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This book is unlike anything you've encountered before. It presents an adjusted reality made of engaging elements shaping a unique and immersive adventure, boldly venturing to places where society hesitates. In its pages, you'll reach breathtaking heights that ignite your potential, supercharging your optimal living and longevity.

In an era where health solutions often come in pill bottles and quick fixes, Adjusted Reality presents a revolutionary perspective on personal transformation and whole-being health. Drawing from over twenty-five years of clinical experience, Dr. Sherry McAllister challenges the status quo of fragmented healthcare and inherited thinking patterns with a profound question: “How can we open ourselves up to do better?"

This groundbreaking work transcends traditional self-help approaches by addressing the root forces that shape our lives and health decisions. Dr. McAllister introduces a comprehensive navigational concept that integrates mind, body, and spirit, elevating readers from mere well-being to the term “whole-being"—a supercharged state of authentic health and purposeful living.

Through the metaphor of climbing (and descending) life’s mountains and valleys, readers explore the ascent toward personal growth and the equally crucial challenge of maintaining progress beyond the peak. The book provides innovative frameworks for:

• Breaking free from groupthink and conventional healthcare paradigms
• Developing a sustainable approach to quality of life and longevity
• Understanding the interconnectedness of physical health, emotional responses, and life choices
• Building resilient communities through shared moral compasses and collective vitality

Adjusted Reality isn't just about personal transformation—it's about evolving our entire approach to health and healing. Dr. McAllister's vibrant enthusiasm and quarter-century of practical experience illuminate a path from fragmented care to comprehensive vitality, from last hope to first choice.

Perfect for readers seeking authentic change in their health journey and those ready to embrace a more comprehensive approach to personal transformation, this book offers more than solutions—it provides a new lens through which to view your entire relationship with health and whole-being.

This Atlas is principally based on the Brush Foundation Study of Human Growth and Development, conceived in 1929 by Professor T. Wingate Todd of Western Reserve University School of Medicine. This intensive study collected data on the maturation of human anatomy through the meticulous X-raying of a series of research subjects enrolled in the study as juveniles—some as young as three months—and thereafter routinely weighed and measured at three-month to one-year intervals, depending on their age.

This Atlas utilizes not only the X-ray films to which Todd had access but, also, those which were obtained in the six years subsequent to Todd's publication of his Atlas of Skeletal Maturation of the Hand. The X-ray standards in the present volume are, therefore, the first to be based exclusively on the research of the Brush Foundation Study.

Biographical sketches of the nineteen chairmen who have guided the evolution of the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school and surgery department, America’s first, from 1765 to the present day

In Surgeons and Something More, Clyde F. and Elizabeth D. Barker chronicle the evolution of the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school and surgery department, America’s first, begun in 1765. In the turbulent times before and after the Revolution, with medicine and surgery then in a primitive state, the new school’s leaders included some of America’s most conspicuous political and military figures.Over the next 250 years, the new nation experienced a dozen wars, four presidential assassinations, several devastating epidemics, and the expansion of US territory nine times over. This book reveals how Penn surgeons played prominent roles in these events as well as in the concomitant medical advances, such as anesthesia, antisepsis, heart surgery, x-rays, transplantation, cancer chemotherapy, intravenous nutrition, and gene therapy.

Biographical sketches of the nineteen chairmen who have guided Penn Surgery over its development detail the department’s progress and depict some of its setbacks. These trailblazers wrote the first text- books, taught the first classes, started the field’s journals, and led its academic organizations. By inventing new procedures, they saved countless lives. But by ignoring antisepsis, they lost many others. They operated on paupers, prisoners, Supreme Court justices, and gravely wounded presidents. Three of them became US Surgeon Generals. Others fought duels, explored the frozen Arctic seas, and conducted clandestine love affairs. In war, they parachuted behind enemy lines and invented SCUBA to disrupt enemy shipping. They built World War II’s largest hospital in the Burmese jungle to care for wounded commandos, and in Korea’s MASH tents they were the real-life Hawkeyes struggling to save the lives of stricken GIs. This is the story of how surgery evolved to its present, still imperfect, form, and of the role played by the doctors of the University of Pennsylvania in advancing the surgeon’s science and art.

