Intellectual Life in America

Intellectual Life in America
Author: Lewis Perry
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 479
Release: 1989-02-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226661016

This historical study of intellectuals asks, for every period, who they were, how important they were, and how they saw themselves in relation to other Americans. Lewis Perry considers intellectuals in their varied historical roles as learned gentlemen, as clergymen and public figures, as professionals, as freelance critics, and as a professoriate. Looking at the changing reputation of the intellect itself, Perry examines many forms of anti-intellectualism, showing that some of these were encouraged by intellectuals as surely as by their antagonists. This work is interpretative, critical, and highly provocative, and it provides what is all too often missing in the study of intellectuals—a sense of historical orientation.

3D Printing and Biofabrication

3D Printing and Biofabrication
Author: Aleksandr Ovsianikov
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-06-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783319454436

This volume provides an in-depth introduction to 3D printing and biofabrication and covers the recent advances in additive manufacturing for tissue engineering. The book is divided into two parts, the first part on 3D printing discusses conventional approaches in additive manufacturing aimed at fabrication of structures, which are seeded with cells in a subsequent step. The second part on biofabrication presents processes which integrate living cells into the fabrication process.

Evidence-based Anticancer Materia Medica

Evidence-based Anticancer Materia Medica
Author: William C.S. Cho
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2011-03-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9400705263

Cancer is one of the leading killers in the world and the incidence is increasing, but most cancer patients and cancer survivors suffer much from the disease and its conventional treatments’ side effects. In the past, clinical data showed that some complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) possessed anticancer abilities, but some clinicians and scientists have queried about the scientific validity of CAM due to the lack of scientific evidence. There is great demand in the knowledge gap to explore the scientific and evidence-based knowledge of CAM in the anticancer field. With this aim, a book series is needed to structurally deliver the knowledge to readers. Recently there have been encouraging results from both laboratory experiments and clinical trials demonstrating the anticancer effects of herbal medicine. There is considerable interest among oncologists and cancer researchers to find anticancer agents in herbal medicine. This volume is a specialised book presenting the up-to-date scientific evidence for anticancer herbal medicine. This unique book provides an overview of the anticancer herbal medicines and remedies, as well as a detailed evidence-based evaluation of 18 common anticancer herbal medicines covering their biological and pharmacological properties, efficacies, herb-drug interactions, adverse effects, pre-clinical studies, and clinical applications. Gathering international opinion leaders’ views, this volume will contribute great to the cancer, academic, and clinical community by providing evidence-based information on the anticancer efficacy of herbal medicine. Readership Oncologists, cancer researchers, pharmacologists, pharmaceutical specialists, Chinese medicine practitioners, medical educators, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates in biomedical disciplines, cancer caregivers, cancer patients.

Anterior Implant Esthetics

Anterior Implant Esthetics
Author: Joseph Kan
Publisher: Quintessence Publishing (IL)
Total Pages:
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780867154993

Achieving implant restorations with harmonious gingival contours that emulate nature requires a fusion of science and art. The clinician must understand the biologic and physiologic limitations of the soft and hard tissues to facilitate predictable outcomes in simple to complex esthetic situations. This book focuses on implant esthetic approaches encompassing orthodontics, periodontics, prosthodontics, and laboratory techniques. It presents current implant treatment philosophies and methodologies for replacing missing teeth and for managing patients who are facing the loss of a tooth or teeth in the esthetic zone. Equal emphasis is placed on diagnosis, treatment planning, and surgical and prosthetic management of soft and hard tissues for optimal anterior implant esthetics.

Redox-Active Therapeutics

Redox-Active Therapeutics
Author: Ines Batinić-Haberle
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 709
Release: 2016-10-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319307053

This essential volume comprehensively discusses redox-active therapeutics, focusing particularly on their molecular design, mechanistic, pharmacological and medicinal aspects. The first section of the book describes the basic aspects of the chemistry and biology of redox-active drugs and includes a brief overview of the redox-based pathways involved in cancer and the medical aspects of redox-active drugs, assuming little in the way of prior knowledge. Subsequent sections and chapters describe more specialized aspects of central nervous system injuries, neurodegenerative diseases, pain, radiation injury and radioprotection (such as of brain, lungs, head and neck and erectile function) and neglected diseases (e.g., leishmaniasis). It encompasses several major classes of redox-active experimental therapeutics, which include porphyrins, salens, nitrones, and most notably metal-containing (e.g., Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn, Sb) drugs as either single compounds or formulations with nanomaterials and quantum dots. Numerous illustrations, tables and figures enhance and complement the text; extensive references to relevant literature are also included. Redox-Active Therapeutics is an invaluable addition to Springer’s Oxidative Stress in Applied Basic Research and Clinical Practice series. It is essential reading for researchers, clinicians and graduate students interested in understanding and exploring the Redoxome—the organism redox network—as an emerging frontier in drug design, redox biology and medicine.

Latino Pentecostals in America

Latino Pentecostals in America
Author: Gastón Espinosa
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2014-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674728874

"Seeks to provide a history of the Latino AG [Assemblies of God] that can also serve as a case study and window into the larger Latino Pentecostal, Evangelical, and Protestant movements along with the changing flow of North American religious history." (page 2).