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Revised and updated for its fourth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine is the must-have resource for respiratory trainees, internal medical trainees and other junior doctors in acute and internal medicine, medical students, and all clinicians caring for patients with respiratory problems. Concise, practical, and designed for rapid access to essential information, this handbook will ensure you have everything you need for the ward, clinic, or in the run up to exams. All major respiratory diseases and symptoms are covered in practical, succinct chapters. This new edition includes the latest clinical guidelines from the British Thoracic Society and NICE, and covers key developments in the field. Additional detail has been added to more challenging topics such as sleep medicine, lung transplantation, and pulmonary disease in the immunocompromised patient, and there is a dedicated section on COVID-19. The handbook features unique sections on practical procedures and a symptoms section to aid in differential diagnosis and clinical management. Practical advice on management is integrated throughout and a dedicated section on respiratory emergencies ensures you can cope with any eventuality. This fourth edition will ensure you have all the information you need at your fingertips!

This atlas is an invaluable aid for pathologists and trainees who have worked with conventional smear cytology but need to familiarize themselves with the appearance seen in liquid-based cytology, which has largely replaced conventional smears for cervical screening. It includes state of the art information on normal Pap smears, normal glandular constituents, smear patterns, and inflammation, reactive changes, and repair; it also covers pathological changes, such as typical and atypical squamous cell abnormalities, high-grade intraepithelial lesions, and glandular cell abnormalities. It will be a useful guide for practitioners who need a quick reference on cytological specimens.

This new edition of Surgery at a Glance provides a concise and visually-orientated summary of a comprehensive lecture course in surgery. Following the easy-to-use at a Glance format, each topic is presented with clear illustrations and key facts encapsulating all that you need to know. The book is coherently divided into clinical presentations followed by major surgical conditions. Exploring core principals and important diseases, it is an accessible companion to any surgery core text, and is ideally placed to support the current curriculum. Surgery at a Glance : *Features brand new chapters on Orthopaedics and updates on the management of surgical conditions *Includes more revision-friendly elements for quick reference *Is fully supported by a resource website at www.testgeneralsurgery.com containing both MCQs and short answer questions

Secondo una prospettiva assai diffusa e radicata, la secolarizzazione sarebbe un portato inevitabile della modernità. Da questo punto di vista l'America, società moderna per definizione eppure profondamente religiosa, sarebbe un'eccezione tutta da spiegare. Questo libro rovescia completamente la prospettiva: è l'Europa l'eccezione rispetto al resto del mondo, che assiste oggi a una grande fioritura di movimenti religiosi cosiddetti "emozionali". Quello che va spiegato, dunque, è il radicale secolarismo delle società europee. Perché su questa sponda dell'Atlantico siamo convinti che per essere moderni occorra essere secolarizzati? La risposta non chiama in causa soltanto le coscienze, ma anche e soprattutto ragioni storico-istituzionali. Di qui un possibile insegnamento, che cozza contro il senso comune europeo: se vogliamo integrare le religioni nella società, meglio offrire loro accesso alla sfera pubblica. Per tale compito il nostro continente, con una storia improntata alla difesa "dalle" religioni, è meno attrezzato dell'America, la cui vicenda è ispirata alla difesa "delle" religioni.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the evaluation and treatment of the infertile male. It is suitable for all physicians who encounter this common medical problem. Despite the prevalance of male infertility as a common underlying cause of infertility, its evaluation and treatment remains a difficult and misunderstood area for many doctors - a problem this volume aims to overcome. It includes chapters which review the full range of modern techniques now available for analysing semen and identifying the underlying cause of infertility, and then goes on to consider the various treatment options. The volume also discusses endocrine assessment and treatment, psychological aspects of male infertility, and includes a chapter on female infertility. This will be a valuable source of reference for general practitioners and physicians, urologists and gynaecologists.

This is a new book in the "In Focus" series covering a major clinical specialty. The text covers the whole spectrum of cardiac disease in the concise text and illustration format of this series. The text is illustrated by a range of photographs including all major investigational procedures used in the specialty, as well as high quality clinical photographs and pathology specimens. The book ends with a range of picture-based self-assessment questions with full accompanying descriptive answers.

All subjects have their canon of literature that should be studied before serious students can advance in their chosen fields. Containing papers carefully compiled not merely for their historical importance but also for their contemporary relevance, Classic Papers in Breast Disease is that resource. A team of experts shares their experience in researching, diagnosing, and treating breast disease. Each chapter contains not just a compilation of papers, but a critical commentary on the papers, their strengths and weaknesses, and their relevance to current practice and research. The commentary, always insightful and straightforward, ranges from theory to practice, from physical to psychological. Each chapter also has a brief introduction to set the scene as the author sees it. All the papers share in common their place as building blocks, as judged by the refraction of history, in the current knowledge base or in current research.