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Hardback. The prevailing model of medical care for patients with cancer emphasizes the curative efforts of medical technology toward the eradication of the disease. Yet, the suffering of the patient as a result of the disease is often overlooked. This book illustrates the range of issues encompassed by palliative care and rehabiliation of cancer patients. Editor(s): Von Gunten, Charles F. Series: Cancer Treatment and Research. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBP; MJCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792385257
- ISBN
- 9780792385257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 245.22
€ 245.22
Paperback. The book ends with the 2003 OxyContin arrest of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, a cautionary tale about deregulation and the widening gaps between the overmedicated and the undertreated. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15, 11 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; JPA; MBP; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421418407
- ISBN
- 9781421418407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.28
€ 30.99
€ 26.28
Pain in Children: A Practical Guide for Primary Care
. Ed(S): Walco, Gary A.; Goldschneider, Kenne...
paperback. This comprehensive book, intended for those providing medical care to children, provides an overview of pediatric pain. Each chapter provides an overview of the problem, followed by a "hands on" description of relevant assessment and intervention strategies. Editor(s): Walco, Gary A.; Goldschneider, Kenneth R. Num Pages: 279 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 42 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: MBPC; MJN; MJW; MMBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Humana United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781617379291
- ISBN
- 9781617379291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 154.94
€ 154.94
hardcover. Series: Management of Common Diseases in Family Practice. Num Pages: 168 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 421.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Edition
- 1986th Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780852007594
- ISBN
- 9780852007594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.40
€ 190.40
Flexibound. The Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing provides practical, easily accessible, concise and up-to-date, evidence-based guidelines about the essential elements of mental health nursing practice in one portable format. Editor(s): Callaghan, Patrick; Gamble, Catherine. Series: Oxford Handbooks in Nursing. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: MBPK; MMH; MQC; MQCL5; MQCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 103 x 180 x 16. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198703853
- ISBN
- 9780198703853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.44
€ 38.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: MBP; MJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Beacon Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807021996
- ISBN
- 9780807021996
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.81
€ 23.99
€ 17.81
Paperback. This title identifies those aspects of mental illness which can compromise parenting and affect children's development, as well as the efforts of professionals to intervene effectively. Editor(s): Loshak, Rosemary. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415682701
- ISBN
- 9780415682701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.98
€ 49.98
Paperback. Mary Felstiner went to bed one night an active professional and healthy young mother and woke the next morning literally out of joint. With hands and arms no longer working right, she had discovered a first sign of rheumatoid arthritis. This book tells both the personal and the public story of this prevalent yet neglected disease. Series: American Lives. Num Pages: 222 pages, 9 phtotographs. BIC Classification: MBNH; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5665 x 3734 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803260290
- ISBN
- 9780803260290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.63
€ 19.99
€ 19.63
paperback. Num Pages: 210 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBN; MBP; MBS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rl United States
- Edition
- Fourth
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442248472
- ISBN
- 9781442248472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.67
€ 48.67
Hardcover. Osteoporosis is a global threat because it can impact every human being. This new edition points out the enormous scale of the problem in terms of human suffering, morbidity and mortality on the one hand, and the astronomical national costs on the other. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBPC; MJG; MJT; MNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1048.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540795261
- ISBN
- 9783540795261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.82
€ 70.82
Paperback. Updated and expanded to reflect the growing literature on this widespread disorder, this second edition has a new editor and uses the same approach as the first, pairing a chapter on the basic science of a disorder followed by a one on its clinical aspects. Editor(s): Adler, Robert A. Series: Contemporary Endocrinology. Num Pages: 636 pages, 84 black & white illustrations, 28 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: MBPC; MJ; MJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1126. Series: Contemporary Endocrinology. 650 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Adler, Robert A. Updated and expanded to reflect the growing literature on this widespread disorder, this second edition has a new editor and uses the same approach as the first, pairing a chapter on the basic science of a disorder followed by a one on its clinical aspects. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: MBPC; MJ; MJG. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight: 1126.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Humana Press Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 647
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781617795183
- ISBN
- 9781617795183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.47
€ 128.47
Paperback. From the cherries we buy, to the grocer who sells them, to the school where our child unpacks them for lunch, we express resurgent faith in decentralizing the institutions and businesses that arrange our daily lives. The author reveals the key cornerstones of social organization on which effective decentralization depends. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF; KCD; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226246543
- ISBN
- 9780226246543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.76
€ 32.99
€ 25.76
Hardback. Health care is currently not sustainable. Health care systems in the developed world are encountering increased demand for high quality health care but facing societal resource limits. The volume explores the change capabilities and learning mechanisms that health care systems need in order to implement fundamental change to improve over time. Editor(s): Mohrman, Susan Albers; Shani, Abraham B. (Rami). Series Editor(s): Mohrman, Susan Albers; Shani, Abraham B. (Rami); Worley, Christopher G. Series: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: MBPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781900321
- ISBN
- 9781781900321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.20
€ 135.20
Hardback. Offers cases with wide ranging policy implications regarding structural and functional changes institutions and organizations might consider, given the confines of context and resources, to improve the conditions of mentally ill offenders. Editor(s): Hartwell, Stephanie W. Series: Research in Social Problems and Public Policy. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKVQ; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762312313
- ISBN
- 9780762312313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.72
€ 171.72
Paperback. Series: Management for Professionals. Num Pages: 239 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJMV6; KJU; MBPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 373.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319360607
- ISBN
- 9783319360607
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.42
€ 64.42
Hardback. Organizational Innovation by Integrating Simplification Series: Management for Professionals. Num Pages: 225 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJMV6; KJU; MBPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319117249
- ISBN
- 9783319117249
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.11
€ 96.11
Hardcover. This collection of critical ideas relating organization science to operations and accomplishments in the health care environment provides a thematic guide for leaders, practitioners, academics and administrators. It pulls in a broad cross-section of perspectives on the important linkage of scholarship and practice with a solid global perspective. Editor(s): Wolf, Jason A.; Moir, Mark J.; Hanson, Heather; Friedman, Leonard H.; Savage, Grant T. Series Editor(s): Blair, John D.; Fottler, Myron D.; Savage, Grant T.; Friedman, Leonard H. Series: Advances in Health Care Management. Num Pages: 418 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 37. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 418
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857247094
- ISBN
- 9780857247094
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.88
€ 161.88
Paperback. A highly readable account of how and why NHS treatment centres evolved with practical lessons based on case study research. Num Pages: 184 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; MBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 11. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847424785
- ISBN
- 9781847424785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 37.39
€ 38.99
€ 37.39
Hardcover. This collection brings together papers from an international research symposium. With chapters from Australia, Canada and Europe, it is consciously international in perspective and aims to compare developments in the public sector with those in the US. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSW; KJU; MBPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1999th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333745557
- ISBN
- 9780333745557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 189.16
€ 189.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 297 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 16. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781629482873
- ISBN
- 9781629482873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.17€ 87.44
€ 127.17
€ 87.44