This book brings together the results of fieldwork and academic research to highlight the achievements of prehistoric people who lived in these islands between their settlement by the first farmers and Julius Caesar's invasions of southeast England. It emphasises landscapes and monuments that can be visited today.
Written reports are central to forensic psychiatric practice and are regularly required in other areas of psychiatry. This book provides a theoretical background to psychiatric writing in legal contexts and a practical guide to preparing the report, including in criminal and civil litigation, civil commitment hearings and child custody proceedings.
This book reviews the range of psychoses that complicate the reproductive process. Armed with this comprehensive knowledge and wielding a range of interventions, women can be restored to health and their vital roles in the family and community. Additionally, multidisciplinary preventive strategies can transform the lives of vulnerable women.
This new edition describes a stage-specific model highlighting the risk, the clinical and biological factors present during the development of psychotic illness, and the best treatments available for each of these stages. Guides practitioners and researchers in the adoption of carefully planned management strategies fully integrating treatment with prevention.
Provides a concise, thorough overview of the science, technology, economics, policy, and politics of climate change in a single volume. Ideal for undergraduate/graduate courses in environmental policy and climate change. Explains interactions between science and politics that make climate change a contentious and potentially confusing topic.
A unique exploration of how the 'self' influences psychopathology, psychotherapy, emphasizing the need to integrate self-constructs into evidence-based conceptual models.
A comprehensive account of the human male gamete featuring sperm production, maturation and function and how they affect fertility, infertility and assisted reproduction. This second edition now includes proteomics, spermatogenesis, Ca2+ signalling, DNA packaging, how mouse genetics informs male fertility research, and the impact of environmental factors during pre-puberty and puberty.
Mason assesses the historic and contemporary legal reactions to the management of a pregnancy that is unwanted or undesired as a result of medical mismanagement or negligence. The text also explores the legal regulation of the treatment of the disabled fetus or newborn child.