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• Title:Palliative medicine : symptomatic and supportive care for patients with advanced cancer and AIDS / Roger Woodruff.
  
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• Author/Creator:Woodruff, Roger.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©1999.
  

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  • Call Number: WB310 .W663 1999
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Cancer--Palliative treatment.
  AIDS (Disease)--Palliative treatment.
  
• Medical Subjects: Palliative Care--methods.
  Neoplasms--therapy.
  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--therapy.
  
• Edition:3rd ed.
  
• Description:viii, 421 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0195506472
  
• Contents:Sect. I. Introduction to Palliative Care
  Ch. 1. Palliative care
  Ch. 2. Principles of palliative care
  Ch. 3. Ethics in palliative care
  Sect. II. Pain
  Ch. 4. Definition, classifications and causes
  Ch. 5. Factors that modify the perception of pain
  Ch. 6. Assessment of pain
  Ch. 7. Principles of treatment
  Ch. 8. Non-opioid analgesics
  Ch. 9. Opioid analgesics
  Ch. 10. Morphine
  Ch. 11. Other opioid analgesics
  Ch. 12. Adjuvant analgesics
  Ch. 13. Anaesthetic, neurolytic and neurosurgical procedures
  Ch. 14. Physical therapies
  Ch. 15. Psychological and psychosocial aspects of pain control
  Ch. 16. Anticancer therapy
  Ch. 17. Unrelieved pain
  Sect. III. Other Physical Symptoms and Clinical Problems
  Ch. 18. Respiratory
  Ch. 19. Gastrointestinal
  Ch. 20. Genitourinary
  Ch. 21. Cardiovascular
  Ch. 22. Haematological
  Ch. 23. Musculoskeletal
  Ch. 24. Dermatological
  Ch. 25. Neurological
  Ch. 26. Psychiatric
  Ch. 27. Endocrine and metabolic
  Ch. 28. Constitutional
  Ch. 29. side effects of anticancer therapy
  Sect. IV. Psychosocial Aspects of Care
  Ch. 30. Psychological issues
  Ch. 31. Social problems
  Ch. 32. Cultural factors
  Ch. 33. Spiritual or existential concerns
  Ch. 34. Grief and bereavement
  Sect. V. Alternative and Complementary Medicine
  Ch. 35. Alternative and complementary therapies
  Sect. VI. AIDS
  Ch. 36. HIV infection and AIDS
  Ch. 37. HIV-associated infections
  Ch. 38. HIV-related cancer
  Ch. 39. Symptom control in AIDS
  Ch. 40. Palliative care for patients with AIDS.