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Oxford Textbook Of Palliative Medicine
Fourth Edition
- Description
- Features
- Contents
- Authors
- Reviews
- Lecturer Resources
- Teacher Resources
- Student Resources
- Sample Pages
- ebook
- A fourth edition of the hugely successful Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, which has gained a reputation as the definitive guide to the field
- Six international editors guarantee a truly global perspective
- 200 contributors and over 100 chapters deal with all aspects of this rapidly developing specialty
- Two-colour, updated text design aids navigation
New to this edition
- Four new editors, Russ Portenoy, Nicholas Christakis, Stein Kaasa and Marie Fallon, join the established team of Geoff Hanks and Nathan Cherny to bring this hugely successful text up to date
- Completely new section on the international status of palliative medicine, including new chapters on: international progress in creating palliative medicine as a specialised discipline; special problems in the United States (where palliative medicine has recently become an accredited specialty); providing palliative care in the developing world; and the IAHPC list of essential medicines for palliative care These changes reflect the worldwide development of palliative medicine and particularly the recent developments in the United States which are establishing palliative medicine as an accredited specialty.
- New chapters in the Challenge of Palliative Medicine section include: barriers to the delivery of palliative care; defining a good death; and the economic challenges of palliative medicine
- Increased focus on the multidisciplinary team including new chapters on the core team and the extended team
- Research section includes new material on clinical trials, and measurement of pain and other symptoms in the cognitively impaired
- New chapters on withdrawing life support, clinical management of bleeding complications, end stage heart disease, end stage renal failure, palliative medicine and dementia, informatics, and sedation
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Andy Adam, Department of Radiology, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, NHS Foundation, London, UK Linda Armstrong, Consultant Speech and Language Therapist, Perth, UK Greg G. Bailly, Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada Jane Ellen Barr, Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing, New York, USA Vickie Baracos, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Canada Claudia Bausewein, The Cicely Saunders Foundation Research Training Fellow, King's College London, UK Steven Bayles, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt-Bill Wilkerson Center for Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences, Nashville, USA Michaela Bercovitch, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel Cheryl R Billante, Vanderbilt Voice Center, Nashville, USA Stewart Bond, Research Associate, John A. Hartford Foundation Claire M. Fagin Fellow, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, USA Gian Domenico Borasio, Int
Review(s) from previous edition
"'This new edition consolidates the position of the Oxford Textbook as the definitive text in Palliative Medicine. It remains a very readable, well-resourced and well-presented book.' - Hospice Information Bulletin, March 2004
"'Its predecessors, published in 1993 and 1998 respectively, garnered high praise and wide acceptance, establishing the Oxford Textbook as the gold standard reference text in our rapidly expanding field. The third edition continues this proud tradition... a wonderful testament to a rapidly growing body of knowledge in a dynamic new field of health care competence.'" - Palliative Medicine, July 2004
"'This textbook will remain a core text.'" - International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 2004
"'When the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine was first published in 1993 it was immediately acclaimed as the best and most comprehensive textbook in the field. Specialists in palliative medicine came to regard both the first and second edition (published in 1998) as indispensable sources of reliable information to assist in the management of complex problems... Should libraries, palliative care teams, medical schools and individual specialists invest in the new tome? My answer would be an unequivocal yes.'" - Professor Mike Richards CBE, National Cancer Director in Palliative Medicine, July 2004
"'This book will remain the gold standard reference in palliative medicine for the next few years at least. The editors are to be congratulated on the successful completion of what is a very impressive reference.'" - IAHPC Website, January 2004
"When a book with the title 'Oxford Textbook' lands on your desk, you know there is a fair chance that this will be a quality book and without doubt this one is. ...at a shade under £60, all practices should have a copy. It is simply brilliant and seemingly covers everything. ...1244 pages of packed text which results in a superb reference resource. There is a lot of wisdom within its pages and offers a lot to hospice based and community based palliative care teams as well as the general practioner. There are a large number of contributors from a number of countries which provides a global perspective, this gives more stature to the book. ...an outstanding and superb book and an essential addition to anyone that has to deal with a palliative care patient.'" - Dr Harry Brown, July 2007
"'This textbook gives a good overview of palliative care and medicine and every medical oncologist should have access to this standard of care.'" - Annals of Oncology
"' . . . the gold standard reference for palliative medicine.'" - IAHPC Website