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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ASAM Handbook of Addiction Medicine (2 edn)
Darius Rastegar and Michael I. Fingerhood (eds)
This book is a concise, evidence-based guide to the treatment of individuals with substance use disorders. It is an update to the 2015 edition and is targeted to nonspecialist clinicians ...
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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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C. Miller Fisher: Stroke in the 20th Century
Louis R. Caplan
Abstract: When Charles Miller Fisher was born in 1913, there was little scientific knowledge about brain diseases and their treatment. Views of stroke, one of the most common and most ...
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Care of the Acutely Ill Adult (2 edn)
Fiona Creed and Christine Spiers (eds)
The new edition of Care of the Acutely Ill Adult enables nursing staff to develop an in-depth understanding of the knowledge required to care for patients whose condition is deteriorating. ...
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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 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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Deep Brain Stimulation: A Case-based Approach
Shilpa Chitnis, Pravin Khemani, and Michael S. Okun (eds)
The fundamental principles of deep brain stimulation treatment are derived from decades of empirical and experiential observations. Through a case-based approach, this book is an effort to ...
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Diseases in the District of Maine 1772 - 1820: The Unpublished Work of Jeremiah Barker, a Rural Physician in New England
Richard J. Kahn
This previously unpublished primary source allows modern readers to reimagine medicine as practiced two hundred years ago by a rural physician in New England through his case histories, ...
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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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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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