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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

    $38.09 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

  • 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

    $107.09 USD

  • Geriatric Palliative Care

    by Suzanne Goldhirsch ...
    The growing geriatric population in the United States has created an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the range of medical and surgical specialties. Yet, palliative medicine lacks the resources to carry such a workload itself. Geriatric Palliative Care addresses this need by encouraging individual specialties to "own" the management of elderly with the same vigor as they ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • The Season of Second Chances

    A Novel

    by Diane Meier ...
    A world of possibilities opens up for Joy Harkness when she sets out on a journey that's going to show her the importance of friendship, love, and what makes a house a homeComing-of-age can happen at any age. Joy Harkness had built a university career and a safe life in New York, protected and insulated from the intrusions and involvements of other people. When offered a position at Amherst ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Pursuit of Life

    The Promise and Challenge of Palliative Care

    Edited by Robert Fine, Jack Levison ...
    This volume examines crucial concerns in palliative care, including the proper balance between comfort and cure for the patient, the integration of spiritual well-being, and the challenges of providing care in the absence of basic medical services and supplies.In the first section, palliative-care pioneers Constance Dahlin, Eduardo Bruera, Neil MacDonald, and Declan Walsh recount the early history ... Read more

    $25.69 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

    $80.09 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

    $80.09 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

    $332.09 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

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  • 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

  • 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