Bücher veröffentlicht von Chapman and Hall

Saving Our Planet analyses the changes (both positive and negative) that have occurred in the environment in the past two decades. It focuses not only on the state of the environment but also on the interactions between development activities and the environment. It highlights the main responses since 1972 to protect the environment.

Examines psychological factors and their influence on the rehabilitative processes for visually impaired and blind people. The book emphasizes the importance of treating people individually, based on consideration of their psychological strengths and weaknesses as well as physical functioning.

In this text, the author authoritatively debunks misguided opinions and misconceptions surrounding the use of Ritalin - problems and pitfalls in diagnosis and treatment, expectations, limitations, and precautions.

A practical "how to" book for teachers of children with learning disabilities. It contains case studies and examples, in non-technical language, of typical classroom problems along with successful methods of varying instruction, content, and presentation.

This reader focuses on current issues relevant to the rapid changes occurring in nursing education and practice. The material is divided into four sections: perceptions of nursing, education, clinical issues and management.

Survey and study background In an effort to gain some answers on the 1ST capital investment (project selection) decision criteria used in practice, a survey was undertaken in 1990 of 80 American, British, Australian and New Zealand companies.

Taking a comprehensive approach to breast cancer care, this book includes an introductory chapter looking at the incidence, epidemiology, aetiology and histology of the disease. It includes chapters on the essential topics of screening, politics and multi-cultural aspects of care.

Contains a brief description and explanation of each standard and guideline, indicates important features of their development, discusses related conceptual issues, highlights practical applications and specifies implications for professional students and their examinations.

This book is one of the few English language texts devoted to the subject of quality costing. This is followed by chapters on definitions of quality costs, collection of quality costs, analysis and reporting of quality costs, and the uses of quality costs.

This textbook has been revised: to bring the book up-to-date and make it compatible with BS8110 1985; and to take into account the increasing use made of microcomputers in civil engineering. An ELBS/LPBB edition is available.

Intended as a practical guide for those engaged in the shipping business, this is an introduction to the way a bill of lading works. The document changes with the times to meet the needs of modern conditions and the banking rules of the International Chamber of Commerce.

To cover aJlthe bases, the voice care team requires input frorn laryngology, speech-language pathology, psychiatry, neurology, voice science, music pedagogy, biomedical engineering and other peripheral fields.

A collection of essays on the role of supervision in nursing practice. The contributors describe the history and evolution of supervision in various fields of modern nursing, covering such topics as the therapeutic use of self, strategies to prevent "burn out" and the role of the mentor.

Everyone involved in obstetric practice at the present time will be well aware of the complexities of drug interactions in the mother and fetus, and in the newborn baby.

Such issues as nursing process, nursing models and primary nursing are described in detail, clearly helping you see how the profession has moved from the task allocation of my training into the individualized patient care of today.

A collection of papers reflecting the changes being brought about to improve the quality of life of long-stay elderly patients. The contributors make clear the important factor of the attitude of caring staff towards their clients.

Carnivores have always fascinated us, even though they make up only 10% of all mammalian genera and only about 2% of all mammalian biomass. " The sheer presence and power of carnivores is daunt ing: they can move quickly yet silently through forests, attaining rapid bursts of speed when necessary;

Once again the wide-ranging and rapid developments in microcomputer technology of the last few years have meant that a detailed revision of The librarian's guide to microcomputers for information management was required, if it was to fulfil its objectives of providing a single source of information on the process of automating with a microcomputer.

Provides an understanding, in the light of both political and economic developments, of what has been happening to NHS managers and professionals in the last decade. The book also explains the basis for various recommendations and related developments.

Increasingly, stress as a concept is being used as an explanation of a wide variety of negative phenomena which are experienced by all people, but which include nurses in particular and their patients.

The concept of dementia has itself been the subject of increasing refinement and precision in definition and diagnosis. Alzheimer's disease or Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (SDA T), arises out of changes in the brain which are as yet poorly understood and identifiable with certainty only at post mortem examination.

One of the paradoxes of general practice is that we emphasize on the one hand how important it is that the general practitioner learns to tolerate uncertainty, and then regret on the other hand that so few general practitioners research the uncertainties they find in their every day work.

The stimulus for writing this book arose from the author's perception of a lack of available texts which adequately integrate the subjects of neuroanatomy and functional neurology with the practice of speech language pathology.

This text describes the nature of incontinence, how it can be managed, and provides information about the aids, equipment and services available to help those affected by this common condition.

'Man's need for communication with his fellow man is possibly his greatest need and the fulfilment of his other needs and desires is largely dependent upon, or at the last greatly facilitated by, his ability to satisfy this basic one.' Louise Tracy Defective hearing disrupts human communication.

Part One con centrates on the general psychological processes that have relevance in many health settings, in the prevention, alleviation and management of illness, as weIl as current practices in health care delivery.

Expert systems constitute a research area which is currently expanding. I wish to thank all those who have given me their support, their criticisms and suggestions: Dominique Fieschi, Michel Joubert, Genevieve Botti, Michel Roux, Jean-Louis Lauriere, as well as the CNRS which supported the ATP Expert Systems Group with an individual grant.

It could be said with some justification that the task of education is to safe guard people's right to learn about important aspects of human culture and experience. In recent years, however, questions have been posed with increasing insistence and urgency about efficiency - both about education in general and health education in particular.

The idea to write a book on ethical issues pertaining to paediatric nursing has been aired for quite some time. The approach we took, however, stressed the overall unity of paediatric nursing - where the specialities are wide enough to take in all paediatric nursing activities from neonatal care to adolescent health screening.

Why write another book on ethics? Ethics are highly personal: we fashion our own personal code from our experi ence of others, and from the 'tests' which bring meaning to our lives. Given that our work involves us in helping others to live ordinary, satisfying lives, this challenge heightens the intensity of our ethical dilemmas.