Croatian Medical Journal

CMJ Books

19.12.2008

The books can be ordered from Medicinska Naklada

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Orders can be placed at Medicinska Naklada (for CMJ): Zagrebačka banka, Paromlinska 2, HR-10000 Zagreb, swift: zabahr2x, account No. 7001-3269167. Traveler checks, deposits to the bank account, and American Express Card are accepted.

19.12.2008

Joanna Santa Barbara: Medicine and Peace
ISBN: 953-176-362-3, English, 151 pages, price US$12 (postage not included)
Series of columns by Joanna Santa Barbara on medicine and peace, published in the CMJ from 2004 to 2006

Many of us have been inspired in recent years by the appearance on the horizon of a new field of study. This field goes by a variety of names: Peace-through-health, Peace Medicine, and Health as a Bridge to Peace. Intent on improving human well-being, the cultivators of this field are prepared to take down the fences separating the fields of health and of peace--prepared as well to undertake experiments in interdisciplinary cross-fertilization. They wish to study, and to nurture, the mutually supportive social and biological systems that increase the peace and the health of communities. I commend the Croatian Medical Journal for taking leadership in these exciting developments by engaging Joanna Santa Barbara to write a series of articles, collected in this volume, on “Medicine as a Bridge to Peace.” Dr. Santa Barbara has been in the forefront of Peace Medicine for over ten years, and she brings extensive study and practical experience to her task.
From the foreword by Graeme MacQueen

 

19.12.2008

Reuben Eldar: Quality of Care
ISBN 953-176-302-8, English, 170 pages, price US$12 (postage not included) Collection of essays contributed to every issue of the Croatian Medical Journal from October 2001 to February 2005 and published in its column "Quality Corner".

Quality improvement is driven by quality measurement. Until we measure what we are doing, we seldom realize how far our performance falls short. Then when we see where we need to improve, we must work out how to improve. Quality measurement and improvement require new knowledge and skills that we did not learn in medical training. Nevertheless, quality measurement and improvement are now an integral part of medical practice. These critical activities can't be assigned to a new breed of specialists in health care research. All practicing physicians must know how to measure and improve their work.
From the preface by R. Heather Palmer

19.12.2008

Revitalization of Academic Medicine, Ana Marušić, Editor
ISBN 953-176-276-7, English, 177 pages, price €15 (postage not included)

This book contains a delightfully eclectic range of thought-provoking articles that will help stimulate this deep and broad international debate. As we move into this new millennium, it is important to think about the future of the “research and development” base that medicine relies upon to optimize health and healthcare.
Knowledge is a common good and with the advances in information technology it makes sense to take a global perspective. Thus it is good to see articles from a variety of countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Republic of Macedonia, Malawi, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and USA.
From the preface by Peter Tugwell

19.12.2008

Principles of Reserach in Medicine - Matko Marušić, editor

This textbook is the English edition of the textbook written for students at medical schools in Croatia. Th e first Croatian edition was published in 1996, as an effort of Editorial Board members from the Croatian Medical Journal to provide educational tools for Croatian researchers and potential authors.

The textbook explains basic concepts and practices of evidence-based medicine for medical students, so that they acquire skills needed to formulate specific clinical or research questions, find relevant information, critically assess the evidence, and communicate it to the colleagues and community. In addition to this basic content for medical students, the textbook contains all relevant information for biomedical researchers needing guidelines and resources for planning research and writing a grant proposal or journal article. The textbook also addresses responsible conduct of research and research integrity as an important part of research in biomedicine.

19.12.2008

Eduard Klain: Psychotherapist in the Croatian Independence War

ISSBN 953-96875-2-7, English, 131 pages, price US$12 (postage not included)

Renowned Croatian group psychoanalyst describes his activities,contacts,and experiences during the 1991-1995 Croatian Independence War. With a sharp and merciless insight into human souls and essence of events, Klain offers a witty and exciting text, which is at the same time a testimony, analysis, and critique. Especially valuable is his analysis of his colleagues’ destinies ten years after the war.

19.12.2008

Mirna Šitum: Oranges and Dead Fish

ISSBN 953-176-234-1, English, 107 pages, price US$10 (postage not included)

 

This book is a collection of war memories of a strong woman who, without a slightest hesitation, put her knowledge of the emergency medicine at service to Croatian Army at the beginning of the Croatian Independence War 1991-1995. Once having made such a decision, she was not to be refused by the Croatian Army, nor stopped by enemy fire in her fight for soldiers’ lives. She went though all the battles and hardship of the 4th Guardian (Split) Brigade of the Croatian Army, caring for the wounded soldiers and suffering with all of them. Twenty-three stories between these covers were originally written and published as a column Physician in War in the CMJ during 2000-2003.

 

07.09.2009

Norman Sartorius - Pathways of Medicine

This book deals with health and demonstrates - in the words of Dr Saraceno, the Director of the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance abuse Control that "... health is more than treating diseases and preventing them: it also has to do with values such as equity or justice, with human passion and compassion. Health is more than the health sector and health professionals; it is, ..., in Sartorius' words, a dimension of human existence regardless of the presence of diseases, somewhat like the sky that remains in place even when covered with clouds."
The essays included in this book deal with the relations of health and society, with the predicament of medicine in our changing world and with the dilemmas facing doctors and other health personnel in their daily routine and life.