|
|
Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services
This edited book explores the use of mobile technologies such as
phones, drones, robots, apps, and wearable monitoring devices for
improving access to healthcare for socially disadvantaged
populations in remote, rural or developing regions. This book
brings together examples of large scale, international projects
from developing regions of China and Belt and Road countries from
researchers in Australia, Bangladesh, Denmark, Norway, Japan,
Spain, Thailand and China. The chapters discuss the challenges
presented to those seeking to deploy emerging mobile technologies
(e.g., smartphones, IoT, drones, robots etc.) for healthcare
(mHealth) in developing countries and discuss the solutions
undertaken in these case study projects. This book brings together
joint work in mHealth projects across multiple disciplines
(software, healthcare, mobile communications, entrepreneurship and
business and social development). Bringing together research from
different institutions and disciplines, the editors illustrate the
technical and entrepreneurial aspects of using mobile technologies
for healthcare development in remote regions. Chapters are grouped
into five key themes: the global challenge, portable health
clinics, sustainable and resilient mHealth services, mHealth for
the elderly, and mHealth for chronic illnesses. The book will be of
particular interest to engineers, entrepreneurs, NGOs and
researchers working in healthcare in sustainable development
settings.
If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical
professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting
to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but
what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles
at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us
about actual medical practices?
"Doctoring the Novel" explores the ways in which language
constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical
quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley's
"Frankenstein," Charles Dickens's "Bleak House" and "Little
Dorrit," Charlotte Bronte's "Villette," Wilkie Collins's
"Armadale," and Arthur Conan Doyle's "Stark Munro Letters."
Contextualized in both medical and popular publishing, literary
analysis reveals that even supposedly medico-scientific concepts
such as orthodoxy and quackery evolve not in elite laboratories and
bourgeois medical societies but in the rough-and-tumble of the
public sphere, a view that acknowledges the considerable, and often
underrated, influence of language on medical practices.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
For centuries, Chinese martial arts masters have kept their highly
prized remedies for common but debilitating injuries as carefully
guarded secrets, calling such precious and powerful knowledge "a
tooth from the tiger's mouth." Now, for the first time, these
deeply effective methods are revealed to Westerners anxious to find
alternative ways to treat the acute and chronic injuries
experienced by any active person. While many books outline the
popular teachings of traditional Chinese medicine, only this one
offers step-by-step instructions for treating injuries. Expert
practitioner and martial artist Tom Bisio explains the complete
range of healing strategies and provides a Chinese first-aid kit to
help the reader fully recover from every mishap - cuts, sprains,
breaks, dislocations, bruises, muscle tears, tendonitis, and much
more. Comprehensive and easy to follow, with 158 drawings to
illustrate both the treatment strategies and the strengthening
exercises, this one-of-a-kind guidebook will finally give readers
complete access to the powerful healing secrets of the great
Chinese warriors.
|
|