Sailing craft of the British Isles

Finch, Roger

Collins

<p>Instilling good prescribing habits in young doctors is essential for the benefit of patients and to preserve the value of the antibiotic revolution that altered medical practice in the second half of the twentieth century. These concerns underlie the approach taken in the new edition of this successful book. The text provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the principles of antimicrobial chemotherapy as an aid to informed, rational prescribing. Care is taken to address all aspects of antimicrobial drug use, including those specific to developed and developing countries of the world. The authors are international experts with a long standing interest in the role of education as a means of promoting an understanding of the benefits and limitations of antimicrobial chemotherapy in physicians, surgeons and other health care workers. The book offers a structured approach to the subject in four themed sections, each of several chapters. A historical introduction is followed by a section outlining the basic properties of antibacterial, antifungal, antiparasitic and antiviral (including antiretroviral) drugs.The next section explains the various facets of antimicrobial drug resistance - which threatens to undermine the continued efficacy of antimicrobial agents - and effective ways of countering the threat. Therapeutic use is covered in two sections: one introduces readers to the general principles that inform the rational prescribing of antimicrobial drugs; the second deals with practicalities of the use of antimicrobial agents in specific clinical conditions. The book ends with a description of the ways in which drugs are developed and marketed. There are extensive recommendations for further reading.</p>

Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Science & Math

Davey, Peter

Wilcox, Mark

Greenwood, David

Biological Sciences

Oxford University Press

Antimicrobial agents are essential for the treatment of life-threatening infections and for managing the burden of minor infections in the community. In addition, they play a key role in organ and bone marrow transplantation, cancer chemotherapy, artificial joint and heart valve surgery. Unlike other classes of medicines, they are vulnerable to resistance from mutations in target microorganisms, and their adverse effects may extend to other patients (increased risk of cross-infection). As a consequence, there is a constant requirement for new agents, as well as practices that ensure the continued effective prescribing of licensed agents.Public awareness and concerns about drug resistant organisms has led to widespread publicity and political action in the UK, Europe and worldwide. The control of drug resistance and the implementation of good prescribing practice are now legal requirements in the UK as a result of the UK Health Act (2008). These fundamental changes underscore the need for a thorough understanding of the advantages and risks associated with specific antibiotic choices. This sixth edition of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy continues to be a valuable resource for undergraduates and graduates requiring a thorough grounding in the scientific basis and clinical application of these drugs. This new edition is updated to include the most recently licensed agents, notably in the treatment of viral infections including HIV/AIDS, and contains new guidance on prescribing practice and infection control practices that limit the development and spread of resistant organisms.

Irving, William

Wilcox, Mark H.

A cross in the topsail: An account of the shipping interests of R. & W. Paul Ltd., Ipswich

History

Europe

Boydell Press

The ship painters

Lavenham [England] : T. Dalton

From Roger Finch's long experience of living in Japan and traveling widely in the Far East, Europe, and other countries come the settings and themes of many of these poems dealing with love, friendship, encounters with strangers, discovery, loss, and death, while others focus on memories of the past, separation, and longing for his homeland. The prosodic base of most of these poems is inspired by Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Quechua poetry. Praise for Stations of the Sun: "Color, light, nature, and art in Roger Finch's poems radiate an experience of miraculous attentiveness to the power of desire and memory. Deftly musical, the poems of Stations of the Sun find loss and hope intertwined in affirmation, as time and changing flesh become precise and eloquent words." - James Hatch, Ph.D., Hunter College

Stations of the Sun: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Somerset Hall Press

In The Orient

Short Stories & Anthologies

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