Medical Textiles (Textile Institute Professional Publications)

This textbook aims to ensure that advances in medical textiles are addressed and that recent developments are able to be appreciated and understood not only by medical practitioners and healthcare personnel but also by textile scientists and technologists. The idea is to stimulate collaborative research and development in the field of medical textiles and to equip researchers with an understanding of the steps they need to take to ensure that their efforts, be they to develop new devices for implantation or items for external application, are carried out in such a way as to improve their effectiveness and enhance the prospects for their implementation. Attention is drawn to the need to improve outcomes in the practical setting and to guidance on the detailed planning required prior to engaging in experimental work. Standard tests can help researchers to monitor performance, but for some important applications such as those required to demonstrate antimicrobial and fluid-repellent performance in most items of protective wear, standard tests consistently fall seriously short in terms of predicting how well they might work in the practical setting. Guidance is therefore given for their further development. Chapters within the textbook cover: <ul> <li>The history of innovation within medical textiles with particular attention given to key concepts of the latter part of the 19th Century and subsequent associated developments.</li> <li>Textile and polymer science underpinning fibres, fabrics, nano-fibre technology and the functional finishes that can be applied to enhance the performance of medical textile products. </li> <li>Woven, knitted, nonwoven and braided fabrics and the key performance characteristics of each fabric type which make them particularly suited to specific medical textile roles such as mesh, grafts, filtration and scaffolds for tissue engineering.</li> <li>Implantable medical textiles, non-implantable medical textiles, health and hygiene products and extracorporeal devices that use textile products.</li> <li>Legislative requirements for medical devices.</li> <li>The design of experiments and suitability for purpose of textile test methods.</li> <li>Case studies to illustrate how medical textiles are applied in practice.</li></ul> The book provides essential reading for textile professionals, biomedical engineers, and others involved in the research, design and engineering of medical and healthcare appliances, and for those employed in the medical profession wishing to gain new insights into the wealth of materials at their disposal. <ul>

Science & Math

Morris, Holly

Murray, Richard

Technology

CRC-Press

Arts & Photography

Fashion

After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited producer-mother, Jeannie, and a whole lot of chutzpah, Morris tracked down artists, activists, and politicos–women of action who are changing the rules and sometimes the world around them. In these pages, Morris brings to life the remarkable people and places she’s encountered on the road while filming her PBS series Adventure Divas and other programs. We meet Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and social activist and now a fugitive living in exile in Cuba; Kiran Bedi, New Delhi’s chief of police, who revolutionized India’s infamously brutal Tijar Jail with her humanitarian ethic; New Zealand pop star Hinewehi Mohi, a Maori who reinvigorates her native culture for a new generation; and Mokarrameh Ghanbari, a septuagenarian painter and rice farmer who lives in the tiny village of Darikandeh on the Caspian plains of Iran, where her creative talents run counter to the government’s strict stance on art. Along the way, Morris herself becomes a certified Adventure Diva, as she hunts for wild boar with Penan tribesmen in the jungles of Borneo, climbs the Matterhorn short-roped to a salty fourth-generation Swiss guide, and memorably becomes the first woman ever to enter the traditional camel race of the Saharan oasis town of Timia. Intelligent, phenomenally funny, and chock-full of rich and telling details of place, Adventure Divas is a pro-woman chronicle for the twenty-first century. In a pilgrimage fueled by curiosity, ideology, and full-on estrogen power, Holly Morris has paved the way for all of us to discover our own diva within and set out on our own adventures.

Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine

Humor & Entertainment

Television

Villard

Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World

Humor

Random House Publishing Group

Featuring the work of such noted women authors as E. Annie Proulx, Pam Houston, and Elizabeth Arnold, this anthology contains short stories about women's experiences with the male-dominated sport of fly fishing, and their adventures, thoughts, and discoveries while casting a reel. Reprint.

A Different Angle: Fly Fishing Stories by Women

Literature & Fiction

Literary

BERKLEY

I'm Still Here

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Lulu Press, Inc.

General Biology

Moat, David

Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.

Offering new voices and fresh perspectives from contemporary literary writers, a collection of fly fishing stories by women includes the work of E. Annie Proulx, Pam Houston, Lorian Hemingway, Joan Wulff, Margot Paige, and Jennifer Smith.

A Different Angle: Fly Fishing Stories by Women (Adventura Books)

Essays & Correspondence

Seal Press

A collection of writings about fishing and fisherman, all written by women

Uncommon Waters: Women Write about Fishing (Adventura Books)

Sports & Outdoors

Hunting & Fishing

Book by Burton, Mallory, Morris, Holly

Reading the Water: Stories and Essays of Flyfishing and Life

Burton, Mallory

Self-Help

Keokee Co Pub Inc

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