This fully revised edition of Clinical Biochemistry offers essential reading for today’s medical student and all those who require a concise, practical introduction to this subject. Topics are clearly presented in a series of double-page ‘learning units’, each covering a particular aspect of clinical biochemistry. Four sections provide a core grounding in the subject: • Introducing c…
Penyediaan dan penggunaan pengobatan tradisional, komplementer dan alternatif (CAM) telah berkembang secara global selama 40 tahun terakhir. Seiring berkembangnya CAM bersama – dan terkadang terintegrasi dengan – pengobatan konvensional, buku pegangan ini memberikan gambaran besar pertama tentang regulasi dan profesionalisasinya dari perspektif ilmu sosial dan hukum. The Routledge Handbo…
Nutrition science is a highly fractionated, contentious field with rapidly changing viewpoints on both minor and major issues impacting on public health. With an evolutionary perspective as its basis, this exciting book provides a framework by which the discipline can finally be coherently explored. By looking at what we know of human evolution and disease in relation to the diets that humans …
The sudden appearance and rapid spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2002 served to alert the world to the fact that emerging infections are a global problem. Living in affluent societies with well developed health care systems does not necessarily protect people from the dangers posed by life-threatening infections. The SARS epidemic tested global preparedness for dealing with…
There is a worldwide problem with food contamination, with an increasing number of outbreaks, and food safety. Consequently, there is a need for rapid tracing of foods as well as requirements for food authentication. This book provides a description of antibody-based technologies used in food analysis. It focuses on key applications outlining the approaches used, their advantages and limitation…
edited by J.P.F. D'Mello.