View:
- no detail
- some detail
- full detail
4. Potential therapies using pluripotent stem cells
Jonathan Slack
in Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction
‘Potential therapies using pluripotent stem cells’ examines some of the diseases that may be the first to be treated by cell therapy using pluripotent stem cells. Pluripotent stem cells may ...
More
4. Water, salt, and blood pressure
Martin Luck
in Hormones: A Very Short Introduction
‘Water, salt, and blood pressure’ describes how the balance of water in the body is controlled by several hormones, including vasopressin (arginine vasopressin (AVP)). AVP reduces urine ...
More
3. Drugs as medicines
Les Iversen
in Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
‘Drugs as medicines’ highlights the principles behind the successful use of medicines to cure or ameliorate the symptoms of many illnesses. These range from infectious diseases, such as ...
More
6. Abortion
Damien Keown
in Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
Are Buddhists pro-life or pro-choice? For Buddhism, life is a continuum with no discernible start or end, and this puts in interesting dimension on the issue of abortion. ‘Abortion’ looks ...
More
5. Biological waves
Mike Goldsmith
in Waves: A Very Short Introduction
There are many instances when the application of simple wave theory can lead to powerful insights and testable predictions. ‘Biological waves’ considers some representative samples of ...
More
Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction
Jonathan Slack
Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction introduces stem cells: explains what they are, what scientists do with them, what stem cell therapies are available today, and how they ...
More
2. How drugs work
Les Iversen
in Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
‘How drugs work’ outlines the basic mechanisms of pharmacology. Drugs are chemicals that can be naturally occurring or man-made, and which can be administered in a variety of ways. They can ...
More
1. The development of anatomy
Leslie Klenerman
in Human Anatomy: A Very Short Introduction
‘The development of anatomy’ provides a short history of anatomical study beginning with Aristotle (384–322 bc) who named the subject anatome, meaning ‘cutting up’. Herophilus of Chalcedon ...
More
4. Communication and control
Leslie Klenerman
in Human Anatomy: A Very Short Introduction
‘Communication and control’ considers the human nervous system, which has two anatomically separate, but closely related, components: the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral ...
More
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 ...
More
5. Blood pressure and blood flow
Chris Cooper
in Blood: A Very Short Introduction
The heart is the organ that pumps blood around the body. If the heart stops functioning, blood does not flow. The driving force for this flow is the pressure difference between the arterial ...
More
3. The vital systems
Leslie Klenerman
in Human Anatomy: A Very Short Introduction
‘The vital systems’ focuses on two of the body’s main systems—the cardiovascular system and the respiratory system. The heart is the most important muscle in the body and its function is ...
More
8. Mapping health and disease
Rodolfo Saracci
in Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction
Intervention studies and observational studies are known as analytical studies. ‘Mapping health and disease’ emphasizes that these are generally preceded and followed by descriptive studies ...
More
4. Establishing the causes of a disease
Rodolfo Saracci
in Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction
‘Establishing the causes of a disease’ makes the point that any association between an exposure and a disease that is reasonably well established in a study needs to go through a process of ...
More
5. The rise of lifestyle: 1900–1980s
Virginia Berridge
in Public Health: A Very Short Introduction
Public health underwent further redefinition during the 20th century. The focus on mothers and babies heightened during World War I, and after the war a ‘public health empire’ developed in ...
More
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 ...
More
View:
- no detail
- some detail
- full detail
