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New emerging diseases, new diagnostic modalities for resource-poor
settings, new vaccine schedules . all significant, recent
developments in the fast-changing field of tropical medicine.
Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10th
Edition, keeps you up to date with everything from infectious
diseases and environmental issues through poisoning and toxicology,
animal injuries, and nutritional and micronutrient deficiencies
that result from traveling to tropical or subtropical regions. This
comprehensive resource provides authoritative clinical guidance,
useful statistics, and chapters covering organs, skills, and
services, as well as traditional pathogen-based content. You'll get
a full understanding of how to recognize and treat these unique
health issues, no matter how widespread or difficult to control.
Includes important updates on malaria, leishmaniasis, tuberculosis
and HIV, as well as coverage of Ebola, Zika virus, Chikungunya, and
other emerging pathogens. Provides new vaccine schedules and
information on implementation. Features five all-new chapters:
Neglected Tropical Diseases: Public Health Control Programs and
Mass Drug Administration; Health System and Health Care Delivery;
Zika; Medical Entomology; and Vector Control - as well as 250 new
images throughout. Presents the common characteristics and methods
of transmission for each tropical disease, as well as the
applicable diagnosis, treatment, control, and disease prevention
techniques. Contains skills-based chapters such as dentistry,
neonatal pediatrics and ICMI, and surgery in the tropics, and
service-based chapters such as transfusion in resource-poor
settings, microbiology, and imaging. Discusses maladies such as
delusional parasitosis that are often seen in returning travelers,
including those making international adoptions, transplant
patients, medical tourists, and more. Enhanced eBook version
included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text,
figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Most people know Roald Dahl as a famous write of children's books
and adult short stories, but few are aware of his fascination with
medicine. Right from his earliest days to the end of his life, Dahl
was intrigued by what doctors do, and why they do it. During his
lifetime, he and his family suffered some terrible medical
tragedies: Dahl nearly died when his fighter plane went down in
World War II; his son had severe brain injury in an accident; and
his daughter died of measles infection of the brain. But he also
had some medical triumphs: he dragged himself back to health after
the plane crash, despite a skull fracture, back injuries, and
blindness; he was responsible for inventing a medical device (the
Wade-Dahl-Till valve) to treat his son's hydrocephalus (water on
the brain), and he taught his first wife Patricia to talk again
after a devastating stroke. His medical interactions clearly
influenced some of his writing - for example the explosive potions
in George's Marvellous Medicine. And sometimes his writing impacted
on events in his life - for example the research on neuroanatomy he
did for his short story William and Mary later helped him design
the valve for treating hydrocephalus. In this unique book,
Professor Tom Solomon, who looked after Dahl towards the end of his
life, examines Dahl's fascination with medicine. Taking examples
from Dahl's life, and illustrated with excerpts from his writing,
the book uses Dahl's medical interactions as a starting point to
explore some extraordinary areas of medical science. Solomon is an
award-winning science communicator, and he effortlessly explains
the medical concepts underpinning the stories, in language that
everyone can understand. The book is also peppered with anecdotes
from Dahl's late night hospital discussions with Solomon, which
give new insights into this remarkable man's thinking as his life
came to an end.
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