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This unique book is a first-of-its-kind resource that comprehensively covers each facet and challenge of providing optimal perinatal palliative care. Designed for a wide and multi-disciplinary audience, the subjects covered range from theoretical to the clinical and the practically relevant, and all chapters include case studies that provide real-world scenarios as additional teaching tools for the reader. Perinatal Palliative Care: A Clinical Guide is divided into four sections. Part One provides the foundation, covering an overview of the field, key theories that guide the practice of perinatal palliative care, and includes a discussion of perinatal ethics and parental experiences and need...
Behavioral sciences for the next generation of health care providers – including practical features such as chapter review questions and an annotated practice exam. The fourth edition of The Behavioral Sciences and Health Care is an invaluable resource for those educating the next generation of physicians and other health care providers. This easy-to-use text presents succinct information about a wide variety of neurological, social, and psychological sciences from a unified perspective of the complex evolutionary processes of gene–individual–environmental interaction, breathing new life into the biopsychosocial model so essential to understanding human behavior. The book is organized ...
Known for its concise, easy-to-read writing style and comprehensive coverage, Cecil Essentials of Medicine has been a favorite of students, residents, and instructors through nine outstanding editions. This revised 10th Edition continues the tradition of excellence with a focus on high-yield core knowledge of key importance to anyone entering or established in the field of internal medicine. Fully revised and updated by editors Edward J. Wing and Fred J. Schiffman, along with other leading teachers and experts in the field, Cecil Essentials remains clinically focused and solidly grounded in basic science. - New focus on high-yield, core knowledge necessary for clerkships or residencies in me...
Each chapter of Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care is written and edited by a chaplain, nurse, physician, social worker, or other professional. Chapter authors representing diversity in professional perspective, region, practice environment, and personal characteristics, many of whom did not know each other prior to consenting to write a chapter together, demonstrate the synergistic value of the interprofessional perspective. Readers will learn about primary and specialty palliative care practice while appreciating the alchemy that occurs when multiple professions contribute their expertise.
Many people who are experiencing unacceptable suffering or deterioration in the present, or who fear them in the near future, do not know their full range of options to hasten death. This is particularly true if they live in jurisdictions that do not allow a physician assisted death - over forty jurisdictions in the U.S. and most countries across the world. Though VSED is readily available, and not illegal, most people are unaware of it as an option. The informationin this book is vital to those considering their options either hypothetically or in real time, providing an integrated, balanced, and nuanced exploration of VSED with contributions from legal, medical, and ethical experts.
"This book describes and affirms the wide range of experiences and emotions that can follow a life-limiting prenatal diagnosis. It offers encouragement and practical ideas for moving forward, including guidance for decision-making, strategies for coping with the remainder of your pregnancy, and ideas for nurturing and being with your baby, before and after birth and death. This book also describes the concept of perinatal hospice and palliative care, which is a well-established way of supporting parents whose babies are expected to die before or shortly after birth"--
Perinatal hospice is a novel form of care for an unborn child who has been diagnosed with a significantly life-limiting condition. In this book, Aaron D. Cobb develops a virtue-based defense of the value of perinatal hospice. He characterizes its promotion and provision as a common project of individuals, local communities, and institutions working together to provide exemplary care. Engaging with important themes from the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Adams, he shows how perinatal hospice manifests virtues crucial to meeting the needs of families in these difficult circumstances. As a work of applied virtue ethics, this book has important normative, social, and political implication...
《斷食善終》作者畢柳鶯,深受啟發、鄭重推薦—— 這是一本探討「自主斷食,善終選擇」的聖經等級著作、實用級教科書。 當疾病已到不可復原,身心痛苦無法忍受時,病人可不可以自主選擇斷食往生? 自主斷食算不算「自殺」?醫護人員該不該參與其中,讓過程更平順、更安詳? 8個美國案例,4項關鍵議題(臨床、倫理、法律、機構),完整呈現美國有關「自主斷食」的完善評估程序、醫療準則,和臨終照顧。 新光醫院神經科主治醫師、臺灣大學醫學系副教授 汪漢澄——專業翻譯 特別推薦—— 吳育政/大林慈濟醫院...
- Minuciosamente revisada, se centra en el conocimiento esencial en el campo de la medicina interna. Íntegramente revisada y actualizada por los directores de la edición, junto con destacados docentes y expertos en la especialidad, la obra mantiene su enfoque clínico y su sólida base en las ciencias básicas. - Referencia elegida por estudiantes y docentes presenta un nuevo enfoque en los conocimientos esenciales necesarios en la práctica clínica y la formación de los residentes, con una cobertura concisa y completa de los principios básicos de la medicina y de su aplicación a la atención a los pacientes. - Cada una de las secciones de la obra describe la fisiología y la bioquími...