Dictionary of medical ethics

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Encyclopedia of science, technology, and ethics

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Bioethics

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Encyclopedia of bioethics

Table of Contents: “…History of the Notion ; Care: II. Historical Dimensions of an Ethic of Care in Healthcare ; Care: III. …”


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Encyclopedia of bioethics

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Encyclopedia of bioethics

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Encyclopedia of childbearing : critical perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Abortion -- Adoption -- Amniocentesis -- Anti-Abortion Movement -- Apgar -- Art and Birth Metaphors -- Baby Diaries -- Baby Doe -- Baptism -- Bublical and Talmudic Images -- Birth Centers -- Birth Certificates -- The Birth Project -- The Birth Symbol -- Birthmothers -- Bodywork -- Bonding -- Bradley Method -- Braxton Hicks Contractions -- Breastfeeding -- Breath Control in Labor -- Brewer Pregnancy Diet -- Caul -- Central Closure Defects -- The Cervical Cap -- Cesarean Birth -- Chicken Pox in Pregnancy -- Childbearing in Prison -- Childbearing in Science Fiction -- Childbearing Practices in American History -- Childkeeping and Childbearing -- Chiropractic Care -- Chorionic Villus Sampling -- Circumcision -- Circumcision Surgery -- Colic -- Comfort Objects -- Common Complaints of Pregnancy -- Condoms -- Contraception -- Couvade: Anthropological Aspects -- Creation Stories in Western Culture -- Custody Determinations -- Daily Fetal Movement -- Deafness and Childbearing -- Decision Making -- Delayed Childbearing -- DeLee, Joseph Bolivar -- Depo-Provera -- DES -- Diabetes -- Diapers -- The Diaphragm -- Disability -- Domestic Violence and Pregnancy -- Donor Insemination -- Doula -- Dreams during Pregnancy -- Ectopic Pregnancy -- Egg Retrieval -- Electronic Fetal Monitoring -- Emotional Recovery -- Endometriosis -- Epidural Anesthesia -- Episiotomy -- Ethics Committees -- Eugenics -- Evolution of Human Birth -- Exercise Physiology in Pregnancy -- External Cephalic Version -- Eye Prophylaxis -- Failure to Thrive -- The Family Bed -- Family-Centered Maternity -- Fathers at Birth -- Feminist Analyses of Motherhood -- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome -- Fetal Movement -- Fetus -- Formula Marketing -- Genetic Counseling -- Genetics -- Genital Mutilation -- Genome Mapping -- Germany -- Goddess Imagery -- Herbal Treatments -- Hispanics -- HIV -- Home Birth -- Hospital Birth -- Hypertension -- Hypnosis for Childbirth -- Imaging Techniques -- In Vitro Fertilization for Male Infertility -- Infant Carriers -- Infanticide -- Infertility -- Informed Consent in Labor -- Israel -- IUD -- Japan -- Jaundice -- Labor -- Lactation -- Language of Birth -- Leboyer -- Legislation Affecting Maternity Care -- Lesbian Mothers -- Low Birth Weight -- Lullabies and Cradle Songs -- Male Factors in Pregnancy -- Maternal Mortality -- Maternal Serum -- Maternal Thinking -- Maternity Clothes -- Maternity Homes -- Matrescence and Patrescence -- Meconium -- Menstrual Extraction -- Mexico -- Midwife Licensing -- Midwife-Attended Births -- Midwifery -- Midwives -- Miscarriage -- Molar Pregnancy -- Motherhood as Transformation -- Naming Practices -- Natural Family Planning -- The Netherlands -- Newborn Pain -- Nipples -- Nonstress Tests -- Norplant -- Nurse-Midwifery -- Obstetric Drugs -- Obstetrics -- Pain Relief in Labor -- Pediatrics -- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease -- Pelvic Muscles -- The Perfect Baby -- Perineal Massage -- Photography and Birth -- The Pill -- Placenta -- Postpartum Emotional Disorders -- Posture for Labor and Birth -- Preconception Health -- Pregnancy after Pregnancy -- Pregnancy and Social Control -- Pregnancy and Work -- Pregnancy Loss -- Pregnancy Testing -- Pregnant Addicts -- The Pregnant Therapist -- Preimplantation Diagnosis -- Premature Birth -- Prematurity and Low Birth Weight -- Prenatal Care in the United States -- Prenatal Diagnosis -- Problem Pregnancy -- Psychoprophylactic Method -- Puerperal Fever -- Read Method -- Rebirth -- Refugee Women -- Relactation -- The Reproduction of Mothering -- Research Issues in Childbirth -- Retinopathy of Prematurity -- Rh Incompatibility -- Rights of the Pregnant Patient -- Risking -- Roe v. …”