This volume offers a new critical edition with facing English translation and a detailed study of the medieval manual of dietetics Occitan Health Advice dating from the 13^th century and probably compiled in the milieu of Montpellier’s university. This Advice on health and well-being is a unique example of medical writing: composed in Occitan (formerly called Old Provençal), the vernacular language of southern France; it provided a wealth of medical information and guidance for a literate nonspecialist reader interested in a healthful life. This Advice will interest medical historians, literary scholars, and linguists, as well as readers curious about the Middle Ages, for all of whom it provides invaluable information on medieval daily life, dietary regimen, and healthy habits.

2025 Global Book Awards Gold Medalist in Organizational Change

Discover the innovations transforming medicine—and the fight to make care more equitable, accessible, and effective.

In The Great Healthcare Disruption, Dr. Marschall Runge—cardiologist, researcher, and CEO of Michigan Medicine—offers a gripping, insider’s look at the forces rapidly reshaping American healthcare. From artificial intelligence and retail medicine to revolutionary gene therapies and next-generation obesity drugs, this is your essential guide to the most significant transformation in medical care since the discovery of antibiotics.

Inside you’ll explore:

• The rise of Big Tech in medicine—how Amazon, Google, and other disruptors are redefining the patient experience
• Breakthrough treatments and AI-driven diagnostics reshaping chronic disease management, behavioral health, and drug development
• The hidden trade-offs of innovation—how cutting-edge care delivery models are improving outcomes while straining the systems meant to support them
• Why traditional institutions must evolve—and how academic medical centers can remain vital in a tech-driven world
• Hard truths about access, equity, and affordability—and what must change to make healthcare work for everyone

With rich storytelling, sharp insights, and practical solutions, Dr. Runge cuts through the complexity of modern medicine to offer a bold, balanced path forward.

Whether you're a healthcare professional, policy leader, or curious reader, The Great Healthcare Disruption is your guide to understanding—and shaping—the revolution already underway.

Over the past three decades, guidance on the selection of art in hospitals has suggested realistic art that depicts soothing and comforting images such as tranquil waters, green vegetation, flowers, and open spaces. Based on these findings, curators have been cautioned to avoid art with uncertain meaning that risks upsetting viewers in stressful states. However, some hospitals exhibit ambiguous or abstract art and cite anecdotal evidence of its appropriateness for healthcare settings. More recent research is going beyond anecdotal evidence, and indicates that the ambiguity of meaning in abstract compositions can have positive effects.

'Purpose-built' Art in Hospitals is built on an international study of artwork in hospitals around the globe. Exploring 'purpose-built' (specially commissioned) artwork in hospitals through the dual lens of an artist and healthcare professional, Rollins identifies 15 specific 'purposes' of visual artwork in hospitals and presents a compelling case for their use that is grounded in research. The book builds the reader's understanding of the many functions of artwork in hospitals, with the goal of encouraging greater variety in art offerings to better serve the many diverse needs of patients, families, visitors and staff within the hospital environment.

While the physical and emotional trials of waiting on transplant lists are featured in popular media, the struggles recipients face years after surgery are not. Voices of Teenage Transplant Survivors introduces illness narratives from an unrecognized patient population: recipients of heart, liver, and kidney transplants. Offering unique narratives by adolescents who use poetry to explore issues surrounding the changing body, independence, identity, and mortality, the book showcases a message of healing and voices of hope amid uncertainty.

Illuminating the physical, psychological, and existential challenges confronted by adolescents for which organ rejection and side effects loom in their future, Sample details the poetry workshops where these adolescents articulated experiences silenced by family, friends, and the culture of medicine. She includes close readings and analyses of their writings, along with writing prompts and references to narrative medicine theory. This powerful book offers something new for medical and health professionals, medical humanities researchers, students, and the public.

Blood transfusion is considered a life-saving therapy since ancient times, but, at the same time, a high-risk procedure. Nowadays the common perception is that infection is the greatest risk, even if the blood has never been safer from this point of view. Currently, the residual risk of transfusion must be related mainly to immunological mechanisms underlying to AB0 and minor blood systems, to compatibility of blood transfused and to development of irregular antibodies in transfused patients.

"Transfusion Medicine and Patient Safety" aims to provide the basic of immunohematology to readers and to analyze the transfusional process highlighting the most critical points, thus more exposed to errors.

