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**Selected for 2026 Doody''s Core Titles as an Essential Purchase in Radiation Oncology**Expertly written and meticulously edited to ensure scientifically accurate, accessible content throughout, Gunderson and Tepper''s Clinical Radiation Oncology, 6th Edition, provides complete, multidisciplinary coverage of this complex and dynamic field. Concise, templated chapters cover the basic biology of oncologic disease processes as well as updated treatment algorithms, the latest clinical guidelines, and state-of-the-art techniques and modalities. User-friendly elements such as summarized key issues, full-color formatting, extensive use of tables and figures, and access to videos online make this reference an ideal resource for every member of the radiation oncology team. - Divides content into three distinct sections for quick access to information: Scientific Foundations, Techniques and Modalities, and Disease Sites. Disease Site chapters include overviews summarizing the most important issues and concluding discussions on controversies and problems - Provides expert guidance on single-modality and combined-modality approaches, as well as outcome data including disease control, survival, and treatment tolerance - Contains a new chapter on artificial intelligence in radiation, as well as up-to-date coverage of advancements in interventional radiology tumor ablation techniques and associated outcomes; updated guidance on using Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT) as a radiation dose escalation tool; and increased coverage of proton therapy - Features more than 1,000 images―detailed anatomy drawings, radiographic images, and more―that provide outstanding visual support for every area of the text - Covers key topics such as brachytherapy, precision radiation therapy, palliative radiotherapy, quality and safety, image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT), and stereotactic radiosurgery - Includes access to videos on intraoperative irradiation, prostate brachytherapy, penile brachytherapy, and ocular melanoma - Any additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date

Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association have edited this book, on the ways in which social injustice causes and contributes to public health problems. Their previous books, War and Public Health and errorism and Public Health, both dealt with specific issues of social injustice as they relate to public health. The current book addresses a broader set of issues in a more comprehensive manner. This book defines social injustice as the denial or violation of economic, sociocultural, political, civil, or human rights of specific populations or groups in society. These groups are socially defined in terms of racial or ethnic status, language, country of origin, socioeconomic status, age, gender, sexual orientation or other perceived group characterisitics. Social injustice manifests in many ways ranging from various forms of overt discrimination to the wide gaps between the "haves" and the "have-nots" within a country or between richer and poorer countries. It increases the prevalence of risk factors and hazardous exposures, which in turn lead to higher rates of disease, injury, disability, and premature death. Public health professionals as well as students need to have a clear understanding of social injustice in order to address these problems, but few books address such a wide range of issues. This book will enable readers to understand social injustice and will prepare them to recognize, document, investigate, and prevent social injustice and its effects on health. This book is organized so that health professionals, students in the health professions, and others will find it of practical value in public health and medical care, research, education, policy development, and advocacy.

With the publication in 1996 of The Harvard Guide to Women''s Health, women seeking answers to questions about their health had access to the combined expertise of physicians from three of the world''s most prestigious medical institutions: Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women''s Hospital. With complete information on women''s health concerns, physical and behavioral, this A to Z reference quickly became a definitive resource, praised especially for its coverage of topics not previously considered under the umbrella of women''s health. The New Harvard Guide to Women''s Health reunites the authors to bring a valued health reference up to date for a new generation--and for those women who have come to rely on the Harvard Guide and are now wondering what to do about their health as they enter a new stage of life, asking questions like the following: I''ve been on hormone replacement therapy. Should I stop? How? Could this rash be lupus? I''ve been on the Pill. What is my risk for stroke? Fat is bad, fat is good: What should I believe? And what''s left to eat? When does ordinary worry become chronic anxiety? What screening tests do I need now? In addition to revised recommendations reflecting the current medical thinking on menopause and hormone replacement therapy, the New Harvard Guide includes updated recommendations about cardiac health and heart disease--the #1 killer of women in the United States entries reflecting recent advances in the understanding and treatment of autoimmune diseases better coverage of health concerns throughout a woman''s life span, from her first period to menopause and beyond, with a new entry on perimenopause expanded nutritional recommendations, including a unique chart of the U.S. government''s Daily Reference Intakes for micronutrients, broken down for teens and women whose needs may differ because they are pregnant, breastfeeding, or postmenopausal updated information on over-the-counter medications, prescription drugs, procedures, screenings, and diagnostic tests

Provides a self-teaching reference text for forensic chemistry laboratories and law enforcement agencies world-wide. The text includes sections on the importance of physical examinations of drugs and their wrappings; and the use of gas and high-performance chromatography.