Natural Sciences

This book describes industrial hemp - an annual plant of the Cannabis sativa variety - its age-old history, its many characteristics, its cultivation and production, its composition, its properties, its transformation into high value-added raw materials, and its many and varied industrial applications. It provides an overview of traditional and new uses for this renewable eco-material. This book will be of interest to any reader - student, young researcher, senior scientist or industrialist - wishing to gain rapid access to information and potential applications for hemp.

The book brings together authors from various disciplinary backgrounds (both medicine and human and social sciences), to examine the ethical issues raised by the Covid-19 health crisis and its aftermath.

This lexicon for bariatric surgery is a transposition of the approach developed by a pluridisciplary team of specialists for over 15 years for the treatment of massive obesity in Franche-Comté.