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Child development

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Encyclopedia of sociology

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Encyclopedia of substance abuse prevention, treatment, & recovery

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Encyclopedia of health & aging

Table of Contents: “…Accelerated aging syndromes -- Active life expectancy -- Activities in daily living and institutional activities in daily living -- Advance directives -- Adverse drug reactions -- Advocacy organizations -- Africa -- African Americans -- Age-Period-Cohort distribution -- Age-related changes in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics -- Aging in Manitoba Longitudinal Study -- Aging network -- Agitation -- Alcohol use and abuse -- Allostatic load and homeostasis -- Alzheimer's Disease -- Anabolic therapies -- Anemia -- Anti-aging interventions -- Anxiety disorders -- Apolipoprotein E -- Arrhythmias -- Arthritis and other rheumatic diseases -- Asia -- Asian and Pacific Islander Americans -- Assisted living -- Assistive devices -- Australia and New Zealand -- Balance -- Behavioral disorders in dementia -- Bereavement and grief -- Biological theories of aging -- Biomarkers of aging -- Body composition -- Body mass index -- Calcium disorders of aging -- Canada -- Cancer -- Cancer, Common types of -- Cancer prevention and screening -- Cardiovascular Health Study -- Cardiovascular system -- Caregiving -- Cataracts -- Cellulitus -- Centenarians -- Clinical trials -- Complimentary and alternative medicine -- Compression of morbidity -- Congestive heart failure -- Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease -- Continuum of care -- Control -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease -- Critical perspectives in gerontology -- Death, dying, and hospice care -- Delirium and confusional states -- Demography of aging -- Depression and other mood disorders -- Diabetes -- Dietary variety -- Disability and the disablement process -- Disasters and terrorism -- Disclosure -- Driving -- Drug-disease interactions -- Drug-drug interactions -- Drug underuse -- Duke Longitudinal Studies -- Ear diseases -- Early adversity and late-life health -- Economics of aging -- Education and health -- Elder abuse and neglect -- Emotions and emotional stability -- Environmental health -- Epidemiology of aging -- Established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly -- Ethical issues and aging -- Ethnicity and race -- Europe -- Exercise and physical activity -- Expectations regarding aging -- Eye diseases -- Fluid and electrolytes -- Foot problems -- Fractures in older adults -- Frailty -- Gait disorders -- Gastrointestinal aging -- Geriatric assessment -- Geriatric profession -- Geriatric team care -- Gerontological nursing -- Global aging -- Government health surveys -- Health and retirement study -- Health and public policy -- Health care system for older adults -- Health communication -- Health promotion and disease prevention -- Hearing -- Hispanic established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly -- Hispanics -- HIV and AIDS -- Home care -- Homelessness and health in the United States -- Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, Honolulu Heart Program -- Hypertension -- Iatrogenic disease -- Imaging of the brain -- Immune function -- Inappropriate prescribing -- Incontinence -- Infections, Bladder and kidney -- Infectious diseases -- Injury prevention -- Institutional care -- Instruments -- Kidney aging and diseases -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Legal issues -- Lewy Body Dementia -- Life course perspective on adult development -- Living arrangement -- Loneliness -- Longevity -- Longitudinal studies of aging -- Long-term care -- Long-term care insurance -- MacArthur Study of Successful Aging -- Managed care -- Marital status -- Medicaid -- Medicare -- Medication adherence -- Medication errors -- Memory -- Memory -- Menopause and hormone therapy -- Men's health -- Mental status assessment -- Metabolic syndrome -- Mexico -- Midlife -- Migration -- Mild congestive impairment -- Minimum data set -- Mobility -- Mobility assessment -- Motivation -- Multiple morbidity and comorbidity -- Musculoskeletal aging: inflammation -- Musculoskeletal aging: osteoarthritis -- National Health Interview Survey -- National Institute on Aging -- National Long Term Care Survey -- Native Americans and Alaskan natives -- Negative interaction and health -- Neurobiology of aging -- Neurological disorders -- Normal physical activity -- Normative Aging Study -- Nursing roles in health care and long-term care -- Nutrition and public health -- Nutrition, malnutrition, and feeding issues -- Obesity -- Oldest child -- Oral health -- Osteoporosis -- Outcome and Assessment Information (OASIS) -- Pain -- Palliative care and the end of life -- Patient safety -- Performance measures of physical functions -- Perioperative issues -- Personality disorders -- Pets in health care settings -- Pick's disease -- Pneumonia and tuberculosis -- Polypharmacy -- Positive attitudes and health -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Pressure ulcers -- Pseudodementia -- Psychiatric Rating Scales -- Psychosocial theories -- Pulmonary aging -- Qualitative research on aging -- Quality of life -- Rehabilitation therapies -- Rural health and aging versus urban health and aging -- Sacropenia -- Schizophrenia, paranoia, and delusional disorders -- Self-care -- Self-efficacy -- Self-rated health -- Sexuality -- Shingles -- Skin changes -- Skin neoplasms, Benign and malignant -- Sleep -- Smoking -- Social networks and social support -- Social work roles in health and long-term care -- Socioeconomic status -- Spinal stenosis -- Stress -- Stroke -- Subjective well-being -- Successful aging -- Suicide and the elderly -- Surgery -- Syncope -- Systemic infections -- Telemedicine -- Temperature regulation -- Therapeutic failure -- Thyroid Disease -- Twin studies -- Valvular Heart Disease -- Vascular Dementia -- Vascular Depression -- Venous Stasis Ulcers -- Vision and low vision -- Vitamins, minerals, and dietary supplements -- Women's health -- Work, health, and retirement -- Wound healing.…”


