This book is a very comprehensive review of Bio terrorism and its impact on public health, mental health, population and vulnerable sub population. The book is divided into five parts. Partone dealswiththe introductiontobio terrorism andneed for planning. Parttwo gives a historic prospective onbio terrorism and sights examples from the past, in particular, influenza pandemic of 1918 and analysi...

I nformation continues to accumulate, at an increasingly rapid pace, about the complex processes and mechanisms underlying the genesis and maintenance of child and adolescent forms of mental disorder. Our major goal for this, the third edition of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology—in chapters written by international experts on the topics of interest—is to present current information, particu...

The overwhelming proliferation of scientific and technologic information in the twentieth century is a fact of life to which literate people must adjust. Those deeply engrossed in one aspect of the phenomenon find the maintenance of a balanced "overview" increasingly difficult. Even the very well-organized and energetic reader often feels that "keeping up" is almost impossible. Contributions su...

The articles, representing different schools of thought, include such subjects as "Sickness or Sin?" by Barbara Wooton; "The Rooted Sorrow" by Dr. Emanuel Miller; and "Psycho-Pathology in Industrial Life" by Elliott Jacques; two others poignantly describe conditions in individual mental hospitals as experienced by an ex-patient, and by a male mental nurse. All the articles are written designedl...

By the end of the 19th century, exfoliated cancer cells had been described in all of the types of specimen in which we find them today. However, it was not until Drs. Papanicolaou and Traut published their account of the diagnosis of uterine cancer from exfoliated cells (1941 and 1943) that cytopathology acquired the momentum to develop into the powerful presence that it has in human medicine t...

This basic socio-cultural framework, with all its inherent ambivalences and contradictions, emerged during the colonial era and exercised a deep and lasting impact on the political, economic and social structure of the new South American nations. Only after many decades was the impact blurred by the action of other external influences, change occurring from within, and a growing sense of nation...

Introduction: Today, psychological processes and brain is no longer looked at as something less scientific in comparison with physical processes, so mental diseases will become equal as physical diseases very soon. Until recently, brain functioning could be observed only in patients with cerebral lesions, after surgery, and on animals, but it is possible today to observe it directly with modern...

We review data from both ethology and psychology about generalization, that is how animals respond to sets of stimuli including familiar and novel stimuli. Our main conclusion is that patterns of generalization are largely independent of systematic group (evidence is available for insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including humans), behavioural context (feeding, drinking, ...