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У книзі викладено сучасні уявлення про найпоширеніші інфекційні і паразитарні хвороби. Особливу увагу приділено хворобам, які зустрічаються на території України або можуть бути завезені з інших регіонів. Матеріал представлено в 3 томах. У виданні використано матеріали ВООЗ і сучасні зарубіжні публікації. Класифікації хвороб подано переважно з урахуванням рекомендацій ВООЗ. Матеріал адаптовано до нових навчальних програм вищих медичних навчальних закладів, медичних академій післядииломної освіти, інститутів удосконалення лікарів. Для студентів вищих медичних навчальних закладів III—IV рівнів акредитації, практичних лікарів, лікарів-інтернів, курсантів і аспірантів.

Книга Переломный момент посвящена механизмам возникновения и развития социальных эпидемий. Автор исследует феномены молвы, молодежной моды, преступности, эпидемий самоубийств и анализирует факторы, лежащие в их основе. Социальные эпидемии начинаются с накопления незначительных изменений, каждое из которых в отдельности может быть проигнорировано, но вместе они приводят к переломному моменту критической точке, с которой начинается неконтролируемое развитие событий. В книге сформулированы правила возникновения эпидемий, выделены законы развития эпидемий, а также описаны типажи личностей переломного момента, выступающие катализаторами масштабных социальных перемен. Книга будет интересна психологам, социологам, социальным работникам, вообще всем специалистам, имеющим дело с человеческим фактором, а также всем пытливым читателям.

Since the dawn of civilization, nothing has so puzzled people— and often frightened them, as well—as the onset of illness in a body or mind that had seemed healthy before. A seizure, the inability of a heart to pump, the sudden deterioration of muscle tone in a small child—being unable to reverse such conditions or even to understand why they occur was unspeakably frustrating to healers. Even before there were names for such conditions, even before they were understood at all, each was a reminder of how complex the human body was, and how vulnerable. While our grappling with understanding diseases has been frustrating at times, it has also provided some of humankind’s most heroic accomplishments. Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery in 1928 of a mold that could be turned into penicillin has resulted in the saving of untold millions of lives. The isolation of the enzyme insulin has reversed what was once a death sentence for anyone with diabetes. There have been great strides in combating conditions for which there is not yet a cure, too. Medicines can help AIDS patients live longer, diagnostic tools such as mammography and ultrasounds can help doctors find tumors while they are treatable, and laser surgery techniques have made the most intricate, minute operations routine. This “toe-to-toe” competition with diseases and disorders is even more remarkable when seen in a historical continuum. An astonishing amount of progress has been made in a very short time. Just two hundred years ago, the existence of germs as a cause of some diseases was unknown. In fact, it was less than 150 years ago that a British surgeon named Joseph Lister had difficulty persuading his fellow doctors that washing their hands before delivering a baby might increase the chances of a healthy delivery (especially if they had just attended to a diseased patient)! Each book in Lucent’s Diseases and Disorders series explores a disease or disorder and the knowledge that has been accumulated (or discarded) by doctors through the years. Each book also examines the tools used for pinpointing a diagnosis, as well as the various means that are used to treat or cure a disease. Finally, new ideas are presented—techniques or medicines that may be on the horizon. Frustration and disappointment are still part of medicine, for not every disease or condition can be cured or prevented. But the limitations of knowledge are being pushed outward constantly; the “most difficult puzzles ever devised” are finding challengers every day.