Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine

Nathan Cherny is Norman Levan Chair of Humanistic Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine at Ben Gurion University, Israel. Nathan is also Director of the Cancer Pain and Palliative Medicine Service at the Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, Jerusalem, Israel. Marie Fallon is the St Columba's Hospice Chair of Palliative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and is an Honorary Consultant in Palliative Care at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. Stein Kaasa is Professor of Palliative Medicine at the Institute of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (NTNU), Norway. Russell K. Portenoy is Chief Medical Officer and Executive Director of the MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care, New York, and Professor of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA. David C. Currow is Professor of Palliative and Supportive Service at the Flinders Centre for Clinical Change, Flinders University, Australia.

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; SECTION 1: THE WORLDWIDE STATUS OF PALLIATIVE CARE; SECTION 2: THE CHALLENGE OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE; SECTION 3: SERVICE DELIVERY ISSUES IN PALLIATIVE CARE; SECTION 4: THE INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM; SECTION 5: ETHICAL ISSUES; SECTION 6: COMMUNICATION AND PALLIATIVE MEDICINE; SECTION 7: ASSESSMENT TOOLS AND INFORMATICS; SECTION 8: COMMON SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS; SECTION 9: COMMON SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS: PAIN; SECTION 10: COMMON SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS: GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOMS; SECTION 11: COMMON SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS: SKIN PROBLEMS; SECTION 12: ISSUES IN POPULATIONS WITH CANCER; SECTION 13: CANCER PAIN SYNDROMES; SECTION 14: CANCER-ASSOCIATED DISORDERS; SECTION 15: ISSUES IN POPULATIONS WITH NON-CANCER ILLNESSES; SECTION 16: ISSUES OF THE VERY YOUNG AND THE VERY OLD; SECTION 17: PSYCHOSOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL ISSUES IN PALLIATIVE MEDICINE; SECTION 18: THE TERMINAL PHASE; SECTION 19: RESEARCH IN PALLIATIVE MEDICINE; INDEX