Palliative medicine books

Children with life-threatening and terminal illnesses, and their families, require a unique kind of care to meet...  Read More >>

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Patients now legally can write advance directives to govern their treatment decisions at a time of future incapacity....  Read More >>

Available in two companion volumes, this title focuses on the frameworks for delivering palliative care, and the...  Read More >>

This book uses clinical stories about severely ill patients and their families to illustrate and explore the challenge...  Read More >>

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This book covers service provision for people dying from causes other than cancer looking at the difficulties in...  Read More >>

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The second edition of this highly successful text has been greatly expanded and updated, and is now available in...  Read More >>

This practical work has clinical guidelines, and advice on controlling symptoms, as well as showing doctors and...  Read More >>

studying for diplomas or degrees."" International Journal of Palliative Nursing.  Read More >>

A resource for the improvement of research skills among researchers in palliative care. It identifies key methods...  Read More >>

Taking a practical approach, this book includes most non-drug methods of pain control, covering alternatives to...  Read More >>

This volume reviews the state of the art in caring for patients dying in the ICU, focusing on both clinical aspects...  Read More >>

This book brings the voices of people with serious illness, and those caring for them, into the debate about how...  Read More >>

Helen House, a hospice for children, opened in 1982. This book describes how the illness of her daughter, Helen,...  Read More >>

The book aims to provide advice on the care of people with ALS/MND. The authors come from a wide spread of professional...  Read More >>

This book covers everything family doctors and community nurses need to know to look after a dying person at home....  Read More >>

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Helping your family and loved ones when they need you most""""Caregiving"" has a big heart-on a much-needed topic....  Read More >>

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Through case studies and clinical research, this reliable reference offers medical professionals innovative recommendations...  Read More >>

Through case studies and clinical research, this reliable reference offers medical professionals innovative recommendations...  Read More >>

An ethongraphic study, The Dying Process draws on the voices of patients themselves and highlights the bodily realities...  Read More >>

A detailed ethnographic study, The Dying Process draws on the voices of patients and highlights the bodily realities...  Read More >>