Topic: General Medical Issues

A Holter for Parkinson's Disease Motor Symptoms

A Holter for Parkinson's Disease Motor Symptoms: STAT-ONTM

A new information and communication technology (ICT) has been deployed in the battle against Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that is both progressive and disabling with significant impact on quality...
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244 pages
2023-12-11 Published
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Health Care and Medical Sciences

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Health Care and Medical Sciences

This open access book provides a detailed review of the latest methods and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in medicine. With chapters focusing on enabling the...
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838 pages
2024-03-30 Published
Data Paradoxes

Data Paradoxes

Why healthcare cannot—and should not—become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing. In contemporary healthcare, everybody seems to want more data, of higher quality, on more people, and...
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328 pages
2023-04-18 Published
War on All Fronts

War on All Fronts

An argument for the centrality of rights in health security, and how to apply ethical principles to protecting those rights during public health crises. In recent years, efforts to respond...
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256 pages
2023-05-16 Published
Families on the Edge

Families on the Edge

An intimate account of rural New England families living on the edge of homelessness, as well as the practices and policies of care that fail them. Families on the Edge is...
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192 pages
2023-08-15 Published
Exploring and Exploiting Genetic Risk for Psychiatric Disorders

Exploring and Exploiting Genetic Risk for Psychiatric Disorders

An edited volume that looks at the state of psychiatric genetics and how to chart a path forward. In this edited collection—experts from psychiatric and statistical genetics, neurobiology, and clinical...
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340 pages
2023-10-10 Published
More Than a Health Crisis

More Than a Health Crisis

How the West African Ebola epidemic was transformed from an urgent and distant tragedy into an existential threat to American lives—establishing the dynamics that would later dominate the US response...
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240 pages
2023-10-24 Published
A Woman's Right to Know

A Woman's Right to Know

The history of pregnancy testing, and how it transformed from an esoteric laboratory tool to a commonplace of everyday life. Pregnancy testing has never been easier. Waiting on one side...
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416 pages
2023-12-12 Published
May We Make the World?

May We Make the World?

An in-depth look at genetic alteration in the natural world and the oppositions to it, seen through the case study of a gene drive for malaria. May We Make the...
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408 pages
2023-12-19 Published
Underbelly

Underbelly

An unsettling exploration of the hidden power dynamics of global health, seen through the lens of childhood diarrhea and its treatment within the Guatemalan context. Deaths from childhood diarrhea seem...
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272 pages
2024-05-14 Published
Making Modern Medical Ethics

Making Modern Medical Ethics

The little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics. In Making Modern Medical Ethics, Robert Baker tells the counter history of the birth of bioethics,...
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368 pages
2024-02-20 Published
Inducing Immunity?

Inducing Immunity?

Why immunization must be made mandatory in times of vaccine hesitancy, and how we can design and implement immunization policies in a practical, trustworthy, and democratic way. We live in...
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256 pages
2024-03-26 Published