Oxford textbook of palliative medicine

• Other Authors: Hanks, Geoffrey W. C. (Editor), Cherny, Nathan I. (Editor), Christakis, Nicholas A. (Editor), Fallon, Marie (Editor), Kaasa, Stein (Editor), Portenoy, Russell K. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Oxford University Press 2009
• Edition: FOURTH EDITION
• Subjects: Palliative Care; Pain Management
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Following publication of the first edition in 1993, the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine rapidly established itself as the definitive textbook on the subject. Each edition has received widespread critical acclaim, and the book is used across the world by the wide range of health care professio...

Table of Contents:

• The worldwide status of palliative care / edited by Russ Portenoy, Debbie Ashby, and Stein Kaasa
• The challenge of palliative medicine / edited by Nicholas Christakis and Stein Kaasa
• The interdisciplinary team / edited by Stein Kaasa ... [et al.]
• Ethical issues / edited by Nathan I. Cherny
• Communication and palliative medicine / edited by Nicholas Christakis and Nathan I. Cherny
• Research in palliative medicine / edited by Nicholas Christakis and Nathan I. Cherny
• The principles of drug use in palliative medicine / edited by Stein Kaasa
• Disease modifying management in advanced cancer / edited by Stein Kaasa, Nathan I. Cherny, and Debbie Ashby
• The management of common symptoms and disorders / edited by Stein Kaasa ... [et al.]
• Issues in specific neoplastic disease / edited by Stein Kaasa, Marie Fallon, and Russ Portenoy
• Palliative medicine in non-malignant disease / edited by Stein Kaasa ... [et al.]
• Paediatric palliative medicine / edited by Marie Fallon
• Geriatric palliative medicine / edited by Russ Portenoy and Nicholas Christakis
• Psychiatric, psychosocial, and spiritual issues in palliative medicine / edited by Nathan I. Cherny and Stein Kaasa
• Medical rehabilitation and the palliative care patient / edited by Marie Fallon
• Complementary therapies in palliative medicine / edited by Russ Portenoy
• Palliative care in the home / edited by Debbie Ashby
• The terminal phase / edited by Nicholas Christakis and Nathan I. Cherny
• Education and training in palliative medicine / edited by Marie Fallon.