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Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
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Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine (4 ed.)

Edited by Geoffrey Hanks, Nathan I. Cherny, Nicholas A. Christakis, Marie Fallon, Stein Kaasa, Russell K. Portenoy

Abstract

The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine is the definitive textbook on the subject. The book is used across the world by the wide range of health care professionals involved in the care of patients with a terminal illness, or chronic, progressive conditions.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
Oct 2009
Print ISBN-13:
9780198570295
Published to Oxford Medicine:
Mar 2011
DOI:
10.1093/med/9780198570295.001.0001

Authors

Geoffrey Hanks, editor
Professor of Palliative Medicine, University of Bristol, UK

Nathan I. Cherny, editor
Norman Levan Chair of Humanistic Medicine; Director, Cancer Pain and Palliative Medicine, Department of Oncology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Nicholas A. Christakis, editor
Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Attending Physician, Department of Medicine, Mt. Auburn Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Marie Fallon, editor
St Columba's Hospice Chair of Palliative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK

Stein Kaasa, editor
Palliative Medicine Unit, Trondheim University Hospital, Norway

Russell K. Portenoy, editor
Chairman, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman Chair in Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, USA, and Professor of Neurology and Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA


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