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Hospice and Palliative Care
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Hospice and Palliative Care

Hospice and Palliative Care: Concepts and Practice, Second Edition offers theoretical perspectives and practical information about this growing field. Contributing authors from a variety of backgrounds working in end-of-life care present a historical overview of hospice and explain how the interdisciplinary team functions in the hospice setting. They then discuss challenges to the team including symptom management, death education, ethical issues, and support groups. The future of hospice is addressed in the final part of the book. The contributors are experts in community medical care, geriatric care, nursing care, pain management, research, counseling, and hospice management.

The Lasting Salute
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

The Lasting Salute

Presents accounts of funerals conducted between 1921 and 1969 for 26 American officials, 4 foreign diplomats on assignment in the U.S., and the unknown servicemen killed in WWI, WWII, and the Korean War. Intended primarily for use as a reference work by agencies of government involved in arranging and conducting public funerals. Includes: Pres. Taft, Hoover, Eisenhower, and Kennedy, plus MacArthur, Stevenson, Marshall and others. Contains over 200 photos, tables, charts, and diagrams.

Medical Research in the Veterans' Administration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 504

Medical Research in the Veterans' Administration

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1974
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Medical Research in the Veterans' Administration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1400

Medical Research in the Veterans' Administration

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1972
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Management of Cancer Pain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Management of Cancer Pain

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Clinical Practice Guideline
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 544

Clinical Practice Guideline

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Management of Cancer Pain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Management of Cancer Pain

Cancer is diagnosed in over one million Americans annually, & one of five deaths in the U.S. -- about 1,400/day -- result from cancer. This Guideline provides recommendations about the assessment & management of cancer pain. Describes the uses of analgesics & adjuvant drugs, cognitive/behavior strategies, physical modalities, palliative radiation & antieoplastic therapies, nerve blocks & palliative & ablative surgery. Developed by an interdisciplinary panel of clinicians, patients, & experts in health policy. Tables of scientific evidence. Glossary, bibliography & acronyms. Charts & tables.

Selecting the Mercury Seven
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 391

Selecting the Mercury Seven

The names of the seven Mercury astronauts were announced in April 1959 amid a flurry of publicity and patriotism. This work provides biographical details of all thirty-two finalists for the seven coveted places as America's pioneering astronauts. All of the candidates were among the nation's elite pilots involved in testing new supersonic aircraft capabilities. Most had served as wartime fighter and bomber pilots; some were test pilots on top secret and sophisticated aviation projects, while others were fleet admirals, prisoners of war, and proposed pilots for spaceflight programs such as the Dyna-Soar (X-20). The names of all 32 finalists have been kept secret until very recently. "Selectin...

Comprehensive Geriatric Oncology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 896

Comprehensive Geriatric Oncology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-03-01
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Published in 2004: This new edition of Comprehensive Geriatric Oncology still offers an exhaustive review of the biology of cancer and aging, of the epidemiologic trends in the country and in the world, and of the clinical trials that concern cancer prevention and cancer treatment in the elderly.