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The last decade has seen sweeping changes in US health care policy.

The last decade has seen sweeping changes in US health care policy.

This handbook explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States.

For all its costs, flaws, and inequities, American health care is fundamentally rooted in a belief that treatment should be based on solid scientific research.

Hospice care is one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.

Interesting and important ethical questions confront researchers, regulators, institutional review boards, support personnel, and research participants committed to the ethical conduct of human subjects research at all stages of research.

Winner of the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society "e;Contrary to legend, Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) never trained a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell.

Maintaining dignity for patients approaching death is a core principle of palliative care.

First published in 1986, this landmark text is the definitive guide to clinical trials, written by one of the leading experts in the field.

This book explores implicit choices made by researchers, policy makers, and funders regarding who benefits from society's investment in health research.

For patients and family caregivers the journey through illness and transitions of care is characterized by a series of progressive physical and emotional losses.

What does it take to be a scientist?

This book is the definitive guide to field epidemiology- the application of epidemiologic methods to unexpected health problems when a rapid, on-site investigation is necessary.

The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics is the first comprehensive and systematic reference on clinical research ethics.

Drawing from his extensive clinical experience and many years of teaching, Dr.

This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991.

Change is constant in everyday life.

This book serves as an invaluable guide on how clinical trials are designed and run, how to interpret the results, and what to make of them in general.

The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers.

The growing geriatric population in the United States has created an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the range of medical and surgical specialties.

The Edge of Medicine tells the stories of dying children and their families, capturing the full range of uncertainties, hopes and disappointments, and ups and downs of children near the end of life.

The philosopher Henry Richardson's short book is a defense of a position on a neglected topic in medical research ethics.

The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work is a comprehensive, evidence-informed text that addresses the needs of professionals who provide interdisciplinary, culturally sensitive, biopsychosocial-spiritual care for patients and families living with life-threatening illness.

The Oxford American Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills is a comprehensive pocket guide for medical, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner students.

The Oxford American Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills is a comprehensive pocket guide for medical, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner students.

Migraine is a complex neurological disorder that is characterized by a complex neurobiology, clinical features that may overlap with over 300 causes of headache, and an association with major medical illnesses and comorbid diseases.

Translational Research and Clinical Practice offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to evidence-based medicine.

This book describes in fascinating detail the variety of experiments sponsored by the U.

Riveting in their emotional clarity and utterly jargon free, these 30 stories from real life penetrate how we grieve and how we can help those who grieve- whether the griever is oneself, someone we care about, or a client or patient.

Change is constant in everyday life.

Drawing from his extensive clinical experience and many years of teaching, Dr.

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives.

Every day, thousands of people receive a diagnosis of serious, life-threatening illness, and their families and friends suddenly become caregivers.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of healthy volunteers and patients worldwide undertake the journey through the maze that can be clinical trials.

Every day, thousands of people receive a diagnosis of serious, life-threatening illness, and their families and friends suddenly become caregivers.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of healthy volunteers and patients worldwide undertake the journey through the maze that can be clinical trials.

Millions of children suffer from diseases and illnesses that do not have adequate treatment, and many other children are harmed by medicines intended to help them.

The Handbook of Electrogastrography is the first textbook dedicated to reviewing the physiology of gastric myelectrical activity and the measurement of this electrical activity with electrodes placed on the abdominal surface - the electrogastrogram.

In Caring for Patients at the End of Life: Facing an Uncertain Future Together, Dr.

Health care professionals seeking to improve the quality of life for those living with serious illness and nearing the end of life will find exactly what their organization needs in the second edition of this acclaimed book by Dr.

Improving care for the patients who are in the last phase of their lives has been a field that most health care providers have struggled with during last few years.

The public is bombarded daily with reports about risk factors, many conflicting with each other, others accepted as "e;scientific truth"e; for awhile, then scientifically disproved, yet others questionable that later prove to be true.

Originally published in 2001, the Textbook of Palliative Nursing has become the standard text for the field of hospice and palliative care nursing.

This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991.

Geriatric Palliative Care covers a broad spectrum of issues characterizing care near the end of life for older adults.

Palliative care is rapidly evolving as a multidimensional therapeutic model devoted to improving the quality of life of all patientswith life-threatening illness.

This volume reviews the state of the art in caring for patients dying in the ICU, focusing on both clinical aspects of managing pain and other symptoms, as well as ethical and societal issues that affect the standards of care received.

Evaluating the strength or persuasiveness of epidemiologic evidence is inherently challenging, both for those new to the field and for experienced researchers.

Over the last several decades, bioethicists have championed a bewildering variety of methods for understanding and resolving difficult ethical problems in medicine, including: principlism, wide reflective equilibrium, casuistry, feminism, virtue theory, narrative, and others.

The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics is the first comprehensive and systematic reference on clinical research ethics.