Allied Health Books

New and Published Books

1. Making Sense of Clinical Teaching

   A Hands-on Guide to Success

   By Samy A Azer

   Series: Making Sense of

   Are you new to clinical teaching and looking for practical advice?Would you like to challenge and improve your current teaching style?Do you want to direct change in teaching practice within a department or institution?If your answer to any of the above is yes, then Making Sense of Clinical...

   Published April 22nd 2013 by CRC Press
2. Contemporary Drug Policy

   By Henry Brownstein

   Series: New Directions in Critical Criminology

   This book focuses on the use of drugs in our lives and how we respond to them. Whereas drug policy typically centres on the problems of illicit drugs or licit drugs used in illicit ways or circumstances, Contemporary Drug Policy instead considers the wide variety of substances we call drugs as a...

   Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Computer Access for People with Disabilities

   A Human Factors Approach

   By Richard C. Simpson

   Series: Rehabilitation Science in Practice Series

   Incorporating Compass Computer Access Assessment software, Computer Access for People with Disabilities: A Human Factors Approach provides the information clinicians need to know in order to provide effective alternative computer access solutions to individuals with disabilities. Originally...

   Published January 10th 2013 by CRC Press
4. Cut Down to Size

   Achieving success with weight loss surgery

   By Jenny Radcliffe

   Cut Down to Size covers everything you need to know about bariatric surgery, from referral through to the challenges you may face after surgery. Most people who seek weight loss surgery have struggled for many years to control their eating, and have experienced increasing health limitations,...

   Published January 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic'

   Governing Bodies

   Edited by Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood

   Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

   Biopolitics and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ is the first edited collection of critical perspectives on the 'obesity epidemic.' The volume provides a comprehensive discussion of current issues in the critical analysis of health, obesity and society, and the impact of obesity discourses on different...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. Nanotechnology in Health Care

   Edited by Sanjeeb K. Sahoo

   Nanotechnologies are among the fastest growing areas of scientific research, and this is expected to have a substantial impact on human health care, especially in biomedical applications and nanomedicine now and in the near future. In the present scenario, nanotechnology is spreading its wings to...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Pan Stanford Publishing
7. Assistive Technology for Blindness and Low Vision

   Edited by Roberto Manduchi, Sri Kurniawan

   Series: Rehabilitation Science in Practice Series

   Assistive technology has made it feasible for individuals with a wide range of impairments to engage in many activities, such as education and employment, in ways not previously possible. The key factor is to create consumer-driven technologies that solve the problems by addressing the needs of...

   Published October 25th 2012 by CRC Press
8. Quality of Life Technology Handbook

   Edited by Richard Schulz

   Series: Rehabilitation Science in Practice Series

   A collaboration between leading scientists, practitioners, and researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, this book is a comprehensive resource describing Quality of Life technologies and their development, evaluation, adoption, and commercialization. It takes an...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by CRC Press
9. Applied Health Economics

   2nd Edition

   By Andrew M. Jones, Nigel Rice, Teresa Bago d'Uva, Silvia Balia

   Series: Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance

   The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric techniques can help health economists and health professionals make sense of information better than ever before. This second...

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
10. Global Public Health Vigilance

    Creating a World on Alert

    By Lorna Weir, Eric Mykhalovskiy

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respond to international threats to human health. This book explores a remarkable period of conceptual innovation during which infectious disease,...

    Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge