Many people are not missing information about their health.They are missing a way to make sense of it.Thinking in Chinese Medicine is written for patients and curious readers who want to understand how Chinese medicine actually looks at the body, and how that perspective helps clinicians navigate complexity, change, and uncertainty.Chinese medicine is not just acupuncture or herbs.At its core, it is a way of s...

In a world of information technologies, genetic engineering, controversies about established science, and the mysteries of quantum physics, it is at once seemingly impossible and absolutely vital to find ways to make sense of how science, technology, and society connect. In Feedback Loops: Pragmatism about Science & Technology, editors Andrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew bring together original writing from philosophers and science and technology studies scholars to provide novel ways of r...

It is being said that we should all be proud of the way we are confronting the Covid-19 pandemic. Rather than privileging profits and trade, Western societies have made the noble decision to save lives at all costs. Indeed, the logic that has prevailed is that accepting any trade-off between saving lives and saving the economy is an unacceptable and monstrous idea, which is why liberal democracies worldwide have chosen to shutter businesses and force people to self-quarantine in their home...

Endocrinologie, diabétologie et maladies métaboliques

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the serious crisis of political authorities that liberal societies are currently experiencing. Indeed, a significant number of individuals living in these societies did not hesitate to defy the sanitary rules enacted by their government which has made it difficult for them to stop the virus from spreading. What can explain such a situation? This is what this book is discussing. Whether it is the growing popularity of conspiracy theories, the distrust towa...

En parfaite cohérence avec le programme de DCEM2-DCEM4 et les épreuves classantes nationales, cet Abrégé Connaissances et Pratique apporte les connaissances fondamentales en endocrinologie, diabétologie et maladies métaboliques. La première partie Connaissances développe, de manière synthétique et pratique, les 21 items du programme de DCEM ayant trait à cette discipline. Les items sont présentés selon le découpage retenu par le programme : Modules transversaux, Maladies et grands syndrome...

En parfaite conformité avec le programme du DFASM (Diplôme de formation approfondie en sciences médicales) et avec les Épreuves classantes nationales (ECNi), cet ouvrage aborde les connaissances fondamentales en endocrinologie, diabétologie et maladies métaboliques. Il comprend deux parties : • une partie Connaissances comprenant 31 chapitres commençant systématiquement par un rappel des objectifs pédagogiques puis développant la thématique, étayée de points clés, de notions à retenir, de ...

No centenário da morte de Kafka, O processo ganha edição especial com a consagrada tradução de Modesto Carone, organização do professor Renato Faria, textos inéditos de Jacques Derrida e Rolf-Peter Janz e desenhos do autor.Em agosto de 1914, logo após a Europa entrar em guerra, Franz Kafka escreveu dois capítulos de O processo, os primeiros de uma composição errante, que usava diferentes suportes e abria mão da linearidade. O fragmento de romance ...