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Freedom and Neurobiology
Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless, unfree, nonrational, brute physical particles....
by Jim Dornan
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
When thirty-six-year-old working mum Penny came to see gynaecologist Jim Dornan about her premenstrual symptoms, she was at the end of her tether. In Coping with PMT, Jim discusses the physical effects of modern family planning, the contraceptive pill and hormone therapy, and you’ll discover...
Joy at the End of the Rainbow
A Guide to Pregnancy After a Loss
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2017
You’ve got What to Expect When You’re Expecting, but where do you go for a pregnancy guide when you’ve been pregnant before, and didn’t get to come home with a baby? For the nearly 2.6 million women worldwide every year who lose a baby to miscarriage, stillbirth and early neonatal loss, this...
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with People at Risk of Suicide
Working with People at Risk of Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Grounded in extensive research and clinical experience, this book describes how to adapt mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for participants who struggle with recurrent suicidal thoughts and impulses. Clinicians and mindfulness teachers are presented with a comprehensive framework for understanding...
by Adam Lee D'Amato-Neff, Tracy R. McElligott
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Tracy McElligott is dying. This is the profound true life account of her experiences in dealing with her illness, her lung transplant at Stanford University, and recovery. During this crisis, she must struggle with the love and care for her two young children and undergo a divorce. In this dark time comes the love of her life, a modern-day knight in shining armour.
The Roots of Modern Hypnosis
From Esdaile to the 1961 International Congress on Hypnosis
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
The Roots of Modern Hypnosis is a compendium of three classic volumes on hypnosis, written by some of its most important practitioners. Read in sequence, these books provide a fascinating explication of the history of hypnosis, from the animal magnetism, mesmerism, and universal fluid of Franz Anton...
by J. Perry Gustafson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this well-illustrated text, the author explores the potential of brief psychotherapy through four paradigmatic modes of the patient's relationship to others: subservience, indecisiveness, control, and fundamental fault. Dr. Gustafson utilizes cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, psychoanalytic,...
Brain-Computer Interfacing for Assistive Robotics
Electroencephalograms, Recurrent Quantum Neural Networks, and User-Centric Graphical Interfaces
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology provides a means of communication that allows individuals with severely impaired movement to communicate with assistive devices using the electroencephalogram (EEG) or other brain signals. The practicality of a BCI has been possible due to advances in multi-disciplinary...
AJCC Cancer Staging Atlas
A Companion to the Seventh Editions of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual and Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Significantly expanded, expertly and beautifully illustrated, The AJCC Cancer Staging Atlas, 2nd Edition, offers more than 600 illustrations created exclusively for this new edition and is fully updated to reflect the concepts discussed in the 7th Edition of both the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual and...
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
Surgical Techniques and Disease Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Over the past decade, minimally invasive techniques have developed rapidly and are widely applied in the management of spine disorders. With the development of enabling technologies, including specifically designed spinal retractor systems, intraoperative imaging and navigation technologies, and real-time...
The Joint Kitchen
A Handbook for Orthopaedic Inventors and Fraidy Cats Facing a Knee or Hip Replacement
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Imagine a doctor doing ordinary activities in his kitchen, stopping to draw some of the everyday objects around him, like an orange and a corkscrew. Then watch him turn those drawings into advanced patents for hip and knee replacements. Dr. Michael Ries holds 45 patents, and many of his...
Trauma Team Dynamics
A Trauma Crisis Resource Management Manual
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
This is the first book exploring the unique dynamics created by a multidisciplinary trauma team and how crisis management strategies can improve teamwork and communication and, potentially, improve patient resuscitation outcomes.
Crisis resource management (CRM) is integral to the way...
Multidisciplinary Management of Prostate Cancer
The Role of the Prostate Cancer Unit
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Prostate cancer is the most common neoplasm in men and its management is very complex, in terms of both diagnosis and treatment. In recent years the value of multidisciplinary management within a prostate cancer unit has been increasingly recognized. Such a multidisciplinary approach within a specialized...
by Chandrajit P. Raut, MD, MSc
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
This issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, guest edited by Dr. Chandrajit P. Raut, is devoted to Sarcomas. Dr. Raut has assembled expert authors to review the following topics: Sarcoma: Histologic Subtypes and Changes in the Recent WHO Classification; Distinguishing Radiologic Characteristics...