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Autoimmune Diseases: Acute and Complex Situations provides a detailed overview of conditions associated with autoimmune diseases that are considered either life-threatening or requiring complex management. These include abdominal pain, arthritis, cutaneous ulcers, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, epilepsy, pancreatitis, stroke and white-matter CNS lesions. Autoimmune Diseases: Acute and Complex Situations addresses the latest clinical and immunological prognostic factors that may help to identify patients at higher risk of developing potentially life-threatening involvement. This book comprehensively helps the reader to diagnose these patients, in whom an early therapeutic approach is essential. Autoimmune Diseases: Acute and Complex Situations is a valuable reference tool for rheumatologists, internists, immunologists, and all the specialists involved in the multidisciplinary care of patient with rheumatic and systemic autoimmune diseases.
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Tropical fruit trees are important crops which supplement and improve the quality of diets. Many of the species have multi-purpose uses, in that they produce non-food products for small-holders . Harvesting from these trees enables rural people to provide nutrition for a balanced diet and generate income thus alleviating poverty. The potencial of indigenous tropical fruits has not been fully realised. The purpose of this book is to assemble information on production, processing, marketing and utilisation of tamarind, to highlight the importance of the species for nutrition and poverty alleviation. This information will be disseminated to a wide audience in both developed and developing countries. An extension manual is currently in preparation for dissemination to farmers, extension workers and policy makers.
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This book has been replaced by "Rare Diseases of the Respiratory System", ISBN 978-1-84984-167-2 A respiratory physician is only likely to see a few orphan lung diseases each year or even during their career. However, it is essential that specialists are able identify, confirm and diagnosis orphan lung disease in a patient. This Monograph comprehensively covers the most common and/or complex orphan lung diseases. It should be seen as a solid companion to the respiratory specialist each time they need to consider a diagnosis of an orphan disease.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, origins, and impact. Presents an original theoretical approach to political geography by revealing the paradoxical relationship between materials and politics Explores how political disputes have come to revolve not around objects in isolation, but objects that are entangled in ever growing quantities of information about their performance, origins, and impact Studies the example of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline – a fascinating experiment in transparency and corporate social responsibility – and its wide-spread negative political impact Capitalizes on the growing interdisciplinary interest, especially within geography and social theory, about the critical role of material artefacts in political life