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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Basaglia's International Legacy: From Asylum to Community
Tom Burns and John Foot (eds)
Italian Law 180 of 1978 is probably the most radical Mental Health Act ever passed. It forbade the admission of any new patients to mental hospitals forthwith and called for the rapid ...
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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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The Cognitive Autopsy: A Root Cause Analysis of Medical Decision Making
Pat Croskerry
Behind heart disease and cancer, medical error is now listed as one of the leading causes of death. Of the medical errors that lead to injury and death, diagnostic failure is regarded as ...
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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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Non-Epileptic Seizures in Our Experience: Accounts of Healthcare Professionals
Markus Reuber (ed.) , Gregg H. Rawlings (ed.) , and Steven C. Schachter
To an outside observer, Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES) look like epileptic seizures. The manifestations of PNES include collapses, impaired consciousness, and seizure-related ...
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Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry: How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life's Misfortunes (2 edn)
Joel Paris
This book, now revised in a second edition, examines the problem of overdiagnosis in psychiatry, focusing on problems with current diagnostic systems. It shows that diagnosis is not always ...
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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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Postpartum Mental Health Disorders: A Casebook
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Gender and Mental Health, Gail Erlick Robinson (ed.) , Carol C. Nadelson (ed.) , and Gisele Apter (ed.)
Postpartum Mental Health Disorders: A Casebook describes the recognition and management of psychiatric disorders that present in the postpartum period. Case vignettes ...
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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 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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Public Bioethics: Principles and Problems
James F. Childress
Doing public bioethics involves analyzing and assessing actual and proposed public policies regarding biomedicine, healthcare, and public health. “Public bioethics” also refers to ...
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Reflecting on the Inevitable: Mortality at the Crossroads of Psychology, Philosophy, and Health
Peter J. Adams
Death studies have, over the past twenty years, witnessed a flourishing of research and scholarship particularly in areas such as dying and bereavement, cultural practices and fear of ...
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State of the Art Surgical Coronary Revascularization
David P Taggart and John D Puskas (eds)
State of the Art Surgical Coronary Revascularization is an authoritative textbook dedicated to the art and science of surgical coronary revascularization, with 71 chapters, ...
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Upper Airway Stimulation Therapy for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Medical, Surgical, and Technical Aspects
Karl Doghramji, Maurits S. Boon, Colin Huntley, and Kingman Strohl (eds)
Upper Airway Stimulation Therapy for Obstructive Sleep Apnea provides the current state of knowledge regarding this novel therapy. It reviews the pathophysiologic basis of sleep apnea and ...
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