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Discovering Physics eBook Series

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  • Invisible Light

    The Remarkable Story of Radiology

    by Adrian Thomas ...
    Series series Discovering Physics
    The book is a developed history of the radiological sciences – covering the back-story to Röntgen’s discovery, the discovery itself and immediate reception the early days of radiology leading to classical radiology (the pre-digital world). The 1970s as the ‘golden decade’ of radiology will be covered in detail, with the development of CT, MRI and modern interventional radiology. It will appeal to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Anaesthesia

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Aidan O'Donnell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What do anaesthetists do? How does anaesthesia work? What are the risks? And how does the anaesthetist know if you are really asleep? Anaesthesia is a mysterious and sometimes threatening process. In this Very Short Introduction, Aidan O'Donnell takes the reader on a tour through the whole of the modern anaesthetic practice. He begins by explaining general anaesthesia: what it is, how it is ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Arterial Blood Gases: an easy learning guide

    by Fiona Foxall ...
    Blood gas analysis is one of the most frequently requested blood tests when caring for the critically ill patient, as it provides very valuable information about the respiratory and acidbase status of the patient (Shoulders-Odom, 2000). However, many healthcare professionals find it difficult to get to grips with blood gas analysis. It often seems complex and daunting, but if you work your way ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • From Poison Arrows to Prozac

    How deadly toxins changed our lives forever

    by Professor Stanley Feldman ...
    Stanley Feldman is a leading light in the field of modern anaesthetics, a former Professor of Anaesthetics at London University and was appointed to the Imperial College School of Medicine. He is the author of many books, papers and lectures on the subject. He is also the author of Life Begins..., a positive guide to retirement, and co-editor of the acclaimed Panic Nation with Vincent Marks. ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • NCLEX Questions: Health History and Physical Assessment Vol. 1

    NCLEX, #8

    by Dr. Evelyn J Biluk ...
    Series Book 8 - NCLEX
    This is a collection of multiple choice questions focused on health history and physical assessment for students preparing for the NCLEX. Areas covered by questions include health history and physical assessment (preparation, techniques, general survey, vital signs, nutrition status, skin, hair, nails, head, cranial nerves, eyes, ears, nose and sinuses). ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The History of Radiology

    by Adrian M. K. Thomas, Arpan K. Banerjee ...
    Series series Oxford Medical Histories
    In 1890, Professor Arthur Willis Goodspeed, a professor of physics at Pennsylvania USA was working with an English born photographer, William N Jennings, when they accidentally produced a Röntgen Ray picture. Unfortunately, the significance of their findings were overlooked, and the formal discovery of X-rays was credited to Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895. The discovery has since transformed the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Blood

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Cooper ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Blood is vital to most animals. In mammals it transports oxygen and food, carries away waste, and contains the white cells that attack invading microbes. Playing a central role in life, it has had profound cultural and historical significance and plays an important role in religious ritual. Blood was one of the four humours in early Western medicine and is still probably the major diagnostic tool ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Transcranial Doppler Sonography

    Edited by Rune Aaslid ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Every few years a dissertation comes to the area of clinical application of medical technology which carries us forward as on a magic carpet into new regions of understanding and patient care. This book is such a magic carpet. It brings together, in a clear and incisive fashion, important hemodynamic principles with a simple noninvasive method of application to a part of the cerebral vasculature ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Forensic Biomechanics

    by Jules Kieser, Michael Taylor, Debra Carr ...
    Series series Developments in Forensic Science
    Biomechanics is the application of mechanical principles to living organisms, and it is one of the most exciting and fastest growing research areas. In forensic science, it is biomechanics that explains trauma to the body at a crime scene or the fracture of fibers and textiles, and helps interpret blood spatter. Forensic Biomechanics is a comprehensive overview of the role of biomechanics in ... Read more

    $81.00 USD

  • Imaging and Imagining the Fetus

    The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound

    by Malcolm Nicolson, John E. E. Fleming ...
    How engineers and clinicians developed the ultrasound diagnostic scanner and how its use in obstetrics became controversial.To its proponents, the ultrasound scanner is a safe, reliable, and indispensable aid to diagnosis. Its detractors, on the other hand, argue that its development and use are driven by the technological enthusiasms of doctors and engineers (and the commercial interests of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • A History of Radionuclide Studies in the UK

    50th Anniversary of the British Nuclear Medicine Society

    Edited by Ralph McCready, Gopinath Gnanasegaran, Jamshed B. Bomanji ...
    The British Nuclear Medicine Society celebrates its 50th Anniversary with this booklet, which reflects the research of many of the pioneers in the use of radionuclides for the diagnosis and therapy of human disease. Since 1949 there have been remarkable advances in radionuclide techniques and imaging equipment: from the first devices “home-made” in the many physics departments throughout the UK, ... Read more

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  • Infrared Imaging

    A casebook in clinical medicine

    by Allen John, Katarzyna Jobs, Rafal Dulski, Marek Klewar, Pawel Twarkowski, A Koszycka, W Wozniak, Rui Carvalho, K Bilska, Kurt Amsler, Miroslaw Dabrowski, Liliana Esteves, Stanislaw Zmuda, Boleslaw Kalicki, Lech Gawron, Petros Perros, Crispian Oates, Ryszard Grenda, B Nurowska-Wrzosek, Bridget Griffiths, Costanzo Di Maria, Nicola Leech, Ana Domingues, V Flower, Ana Marques, Joaquim Gabriel, Marcin Mozanski, Madalena Pimenta, Michal Osiecki, Rafal Kuligowski, Weronika Machura, A Lipinska-Opalka, Wojciech Perdzynski, Radoslaw Rózycki, Bartosz Rustecki, Jane Dickinson, Joao Torres, Ian Forrest, Ricardo Vardasca, David Talbot, Steven Burnett, A Rustecka, Piotr Murawski, Grainne Gorman, Pawel Zaborowski, Aleksander Ligezinski, Andrej Stankiewicz, Betka L vel Gadomska, J Shipley, Cezary Pogorzelski, J D Pauling, Z Gacion, J Oliveira, Derek Robertshaw, D Hart, J Mróz, Marek Stanczyk, W Stankiewicz, Jakub Klimkiewicz, Marco Rebelo ...
    Series series IOP Expanding Physics
    Infrared thermal imaging is a rapid and non-invasive procedure for mapping skin-temperature distribution of the human body. Advanced software and high-resolution infrared detectors has allowed for a renaissance in the use of infrared thermal imaging or thermography in medical research and practice. After a review of theory, technology and methodology of medical infrared imaging, the remainder of ... Read more

    $107.99 USD