Screening on blood and blood components for infectious diseases along with the surveillance action on emerging viruses results in the drastic reduction of post-transfusion infection, together with the potential to further increase the level of security from infection through the inactivation of blood components.
The text also describes the major diagnostic systems and organizational models that modern technology provides us with a correct immunohematological diagnosis and an appropriate trasfusional therapy.

‘Because at the heart of the apparent conflict between public health concerns and capitalistic interests, market access for pharmaceuticals is largely driven by political considerations, the difference with usual consumer goods being that pharmaceuticals are saving lives or years of life in good health’. Pharmaceuticals are mainly sourced by companies investing in costly R&D and production at their own risks to make them globally available. However, access for patients in need can be restricted due to insufficient medical resources and/or unaffordability. The dilemma between rewarding innovation with prices in line with value and risks for companies and ensuring affordability for patients or health insurances has become critical for all stakeholders, with political and economic implications. The development of universal health coverage puts pressure on governments to control directly or indirectly reimbursement and prices of pharmaceuticals, whereas the flow of innovations addressing infectious, chronic, and life-threatening diseases, thanks to accelerated scientific progress, is growing constantly.

Management of pharmaceutical health care expenditure approach varies according to the historical, cultural, and economic backgrounds that contribute to building each health care system, and companies are confronted with a very complex environment to launch their new drugs and manage their lifecycle until loss of patent. This book explores the different models of health care systems (e.g., Europe, United States, Japan, China) and the criteria and processes for decision making in coverage and pricing of pharmaceuticals. It also provides the analytic tools that are used to inform the decisions, and how market access strategy can be integrated in the product life cycle. Short case studies related to specific disease areas or methods are supporting exposed concepts and methods.

This book targets primarily students, but may prove useful to industry or insurance executives and eventually public decision makers with interest in the field: all will find relevant insights and sources to dig deeper into the topic. The content has been developed partially through a well received teaching program at CEIBS MBA since 2020.

Volume II in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 5 through 11, devoted to waters, fires, soils, metals, jades, stones, minerals, and salts.

The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518–1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul Unschuld's annotated translation of the Ben cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.

The book contains the English translation of a pivotal 18th-century Latin treatise on skin diseases by the Austrian surgeon Joseph Jacob Plenck (1738-1807) entitled Doctrina de Morbis Cutaneis (Instruction on Cutaneous Diseases).  The work is significant because in it Plenck demonstrated the value of categorizing skin diseases by their morphology. 

Tells the history of St. Vincent's Hospital and the transformative impact of Catholic health care in New York City.

St. Vincent’s Hospital began with a simple, but radical mission: to care for all those in need regardless of race, creed, or financial means. For more than 160 years, the hospital carried out that work, serving notables and the nameless alike, from impoverished immigrants and those stricken by devastating nineteenth-century epidemics to AIDS patients and the victims of the attacks of 9/11.

A Monument of Charity provides the first comprehensive history of this remarkable institution, from its humble beginnings in 1849 to its abrupt closure in 2010. Located in the heart of Greenwich Village, St. Vincent’s earned distinction not only for the quality of its medical programs, but also for its unwavering dedication to the poor. The hospital was a testament to the vision and labor of the Sisters of Charity, who founded, staffed, and administered the hospital with remarkable skill and devotion.

This captivating account documents St. Vincent’s growth into one of the largest and most prominent Catholic medical centers in the United States, as well as its struggles to sustain its religious mission within the ever-changing and increasingly competitive medical marketplace. A Monument to Charity highlights the immense contributions of Catholic sisters to health care in the United States as well as the enduring legacy of all those who worked alongside them to care for the sick and alleviate suffering.

Across the globe, patients are no longer passive recipients of care — they are active participants, decision-makers and collaborators.

This timely volume explores the evolving landscape of patient and public involvement (PPI) in healthcare, focusing on its intersection with the healthcare professions. Drawing on international perspectives, the book examines how patients and professionals navigate changing roles, peer support networks and complex healthcare systems. It considers the sociological and practical implications of patient-centric care and its impact on clinical outcomes and resources.

This book brings fresh insight to a fast-developing field.

Today, 90 percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a long-forgotten cauldron of racial ideology: the state mental asylum system in which psychiatry was born and whose influences extend into our troubled present.

