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  • Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

    Before, During, and After the Holocaust

    by Sheldon Rubenfeld, Florian Bruns, LaVera Crawley, James Downar, Alan Elbaum, Gerrit Hohendorf, Scott Kim, Eric Kodish, Kenneth Prager0, Volker Roelcke1, Stephan Sahm2, Avraham Steinberg3, Eduard Verhagen4, Daniel P. Sulmasy6, Ashley K. Fernandes7, Barron H. Lerner8, Diane E. Meier9, H. Christof Müller-Busch0, Robert A. Pearlman1, Timothy E. Quill2 ...
    Series series Revolutionary Bioethics
    Unlike Nazi medical experiments, euthanasia during the Third Reich is barely studied or taught. Often, even asking whether euthanasia during the Third Reich is relevant to contemporary debates about physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia is dismissed as inflammatory. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Before, During, and After the Holocaust explores the history of euthanasia ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Geriatric Palliative Care

    Edited by R. Sean Morrison, Diane E. Meier ...
    Geriatric Palliative Care covers a broad spectrum of issues characterizing care near the end of life for older adults. Beginning with the social and cultural context of old age and frailty, this volume details specific aspects of palliative care relevant to particular disorders (e.g. cancer, strokes, dementia, etc.) as well as individual symptoms (e.g., pain, fatigue, anxiety, etc.). Communication ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Geriatric Medicine

    An Evidence-Based Approach

    Edited by Christine K. Cassel, Rosanne Leipzig, Harvey Jay Cohen, Eric B. Larson, Diane E. Meier ...
    Since the publication of the third edition of Geriatric Medicine,extraordinary advances have occurred in the science of aging and the potential for biomedical research to give us answers to many, if not most, of the age-related disorders that threaten the quality of life in older years. At the most basic level, the successful mapping of the human genome was declared complete in the fall of 2000. ... Read more

    $332.99 USD

  • Geriatric Medicine

    Edited by Christine K. Cassel, Donald E. Riesenberg, John R. Walsh, Diane E. Meier, Leif B. Sorensen ...
    Reorganized into a single, tightly focused volume, the new edition of Geriatric Medicine offers practical, authoritative, and comprehensive coverage of the diseases, common problems, and medical care of older persons. The thorough revision includes new chapters on "Urinary Incontinence" and "Falls" as well as expanded discussions of rheumatic/orthopedic disorders and neuropsychological testing. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Geriatric Medicine

    Edited by Christine K. Cassel, Harvey J. Cohen, Eric B. Larson, Diane E. Meier, Diane E. Meier, N.M. Resnick, L.Z. Rubinstein, L.B. Sorensen ...
    The third edition of Geriatric Medicine appears at a crucial time for health profession als, a time when the values and goals of our overall American health care system are being reoriented to those values and goals that have long been at the core of geriatrics. It is likely that the readership of this highly respected textbook will be even substan tially greater than that for the two previous ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness

    Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Care Reform

    Edited by Amy S. Kelley, Diane E. Meier ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Care Reform provides an introduction to the principles of palliative care; describes current models of delivering palliative care across care settings, and examines opportunities in the setting of healthcare policy reform for palliative care to improve outcomes for patients, families and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Palliative Care

    Transforming the Care of Serious Illness

    Edited by Diane E. Meier, Stephen L. Isaacs, Robert Hughes ...
    Series Book 33 - Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology
    Palliative Care is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is transforming the way Americans deal with serious illness.Diane E. Meier, M.D., one of the field's leaders and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius award" in 2009, opens the volume with a sweeping overview of the field. In her essay, Dr. Meier examines the roots of palliative care, explores ... Read more

    $81.00 USD

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  • Ethics in Palliative Care

    A Complete Guide

    by Robert C. Macauley, MD ...
    No specialty faces more diverse and challenging ethical dilemmas than palliative medicine. What is the best way to plan ahead for the end of life? How should physicians respond when patients refuse treatments likely to be beneficial, or demand treatments not likely to be? Who makes medical decisions for patients who are too ill to decide for themselves? Do patients have the "right to die" (and, if ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Whole Person Care

    A New Paradigm for the 21st Century

    Edited by Tom A. Hutchinson ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    A ground-breaking new volume and the first of its kind to concisely outline and explicate the emerging field of whole person care process, Whole Person Care: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century organizes the disparate strains of literature on the topic. It does so by clarifying the concept of 'whole person' and also by outlining the challenges and opportunities that death anxiety poses to the ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Communication as Comfort

    Multiple Voices in Palliative Care

    by Sandra L. Ragan, Elaine M. Wittenberg-Lyles, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra Sanchez Reilly ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    This exceptional work explores the complexities of communication at one of the most critical stages of the life experience--during advanced, serious illness and at the end of life. Challenging the predominantly biomedical model that informs much communication between seriously ill and/or dying patients and their physicians, caregivers, and families, Sandra L. Ragan, Elaine M. Wittenberg-Lyles, Joy ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Social Epidemiology

    Edited by Lisa F. Berkman, Ichiro Kawachi ...
    The authors of this groundbreaking text define social epidemiology as the study of the social determinants of health, implying that an important goal of public health is to identify and address factors in the social environment that may be related to health outcomes. In the first systematic account of this field, they focus on the major social variables that influence health, including ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Manual of Cardio-oncology

    Cardiovascular Care in the Cancer Patient

    Edited by Stefano Oliva, Francesco Ferraù, Chiara Lestuzzi ...
    This concise and handy manual provides straightforward, up-to-date guidance for cardiologists and other practitioners on the management of cancer patients with cardiac problems, whether they be due to the cancer itself or to antineoplastic treatment. Detailed attention is devoted to the various forms of cardiotoxicity associated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The drugs commonly responsible ... Read more

    $143.99 USD