Oxford University Press

Earthquakes rank among the most terrifying natural disasters faced by mankind. Out of a clear blue sky-or worse, a jet black one-comes shaking strong enough to hurl furniture across the room, human bodies out of bed, and entire houses off of their foundations. When the dust settles, the immediate aftermath of an earthquake in an urbanized society...

Hope, Treatment, and RecoveryAfter her diagnosis of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), health journalist Patricia Prijatel did what any reporter would do: start investigating the disease, how it occurs, and how it's treated. While she learned that important research was emerging, she found a noticeable lack of resources on the disease, which...

Who is in the best position to know a person's sex, and do we each have a true sex? When a person's sex changes, has the old self disappeared and a new one emerged; or, has only the public presentation of one's self changed? The essays in this collection address these questions and look at the philosophical issues that surround gender, sex, and...

This book provides an analysis of the most serious global threats to health , the tools that can be used to evaluate them, and the international agencies established to respond to them. Medical threats such as infectious diseases, obesity, tobacco use, and global climate change are discussed, but the authors also expand their scope to include...

The book presents a quantitative treatment of the theory and natural variations of light stable isotopes. Isotope distribution is rigorously discussed in the context of fractionation processes, thermodynamics, mass conservation, exchange kinetics and diffusion theory, in a treatment that includes more than 100 original applications. The theoretical...

This is a practical "e;how to"e; book for trainees and practicing clinicians unfamiliar with neuropsychiatry. It presents the basic principles of neuropsychiatric diagnosis and management as the author might teach them during clinical rounds and in small group seminars. It is engagingly written and contains many tables for easy reference...