In December 1841, the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded. A hundred years later, it had become the largest insane asylum in the world with over ten thousand patients. Administrations of Lunacy tells the story of this iconic and infamous southern institution, a history that was all but erased from popular memory and within the psychiatric profession.

Through riveting accounts of historical characters, Segrest reveals how modern psychiatric practice was forged in the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. Deftly connecting this history to the modern era, Segrest then shows how a single asylum helped set the stage for the eugenics theories of the twentieth century and the persistent racial ideologies of our own times. She also traces the connections to today's dissident psychiatric practices that offer sanity and create justice.

A landmark of scholarship, Administrations of Lunacy restores a vital thread between past and present, revealing the tangled racial roots of psychiatry in America.

This book deals with all the aspects related to such an organ. The appendix has been considered a vestigial remnant until the recent discoveries about its active immunologic function. It is particularly important for people living in poor areas of the world to restore the bacterial flora after infections. In addition, the appendix seems to exert an effect in the development of immune-related diseases spreading in developed countries, according to the theory of the safe house. The book is divided in three parts: the first is dedicated to embryology, anatomy and physiology. The second and third ones are dedicated to diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory and neoplastic diseases.

Alcohol is everywhere—in our everyday lives, in public debates and, increasingly, at the centre of public health policy.

This book critically examines alcohol as a contemporary research and policy object. It argues that drinking is governed through heavily freighted concepts such as risk, wellbeing, gender and race. The authors interrogate dominant disciplinary sobriety and moderation frameworks, highlighting the overlooked aspects of sociability, pleasure and self-transformation.

In scrutinizing the intensifying public health spotlight on alcohol, the authors issue a call to rethink what it means to live “well” in an era when health is both a personal imperative and a regulatory discourse.

Transform the way healthcare leaders think, act, and lead—starting with the patient.

From Vision to Vitality is a powerful guide for decision-makers seeking to build resilient, people-first healthcare systems. Author Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg—a trained transplant surgeon and award-winning healthcare CEO—shares frontline strategies to transform complexity into clarity and operational chaos into coordinated, value-based care.

With stories from decades of leadership and lessons learned in the operating room and executive boardroom, this book reveals what truly drives lasting change in healthcare: courage, curiosity, and integrity.

Discover how to:

• Lead integrated care across hospitals, long-term care, and community settings
• Build a culture of excellence and accountability
• Implement value-based systems that prioritize patient outcomes
• Embrace innovation while navigating policy and risk
• Inspire teams to lead with purpose at every level

If you’re ready to break through bureaucracy and deliver care that actually works—for patients, providers, and systems—From Vision to Vitality is your essential road map.

"We deserve to be heard, to be genuinely cared for when we go to our medical professionals in pain. It is because of Dr. Seckin and his remarkable team that countless girls and women are now receiving the information and treatment that they need." —Bindi Irwin

Yes, her pain is real. No, she is not crazy. Yes, there is hope.

Although endometriosis is one of the top three causes of female infertility, the average woman with endometriosis is twenty-seven years old before she is accurately diagnosed. The pain is so physically and emotionally insufferable that it can mercilessly affect a woman’s career, social life, relationships, sexual activity, sleep, and diet. It is incurable, but highly treatable. Unfortunately, though, it is rarely treated in a timely manner—if at all—because of misdiagnoses or a lack of education among those in the medical community.

The Doctor Will See You Now is for women determined to let the world know their stories so that every woman with this disease—from the thirteen-year-old girl who is being told that her pain is “part of becoming a woman” to the woman who has been misdiagnosed for decades—knows she is not alone.

The second edition includes five brand new chapters including information on thoracic and sciatic endometriosis, nine new patient stories, updates on fourteen previous patients, a new foreword by Bindi Irwin, new resources, new research, and other updates to make the book more readable and welcoming to readers.

Uterine Fehlbildungen können neben Unterbauchbeschwerden zum Abort und zur Sterilität führen. Das Frauenärztliche Taschenbuch stellt in prägnanter Form und mit farbigen Zeichnungen und OP-Bildern die Ätiologie, Diagnostik und Therapie der einzelnen Uterusfehlbildungen vor und orientiert sich dabei an der aktuellen Leitlinie. Verschiedene operative Therapien werden miteinander verglichen. In separaten Kapiteln wird auf Prognosen für Schwangerschaften und besondere Kasuistiken eingegangen.

