Culture of Human Stem CellsPublisher: Wiley
Language: English
ISBN: 0470052465
Paperback: 343 pages
Data: Jun 2007
Format: PDF
Description: This book collects and focuses on commonly used and cutting-edge methods and protocols for deriving and culturing human embryonic and adult stem cells. It presents clear, concise information that is immediately useful and applicable. Each methods and protocols chapter is laid out exactly like the next, with stepwise protocols, preceded by specific requirements for (more…)

Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform NeurosciencePublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
ISBN: 1405122870
Paperback: 336 pages
Data: May 2009
Format: PDF
Description: Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory (more…)

Cost Containment and Efficiency in National Health Systems: A Global ComparisonPublisher: Vch Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh
Language: English
ISBN: 3527321101
Paperback: 247 pages
Data: Apr 2009
Format: PDF
Description: Written by a local health economics expert, each of the eight chapters in this timely handbook and ready reference describes the national healthcare system of a different industrialized country. In each case, the 4-5 specific policies with the highest impact on that respective (more…)

Who Owns You: The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your GenesPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
ISBN: 140518731X
Paperback: 200 pages
Data: Mar 2009
Format: PDF
Description: Who Owns You? is a comprehensive exploration of the numerous philosophical and legal problems of gene patenting. Provides the first comprehensive book-length treatment of this subject Develops arguments regarding moral realism, and provides a method of judgment (more…)

On Being a ScientistPublisher: National Academies Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0309119707
Paperback: 82 pages
Data: Mar 2009
Format: PDF
Description: The scientific research enterprise is built on a foundation of trust. Scientists trust that the results reported by others are valid. Society trusts that the results of research reflect an honest attempt by scientists to describe the world accurately and without bias. (more…)