Open Access Books - Health Science - 2019

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    Transforming Trauma: Resilience and Healing Through Our Connections With Animals
    ( 2019)
    Tedeschi, Philip
    Philip Tedeschi is the executive director of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work. Recognized for his expertise in clinical methods for animal-assisted interventions, he is the founder and coordinator of the university’s Animal-Assisted Social Work and Animals and Human Health Professional Development certificate programs. His teaching, research, and scholarship focus on the bioaffiliative connection between people and animals, animal welfare, interpersonal violence and animal cruelty, social ecological justice, One Health, and bioethics.
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    Tracheal Transplantation: Current Possibilities
    ( 2019)
    Delaere, Pierre
    Defining the requirements for a successful transplantation of tracheal segments The trachea is one of the most fascinating organs in the human body. At first sight, it may appear to be a simple tube for air transport to and from the lungs. However, the cartilaginous framework of this airway, combined with its ultrathin mucosal lining and rich, but difficult to handle, blood supply, makes it to one of the most challenging tuberous organs to repair and transplant. In 2011, the trachea was heralded as the first organ that could be engineered with stem cells. In the last years however, it became clear that this achievement was based on scientific deception. Richly illustrated and in full colour, this ebook is intended to highlight both the intricacies of the laryngotracheal airway and the reconstructive approaches that can potentially restore airway function, particularly in relation to laryngotracheal stenoses and defects. Although, allotransplantation to restore segmental defects is still an unmet need, Tracheal Transplantation. Current possibilities attempts to define the requirements needed for a successful transplantation of tracheal segments. Includes video clips * Due to the nature of the video clips, a YouTube account might be required in order to enable access. Contributors (all KU Leuven): Herbert Decaluwé (Thoracic Surgery), Paul De Leyn (Thoracic Surgery), Margot Den Hondt (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery), Christophe Dooms (Pulmonology), Jeroen Meulemans (ORL Head & Neck Surgery), Thomas Nevens (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery), Katarina Segers (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery), Vincent Vander Poorten (ORL Head & Neck Surgery), Dirk Van Raemdonck (Thoracic Surgery), Geert Verleden (Pulmonology), Robin Vos (Pulmonology), Jan Vranckx (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery), Jonas Yserbyt (Pulmonology)
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    Research as Development: Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Collaboration in Sri Lanka
    ( 2019)
    Sariola, Salla ; Simpson, Robert
    In Research as Development, Salla Sariola and Bob Simpson show how international collaboration operates in a setting that is typically portrayed as "resource-poor" and "scientifically lagging." Based on their long-term fieldwork in Sri Lanka, Sariola and Simpson bring into clear ethnographic focus the ways international scientific collaborations feature prominently in the pursuit of global health in which research operates "as" development and not merely "for" it. The authors follow the design, inception, and practice of two clinical trials: one a global health charity funded trial and the other a pharmaceutical industry-sponsored trial. Research as Development situates these two trials within their historical, political and cultural contexts and thus counters the idea that local actors are merely passive recipients of new technical and scientific rationalities. While social studies of clinical trials are beginning to be an established niche in academic writing, Research as Development helps fill important gaps in the literature through its examination of clinical research situated in cultures in low-income settings. Research as Development is noteworthy for the way it highlights the critical and creative role that local researchers play in establishing international collaborations and making them work into locally viable forms. The volume shows how these clinical and research interactions bring about changes in culture, technologies and expertise in Sri Lanka, contexts that have not previously been written about in any detail.
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    Pathways to Careers in Health Care
    ( 2019)
    Christopher T. King ; Philip Young P. Hong
    This book provides analyses and evaluations of the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) program, a federal government demonstration project that is targeted at providing career opportunities in the health care field for individuals in low-wage populations.
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    Medical Technics
    ( 2019)
    Ihde, Don
    A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology Medical Technics is a rigorous examination of how medical progress has modified our worlds and contributed to a virtual revolution in longevity. Don Ihde offers a unique autobiographical tour of medical events experienced in a decade, beginning in his 70s. Ihde offers experiential and postphenomenological analyses of technologies such as sonography and microsurgery, and ultimately asks what it means to increasingly become a cyborg. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead