Author: Domenico Spina
Publisher: Mosby
Keywords: flesh, bones, amp, medical, pharmacology
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2008-03-10
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0723433534
ISBN-13: 9780723433538

A concise, accessible account of pharmacology and covers all the key concepts med students need with no gaps! Perfect as an introduction to a topic, or as a revision aid.Big Picture Section - you can relate detail to the subject as a wholeHigh Return Facts - fills large gaps in your knowledge. Can be used as a revision tool. Reinforces the major pointsCartoon-strip illustrations - you can visualise difficult concepts in a step-by-step format - information is chunked into ’student-friendly’ sizesDouble-page overviews - read topic summaries without cross-referencing to other pages -

Author: Frank Anthony Spina
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: biblical, story, inclusion, exclusion, outsider, faith
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2005-01-15
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0802828647
ISBN-13: 9780802828644

This book offers a probing, insightful look at the "outsider" motif running through the Bible. The biblical story about God’s covenant with "insiders" — with Israel as the chosen people — is scandalous in today’s cultural climate of inclusivity. But, as Frank Anthony Spina shows, God’s exclusive election actually has an inclusive purpose. Looking carefully at the biblical narrative, Spina highlights in bold relief seven remarkable stories that treat nonelect people positively and, even more, as strategically important participants in God’s plan of salvation. The stories of Esau,

Authors:M. Schwab, W. P. Kaschka, E. Spina,
Publisher: S. Karger AG (Switzerland)
Keywords: psychiatry, biological, advances, pharmacogenomics
Number of Pages: 139
Published: 2010-06-30
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 3805594984
ISBN-13: 9783805594981

In recent years, there have been major developments in the fields of pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics, with the potential to make drug treatments in psychiatric medicine more effective. However, improvements in drug efficacy and tolerability, as well as finding the optimal dosage, can only be realized if in vivo mechanisms of drug action and ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion) processes (pharmacokinetics) of psychopharmacological agents are better understood. In this volume, current progress and perspectives in pharmacogenetic testing of drug-metabolizing enzymes, drug