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        2022

        Pharmacology for Midwives

        Principles, theory and practice

        by Dr. Philipp Kircher, Elisabeth Remplik and Dr. Peter Killian

        Midwives use drugs on their own authority, or guide and support pregnant and breastfeeding women in their therapy. At the same time, the giving of drugs during pregnancy and lactation frequently entails a balancing act between medical need and experience on the one hand and often the absence of studies with evidence of harmlessness and safety on the other. Anyone who wants to make the correct decisions and deal responsibly with this dilemma can only do so on the basis of solid knowledge. This new reference book provides ideal preparation and imparts the necessary information: - General advice on the handling of drugs and the principles of pharmacology - Description of common drug substances and particular aspects of their use in pregnancy, childbirth and lactation - Treatment options from complementary medicine and phytotherapy - Advice about correct diet The clear and concise presentation of facts as well as numerous illustrations make it easier to understand and grasp the content. Text boxes highlight important elements or refer the reader to interesting additional information: The textbook and reference work for students, practical training and everyday work!

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        2020

        Nutritional Practice Women and Men

        Concise advisory knowledge

        by Edited by Prof. Dr. Martin Smollich. With contributions by Birgit Blumenschein, Dr. oec. troph. Annett Hilbig, Julia Kugler, Dr. Claudia Laupert-Deick, Julia Sausmikat and PD Dr. Birgit-Christiane Zyriax

        This volume in the book series Nutritional Practice sheds light on gender-specific aspects of the prevention and treatment of dietary deficiencies in women and men. Part I presents the principles, with an overview of the sociocultural influences on nutritional behaviour and differences in dietary practice between women and men, which lead to relevant consequences for gender-specific communication about nutrition. Part II explains in practical detail the wide range of topics concerning nutrition in pregnancy and lactation. Part III focusses on aspects of nutrition in life situations and on diseases that exclusively or predominantly occur in women. In addition to the menopause, these include various psychogenic eating disorders, breast cancer and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

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        2021

        Psychotropic Drugs in General Practice

        How to recognise, understand and treat patients successfully

        by PD Dr. Daniel Schüpbach and Dr. Otto Dietmaier

        The purpose of this book is to support general practitioners in finding the optimum, guideline-compliant therapy for their patients. The focus is on the clinical pictures of depression, psychosis as well as anxiety and sleep disorders and the handling of psychiatric emergencies. The reader will learn everything about the epidemiology, aetiology, diagnosis and medical treatment of these diseases, about switching therapy and about treatment in pregnancy and lactation. All the available psychotropic drugs and their pharmacological properties are described in detail – including key specific features of active substances and drug safety aspects. The table of substances in the appendix provides a clear summary of the information and simplifies the choice of the appropriate drug. The extras: - 13 factsheets with concise, summarised information to cope with tricky situations in the practice - The authors take the current treatment guidelines from Germany, Austria and Switzerland into account and name examples of proprietary medicinal products in the three countries.

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        Medicine

        Proud to be a Nurse

        The Encouragement Book

        by German Quernheim, Angelika Zegelin

        This book demonstrates the impor­tance of professional pride for carers in training, teaching and practice. The au­thors explain which mechanisms and strategies help to develop this attitude. They describe the facets of professional pride as identity, individuality, passion, courage, self­worth, meaningfulness, knowledge, and education. The contents provide a boost to profes­sional carers and give them the cour­age to be proactive against chronic pressures and ethical dilemmas and to change situations that are undignifed. Occupational profles and practice re­ports offer specifc role models and tips for implementation. The authors convey the basics of lobbying activity in the caring professions. They show carers how to represent themselves successfully and how to convey and embody self­confdence outwardly.

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        Children's & YA

        Snöfrid from Meadow Valley (3). The Hectic Hunt for the River Pearl

        by Andreas H. Schmachtl

        What a disaster! Snöfrid’s stream has disappeared during the night! Without water there can be no porridge, and Snöfrid doesn’t have to think twice. This problem must be solved immediately! The hunt for water begins with a wet meeting at the pond of the little nymph Flumina, but when it turns into a hunt for the mysterious river pearl, involving a submersible boat, the story quickly becomes an underwater adventure, and who knows how it will end? Magical adventure, great fun for boys and girls, by Spiegel bestselling author Andreas H. Schmachtl.

