Published November, 2007
By Andrew Davies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Pain Management Library OPML P
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Bone pain is one of the most common and severe forms of pain experienced by patients with cancer. This practical, evidence-based, pocketbook brings the reader up-to-date on current developments in this area, and will be an invaluable reference for all healthcare professionals involved in the management of patients with cancer-related bone pain.

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Published November, 2007
By Peter Crome, Chris J. Main and Frank Lally
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: OXFORD PAIN MANAGEMENT LIBRARY SERIES OPML P
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Pain in older people is both common and disabling, and differs significantly in terms of its aetiology, diagnosis and treatment from pain in the general adult population. This pocketbook is a concise companion for anyone managing older patients suffering with pain and covers areas such as depression, pain and addiction and assessment.

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Published November, 2007
By Kathryn Boog, Claire Tester and Kathryn M. Boog
Publisher: Elsevier (Churchill Livingstone)
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Discusses palliative care. This book encourages health professionals to conceptualize their practice in the light of the fact that their patients are deteriorating and dying, supporting them in their dichotomous role which involves affirming that person's life whilst acknowledging that life is ending.

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Published October, 2007
By Shaun Kinghorn and Sandra Gaines
Publisher: Elsevier (Bailliere Tindall)
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Helps in the process of defining palliative nursing and how it interfaces with other disciplines within the specialty. This work is divided into three sections and covers the aspects of palliative nursing. Key themes covered herein include pain control, symptom control, loss and grief, and handling loss.

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Published September, 2007
By Murna Downs, Neil Small, Katherine Froggatt and Katherine Dr. Froggatt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This book describes what might be achieved if the values and best practice of both dementia care and palliative care are brought together.

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Published September, 2007
By David Oliviere and Barbara Monroe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Resilience is the capacity of people or social systems to achieve in the face of adversity. This book will help health and social care professionals understand and utilise the concept of resilience, in the context of palliative care.

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Published September, 2007
By Joanne Lynn, Janice Lynch Schuster, Anne Wilkinson, Lin Noyes Simon, Anne M. Wilkinson and Lin Simon
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published September, 2007
By Jennifer Barraclough
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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A practical, evidence-based guide to complementary cancer therapies with an emphasis on enhancing practice; that is, using the therapies alongside conventional medicine, rather than as alternatives to it.

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Published August, 2007
By Joseph M. Helms
Publisher: Thieme (Thieme Publishing Group)
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Designed to take a physician with no acupuncture experience through the history and science of acupuncture, and lead him through the anatomy, physiology, pathology, and treatments possible in this new discipline.

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Published July, 2007
By Lynne Halamish and Doron Hermoni
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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The Weeping Willow illustrates, through clinial case vignettes, an extremely practical approach to dealing with grief. It is designed for the general reader as well as the student and the professional, for the comforter and learner as well as the griever.

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