The Art and Science of Compassion, A Primer: Reflections of a Physician-Chaplain
Agnes M.F. Wong
The Art and Science of Compassion, A Primer is designed as a short, “all-in-one,” introductory text that covers the full gamut of compassion, from the evolutional, biological, ...
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The Benzodiazepines Crisis
John Peppin, Joseph V. Pergolizzi, Robert B. Raffa, and Steven L. Wright (eds)
When properly prescribed, benzodiazepines and related “Z” drugs, are usually safe and effective. However, some patients experience lack of efficacy, severe adverse effects, and/or ...
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Caring for the Family Caregiver
Elaine Wittenberg, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra L. Ragan, and Terri Ann Parnell
This remarkable work reveals the plight of the family caregiver in chronic illness through the prism of communication. Examining the high cost and poorly addressed exigencies of the ...
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The Complete Recovery Room Book (6 edn)
Anne Craig and Anthea Hatfield
New technologies are increasingly available for patient care but simple ‘tried and true’ old fashioned methods are still essential. The care that a patient receives in the first hours after ...
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Congress of Neurological Surgeons Essent
Najib E. El TEcle, Tarek Y. El Ahmadieh, Salah G. Aoun, and Bernard Bendok (eds)
This book presents a collection of critically appraised neurosurgical papers that shed light on some of the most impactful studies in the history of neurosurgery. Papers that have shaped ...
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Convergence Mental Health: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Innovation
Harris A. Eyre, Michael Berk, Helen Lavretsky, and Charles Reynolds (eds)
The world is in the throes of a global health, economic, and mental health crisis with severe physical, societal, and economic ramifications. Modern mental health problems are characterized ...
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Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health
Jaime BreilhNancy Krieger
This book provides a groundbreaking approach to critical epidemiology for understanding the complexity of the health process and studying the social determination of health. It presents a ...
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Exploiting Hope: How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Us--and Makes Us Vulnerable
Jeremy Snyder
One often hears stories of people in terrible and seemingly intractable situations who are preyed upon by individuals offering empty promises of help. Frequently these cases are condemned ...
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Law and ethics in intensive care (2 edn)
Christopher Danbury, Christopher Newdick, Alex Ruck Keene, and Carl Waldmann (eds)
The practice of intensive care medicine raises multiple legal and ethical issues on a daily basis, making it increasingly difficult to know whom to admit and when, at what stage invasive ...
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Management of Sleep Disorders in Psychiatry
Amit Chopra, Piyush Das, and Karl Doghramji (eds)
‘Management of Sleep Disorders in Psychiatry’ provides an in-depth and evidence-based review of sleep-wake disorders included in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th ...
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Military Advanced Regional Anesthesia and Analgesia Handbook (2 edn)
Chester Buckenmaier, Michael Kent, Jason Brookman, Patrick Tighe, Edward Mariano, and David Edwards (eds)
A longtime standard for military healthcare personnel, the second edition of Military Advanced Regional Anesthesia and Analgesia Handbook (MARAA) has been thoroughly revised and updated. ...
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Overlapping Pain and Psychiatric Syndromes: Global Perspectives
Mario Incayawar and Sioui Maldonado Bouchard (eds)
When a health practitioner is at the bedside of a patient suffering from chronic pain and a psychiatric comorbid condition, he is facing a true clinical conundrum. The comorbidity is ...
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Pain Psychology for Clinicians: A Practical Guide for the Non-Psychologist Managing Patients with Chronic Pain
Leanne R. Cianfrini, Elizabeth J. Richardson, and Daniel Doleys
Pain Psychology for Clinicians equips general medical providers with core psychological and communication strategies to implement in their care of patients with chronic pain. ...
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Pediatric Emergencies: A Practical, Clinical Guide
Emily Rose (ed.)
This book comprehensively covers common (and less common but important) pediatric emergencies in a practical and clinically focused manner. The target audience is general emergency ...
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Practical management of the pregnant patient with rheumatic disease
Karen Schreiber, Eliza Chakravarty, and Monika Østensen (eds)
Specialists from different medical specialties need to gain familiarity with reproductive health issues in women with chronic rheumatic diseases of childbearing age. Health care providers ...
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Psychiatric Ethics (5 edn)
Sidney Bloch and Stephen A. Green (eds)
Ethical issues inherent in psychiatric research and clinical practice are invariably complex and multifaceted. Well-reasoned ethical decision-making is essential to deal effectively with ...
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Psycho-Oncology (4 edn)
William Breitbart, Phyllis Butow, Paul Jacobsen, Wendy Lam, Mark Lazenby, and Matthew Loscalzo (eds)
Psycho-Oncology, 4th edition, follows the publication of Psycho-Oncology, 3rd edition in 2015. This is the latest in the series of textbooks which have defined the field of ...
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Psychopharmacology: A Concise Overview (3 edn)
Arash Ansari and David Osser
Psychopharmacology: A Concise Overview, 3rd Edition discusses and reviews currently available psychiatric medications and their evidence-supported use in current clinical ...
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Psychopharmacology in Cancer Care: A Guide for Non-Prescribers
Andrew Roth and Chris Nelson
Clinicians who care for adult cancer patients have many tools to manage symptoms of depression, anxiety, cognitive changes, insomnia, and fatigue. Non-prescribing clinicians, such as ...
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Psychotic Disorders: Comprehensive Conceptualization and Treatments
Carol A. Tamminga, Jim van Os, Ulrich Reininghaus, and Elena Ivleva (eds)
Psychotic Disorders: Comprehensive Conceptualization and Treatments emphasizes a dimensional approach to psychosis that cuts across a broad array of psychiatric diagnoses from ...
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