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        July 1998

        Hard, soft & wet

        Reiseberichte aus einer neuen Welt

        by McGrath, Melanie / Übersetzt von Robert, Peter

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        Medicine
        February 1995

        Ethics, law and nursing

        by Nina Fletcher

        An introduction to the ethical and legal dilemmas in nursing practice, this text is designed to provoke the nurse to reflect on the nature of his or her professional obligations and future practice. The authors firstly familiarise the reader with the basic principles of ethical debate and the overall structure of the legal system as it effects nurses. They then address the fundamental dilemmas of nursing practice, such as whether or not paternalism can ever be justified, if patients have the right to die, and what a nurse's response should be to poor professional practice by colleagues. The book aims to enhance the reader's understanding of the issues, and to educate nurses to develop their own skills of reasoning and judgement. ;

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        September 2015

        Marte Meo Method in Nursing

        by Claudia Berther, Therese Niklaus Loosli

        The Marte-Meo Method, developed by the Dutch educational counselor Maria Aarts, is a resource and solution focused communication- and video-analysis-method that supports care takers as well as patients in their daily (challenging) interactions. The method uses short film clips from real life situations and analyses these together with the participants. Using this method, inter personal skills as well as the quality of nursing improve and participants learn how to strengthen the emotional competence of those in need of their care. Target Group: Nurses, Nurse Educators

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        Medicine

        The Breastfeeding Book for Special Children

        Breastfeeding and Caring for Premature, Ill, or Disabled Newborn Babies

        by Brigitte Benkert

        The practical handbook for nurses, midwives, and breastfeeding counselors that explains breastfeeding problems that may be encountered with premature and newborn babies, and shows how these special children can be breastfed successfully. The author defines and describes how the time of birth affects a premature baby’s development and explains the concept of “gentle care for premature babies,” presenting it as a resource-oriented, development-supporting approach to care. She explains what is required in order to breastfeed successfully, clearly distinguishing between various difficult starting scenarios for breastfeeding.   Target Group: Nurses, midwives, and breastfeeding counselors

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        Medicine

        Ethics in Nursing Training

        by Marianne Rabe

        Although the importance of ethics is often stressed, it remains sidelined in training. Marianne Rabe makes ethics and ethical reflection the focus of nursing practice and training. Her study   - presents the theoretical principles of formative learning and explores how it can be put into practice - puts forward practical curriculum suggestions for incorporating ethics into nurse training - shows how to address the ethical principles of dignity, autonomy, care, justice, responsibility, and dialogue within the framework of a teaching concept - presents Rabe’s own model of ethical reflection based on her personal experience. Target Group: Nursing trainers, lecturers

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        Medicine
        May 2024

        Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession

        A gendered opportunity

        by Jane Brooks

        This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it was unpopular with British women. In the years preceding the Second World War, hospitals in Britain suffered chronic nurse staffing crises. As the country faced inevitable war, the Government and the profession's elite courted refugees as an antidote to the shortages, but many hospitals refused to employ Continental Jews. The book explores the changes in the refugees' status and lives from the war years to the foundation of the National Health Service and to the latter decades of the twentieth century. It places the refugees at the forefront of manoeuvres in nursing practice, education and research at a time of social upheaval and alterations in the position of women.

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        Medicine
        August 2016

        Evidence-based Nursing and Caring

        by Johann Behrens, Gero Langer

        Evidence-based-nursing and caring, a method that relies on scientifically verifiable data from an outside perspective (“external evidence”) as well as the individual needs of those cared for as well as the caretakers (“internal evidence”). This title offers a detailed insight into external and internal evidence in nursing care and shows in a 6-step-approach how to • make shared decision • analyse and describe problems • find literature and relevant studies • critically evaluate nursing studies and their quality • change nursing practice and • evaluate nursing care.   Target Group: Nursing Students, Nurse Educators.