Operative hysteroscopy represents an important extension of operative gynaecology. The benefits of this endoscopic technique, however, are balanced by its high demands on the operator. It requires excellent knowledge of safety issues and possible complications. This book acts as guide and resource for the practical acquisition of this technique. This new edition is distinguished by the large number of improved color illustrations and incorporation of the newest scientific findings.

Die körperliche Untersuchung ist die Basis jeder Diagnose, die der Medizinstudent im praktischen Teil der 2. Ärztlichen Prüfung, dem sogenannten Hammerexamen, beherrschen muss. 139 aussagekräftige zweifarbige Zeichnungen illustrieren die hierfür notwendigen Untersuchungstechniken und –schritte und bereiten mit dazugehörigen prägnanten Texten optimal auf die Prüfung und den Berufsalltag vor. Darüber hinaus definiert der Autor klar den Unterschied zwischen Symptom u. Diagnose u. verweist immer deutlich auf den Normalzustand vs. pathologischen Zustand eines Patienten. Ein gesondertes Kapitel stellt außerdem die Geschichte der körperlichen Untersuchung dar, was in dieser Art u. Weise wohl einmalig ist.

• optimale Prüfungsvorbereitung für den praktischen Teil des Hammerexamens
• Authentische Untersuchungssituationen

Das Buch beschreibt in einfacher und präziser Weise alle bekannten Notfallsituationen, die in der Geburtshilfe auftreten können und gibt praktische Handlungsanweisungen für beteiligte Ärzte und Hebammen. Mit kurzen und prägnanten Übersichtsschemata werden u. a. die Themen vaginale Blutungen, hämorrhagischer Schock, Eklampsie, thromboembolische Erkrankungen, Fruchtwasserembolie und akutes Abdomen behandelt.

Zahlreiche Frauen wünschen sich, teilweise oder ganz auf die monatliche Menstruation und ihre Begleiterscheinungen verzichten zu können. Durch die Langzeiteinnahme von oralen hormonellen Kontrazeptiva (OC) ist das möglich, aber: Gegenwärtig ist in Deutschland kein OC-Präparat speziell auf diese Indikation zugelassen. In der täglichen Praxis werden Gynäkologen oftmals mit Fragen zum Thema konfrontiert: Welches Präparat ist empfehlenswert? Gibt es Ergebnisse zur Verträglichkeit? Was passiert bei vorhandenen Grunderkrankungen, z.B. Endometriose, Ovarialzysten, Epilepsie?

Das neue Frauenärztliche Taschenbuch geht auf empfehlenswerte Wirkstoffe für den Langzyklus ein, gibt Dosierungsschemata zur Einnahme, fasst die Ergebnisse der wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen zum Langzyklus zusammen und geht auf Besonderheiten und Empfehlungen bei Grunderkrankungen ein. Dieser verlässliche Wegweiser bietet Sicherheit bei der Verordnung von Präparaten, bei der Verlaufskontrolle und im Umgang mit den Patientinnen.

Our health system resembles a repair service which treats illness and suffering. But in many cases it would seem much simpler to avoid health problems. Why do we wait until the illnesses have developed?

Young and expectant families are particularly interested in maintaining the health of their children and their whole family. Since prevention must begin long before the emergence of illness, there can be no better time to start than the beginning of life. This book presents a range of contributions that not only encourage theoretical reflection about the topics discussed but also provide practical suggestions.

Die Kolposkopie ist ein wichtiges Diagnoseverfahren in der gynäkologischen Praxis, das im Rahmen der Facharzt-Weiterbildung gelehrt wird. Insbesondere beim Zervixkarzinom bedarf es einer verbesserten Diagnostik, u.a. durch Kolposkopie. Das Frauenärztliche Taschenbuch soll als praxisorientiertes Buch in die überwiegend ambulant eingesetzte Technik einführen und sowohl in der Klinik als auch für niedergelassene Ärzte als Kurzorientierung dienen.

Die Multiple Sklerose ist die häufigste entzündliche Erkrankung des Nervensystems. Ihre Ursache ist unbekannt. Sie verläuft zunächst in Schüben, und im Laufe des Lebens tritt bei der Mehrzahl der Erkrankten eine zunehmende Behinderung ein. Vor allem junge Erwachsene zwischen dem 20. und 30. Lebensjahr sind betroffen. In Deutschland sind derzeit 120.000 bis 140.000 Menschen an Multipler Sklerose erkrankt.

Aufgrund des frühen Beginns der Erkrankung sind die sozialmedizinischen Probleme unübersehbar. Die Folgen der Erkrankung in allen Lebensbereichen zu erfassen, war das Ziel der vorliegenden Studie. Die Deutsche Multiple Sklerose Gesellschaft Berlin hat sich die Aufgabe gestellt, umfassende Daten zu gesundheitlicher Situation, medizinischer Versorgung, psychischen und sozioökonomischen Folgen der Erkrankung zu gewinnen und zu analysieren.

Im Buch wird die Bedeutung der Selbstregulation, der individuellen Autonomie und der sozialen Kommunikation für die Aufrechterhaltung der Gesundheit und für die Entstehung von Krankheiten dargestellt. Es wird ein Gesundheitstraining entwickelt, das die Eigenaktivität und Eigenkompetenz des Menschen anregt. Die Bedeutung von Wohlbefinden, Lust und Sicherheit für die Aufrechterhaltung von Gesundheit wird erforscht und dargestellt. Obwohl das Buch wissenschaftliche Studien mit höchstem Anspruch darstellt, ist es für jedermann leicht verständlich und äußerst gewinnbringend.

In kurzer und prägnanter Form wird die Vielzahl der gutartigen und bösartigen Tumoren der weiblichen Brustdrüse in Form von Fallbeispielen dargestellt. Der histologische Befund wird den Ultraschallbildern mit den entsprechenden Beurteilungskriterien gegenübergestellt.

Um eine optimale Planung vor einer Operation zu gewährleisten, ist eine wenig invasive Biopsiemethode unter Vermeidung einer offenen Biopsie bei gleicher Sicherheit notwendig. Gleiches trifft zu, wenn zunächst nicht operiert, sondern eine präoperative neoadjuvante Chemo- oder Hormontherapie durchgeführt werden soll. Die unter Ultraschall durchgeführte Stanzbiopsie stellt hierfür eine exzellente Methode mit hoher Treffsicherheit dar.

In kurzer und prägnanter Form wird die praktische Durchführung der histologischen Abklärung von Brustdrüsenveränderungen durch die Hochgeschwindigkeits-Stanzbiopsie dargestellt. Die einzelnen Schritte zum Erlernen dieser Methode werden durch eine Vielzahl von Bildbeispielen verdeutlicht.

Im zweiten Teil des Taschenbuches wird die praktische Durchführung der präoperativen Drahtmarkierung non-palpabler Herdbefunde in der Brust sowie die intraoperative Kontrolle der Entnahme durch die Präparatsonographie wiederum anhand einer großen Anzahl von Bildbeispielen vorgestellt.

Im dritten Abschnitt des Buches werden Übungsmöglichkeiten an Phantomen demonstriert. Indikationen, Kontraindikationen, Komplikationsmöglichkeiten und praktische Tipps sowie Literaturquellen ergänzen die Ausführungen.

Das vorliegende Buch entstand im Nachgang zur 1. LAGO-Tagung (Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Onkologische Versorgung Land Brandenburg e. V.), Onkologie im Land Brandenburg (Febr. 2000). Dieser Tagungsband soll dazu dienen, zentrale Aspekte aus dem Bereich der letzten Lebensphase krebskranker Menschen anzusprechen. Hierbei spielen die medizinische Behandlung und die pflegerische Betreuung eine ebenso große Rolle wie die psychosoziale Betreuung der Betroffenen und auch ihrer Angehörigen. Es geht um den menschlichen Umgang mit einer tödlichen Krankheit, um Lebensqualität und Menschenwürde.

Das Buch beinhaltet Themen wie "Medizin und Sterben", die "Pflege von Sterbenden" sowie die "Bedeutung der Kommunikation im Betreuungsteam und mit Sterbenden". Weiterhin stehen Vorträge zur "Netzwerkarbeit" im Zentrum, die sich mit dem Sterben und dem Tod von Menschen beschäftigt, die eigentlich erst am Anfang ihres Lebens stehen - von Kindern. Ferner werden Aspekte der Trauerarbeit und Trauerbewältigung aufgezeigt.

