Psychiatry for General Practitioners Book Description
Psychiatry, being an allied branch of Medicine, is undergoing rapid changes. There have been many new advances in the causation, symptomatology, classification, diagnosis and management of mental disorders. The textbooks on psychiatric practice as applicable to Indian setting are few. A major portion of these textbooks is devoted to the psychiatric practice in western countries and is not practically oriented.
In this compelling work, Keith Gandal reveals how the slum in nineteenth-century America, long a topic for sober moral analysis, became in the 1890s an unprecedented source of spectacle, captured in novels, newspapers, documentary accounts, and photographs. Reflecting a change in the middle-class vision of the poor, the slum no longer drew attention simply as a problem of social conditions and vice but emerged as a subject for aesthetic, ethnographic, and psychological description.
Lights in the Sky: Understanding Astronomical and Meteorological Phenomena
Many lights and other objects in the sky go unrecognised, or at least are little understood by those observing them. Such things range from the commonplace like rainbows and meteors, to the distinctly unusual like the green flash and ball lightning. And there is still a residuum of objects that remain unidentified by the watcher – classed generally as ‘UFOs’, a description which today has connotations of the mysterious, even of extraterrestrial visitors.
Polish edition of the coursebook aimed for students of secondary schools. Level: A1. Contains mini bilingual dictionary with phonetic scripts and exam strategies description. Could be used as a preparatory course for Matura basic exam. Focuses on fluent communication skills.
Dermatology terminology describes dermatological diseases using the language that dermatologists actually use in speaking to each other. With many disorders, the description can be reduced to a word, or a phrase, or an acronym. This is termed the "keyword" phenomenon, where such a keyword substitutes for a much fuller and much lengthier formal presentation.
