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Adolescence: A Very Short Introduction
Peter K Smith
Adolescence is a turbulent period to live through. Marking the transition from the world of childhood to adult life, the adolescent faces many challenges and opportunities, including ...
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Anaesthesia: A Very Short Introduction
Aidan O'Donnell
Anaesthesia: A Very Short Introduction examines the modern anaesthetic practice. Anaesthesia is a mysterious and sometimes threatening process. What is anaesthesia? How is it ...
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Cancer: A Very Short Introduction
Nick James
Cancer: A Very Short Introduction explains, in non-technical language, what cancer is and what it does. Why, despite constant improvements in treatment techniques, has cancer ...
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Dementia: A Very Short Introduction
Kathleen Taylor
Dementia: A Very Short Introduction explains how dementia is diagnosed, its different types and symptoms, and its effects on sufferers and their families. Why is dementia ...
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Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
Les Iversen
Drugs: A Very Short Introduction provides a non-technical account of how drugs work in the body. The 20th century saw a remarkable upsurge of research on medicinal drugs, with ...
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Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction
Rodolfo Saracci
Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction explains what epidemiology is and its importance to the discovery, control, and prevention of disease in world populations. It looks at ...
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Food: A Very Short Introduction
John Krebs
Food: A Very Short Introduction provides a brief history of man's relationship with food, spanning from the time of our remote ancestors 3 million years ago to the present day. ...
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The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction
William Bynum
The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction assesses the origins and development of medicine from ancient times, through the scholastic medieval tradition and the ...
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HIV & AIDS: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
Alan Whiteside
HIV/AIDS: A Very Short Introduction provides an introduction to AIDS—the most serious human epidemic in centuries—tackling the science, politics, demographics, and devastating ...
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The Immune System: A Very Short Introduction
Paul Klenerman
The Immune System: A Very Short Introduction describes the immune system and how it works in health and disease. It focuses on the human immune system, considering how it ...
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Infectious Disease: A Very Short Introduction
Marta Wayne and Benjamin Bolker
Infectious disease is a moving target: new diseases emerge every year, old diseases evolve into new forms, and ecological and socioeconomic upheavals change the transmission pathways by ...
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Madness: A Very Short Introduction
Andrew Scull
Madness: A Very Short Introduction examines the social, cultural, medical, and artistic responses to mental disturbance across more than two millennia, Madness is something ...
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Molecular Biology: A Very Short Introduction
Aysha Divan and Janice Royds
Molecular biology is the story of the molecules of life, their relationships, and how these interactions are controlled. Its applications are wide and growing; the power of molecular ...
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Nutrition: A Very Short Introduction
David Bender
Nutrition is a topic of wide interest and importance. In spite of a growing understanding of the underlying biochemistry, and health campaigns such as ‘five-a-day’, increasing obesity and ...
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Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction
Christian W. McMillen
The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture imaginations worldwide. Pandemics: A Very Short ...
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Plague: A Very Short Introduction
Paul Slack
Plague: A Very Short Introduction explores the historical impact of plague over the centuries, focusing on how people coped with the disease and how governments fought it. It ...
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Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
Tom Burns
Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction explores the nature of psychiatry, focusing on what it can and cannot do, and discussing why its history has been beset by dramatic shifts ...
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Public Health: A Very Short Introduction
Virginia Berridge
Public Health: A Very Short Introduction explores the areas that fall under the remit of public health, and explains how the individual histories of different countries have ...
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Human Anatomy: A Very Short Introduction
Leslie Klenerman
Knowledge of the basic construction of the human body—the skeleton, the organs of the chest and abdomen, the nervous system, the head and neck with its sensory systems and anatomy for ...
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