Medical

This book gives an account of Hong Kong’s medical and health development from the Second World War to the present day, investigates how medical and health services grew and adapted as Hong Kong’s political and the socioeconomic landscape—and the world beyond it—changed, and continued changing. The author is a clinician-scientist rather than a social scientist, her writing is therefore based on her first-hand knowledge of the changes in the Hong Kong medical and health care scene, and the book has also been enriched by her meticulous research via the archives of available government publications, other literature, and media reports.


This book is a sequel to A Medical History of Hong Kong: 1842–1941.

In this set of high-quality DVDs, viewers can watch doctors perform minimally invasive thoracic surgery on patients in the operating room. Dr. Anthony Yim, a pioneer in Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS), is the lead surgeon on a majority of the cases. The set covers a wide range of topics, including airway stenting, emphysema surgery, VATS anatomical lung resection, and robotic surgery. It also includes an illustrated handbook that provides concise instructions on how to perform these operations.

Anthropometric measurements of growth parameters form an integral and vital part of paediatric practice and research. It is important to know the norms of vital parameters in order to recognize abnormalities when they arise. This book is intended to be a handy reference for doctors and nurses looking after neonates. It provides gestation-specific reference standards of physical measurements for Hong Kong Chinese newborns. The data has been obtained from observation of over ten thousands babies in twelve hospitals in Hong Kong. Health care professionals will find this book indispensable for their day-to-day care of both sick and healthy neonates.

This book is to provide clincial students with some basic principles of diagnosis and management, medico-legal pitfalls and roles of evidence in primary care. Using practical examples, the authors describe clearly the whole mental process in coming to a clinical diagnosis, with emphasis on important signs or symptoms and investigations to look out for. The book should be of interest to advanced medical students in the clinical years (year 3 to 5) and novice clinicians who will be using history and physical examination skills in the clinical setting. The examples are realistic and inspiring and the analyses to them are succinct.

The book is the first of its type ever published in the English language, which provides comprehensive review of the history of cardiothoracic surgery in China and highlights the remarkable surgical heritage that the younger generation of Chinese surgeons is proud of. A unique feature of this volume is that many contributors are renowned expert and surgical leader in the field of cardiothoracic surgery, both nationally and internationally.

The impact of physical activity and urban living in childhood extend into adulthood. This saying is almost commonsensical, but seems to lack unambiguous research evidence. Physical Health and Activity of Hong Kong Youth attempts to fill the gap and provide solid research constructs.

?The metabolic activation of many drugs and xenobiotics in vivo is effected through the large family of cytochrome P450s enzymes that catalyse a diverse spectrum of reactions including the metabolism of both endogenous and exogenous compounds. There is considerable evidence suggesting that changes in P450 activities can affect the in vivo toxicity of drugs in both animals and humans. Oxidative metabolism by cytochrome P450 enzymes has been implicated in the pathogenesis of cancer, through the formation of toxic intermediates and carcinogenic metabolites are formed from drugs and xenobiotics. A marked overall increase in the metabolic activation of the commonly used analgesic agent, paracetamol, was found in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, as indicated by a much higher percentage recovery of the oxidative metabolites cysteine and mercapturate conjugates, compared to healthy controls and patients with chronic hepatitis B infection. It was through that metabolic activation of some drugs and xenobiotics through the actions of specific cytochrome P450s may be enhanced in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

How did lay people in old China save their lives when dealing with acute or chronic health issues? Conventional medicine was costly and might not have been an option for many. Instead, people in villages and towns relied on remedies drawn from a woodblock-printed illustrated booklet called the Seventy-Two Therapies, first published in 1847.

The goal of this book is to foster an appreciation of China’s long tradition of folk remedies. Each folk remedy is illustrated by a page from the circa 1860s woodblock edition of the Seventy-Two Therapies which the author used for translation. He also added a historical and interpretive analysis to expand on each therapy and to place it in the context of contemporary thinking, aiming at academics and readers interested in the everyday lives of common people in pre-1950 China, and in the folk medicine wisdom inherited from the past.

The book features a passionate and clinically relevant synthesis of Dr. Liu’s discipleship with Yang Zhenhai ( 楊真海), one of the last remaining master practitioners of Daoist acupuncture in mainland China. Liu’s selection of this specific tradition for conscientious study and stewardship is based on affirmative answers to two essential questions: Is this lineage compelled by the objective to address the root of disease and vitalize the innate healing forces of the human body? Does the carrier of this lineage transmit his knowledge in a virtuous way?