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Diane E Meier - Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness - 9780470527177 - V9780470527177
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Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness

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Description for Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness Paperback. Provides a comprehensive understanding of palliative care. This title examines the roots of the field, explores the key legal and ethical issues, discusses the development of palliative care, and presents ideas on policies that can improve access to palliative care. Editor(s): Meier, Diane E.; Isaacs, Stephen L.; Hughes, Robert. Series: Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBN; MMC; MQCL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 179 x 24. Weight in Grams: 774.

Palliative Care is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is transforming the way Americans deal with serious illness.

Diane E. Meier, M.D., one of the field's leaders and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius award" in 2009, opens the volume with a sweeping overview of the field. In her essay, Dr. Meier examines the roots of palliative care, explores the key legal and ethical issues, discusses the development of palliative care, and presents ideas on policies that can improve access to palliative care.

Dr. Meier's essay is followed by reprints of twenty-five ... Read more

  • Why the care of the seriously ill is so important

  • Efforts to cope with advanced illness

  • Legal and ethical issues

  • Pain management

  • Cross-cultural issues

  • Philosophical perspective

The demand for palliative care has been nothing short of stunning—largely because of palliative care's positive impact on both the quality and the cost of care provided to seriously ill individuals. By providing a wide-ranging perspective on this growing field, this book will serve as a guide for developing meaningful approaches that will lead to better health care for all Americans.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Series
Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780470527177
SKU
V9780470527177
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Diane E Meier
Diane E. Meier, M.D., is director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and director of the Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Professor of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine, and Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Stephen L. Isaacs, J.D., is a partner in Isaacs/Jellinek, a San ... Read more

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