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“amy j markowitz”

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  • Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience

    by Stephen J. McPhee, Margaret A. Winker, Michael W. Rabow, Steven Z. Pantilat, Amy J. Markowitz ...
    From one of the world’s leading medical journals comes the definitive evidence-based, full-color guide to end-of-life and palliative care"...represents an important milestone in the evolution of care for people with advanced disease—-for which its editors and authors and JAMA should be rightly proud. It is wonderful that JAMA had the foresight to publish a series on this topic, which, as medicine ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • Last Acts

    Discovering Possibility and Opportunity at the End of Life

    by David J. Casarett, , M.D. ...
    Palliative care physician Dr. David Casarett considers the medical options terminal patients face at the end of life in this thoughtful and illuminating guide to last acts.What would you do if you had only a few days to live? Or a few weeks or months? What if a loved one were in this situation—how could you help that person decide how to spend the time that remained? Perhaps you lost a family ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Last Wish: Stories to Inspire a Peaceful Passing (Updated Edition with New Hospice Story)

    by Lauren Van Scoy, M.D. ...
    As a doctor at the end of a 24-hour shift in the intensive care unit, it's usually easy for me to fall asleep. Exhaustion hits me like a rock and it doesn't matter that the morning sun is pouring into my bedroom. After so many long hours of fighting for life and pushing back death, when I finally hit my bed and close my eyes, the next day arrives in an instant.Except for that one day when I couldn ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Talk with Families About Genetics and Psychiatric Illness

    by Holly Landrum Peay, Jehannine Claire Austin ...
    Addressing clients’ questions and concerns about the role of genetics in mental illness.As we learn more about how our biology and genes can play into the development of a mental health disorder, patients and their families are increasingly seeking answers to tough questions about common risk factors, the likelihood of recurrence, the need for genetic testing, and implications for future ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Can't Remember What I Forgot

    The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research

    by Sue Halpern ...
    An essential behind-the-scenes foray into the world of cutting-edge memory research that unveils findings about memory loss only now available to general readers.When Sue Halpern decided to emulate the first modern scientist of memory, Hermann Ebbinghaus, who experimented on himself, she had no idea that after a day of radioactive testing, her brain would become so “hot” that leaving through the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Living with Ageing and Dying

    Palliative and End of Life Care for Older People

    Edited by Merryn Gott, Christine Ingleton ...
    Ageing populations mean that palliative and end of life care for older people must assume greater priority. Indeed, there is an urgent need to improve the experiences of older people at the end of life, given that they have been identified as the 'disadvantaged dying'. To date, models of care are underpinned by the ideals of specialist palliative care which were developed to meet the needs of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Retinal Degenerative Diseases

    Mechanisms and Experimental Therapy

    Edited by Christian Grimm, Joe G. Hollyfield, Robert E. Anderson, Catherine Bowes Rickman, John D. Ash, Matthew M. LaVail ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book will contain the proceedings of the XV International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration (RD2012). A majority of those who will speak and present posters at the meeting will contribute to this volume. The blinding diseases of inherited retinal degenerations have no treatments, and age-related macular degeneration has no cures, despite the fact that it is an epidemic among the elderly, with ... Read more

    $287.09 USD

  • The Creative Arts in Palliative Care

    by Adrian Butchers, Sam Dobbs, Abi Gill, Mick Sands, Marion Tasker, Virginia Hearth, Lynn Harmer ...
    Use of the arts in palliative care settings is a powerful and effective way of addressing the practical, psychological, social and spiritual issues faced by service users in end-of-life care.The Creative Arts in Palliative Care uncovers the possibilities for using the creative arts and provides guidance on how to implement arts projects successfully. Part 1 focuses on designing objectives for the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • End of life choices

    Consensus and controversy

    by Fiona Randall, Robin Downie ...
    A book for nurses, doctors and all who provide end of life care, this essential volume guides readers through the ethical complexities of such care, including current policy initiatives, and encourages debate and discussion on their controversial aspects. dived into two parts, it introduces and explains clinical decision making-processes about which there is broad consensus, in line with guidance ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Cellular Ageing and Replicative Senescence

    Edited by Suresh I.S. Rattan, Leonard Hayflick ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book covers the origins and subsequent history of research results in which attempts have been made to clarify issues related to cellular ageing, senescence, and age-related pathologies including cancer. Cellular Ageing and Replicative Senescence revisits more than fifty-five years of research based on the discovery that cultured normal cells are mortal and the interpretation that this ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Retinal Degenerative Diseases

    Edited by Christian Grimm, Robert E. Anderson, Joe G. Hollyfield, John Ash, Matthew M. LaVail ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book will contain the proceedings of the XIV International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration (RD2010), held July 13-17, 2010, in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada. The volume will present representative state-of-the-art research in almost all areas of retinal degenerations, ranging from cytopathologic, physiologic, diagnostic and clinical aspects; animal models; mechanisms of cell death; ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Topics in Biomedical Gerontology

    Edited by Pramod C. Rath, Ramesh Sharma, S. Prasad ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book presents a collection of articles on various aspects of current research on aging. These include model systems, cellular, biochemical and molecular aspects of experimental aging research, as well as selected intervention studies on age-related diseases.Aging is a global challenge to human society. Children are always in a hurry to become adults, while adults produce offspring and add to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD