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  • Voluntary Assisted Dying

    An International Perspective on End of Life Choices for Cancer Patients

    Edited by Ruth E Board, Peter Selby ...
    This is a clear, balanced overview of international experience with Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD). It draws on medical literature, government reports, and official data from around the world to help inform public and professional discussion. It updates work conducted and published in 2020 in the book End of Life Choices for Cancer Patients.More than 280 million people live in countries where some ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Problem Solving in Cancer and Fertility

    Edited by Eleni M Karapanagiotou, Julia Kopeika, Ruth E Board ...
    The treatment of cancer in young women and men is increasingly turning from focusing purely on survival to a recognition of the long-term effects of treatment on subsequent quality of life. In this regard, fertility is a very high priority for patients. This is the first book to explain the latest techniques in fertility preservation. Chapters cover fertility preservation in both women and men, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • End of Life Choices for Cancer Patients

    An International Perspective

    by Ruth E Board, Michael I Bennett, Penney Lewis ...
    There have been impressive improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in recent decades. In economically advantaged countries with well-developed healthcare systems over 50% of all cancer patients achieve long term survival and are probably cured. Not only has survival improved radically for cancer patients but also there has been an increasing focus on the quality of patient's lives, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Problem Solving in Acute Oncology

    Edited by Alison Young, Ruth E Board, Pauline Leonard ...
    Increasing attention is being paid to the needs of cancer patients who present acutely with issues relating to their diagnosis an management, complications of their cancer, complications arising from their treatment, or who require appropriate symptom control or palliative care. Recent years have seen substantial service development to ensure acute oncology is appropriately provided, to improve ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Problem Solving in Cancer Immunotherapy

    Edited by Ruth E Board, Paul Nathan, Tom Newsom-Davis ...
    A broad and experienced team, including medical oncologists and life scientists, have collaborated to produce this practical guide to cancer immunotherapy. It provides a compendium of best practice, including 23 case studies to act as models for professionals to make decisions, either for individual patients or as the basis for using immunotherapy across an organisation, planning area, region or ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights

    Global Inequities, Challenges, and Opportunities for Action

    Edited by Shira M. Goldenberg, Ruth Morgan Thomas, Anna Forbes, Stefan Baral ...
    This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices.Sex workers face severe health and social inequities, largely as the result of structural factors including punitive and criminalized legal environments, stigma, and social and ... Read more

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  • Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care

    Edited by Julian Abel, Allan Kellehear ...
    Series series Oxford Textbooks in Palliative Medicine
    Death, dying, loss, and care giving are not just medical issues, but societal ones. Palliative care has become increasingly professionalised, focused around symptom science. With this emphasis on minimizing the harms of physical, psychological, and spiritual stress, there has been a loss of how cultures and communities look after their dying, with the wider social experience of death often ... Read more

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  • International Perspectives on Public Health and Palliative Care

    Edited by Libby Sallnow, Suresh Kumar, Allan Kellehear ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Health
    Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance. This innovative volume explores the major concepts, practice examples, and practice guidelines for this new approach.The goal of ‘comprehensive care’ – seamless support for patients as they transition between home based care and inpatient services – relies on the principles of health ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Sedated Society

    The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic

    Edited by James Davies ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This edited volume provides an answer to a rising public health concern: what drives the over prescription of psychiatric medication epidemic? Over 15% of the UK public takes a psychiatric medication on any given day, and the numbers are only set to increase. Placing this figure alongside the emerging clinical and scientific data revealing their poor outcomes and the harms these medications often ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • 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

  • Harm Reduction in Substance Use and High-Risk Behaviour

    Edited by Richard Pates, Diane Riley ...
    Series series Addiction Press
    Harm Reduction is a philosophy of public health intended as a progressive alternative to the prohibition of certain potentially dangerous lifestyle choices. Recognising that certain people always have and always will engage in behaviours which carry risks, the aim of harm reduction is to mitigate the potential dangers and health risks associated with those behaviours.Harm Reduction in Substance ... Read more

    $55.00 USD

  • Nursing Law and Ethics

    Edited by John Tingle, Alan Cribb ...
    Nursing Law and Ethics explores a variety of key legal and ethical issues in nursing practice using a thought-provoking and holistic approach. It addresses both what the law requires and what is right, and explores whether these two are always the same.The book provides an overview of the legal, ethical and professional dimensions of nursing, followed by exploration of key issues in greater depth. ... Read more

    $43.00 USD