Medicine: Recent submissions
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William Pulteney Alison : activist philanthropist and pioneer of social medicine
(University of St Andrews, 1997) - ThesisThe thesis looks in detail at three inter-related aspects of Alison's life. It examines, firstly, his role in the development of Edinburgh's rudimentary 'health' network, achieved through the expansion of the existing ... -
Health professionals and ethnic Pakistanis in Britain : risk, thalassaemia and audit culture
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - ThesisThe central theme or 'red-thread' that I consider in this thesis is the concept of risk as it is perceived by and affects the two sides of the medical encounter -in this instance ethnic Pakistanis and Health ... -
Coping with asthma : investigation and intervention using the self-regulation model
(University of St Andrews, 1995) - ThesisThe Self-Regulation Model (Leventhal, Nerenz & Steele, 1984) highlights the roles of patients' illness representations, coping, emotional reactions and appraisal of coping in the progression of chronic disease. This thesis ... -
Quality of care for people with mental handicap and challenging behaviour : an investigation of the impact of staff training in goal attainment scaling and behavioural procedures
(University of St Andrews, 1992) - ThesisThis study examined the contribution to quality of care of a goal planning technique called Goal Attainment Scaling and its impact upon the quality of life of people with severe mental handicaps and challenging ... -
The regulation of haemopoietic stem cell and progenitor cell proliferation by humoral factors
(University of St Andrews, 1984) - ThesisThe mechanisms which regulate the growth fraction of the haemopoietic stem cell (CFU-S) and granulocyte macrophage progenitor cell (GM-CFC) have been investigated. In normal murine bone marrow (NMBM) a small proportion ...