This page provides a list of books and book chapters authored by GW health sciences faculty. Copies may be available at Himmelfarb Library for checkout or for viewing online.
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The Well Woman Visit
David Chelmow, Anita Blanchard, and Lee Learman
This accessible text expands on the recommendations of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Well Woman Task Force (WWTF) to provide a practical guide to conducting a successful well-woman visit. Background chapters summarize the history of the WWTF and rationale and evidence supporting periodic health visits, explain the principles of early diagnosis and prevention, and offer advice on the practical side of conducting a visit, including considerations for special populations. Chapters detail each component of the visit, first explaining the scope of a problem, the rationale for screening or prevention, and the factors that alter a screening. The WWTF ... Read more
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Clinical Cardiac Pacing, Defibrillation, and Resynchronization Therapy
Kenneth Ellenbogen, Bruce L. Wilkoff, Neal Kay, Chu-Pak Lau, and Angelo Auricchio
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Handbook of Venous and Lymphatic Disorders: Guidelines of the American Venous Forum 4th Edition
Peter Gloviczki, Michael C. Dalsing, Bo Eklof, Fedor Lurie, Thomas W. Wakefield, and Monika L. Gloviczki
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Using Nursing Research to Shape Health Policy
Patricia A. Grady and Ada Sue Hinshaw
Examining the crucial interrelationship between nursing research and health policy, this book presents examples of specific health care policies that have been influenced, implemented, or changed as a result of nursing research. It builds on the discussion of this relationship in the editors’ earlier book, Shaping Health Policy Through Nursing Research, named a Doody's Core Title in 2013 and an AJN Book of the Year in 2011. This book updates earlier information with new nursing research by esteemed scholars. It encompasses research related to major policy directives of the decade, including the Institute of Medicine's The Future of Nursing report, ... Read more
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Bearing Witness to Change: Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice (1st Ed.)
Ezra Griffith, Michael A. Norko, Alec Buchanan, Madelon V. Baranoski, and Howard Zonana
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Sarcoma : A Multidisciplinary Approach to Treatment
Robert Henshaw
The purpose of this book is to define and demonstrate how a multidisciplinary team can be organized, integrated, and utilized in the care of sarcoma patients. Real world experiences related by multiple sarcoma specialists working as members of a multidisciplinary team along with specific case examples highlighting sarcomas of bone and soft tissue in children and adults are presented in a framework geared toward practicing oncologists and surgeons in order to foster the creation and development of care teams for sarcoma patients. It is explained how a truly multidisciplinary approach, with “one stop shopping,” offers better standardization and delivery of ... Read more
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Reflective Practice, Second Edition: Transforming Education and Improving Outcomes
Sara Horton-Deutsch and Gwen Sherwood
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Congenital Vascular Malformations: A Comprehensive Review of Current Management
Young-Wook Kim, Byung-Boong Lee, Wayne F. Yakes, and Young-Soo Do
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Integrative Geriatric Medicine
Mikhail Kogan
This work summarizes a patient-centered, wholistic approach to medical care of the elderly. Deeply rooted in life style interventions such as nutrition, movement therapies, and mind-body and spirituality approaches integrative geriatrics allows patients to have different path to their healthcare, one that utilizes pharmaceuticals and invasive procedures only when safer integrative approaches are not available or not effective.
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Practicing primary health care in nursing : caring for populations
Sandra B. Lewinson and Marie Truglio-Londrigan
Historical exemplars in nursing -- Awakening of an idea : principles of primary health care in the declaration of the alma-ata -- Nursing's role in building a culture of health -- Social justice, nursing advocacy, and health inequities : a primary health care perspective -- The economics of caring for populations : a primary health care perspective -- Coalitions, partnerships, and shared decision making : a PHC perspective -- "I told them, leave it alone; it's our center" : advocacy and activism in primary health care -- Integrated health care without walls : technology-assisted primary health care -- Global nursing ... Read more
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Proceedings of the Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Forum: Unconscious Bias in Academic Medicine
Darcy Lewis and Emily Paulson
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Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods
Richard McPherson and Matthew R. Pincus
Recognized as the definitive book in laboratory medicine since 1908, Henry’s Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods, edited by Richard A. McPherson, MD and Matthew R. Pincus, MD, PhD, is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary pathology reference that gives you state-of-the-art guidance on lab test selection and interpretation of results. Revisions throughout keep you current on the latest topics in the field, such as biochemical markers of bone metabolism, clinical enzymology, pharmacogenomics, and more.
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Urological and Gynaecological Chronic Pelvic Pain
Robert Moldwin
This text is designed for those clinicians who feel comfortable diagnosing these illnesses and wish to enhance their knowledge base and skill set regarding treatment options. Referrals for pelvic pain are common in urological and gynaecological practice; and may lead to varied diagnoses such as interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome, chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, pelvic floor dysfunction, chronic orchialgia, and vulvodynia. To make matters more complex, each of these conditions is frequently associated by co-morbidities. The text is unique in being organized by the multiple and multifaceted therapies that are available, rather than by specific disorders. The text is richly ... Read more
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Urological and gynaecological chronic pelvic pain : current therapies
Robert M. Moldwin
This text is designed for those clinicians who feel comfortable diagnosing these illnesses and wish to enhance their knowledge base and skill set regarding treatment options. Referrals for pelvic pain are common in urological and gynaecological practice; and may lead to varied diagnoses such as interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome, chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, pelvic floor dysfunction, chronic orchialgia, and vulvodynia. To make matters more complex, each of these conditions is frequently associated by co-morbidities. The text is unique in being organized by the multiple and multifaceted therapies that are available, rather than by specific disorders. The text is richly ... Read more
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Robotic Colon and Rectal Surgery
Vincent Obias
The initial chapters discuss the start of minimally invasive surgery and robotics. Subsequent chapters address starting up a robotics program and incorporating robotics into ones practice. The textbook next centers on specific robotic techniques or robotic management of certain disease processes. These chapters are written by experts in the fields and include multiple tables, illustrations, and videos describing the techniques where applicable. Each chapter also discusses the current literature. The final chapters focus on the future of robotics, cost of robotics, and include other possible future platforms and as well as the new FDA approved Xi and SP Intuitive surgical ... Read more
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Teaching and learning in physical therapy : from classroom to clinic (2nd edition)
Margaret Plack and MaryAnne Driscoll
Teaching and Learning in Physical Therapy: From Classroom to Clinic, Second Edition is based on the teaching, research, and professional experiences of Drs. Margaret Plack and Maryanne Driscoll, who together have over 60 years of experience. More importantly it contains practical information that allows students, educators, and clinicians to develop optimal instructional strategies in a variety of settings. Clinical scenarios and reflective questions are interspersed throughout, providing opportunities for active learning, critical thinking, and immediate direct application.Grounded in current literature, the Second Edition is geared for physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, students, educators, and other health care professionals. By extending ... Read more
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Fetal and Neonatal Physiology
Richard Polin, Steven Abman, David Rowitch, William Benitz, and William Fox
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The Endometrial Factor: A Reproductive Precision Medicine Approach
Carlos Simon and Linda Giudice
At the dawn of precision medicine, there is a new opportunity for novel approaches to understand, diagnose and treat endometrial disorders that affect fertility, reproductive outcomes, and women’s health more broadly. Herein, the editors have assembled critically evaluated state-of-the-art chapters presenting basic and clinical knowledge about the human endometrium that impacts or will impact clinical practice. All clinicians and researchers in Reproductive Medicine will find this book useful as a reference and a valuable tool for continued advancement in the understanding and management of the "endometrial factor".