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        September 2019

        Große Kunst für kleines Geld

        Eine Anleitung

        by Erling Kagge, Moritz Müller-Schwefe

        Vor dreißig Jahren hat Erling Kagge seine erste Kunst gekauft. Eine signierte und nummerierte Litographie, die ein bisschen nach Edvard Munch aussah. Die porträtierte Schwarzhaarige erinnerte ihn an seine erste Freundin. Und weil er nicht viel Geld dabei hatte, tauschte er das Kunstwerk gegen zwei Flaschen Bordeaux ein. »Die Flaschen leerten wir noch am gleichen Abend. Den Druck habe ich immer noch.« Dessen Wert ist in all den Jahren nicht gestiegen – anders als bei der »Surfing Nurse« des amerikanischen Malers Richard Prince, einem Bild, das Kagge in einer New Yorker Galerie entdeckte und für 50.000 Dollar kaufte. Er hätte es gerne behalten, aber dann sah er, dass »alle reichen Russen, Chinesen und Afrikaner unbedingt auch Richard Prince haben wollten«, also verkaufte er das Bild vier Jahre später für das Hundertfache. Ja, man kann sehr viel Geld auf dem Kunstmarkt ausgeben und erlösen, man muss aber nicht, sagt Kagge. Wer neugierig bleibt, seinem Urteil traut, eine gute Portion Geschmack mitbringt, sich Trends widersetzt und ein bisschen Glück hat, kann auch als Einsteiger zum erfolgreichen Sammler werden. Genau wie Erling Kagge. Der amüsante und anekdotenreiche Wegweiser liefert erhellende Einblicke in den Kunstbetrieb. Er zeigt, dass nicht der Smalltalk auf der nächsten Party, sondern der lange und manchmal abenteuerliche Weg durch die Welt der Kunst das eigene Kunstverständnis prägt – und zu einer ganz persönlichen und exquisiten Sammlung führt.

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        September 2019

        Große Kunst für kleines Geld

        Eine Anleitung

        by Erling Kagge

        Vor dreißig Jahren hat Erling Kagge seine erste Kunst gekauft. Eine signierte und nummerierte Litographie, die ein bisschen nach Edvard Munch aussah. Die porträtierte Schwarzhaarige erinnerte ihn an seine erste Freundin. Und weil er nicht viel Geld dabei hatte, tauschte er das Kunstwerk gegen zwei Flaschen Bordeaux ein. »Die Flaschen leerten wir noch am gleichen Abend. Den Druck habe ich immer noch.« Dessen Wert ist in all den Jahren nicht gestiegen – anders als bei der »Surfing Nurse« des amerikanischen Malers Richard Prince, einem Bild, das Kagge in einer New Yorker Galerie entdeckte und für 50.000 Dollar kaufte. Er hätte es gerne behalten, aber dann sah er, dass »alle reichen Russen, Chinesen und Afrikaner unbedingt auch Richard Prince haben wollten«, also verkaufte er das Bild vier Jahre später für das Hundertfache. Ja, man kann sehr viel Geld auf dem Kunstmarkt ausgeben und erlösen, man muss aber nicht, sagt Kagge. Wer neugierig bleibt, seinem Urteil traut, eine gute Portion Geschmack mitbringt, sich Trends widersetzt und ein bisschen Glück hat, kann auch als Einsteiger zum erfolgreichen Sammler werden. Genau wie Erling Kagge. Der amüsante und anekdotenreiche Wegweiser liefert erhellende Einblicke in den Kunstbetrieb. Er zeigt, dass nicht der Smalltalk auf der nächsten Party, sondern der lange und manchmal abenteuerliche Weg durch die Welt der Kunst das eigene Kunstverständnis prägt – und zu einer ganz persönlichen und exquisiten Sammlung führt.

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        History
        February 2017

        Gendered transactions

        The white woman in colonial India, c.1820–1930

        by Series edited by Andrew S. Thompson, Indrani Sen

        This book seeks to capture the complex experience of the white woman in colonial India through an exploration of gendered interactions over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines missionary and memsahibs' colonial writings, both literary and non-literary, probing their construction of Indian women of different classes and regions, such as zenana women, peasants, ayahs and wet-nurses. Also examined are delineations of European female health issues in male authored colonial medical handbooks, which underline the misogyny undergirding this discourse. Giving voice to the Indian woman, this book also scrutinises the fiction of the first generation of western-educated Indian women who wrote in English, exploring their construction of white women and their negotiations with colonial modernities. This fascinating book will be of interest to the general reader and to experts and students of gender studies, colonial history, literary and cultural studies as well as the social history of health and medicine.

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