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  • The Hospice Heritage

    Celebrating Our Future

    Through The Hospice Heritage: Celebrating Our Future, physicians, nurses, social workers, and clergy will find unique examples to give patients the attention, care, and understanding they need at that time in their life. Since 80 of people who die do so without the support of a hospice program, this important book offers approaches designed to expand access to hospice and provide a solid ... Read more

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  • Global Health Nursing in the 21st Century

    THE FIRST BOOK TO PRESENT THE SUCCESSES, CHALLENGES, AND OPPORTUNITIES OF GLOBAL HEALTH NURSINGThis text is designed specifically for nurses and nursing students who have an interest in global health as a specialty, regardless of experience or education level. It reflects both the unique contributions of the nursing profession and of other disciplines, which is in keeping with the editors’ ... Read more

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  • AIDS

    Principles, Practices, and Politics

    Series series Death Education, Aging and Health Care
    First published in 1989. Providing a voice of reason in the midst of the controversy, this book looks at the principles, practices and politics surrounding AIDS and includes the Surgeon General's report; sections on AIDS awareness, women and AIDS, advice on choosing therapies, looking at patients and studies around public schools and intravenous drug users. ... Read more

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  • Care of the Dying Patient

    Although the need for improved care for dying patients is widely recognized and frequently discussed, few books address the needs of the physicians, nurses, social workers, therapists, hospice team members, and pastoral counselors involved in care. Care of the Dying Patient contains material not found in other sources, offering advice and solutions to anyone—professional caregiver or family member ... Read more

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  • Fundamentals of Addiction

    A Practical Guide for Counsellors

    Fundamentals of Addiction is an essential reference for counsellors and a comprehensive textbook for college and university level students in courses that address addictions. Written by more than 50 experts in addiction treatment and related fields, each chapter includes case examples, practice tips and print and online resources.This fourth edition of Alcohol & Drug Problems was renamed ... Read more

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  • How Doctors Think

    "Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care." —Time magazineFrom Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, a groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical ... Read more

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  • How We Die

    Refelctions on Life's Final Chapter

    An international bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin B. Nuland’s How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. This new edition includes an incisive afterword that examines the current state of health care and our relationship with life as it approaches its terminus. It also discusses how we can take control of our own final ... Read more

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  • Unhinged

    The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis

    Series series Mental Health, Psychiatry, and Therapy
    In this stirring and beautifully written wake-up call, psychiatrist Daniel Carlat writes with bracing honesty about how psychiatry has so largely forsaken the practice of talk therapy for the seductive—and more lucrative—practice of simply prescribing drugs, with a host of deeply troubling consequences.Psychiatrist Daniel Carlat has noticed a pattern plaguing his profession. Psychiatrists have ... Read more

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  • Doing Harm

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  • The Song of Our Scars

    The Untold Story of Pain

    A doctor’s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effectiveIn The Song of Our Scars, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience.Warraich, himself a sufferer of chronic pain, considers the ways our notions of pain have been shaped not just ... Read more

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  • Nurse to Nurse Palliative Care

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    $28.99 USD