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MedicineSuggestion, Empathy and Evidence in Medicine
Take Opportunities, Recognize Limits
by Johannes Jörg
Depending on their personality, their social, cultural, and religious environ ment, and the nature of their illness, patients tend to have a waitandsee mood when they come into contact with a doctor, and usually an anxious mood in the case of emergencies. The situation is often accompanied not only by heightened expectations, but also by increased psychological as well as vegetative suggestibility. Suggestion and autosuggestion can, depending on the degree of psychovegetative infl enceability, activate the selfhealing powers through psychological and physiological changes. On the one hand, the author vividly describes how the conscious use of empathy and sug gestion in the context of medical prac tice can promote a close doctor patientrelationship and positively inflence the results of therapy. On the other hand, he illustrates the negative side of the latter, namely as an exag gerated form of overestimation or abuse.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentOral Health and Oral Care
Practice Manual for Nurses, Nursing, Dental and Dental Prophylaxis Assistants
by Thomas Gottschalck
A healthy, caredfor mouth prevents the occurrence of oral diseases and systemic contingent diseases. Every day, professional hygienists are confronted with the oral care of their patients and need to be informed of new developments in dentistry, pharmacology, technology, and care methods. This book offers sound action recommendations for hygienists and dental assistants with vivid illustrations. There are clear descriptions of the anatomical and physiological basics of oral mucosa, teeth, and the oral cavity ecosystem. Practical illustrations of the connections between oral health and general health, debilitating risks, handling modern dentures, assessment of oral changes, oral approaches through basal stimulation and dietary recommendations are provided. Consideration is also given to oral hygiene in special settings, for example, in the case of neurological, psychological, or mental impairments as well as people receiving geriatric, oncological, intensive, or palliative care.
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2023Pharmacy Services
Future on site
by Dr. S. Werner and T. König
Make it simple! The pharmacy can do more than just provide medicines. In this book, two smart authors show what ideas are out there for pharmacy services and how they can be offered. This involves much more than just the pharmaceutical services that are paid for. Digitalisation makes many things possible. Optimised operational processes, broad knowledge and skills become further services that offer good opportunities for the on-site pharmacy. Here you can read about • what contemporary services are available, how they can be introduced, and what they should cost, • why telemedicine and appointment booking software can be helpful strategies, and • how pharmacies can effectively counter the mail-order trade. From the content: pharmaceutical counselling in and outside the pharmacy on health topics, prevention and medicinal products, services for specific target groups, distributing and blistering, vaccination, determination of physiological values and much more.
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2021Self-medication in Pregnancy and Breast-feeding
Counselling handbook
by Dr. Annette Abhau
Cough, hay fever or herpes are at least as troublesome during pregnancy and breast-feeding as under normal “conditions” - and yet everything is different. Physiological changes to the body in pregnancy and lactation, together with the vulnerability of the unborn baby or infant, set particular requirements when selecting the correct, safe medication. Especially in the area of self-medication, the needs of pregnant and breast-feeding women for information are great and call for competent advice! This comprehensive handbook is the key: General information about pharmacotherapy, supplementary measures, vaccinations, questions about diet and infections in pregnancy and lactation creates a broad knowledge base. The core feature of the book are the traffic light tables, with precise recommendations for medicinal products for all types of treatment. All the important indications for selfmedication in pregnancy and lactation are listed and the tables are supported by detailed explanations of the individual assessments. The sections “Advice from medical specialists” are particularly useful, with additional tips from gynaecologists and “Footnotes” with relevant information on the use of prescription- only medicines – and as the ultimate practical tool: the enclosed sales counter leaflets with all traffic light tables to enable quick reference for first-class advice!
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2021Nutritional Practice Elderly People
Concise advisory knowledge
by Prof. Dr. Martin Smollich (ed.)
The physiology and living conditions of people change as they grow old, whereas it is often more difficult to adapt eating habits to the new requirements. Psychological aspects come to the fore. The challenge for giving specific nutritional advice is therefore particularly great. This volume in the book series Nutritional Practice provides all the information needed for the competent care of elderly people. It deals with general aspects of nutrition in old age, as well as specific nutritional situations such as poor diet, dehydration, chewing and swallowing problems, dementia, mobility, oral and food hygiene or nutrition at the end of life. A further section is concerned with communal catering.
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Self-help & personal developmentThe Body that I am
What to Learn from Our Body Awareness
by Adrian Mühlebach
Nothing is closer to us than our body and yet we are only l ittle or not at all aware of it! Our body often plays the decisive role in our life: as the basis of our existence, in the regulation of our wellbeing as well as in our behavior control. Nevertheless, we perceive it far too seldom attentively. Our body perception is a dynamic, circular, selfchanging process, because it is only through individually and collectively created ideas that we can turn body sensations into body perceptions. In this respect, our body perception is diffcult to grasp (scientifcally), since it is barely accessible via objective observation, but exists only in our subjective consciousness. In this book, body perception is therefore examined from the perspective of various disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, physiology, and history, in order to refect on its signifcance for our lives and to demonstrate its usefulness in view of the challenges of our time.
