I. units used throughout
Cracking the AP Biology Exam, 2012 Edition (College Test Preparation)
• A thorough review of all 12 AP Biology labs and possible testing scenarios
• Review questions and key term lists in every chapter to help you practice
• Detailed guidance on how to write a topical, cohesive, point-winning essay
• Updated strategies which reflect the AP test scoring change
• 2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations
Essentials of Family Medicine, 6th edition
"Perhaps more remarkable is how much hasn't changed in the past quarter century. The patient-centered encounter remains the backbone of effective care, whether in the office, on the telephone or online. In these encounters, attentiveness to the interaction between biological, socioeconomic, and psychological factors is as crucial and relevant as ever. Family medicine residency programs continue to provide excellent preparation for physicians interested in caring for individuals of all ages and their families within a broad range of practice settings, styles, and populations. Primary medical care continues to be recognized as the cornerstone of an effective health care system, although integration of primary care into the broader US system remains far from ideal"--Provided by publisher.
As Biology (Instant Revision)
Important biological concepts are explained concisely to give a clear understanding of key processes.
The table on page vi shows which chapters cover the modules in your specification, so only revise those topics you will be examined on.
Medical Terminology Demystified
There’s no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects
Medical Terminology Demystified covers all the basic terms of disease and injury, abnormal anatomy and physiology, surgical techniques, drugs, and other therapies--in the context of real, practical health issues. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and even a final exam.
Neuropsychoanalysis in Practice: Brain, Self and Objects
Is the Ego nothing but our brain? Are our mental and psychological states nothing but neuronal states of our brain? Though Sigmund Freud rejected a neuroscientific foundation for psychoanalysis, recent knowledge in neuroscience has provided novel insights into the brain and its neuronal mechanisms. This has also shed light on how the brain itself contributes to the differentiation between neuronal and psychological states.
In Neuropsychoanalysis in Practice , Georg Northoff discusses the various neuronal mechanisms that may enable the transformation of neuronal into psychological states, looking at how these processes are altered in psychiatric disorders like depression and schizophrenia. He focuses specifically on how the brain is organized and how this organization enables the brain to differentiate between neuronal and psychodynamic states, that is, the brain and the psyche. This leads him to discuss not only empirical issues but also conceptual problems, for instance, the concept of the brain. Neuropsychoanalysis in Practice applies these concepts and mechanisms to explain the various symptoms observed in psychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia. In addition to the empirical issues, he also discusses various conceptual and methodological issues that are relevant in linking neuroscience and psychoanalysis, developing a novel transdisciplinary framework for linking neuroscience, psychoanalysis and philosophy.
This highly original new book will help foster new dialogues between neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, and will be fascinating reading for anyone in these disciplines.
Emergency Medicine: Diagnosis and Management, 6 edition
The sixth edition of this international bestselling emergency medicine handbook has been completely redesigned, revised and expanded to include the very latest evidence-based guidelines for interns, SHOs and junior doctors who are new to the emergency care setting.
The text follows a logical, standard, clear and well set out approach designed to maximize the practical delivery of care at the bedside.
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