When patients present with skin conditions in your daily practice, have you ever wished you had a dermatologist looking over your shoulder? Or that you could confer with a dermatologist and get the latest information on techniques and approaches? How many times have you referred a patient to a specialist when treating the condition yourself would save time, money, and the effort of filling out paperwork? Now you can have all that and more. Dermatology for Clinicians: A Practical Guide to Common Skin Conditions contains detailed instructions that enable you to use comfortably the advanced approaches that dermatologists use. The book describes each condition and discusses its treatment in a clear, simple, detailed, step-by-step fashion. The information is easy to find, easy to understand, and, ultimately, easy to employ. The author takes a pathology/disease-oriented approach to general dermatological problems. He presents both simple and more advanced approaches to diagnosing and managing common skin problems. In addition, the book features unique, not well known, or not previously described "pearls" for diagnosing and managing dermatological conditions. The ability to provide quality cost-effective care has become paramount in health care. Needless referrals increase costs in time and money for all concerned. Dermatology for Clinicians: A Practical Guide to Common Skin Conditions allows you to grasp easily and apply efficiently dermatological approaches. It also helps you provide cost-effective care to patients while saving yourself the time-consuming administrative procedures that many insurance companies require for referrals.
Joseph Massad s "Desiring Arabs" (UCP, 2007) was an intellectual/literary history that sought out links between Orientalism and representations of sex and desire, rebutting in the meantime Western efforts to impose categories of heterosexual/homosexual where (in Islam) no such subjectivities exist. His new book broadens the purview to show us what Islam has become in today s world, attending fully to the multiplication of meanings of Islam. Islam in Liberalism is an intellectual/political history, enabling us to understand that history in terms of how Islam operated as a category within western liberalism; another way to phrase this is to say that Massad underscores how the anxieties about what Europe constituteddespotism, intolerance, misogyny, homophobiahave gotten projected onto Islam. It is, he avers, only through this projection that Europe could emerge as democratic, tolerant, gynophilic, and hemophilicin short, Islam-free. But in fact Islam has been there since the birth of Europe. Liberalism has been the weapon of choice since the late 18th century against the internal and external others of Europe. Massad s brilliant critique of anti-Muslim sexual politics in Desiring Arabs is now broadened provocatively to include NGOs, international organizations, and therapeutic programs. He moves from consideration of the meanings of democracy (and the ideological assumption that Islam is not compatible with democracy) through chapters on women in Islam, sexuality and/in Islam, psychoanalytic interpretations of Islamic themes, and the more recent development of the idea of Abrahamic religions among those valorizing an inter-faith agenda. Overall, Massad sets this book up as a biting critique of the sort of liberalism Euro-American propagated and brought as good news to an unenlightened Islam.
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