Osteoarthritis, inflammation and degradation [[electronic resource] ] : a continuum / / edited by Joseph A. Buckwalter, Martin Lotz and Jean-François Stoltz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778338403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Washington, DC, : IOS Press, c2007
• ISBN: 6611733566; 1-281-73356-3; 9786611733568; 1-60750-265-8; 600-00-0512-1; 1-4356-2516-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Collana: Biomedical and health research, , 0929-6743 ; ; v. 70
• Altri autori (Persone): BuckwalterJoseph A; LotzMartin (Martin K.); StoltzJ. F
• Disciplina: 616.7/223007548
• Soggetti: Biochemical markers; Osteoarthritis
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Preface; Acknowledgments and Contributors; Contents; Extra Cellular Stimuli; Signalling Mechanisms; Effectors and Different Pathways; Imaging and Clinical Applications; Author Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Osteoarthritis is a major public health issue due to its impact in term of handicap. Moreover, ageing of the world population and outbreak of obesity in industrialized and non-industrialized countries will dramatically increase its incidence in the next years. Regarded as a multi-factorial disease, today mechanistic and inflammatory theories are no more opposed but, on the contrary, are framed within the same continuum: osteoarthritis, inflammation and degeneration.In order to collect major information in a benchmark book on the fundamental aspects of this disease, internationally well-known a

Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth- Century Periodical Press : : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858 / / Megan Coyer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910476786503321
• Autore: Coyer Megan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh University Press, 2017; Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 p.)
• Collana: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR
• Disciplina: 820.93561
• Soggetti: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Medicine and Blackwoodian Romanticism -- 1. Medical Discourse and Ideology in the Edinburgh Review -- 2. The Tale of Terror and the ‘Medico-Popular’ 3. ‘Delta’: The Construction of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Surgeon 4 -- 3. ‘Delta’: The Construction of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Surgeon -- 4. Professionalisation and the Case of Samuel Warren’s Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician -- 5. The Rise of Public Health in the Popular Periodical Press: The Political Medicine of W. P. Alison, Robert Gooch, and Robert Fergus -- Coda: Medical Humanism and Blackwood’s Magazine at the Fin de Siècle -- Select Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture, which served as a significant medium for the dissemination and exchange of medical and literary ideas throughout Britain, the colonies, and beyond. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press explores the relationship between the medical culture of Romantic-era Scotland and the periodical press by examining several medically-trained contributors to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential and innovative literary periodical of the era.