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Relating to the Relatives
This book is intended for all those who not only have to give bad news but who are also keen to give as much help and support as possible to partners and families - both immediately and during remission relapse terminal illness dying or grieving. Although it concentrates on the somewhat neglected interests of relatives much of it is very relevant to the care of patients. It is of use in a hospital environment and in primary care and readers including doctors nurses social workers and spiritual advisers will value it both when they are in training and perhaps especially in the years after qualification.
Coping with Cancer Stress
The emotional pressures on cancer patients and their families are increasing and traditional supports are decreasing. This book attempts to provide a readable, authoritative and balanced review of the emotional pressures and coping methods of cancer patients, and the help currently available to them. The special problems of children and terminal patients with cancer, and the role of the family in coping, are also examined. A balanced and critical assessment is made of defects in health organisation, training of personnel and attitudes to cancer patients in Western society. A similar assessment is made of the growing tendency to self help, mutual help and group activities for such patients. W...
Cancer in the Elderly
For geriatricians, oncologists, general physicians, and surgeons, both in practice and in training, presents scientific and clinical aspects of the special case of cancer in the elderly. Explores the psychological impact even of cancer that does not significantly alter the life expectancy. The introductory section covers sickness and health and the epidemiology of cancer in the elderly, along with their hopes and fears. The principles of management discussed include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and terminal care. A section examines typical complications. The bulk of the book details the cancer of various organs and systems, such as the breast, lung, kidney, leukaemia, myeloma, and the brain and spinal cord. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Sounds of Furious Living
Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious “gay cancer” first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would come to be called AIDS changed the world in innumerable ways. It also gave rise to one of the late twentieth century’s largest health-based empowerment movements. Scholars across diverse traditions have documented the rise of the AIDS activist movement, chronicling the impassioned echoes of protestors who took to the streets to demand “drugs into bodies.” And yet not all activism creates echoes. Included among the ranks of 1980s and 1990s-era AIDS activists were individuals whose expressions of empowerment differed markedly from those de...
Principles of Biomedical Ethics
For many years this has been a leading textbook of bioethics. It established the framework of principles within the field. This is a very thorough revision with a new chapter on methods and moral justification.
The Placebo
A thorough collection of classic and contemporary resources about the placebo effect. The placebo effect is a fascinating but elusive phenomena. Although no standard definition of the placebo effect exists, it is generally understood as consisting of responses of individuals to the psychosocial context of medical treatments or clinical encounters, as distinct from specific physiological effects of medical interventions. The Placebo is the first book to compile a selection of classic and contemporary published articles on the topic. Systematic investigation of the placebo effect emerged in the 1950s in response to the development of randomized controlled clinical trials that used “inert” ...
Health And Disease: A Reader
Health and disease have become major subjects for investigation, comment and debate. This text is a collection of articles which reflect the varied and sometimes controversial perspectives within these debates.