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Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine

Table of Contents: “…Art and science of medicine -- Place of medicine -- What is specific to Western medicine -- Historiography of medicine -- Medical care -- Body systems -- Anatomical tradition -- Microscopical tradition -- Physiological tradition -- Biochemical tradition -- Pathological tradition -- Immunological tradition -- Clinical research -- Theories of life, health and disease -- Concepts of health, illness and disease -- Ideas of life and death -- Humoralism -- Environment and miasmata -- Contagion/germ theory/specificity -- Nosology -- Ecology of disease -- Fevers --Constitutional and hereditary disorders -- Mental diseases -- Nutritional diseases -- Endocrine diseases -- Tropical diseases -- Cancer -- Sexually transmitted diseases -- Diseases of civilization -- Understanding disease -- Unorthodox medical theories -- Non-western concepts of disease -- Folk medicine -- Arab-Islamic medicine -- Chinese medicine -- Indian medicine -- v. 2. …”


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Encyclopedia of nursing education

Table of Contents: “…Hickman -- Holistic Nursing Care / Carol Boswell -- Honors Program / Fidelindo A. …”


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The encyclopedia of senior health and well-being by Kandel, Joseph

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Encyclopedia of women and gender : sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender

Table of Contents: “…Mezulis -- Gender stereotypes / Mary Kite -- Hate crimes / Karen Franklin -- Health and health care : how gender makes women sick / Hope Landrine and Elizabeth A. …”


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Magill's medical guide.

Table of Contents: “…Corticosteroids -- Coughing -- Craniosynostosis -- Craniotomy -- Cretinism -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) -- Critical care -- Critical care, pediatric -- Crohn's disease -- Croup -- Crowns and bridges -- Cryosurgery -- Culdocentesis -- Cushing's syndrome -- Cyanosis -- Cyst removal -- Cystic fibrosis -- Cystitis -- Cystoscopy -- Cysts -- Cytology -- Cytomegalovirus (CMV) -- Cytopathology -- Deafness -- Death and dying -- Decongestants -- Dehydration -- Delusions -- Dementias -- Dental diseases -- Dentistry -- Dentistry, pediatric -- Dentures -- Depression -- Dermatitis -- Dermatology -- Dermatology, pediatric -- Dermatopathology -- Developmental stages -- Diabetes mellitus -- Dialysis -- Diaper rash -- Diarrhea and dysentery -- DiGeorge syndrome -- Digestion -- Diptheria -- Disease -- Disk removal -- Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) -- Diverticulitis and diverticulosis -- Dizziness and fainting -- DNA and RNA -- Domestic violence -- Down syndrome -- Drowning -- Drug resistance -- Dwarfism -- Dyslexia -- Dysmenorrhea -- E. coli infection -- Ear infections and disorders -- Ear surgery -- Ears -- Eating disorders -- Ebola virus -- Echocardiography -- Ectopic pregnancy -- Eczema -- Edema -- Education, medical -- Electrical shock -- Electrocardiography (ECG or EKG) -- Electrocauterization -- Electroencephalography (EEG) -- Elephantitasis -- Embolism -- Embryology -- Emergency medicine -- Emergency medicine, pediatric -- Emotions: biomedical causes and effects -- Emphysema -- Encephalitis -- Endarterectomy -- Endocarditis --…”


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Genetics & inherited conditions

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