Published February, 2017
By Joanna Bourke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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The story of pain and suffering since the eighteenth century. Prize-winning historian Joanna Bourke charts how our understanding of pain (and how to cope with it) has changed completely over the last three centuries.

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Published February, 2017
By Mark Sullivan, PhD MD and Mark Sullivan MD, PhD
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Proposals for patient-centered care for chronic illness have not understood or incorporated the capacity of patients to be active agents of health and health care. Patients can not only make treatment choices, but help define their clinical problem and its resolution. This book examines patient action as the principal path to health and an essential component of it.

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Published February, 2017
By David Nutt, Jürgen Rehm, David Miller, Patricia J. Conrod, Peter Anderson, Tamyko Ysa, Matilda Hellman, Fleur Braddick, Antoni Gual, Silvia Matrai and Jillian Reynolds
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours Series
Rating: 1.00
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Presenting the findings of a five year project studying the pace and impact of addictions in Europe, this book deconstructs the failures and promises of European governance polices for reducing the harm done by legal and illegal drugs and posits a nine point plan as a way forward to redesign addictions governance.

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Published February, 2017
By Alan R. Harvey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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'Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls' demonstrates the evolutionary sociobiological importance of music as a driver of cooperative and interactive behaviour throughout human existence, and what this evolutionary imperative means to twenty-first century humanity and beyond, from social and medical/neurological perspectives.

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Published February, 2017
By Susie Wilkinson, Carma L. Bylund, David W. Kissane, Phyllis N. Butow, Barry D. Bultz and Simon Noble
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Textbooks In Palliative Medicine
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Communication is a core skill for medical professionals when treating patients. Cancer and palliative care present some of the most challenging clinical situations. This book provides evidence-based guidelines alongside case examples, tips, and strategies to achieve effective, patient-centred communication.

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Published February, 2017
By Ian P. McLoughlin, Karin Garrety and Rob Wilson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This book explores two controversial examples of attempts to implement national shareable electronic health record systems. It explains why implementing electronic health records has been so fraught with difficulties and argues that the moral basis of recording and sharing health data needs to be re-thought.

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Published February, 2017
By Nicholas Hart, Lucy Schomberg and Elizabeth Sage
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Challenging Concepts
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A case-based guide with expert commentary this case based title deals with contemporary clinical scenarios in respiratory medicine. Each chapter is based around a real-life case, and interspersed with the most up-to-date evidence, management strategies, guidelines and controversies in management.

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Published February, 2017
By Sundeep Sahay, T Sundararaman, Jørn Braa and Jorn Braa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Challenges in the design, development, and implementation of health information systems, particularly in low and middle income countries, and examines approaches to addressing these.

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Published February, 2017
By S Marc Breedlove
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published February, 2017
By George N. Somero, Brent Lockwood, Lars Tomanek and Brent L. Lockwood
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This volume first examines the nature of these perturbations to biochemical systems and then elucidates the major adaptive strategies that enable organisms from all Domains of Life-Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya-to conserve common types of biochemical structures and processes across a wide range of environments.

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