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2020Mutschler’s Drug Actions
Pharmacology – Clinical Pharmacology – Toxicology
by Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerd Geisslinger, Dr. Sabine Menzel, Prof. Dr. Thomas Gudermann, Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hinz and Prof. Dr. Peter Ruth. Founded by Prof. Dr. Dr. Dres. h.c. Ernst Mutschler
For half a century, “Mutschler” has been the standard reference work on pharmacology and toxicology – always forward-looking and at the cutting edge. The 11th edition continues this approach: ■ Up-to-the-minute: new drugs, including biologicals, relevant guidelines in the context of evidence-based medicine ■ Clearly structured: completely new layout with the focus on indication-related pharmacotherapy; uniformly constructed concise chapters ■ Well-illustrated: with many figures and tables, completely revised ■ Easy to remember: readily understandable explanations – even of complex issues ■ Critical: objective, independent assessment of the clinical value of drugs and drug groups ■ Comprehensive: with short introductions into the principles of anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology in the individual chapters ■ Reliable: full coverage of the subjects usually tested in the medical and pharmaceutical state examinations The proven source for complete knowledge about the actions of drugs: for students and practitioners.
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2021Pharmacology Workbook
Practice, revise, consolidate
by Annette Thomas and Nadine Sprecher
Pharmacology imparts knowledge about the effects and use of drugs in humans. Knowledge of anatomy, physiology and the development of diseases are also part of the subject matter. However, the abundance of facts can quickly make the head spin. Approaching the subject like a game helps to make it easier to grasp and anchor what has been learnt permanently in the memory, so it can then be confidently used in the day-to-day pharmacy routine. This is where the Pharmacology Workbook comes into play! A whole arsenal of entertaining tasks awaits the reader: crosswords, word and picture puzzles, word search games, “fill in the blanks” quizzes, puzzle games and case examples from pharmacy practice. The section “Linked together, reliably memorised” helps to connect knowledge. “Now it gets tricky” encourages the reader to engage with the material more intensively, while under “Making revision fun” there are tips and suggestions for learning in a group. This work is based on the sequence of chapters in the textbook Pharmacology. But of course, whether pharmaceutical technician, returnee or even pharmacy intern, all can have fun practising, revising and deepening their pharmacological knowledge with the Pharmacology Workbook.
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December 2019Am Felsfenster morgens
(und andere Ortszeiten 1982-1987)
by Peter Handke
Mit Am Felsfenster morgens liegt eine weitere Journalabschrift Peter Handkes vor. »Es handelt sich«, so der Autor im Vorwort, »vor allem, um Notizen, Wahrnehmungen, Bedenklichkeiten, Fragen, aus einer Zeit der Seßhaftigkeit und des Wohnens in meinem Geburts- und Heimatland, bestimmt durch Tun und auch gehörig viel Nichtstun.« Im Gegensatz zu früheren Journalabschriften ist diese »spezialisiert auf den Ort, den großen, und dessen kleine und kleinere Zweigstellen, wo die Augenblicke usw. stattfanden und Gestalt annahmen (…) Sollte ich die Eigenheit des Ganzen hier andeuten, so vielleicht folgend: Maximen und Reflexionen? nein, eher Reflexe; Reflexe, unwillkürliche, gleichwohl bedachtsame; Reflexe, die aus einer Bedachtsamkeit kommen, einer grundsätzlichen, und in deren Folge hin und wieder ausschwingen, auch ausschwingen wollen, über den bloßen Reflex hinaus, soweit der Atem reicht.« Vor zwanzig Jahren schrieb DER SPIEGEL nach dem Erscheinen über Am Felsfenster morgens: »Überraschend bleibt am Ende, wie frisch sich diese Notizen aus der Zeit vor der Wende von 1989/1990 lesen. Offenbar erweist sich in Zeiten des Umbruchs und einer ungewissen Zukunft gerade die Skizze als das Stabile, das Tragende.« – Eine Einschätzung, aktueller denn je.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2004Health, disease and society in Europe, 1800–1930
A source book
by Deborah Brunton, Isobel McLean
During the nineteenth century, the provision of medical care underwent a radical transformation. In 1800, the body was still understood in terms of humours and fluids, and treatment was provided by a wide range of individuals, some of whom had little or no formal training. Institutions were marginal to the medical enterprise, and governments took almost no part in providing medical services. By 1930, however, a recognisably modern medicine had begun to emerge across Europe. New understandings of human physiology had resulted in the new science of surgical therapy; hospitals had become centres for care, research and training; and the newly organised medical professions increasingly sought to regulate medical practice. In most countries, the state had accepted responsibility for public health and the provision of basic welfare services. This volume provides readers with unrivalled access to a comprehensive range of sources on these major themes. Extracts from contemporary writings vividly illustrate key aspects of medical thought and practice, while a selection of classic historical research and up-to-date work in the field helps further our understanding of medical history. Thematically arranged, these sources are assembled to complement the essays in the companion volume, Medicine Transformed: Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930. In addition, brief scholarly introductions make the sources accessible to both the specialist and the general reader. ;
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2024Why headless males are better lovers
Sex and reproduction in the animal kingdom
by Monika Niehaus / Michael Wink
"Sex sells" also applies to evolution. Without sex, there is no genetic variation, and without genetic variation, there is no natural selection and evolution. When it comes to sex and reproduction, all animals have things in common, but there are also many variations. In this game of the sexes, everything revolves around the conflicts of interest between females and males, the diversity of mating systems, matriarchal and patriarchal communities and the securing of paternity, whether through beauty, song and dance or violence.
