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Existentiella frågor finns alltid närvarande hos patienter och närstående vid alla former av sjukdom, i all vård och omsorg. Medicinska frågeställningar och fysiska behov är en central del av det som vårdpersonal hanterar och ansvarar för, men hur möter vi de behov som inte är fysiska, men som också påverkar personen som är sjuk? Hur kan vi förmedla öppenhet för dessa frågor? Hur frågar vi? Och vad gör vi med svaren? Vi vill med den här boken framhålla vikten av existentiella frågor i vården och ge konkreta verktyg för hur man kan fråga, samtala och möta patienter och närstående. Det handlar inte bara om det enskilda vårdmötet utan även om frågor som rör livskvalitet på ett djupare plan, alltifrån att vilja genomgå rehabilitering, att hitta ny mening efter trafikolyckan eller att leva med en långvarig neurologisk sjukdom – men också om hur livets slut kan bli. I allt detta behövs det kunnig vårdpersonal som med sitt arbete bidrar till att skapa välbefinnande och mening.Boken vänder sig till studenter i alla hälso- och sjukvårds­utbildningar oavsett nivå, men även redan utbildad vårdpersonal har nytta av att läsa boken.

Few of us know much about the biology of sex determination, but what could be more interesting than to discover how we are shaped into males and females? In this book, Elof Carlson tells the incredible story of the difficult quest to understand how the body forms girls and boys. Carlson's history takes us from antiquity to the present day to detail how each component of human reproduction and sexuality was identified and studied, how this knowledge enlarged our understanding of sex determination, and how it was employed to interpret such little understood aspects of human biology as the origin of intersex births.

Hermann Joseph Muller (1890–1967) was a member of the early genetics group at Columbia University that developed the chromosome theory of inheritance. T. H. Morgan received the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for this work in 1934, and Muller, his student, received the Nobel Prize in 1946 for his discovery of radiation-induced mutation.Muller's writings extended beyond contributions to technical journals. He was an active critic of social abuse of science; he advocated eugenic programs based on free choice; and he played a major role in the reform of high school biology.Muller's social views were published in magazines and journals which are accessible to scholars more than to the lay reader or student. They have been collected here to show how extensively he thought our lives are affected by radiation, evolution, modern medicine, and gene theory. He attempted to alert humanity to the dangers of neglect and abuse of their genetic heritage. He also used humanistic values to urge mankind to improve itself, to foster cooperativeness, to increase health and intelligence, and to adopt and evolutionary outlook.A companion collection of essays, The Modern Concept of Nature: Essays on Theoretical Biology by H. J. Muller, also published by State University of New York Press, deals with Muller's scientific contributions to genetics and evolution. It was Muller who developed the relation between genes and mutation; his views on the primacy of the gene in biology are reflected today in the similar primacy of nucleic acids as the basis of life. For students of the history of ideas, a collection of these essays would illustrate how genetic thinking prepared the world view for molecular biologists.The relation of science to values is often neglected because of the inaccessibility of the written contributions of famous scientists. To read Muller's major essays in these two areas is an important way to evaluate a scientist's career, his maturation of ideas, and his developing application of science to society.