Handbook of Palliative Care

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Wiley, Sep 11, 1998 - Medical - 396 pages
WINNER of the 1999 BMA Medical Book of the Year Prize

Because most people wish to spend the last months of their lives in comfort and at home, surrounded by their family and friends, the provision of good palliative care is vital to achieve these goals. Accordingly, time spent on palliative care is a significant activity of primary health-care teams and professionals in hospitals.

Written especially with the GP and Primary Health Care team in mind, this book provides a comprehensive, yet practical guide to palliative care, and covers issues from clinical skills and service provision to ethical and psychosocial matters.
Additionally, a discussion of complementary therapies in palliative care and the views of patients are also provided. This book advocates a holistic approach to care based on the editors' experience of the specialist and primary-care environments, and will prove useful to a wide range of professionals and students--including doctors, nurses and pharmacists.

All patients with advanced disease, not just those with cancer, need a holistic approach to their care focusing on quality of life. The editors and authors have endeavoured to make this book relevant to as wide a patient group as possible including specific chapters on AIDS and Motor Neurone Disease.

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About the author (1998)

Dr Christina Faull MB BS BMedSci MRCP MD, Senior Lecturer

Professor Yvonne Carter BSc MB BS MD FRCGP DRCOG DCH, School of Medicine & Dentistry, St Barts & The Royal London Hospital, London

Dr Michael Bannon is a paediatrician with an interest in community child health. He has held several consultant posts in England. He has had a continuing interest in education in training and has been BPA tutor, Senior Lecturer, Associate Postgraduate Dean and more recently, Postgraduate Dean in
Oxford. Dr Bannon is also an associate editor for Archives of Disease in Childhood, pubilshed by BMJ publishing group. Professor Yvonne Carter was appointed as Vice-Dean of Leicester Warwick Medical Schools in 2003 and became Dean of Warwick Medical School the following year. She holds a Chair in
General Practice and Primary Care and is a practising GP in Coventry. She is also a Non-Executive Director at the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. Between 1996-2000 she was the Chairman of Research for the RCGP and in 2000 received an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours
List for services to health service research. In 2004 she also received an Honorary Fellowship from Queen Mary, University of London for services to general practice and primary care.

Woolf, University of Birmingham.

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