Die Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Thema und der Austausch von Erfahrungen sollen dazu beitragen, die Belange von betroffenen Patienten und deren Angehörigen zu verdeutlichen und weiterhin zu verbessern sowie das Wissen um die letzte Lebensphase eines jeden Menschen zu vertiefen.

Das Buch spannt einen weiten Bogen über die Transplantationsmedizin und gibt einen Überblick über Immunologie, Chirurgie, Vorbereitung und Nachsorge sowie die Randbereiche der Transplantationschirurgie. Es dient Chirurgen, Internisten, Allgemeinmedizinern als auch Medizinstudenten als Nachschlagewerk für die thorakale und abdominelle Organtransplantation und soll Grundlagen der Transplantationschirurgie bzw. -medizin vermitteln. Ausserdem informiert es den Leser über rechtliche, ethische und organisatorische Aspekte der Transplantationsmedizin und nicht zuletzt über die "Physiologie des Hirntodes und die Spenderkonditionierung" sowie über den Themenkomplex "Organkonservierung, Transport und Allokation".

Explores the enduring role of traditional bone setting in African healthcare, highlighting its cultural depth, ethnobotanical roots, and growing biomedical collisions s with Western orthopedic medical sciences that split and fracture current patient-care systems. 

Traditional bone setting (TBS) has long held a prominent sway in African healthcare, particularly in the more remote and pastoral expanses of Africa. This unique interdisciplinary religious, human rights, and sociological study of medicine manuscript is an examination of not only generationally inherited ethnobotanical, pharmacognosy TBS traditions but also direct observations on how current surgical orthopedic medicine and modern-day social mechanisms clash with traditional healthcare approaches in contemporaneous and inexorable ways. Whether intentionally or not, this entrenched two-tier infrastructure supports, promotes, and maintains a fiscally and socially alienated infrastructure: one that serves the poor general public; and the other that is oriented toward serving the prosperous and powerful urban class. Some argue that these disparate structures are destined to remain grassroots-based adversaries, due to systemic mistrust, irreconcilable intellectual and spiritual beliefs, and possible biochemical appropriations.
These ensuing biomedical collisions between “Western” orthopedic trauma care and traditional bonesetters in Cameroon (Central Africa), Ethiopia (East Africa), Ghana (West Africa), and Zimbabwe (South Africa) were documented over eight years via one-on-one interviews with TBS patients, practicing bonesetters, and in-country practicing orthopedic surgeons; evidence-based ethnobotanical research, and patient service preferences.
In Western biomedical quarters, it will continue to be argued that traditional bonesetters’ lack of anatomical, physiological, and radiological knowledge effects tragic and unnecessary limb- and/or life-threatening complications. However, in stark contrast to Western medicine—which focuses on the empirical and scientific dissection, analysis, diagnosis, and profitable treatment of singular biological organ systems or body parts via medical specialties—holistic traditional medicine distinguishes itself to take into consideration the complete person in the treatment of injuries and illnesses—physically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually.
In traditional medicine, poor health, disease, misfortune, or even unexpected successes are not viewed as chance occurrences but are imbalances believed to arise from the actions of individuals or ancestral spirits. At its core, traditional medicine can be defined as “health practices, approaches, knowledge and beliefs incorporating plant, animal, and/or mineral-based medicines, spiritual therapies, manual techniques and exercises, applied singularly (or in combination) to treat, diagnose, and prevent illnesses or maintain well-being” (Fokunang et al., 2011). So, we can argue that almost every global region has had, at one time or another in its history, a form of traditional medicine. However, despite being consigned to a secondary placement in the health planning of developing countries, traditional medicine practices are gradually undergoing systemic revitalizations and rehabilitations, particularly in the last two decades.

Becoming a Doctor is the inside story of one person’s transformation from naive student to professorial physician. It will make compelling reading for anyone who, when seeing a doctor, has wondered ‘How did you get to be that way?’

