Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine

The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, now in its sixth edition, provides a global perspective on palliative care, highlighting evidence-based practices and expert wisdom from over 200 experts. It covers new topics such as family and caregiver issues, cardio-respiratory symptoms, and genitourinary symptoms, emphasizing the multi-disciplinary nature of palliative care. Dedicated to the memory of Professor Kenneth Fearon, who exemplified work-life balance in the field.

Format: Hardback
Length: 1408 pages
Publication date: 23 September 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Written by an established, comprehensive, multidisciplinary focused, internationally-recognized team, the sixth edition has been fully revised and brought up to date with the inclusion of recent developments in the speciality, to ensure that it retains its reputation as the definitive reference on palliative care.

This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine takes us now into the third decade for this definitive award-winning textbook. It has been rigorously updated to offer a truly global perspective, highlighting the best current evidence-based practices, and collective wisdom from more than 200 experts around the world. This leading textbook covers all the new and emerging topics, updated and restructured to reflect major developments in the increasingly widespread acceptance of palliative medicine as a fundamental public health need.

The sixth edition includes new sections devoted to family and caregiver issues, cardio-respiratory symptoms and disorders, and genitourinary symptoms and disorders. In addition, the multi-disciplinary nature of palliative care is emphasized throughout the textbook, covering areasfrom ethical and communication issues, the treatment of symptoms, and the management of pain. The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine is a truly comprehensive text.

No hospital, hospice, palliative care service, or medical library should be without this essential source of information. This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine is dedicated to the memory of Professor Kenneth Fearon husband of Professor Marie Fallon and a surgeon who became a world leader in the research and management of anorexia and cachexia. He modeled a work-life balance that is so critical in our field, with devotion to both his patients and his family.

Weight: 3308g
Dimension: 234 x 284 x 53 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780198821328
Edition number: 6 Revised edition