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Alzheimer disease afflicts more than twelve million people worldwide, and its incidence is increasing at a staggering rate. People with the disorder are living longer than have those in previous generations, and they require interventions for quality-of-life issues associated with palliative care. However, the symptoms of Alzheimer disease often fail to place such persons into settings where palliative care resources are available to them. Indeed, clinicians and other caregivers may be unsure about what constitutes effective palliation in these cases. At the same time, the ethical issues involved in providing end-of-life care to persons with Alzheimer disease remain on the margins of mainstr...
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Substantially revised with hundreds of new schematic drawings, photographs, and micrographs, the Fourth Edition of Rubin's Pathology maintains the clinical approach that is ideal for medical students. This edition is packaged with a brand-new electronic supplement--the Virtual Pathology Slide Set. Students can view digital slides of microscopic specimens with "virtual microscope" viewer software that enables panning, zooming, and magnification. Every copy of the textbook comes with a CD-ROM containing 5 specimens. Faculty and schools wishing to license a more complete set of 100 virtual slides on DVDs can license the Virtual Pathology Slide Set.
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In this entertaining tour de force into the most elusive of our five senses, Le Guerer investigates scent and its relationship to myth, psychology, religion, ritual, sex, seduction, magic, social classes, and early pharmacology and healing practices.