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    • Primer on the Rheumatic Diseases 

      Klippel, John H.; Stone, John H.; Crofford, Leslie J.; White, Patience H. (Springer, 2008)
      Students, residents, and fellows interested in learning about the rheumatic diseases are faced with the daunting challenge of trying to integrate learning about a multitude of fascinating and diverse clinical disorders ...
    • Survival Analysis 

      Kleinbaum, David G.; Klein, Mitchel (Springer, 2012)
      This is the third edition of this text on survival analysis, originally published in 1996. As in the first and second editions, each chapter contains a presentation of its topic in “lecture-book” format together with ...
    • A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response 

      Everly, George S.; Lating, Jeffrey M. (Springer, 2013)
      The idea for our original volume fi rst arose in 1979. At that time, the study of human stress was by no means new. More than four decades earlier, the brilliant endocrinologist Hans Selye had coined the term “stress” ...
    • Evidence-Based Interventions for Children with Challenging Behavior 

      Armstrong, Kathleen Hague; Ogg, Julia A.; Sundman-Wheat, Ashley N.; Walsh, Audra St. John (Springer, 2014)
      Challenging behavior in young children is common. It can be diffi cult for parents or early childhood professionals to know what behaviors fall within the typical range of behavior. This chapter outlines the prevalence ...
    • Integrated Neuroscience 

      Marcus, Elliott M.; Jacobson, Stanley (Springer, 2002)
      This textbook takes as a premise that, in order to make intelligent diagnosis and provide a rational treatment in disorders of the nervous system, it is necessary to develop the capacity to answer the basic questions of ...
    • Pharmaceutical Biotechnology 

      Crommelin, Daan J. A.; Sindelar, Robert D.; Meibohm, Bernd (Springer, 2019)
      Over the past 30 years, the share of biotechnologically derived drug products in the arsenal of medicinal products has been growing steadily. These drug products include proteins, such as monoclonal antibodies, antibody ...
    • Foundations of Behavioral Health 

      Levin, Bruce Lubotsky; Hanson, Ardis (Springer, 2020)
      Foundations of Behavioral Health is being completed in the midst of congressional debate over attempts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) which was originally signed into law by Former President ...
    • Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology 

      Hobbie, Russell K.; Roth, Bradley J. (Springer, 2015)
      From the Preface to the Third Edition, by Russell K. Hobbie: Between 1971 and 1973 I audited all the courses medical students take in their first 2 years at the University of Minnesota. I was amazed at the amount of ...
    • Fundamentals of Clinical Trials 

      Friedman, Lawrence M.; Furberg, Curt D.; DeMets, David L.; Reboussin, David M.; Granger, Christopher B. (Springer, 2015)
      The clinical trial is “the most definitive tool for evaluation of the applicability of clinical research.” It represents “a key research activity with the potential to improve the quality of health care and control costs ...
    • Evolutionary Thinking in Medicine 

      Alvergne, Alexandra; Jenkinson, Crispin; Faurie, Charlotte (Springer, 2016)
      Evolution in medicine?! Never heard of it! This quote, in essence, sums up the reaction of a medical doctor who kindly accepted to review the proposal for this book. Far from substantiating the received idea according ...
    • Evidence-Based Critical Care 

      Hyzy, Robert C. (Springer, 2017)
      Along with Springer International, I am pleased to offer you our new textbook entitled Hyzy’s Evidence-Based Critical Care Medicine: A Case Study Approach. In medicine, “teachable moments” usually occur in clinical ...
    • Breast Cancer 

      Goldhirsch, Aron; Veronesi, Umberto (Springer, 2017)
      The scientific and patient care communities have witnessed significant improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer morbidity and mortality in women worldwide. ...
    • International Perspectives on Psychotherapy 

      Hofmann, Stefan G. (Springer, 2017)
      After returning from Wilhelm Wundt’s laboratory in Germany, Lightner Witmer introduced the term Clinical Psychology in an article published in The Psychological Clinic (Witmer, 1907). In this article, he explained: While ...
    • Clinical Methods in Medical Family Therapy 

      Mendenhall, Tai; Lamson, Angela; Hodgson, Jennifer; Baird, Macaran (Springer, 2018)
      Medical family therapy (MedFT) represents a rapidly growing field in health care that purposefully interweaves patients and their families’ physical, psychological, social, and spiritual worlds. It does this with both ...
    • Spine Surgery 

      Meyer, Bernhard; Rauschmann, Michael (Springer, 2019)
      We are very excited to introduce this new book on spinal surgery, which follows the curriculum of the EUROSPINE basic and advanced diploma courses. The approach we take is a purely case-based one, in which each case ...
    • Metabolism of Human Diseases 

      Lammert, Eckhard; Zeeb, Martin (Springer, 2014)
      The scientifi c community has increasingly recognized metabolic alterations as being critical components or even drivers of human disease. Metabolism of Human Diseases discusses the metabolism and signaling pathways ...
    • Social Anxiety and Social Phobia in Youth 

      Kearney, Christopher A. (Springer, 2005)
      A great benefit of being a clinical child psychologist is the opportunity to conduct and review research on fascinating areas of human, youthful behavior.Andperhaps no behavior is as central tohumanexistence as ...
    • Child Neuropsychology 

      Semrud-Clikeman, Margaret; Ellison, Phyllis Anne Teeter (Springer, 2007)
      The human brain represents the product of an ongoing, six-billion-year construction project. In its physical form and function, the human brain represents millions upon millions of trial-and-error adaptive adjustments. ...
    • Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior 

      Frick, Paul J.; Barry, Christopher T.; Kamphaus, Randy W. (Springer, 2010)
      Psychologists offer an increasing variety of services to the public. Among these services, psychological assessment of personality and behavior continues to be a central activity. One main reason is that other mental ...
    • Epidemiological Research: Terms and Concepts 

      Miettinen, O. S. (Springer, 2011)
      In his The Joys of Yiddish (1970), Leo Rosten delights the reader with this vignette: A bright young chachem told his grandmother that he was going to be a Doctor of Philosophy. She smiled proudly: ‘Wonderful. But what ...