Die boek stel die voorgraadse student in narkose bekend aan sommige van die beginsels van narkose praktyk. Die hoofoogmerk van die boek is om praktisyns die wetenkap van anestesiologie te help verstaan eerder as om hulle te onderwerp aan resepmatigheid wat dokters in tegnici verander.

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Global Bodies in Grey Zones departs from the current globalised market in biological material and treatments. Three different forms of medical travel are in focus: transplant travel, fertility travel and stem cell travel. The global travelling includes legally organised cross-border care, as well as completely illegal activities involving trafficking in bodies and body parts implicating a range of people, technologies and treatments. The theoretical focus is grey zones ? various places where people, money, bodies, and so on constitute components in an international market. The authors are researchers from the cultural, social and medical sciences. They examine how people’s desperation, hopes and longing for health and reproduction fuel the travels.

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Medicine Across Borders provides an interdisciplinary space to discuss the issue of substandard and falsified medical products. Scholars from social and medical sciences collaboratively contribute insight to improving safe medicine access. The circulation of medicines and medical products on the informal market is well-known. Stakeholders, including governmental agencies and biotechnic enterprises, invest much effort in designing and implementing macrolevel interventions to limit the spread of such products. Nevertheless, there is a lack of knowledge and understanding of how informal markets function in everyday medicine access and use. This applies to professionals within and beyond academia, state governments, as well as the general public.

This book takes an international perspective, examining the issue of substandard and falsified medical products cross nationally. Falsified and poor-quality medicines are prevalent in low- and middle-income countries, but this book also includes research from high-income countries arguing that they too have vulnerabilities, and emphasising the need for vigilance even in well-resourced and well-regulated regimes. Medicine Across Borders: Exploration of Grey Zones provides an interdisciplinary space for a depth and diversity of material that spotlights some contemporary themes hindering access to essential medicines and driving the penetration of substandard and falsified medical products. The authors are drawn from a range of academic disciplines across the social and medical sciences presenting findings from data collected using an eclectic mix of methods and analysis. Surveys, ethnography, narrative case studies, statistical, and thematic analysis are all deployed.

The ASCI Handbook serves as a textbook to train members of the multidisciplinary team to render a service of excellence and by doing so, to optimise the neurological, physical and functional outcome of the acute spinal cord injured. The ASCI Handbook is also a tribute to the many dedicated people who work with spinal cord injured individuals every day, helping them towards a place of healing and independence. Effective teamwork and sharing of responsibilities is the secret to a successful Spinal Cord Injury Unit. There have been numerous requests by doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nursing personnel and other categories of staff from hospitals in South Africa for information and practical guidelines on the management of acute spinal cord injuries. The ASCI Handbook is one way to provide in this need.

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