Becoming a Doctor is a personal account of a medical education that began in 1966. It reflects on one person’s experience of being gradually transformed from a nervous student into a professorial physician. The book is not a memoir in the ordinary sense, being less concerned with what the author did than with what education and medical practice did to him.
A doctor’s education may look like a straightforward technical training, but ‘re-membering’ it as a personal experience creates a new and disturbing picture, a blend of joys, absurdities and frustrations. Doctors in the 1960s, as now, were focused on disease and had little to say about suffering, let alone death. They were, and still are, curiously silent about healing, recovery and rehabilitation. From within the hospital, people’s ordinary lives were invisible. Becoming a Doctor shows how difficult it is for a young person to resist the pressures of history and culture.
The author observes his younger self’s efforts to be seen as ‘the right stuff’, which involves suppressing personal feelings, adopting medicine’s rhetoric and mimicking the habits of his teachers, with sometimes disastrous results. Communication, and even empathy, seems like performances in which the doctor’s self need play no part. Later in life, the author becomes more aware of what it is to be present, physically as well as psychologically, to another person.
Becoming a Doctor describes how doctors learn to adopt a compartmentalised concept of human nature that few patients would want. While training as a neurologist, the author is expected to assume that real diseases affect real, physical bodies and that other forms of distress are ‘just psychological’, in other words, unreal. Neurologists appear to be technicians of the brain, psychiatrists of the mind and other doctors of the body.
Each of the book’s chapters focuses on a theme, creating a narrative that is roughly chronological, beginning with the perspectives of a junior medical student and ending with reflections on a doctor’s two major ‘crafts’, diagnosis and treatment. While focused on a particular span of years, the book’s story is in constant conversation with its historical context, a dimension that medical orthodoxy scarcely notices. Reflections are shadowed by theory, but this is not an analytical essay but a piece of provocative and entertaining literature. It is about experiences and dilemmas that matter to everyone.

This volume presents the proceedings of an interdisciplinary workshop at Technical University Braunschweig. Focusing on biotechnology, experts from biology, biotechnology, ethics, philosophy, theology, education, and social sciences investigated how metaphors shape scientific language. They examined conceptual, absolute, and hidden metaphors (e.g., “genetic scissors,” “genetic code,” “antibody,” and “life”) in molecular biology and biotechnology, exploring their roles in describing phenomena, guiding research, and influencing public perceptions. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative writing, participants investigated how metaphors generate and transform knowledge, affect views of life and therapy, and inspire innovation. This volume synthesizes key findings, analyses, and writing conversations in both German and English, integrating systematic metaphor analysis with ethical, philosophical, and pedagogical perspectives on the significance of metaphors in biotechnology research and dissemination. Special attention was paid to metaphors’ role in public communication, potentially determining acceptance or rejection of biotechnological advances. Ultimately, the workshop underscored how metaphors influence scientific progress in multiple ways and therefore require critical reflection.

In seiner grundlegenden Analyse eugenischer Wissensvermittlung und biopolitischer Debatten in der ärztlichen Standespresse spannt der Historiker Jens Kolata einen weiten Bogen:　Er zeichnet zunächst die frühen regulatorischen Vorstellungen des Deutschen Kaiserreichs und die Diskussionen über eugenische Praktiken in der Weimarer Republik nach. Die Realisierung der nationalsozialistischen „Rassenhygiene" bestimmt die Jahre ab 1933.　In der Bundesrepublik findet der Übergang zur stärker am Individuum ansetzenden Humangenetik statt und die Etablierung der Pränataldiagnostik. Dabei veränderten sich nicht nur die Argumente, die Ärzte zur Mitwirkung an Beratungsangeboten und Sterilisationen motivieren sollten, sondern auch das Bild der Betroffenen, die von Objekten eugenischer Kontrolle zu präventiv handelnden Subjekten wurden. Jens Kolata ordnet die innerärztlichen Debatten in die Entwicklungen in der Bevölkerungspolitik ein und zeigt, wo eugenische und berufspolitische Ziele zusammenfielen.

Dieses Buch ist eine praktische Anleitung für die Simulation in jeder geburtshilflichen Abteilung. Hebammen, NeonatologInnen, AnästhesistInnenen und GynäkologInnenen bekommen einen fundierten Einblick in verschiedene Konzepte des geburtshilflichen Simulationstrainings und werden durch Fallbeispiele sehr praxisorientiert informiert. Neu in der 2. Auflage: Ein Kapitel zur Geburtshilfe als Teamarbeit, das neue Konzept zur geburtshilflichen Simulation (GEBSIM I, GEBSIM II) wird beschrieben, das Thema Debriefing hat einen höheren Stellenwert und die Szenarien sind den aktuellen Leitlinien angepasst worden.