商品簡介
Macleod (health sciences, U. of Canterbury, New Zealand), writing as a clinician practicing both psychiatry and palliative medicine, draws on his own clinical knowledge, observation, and experience and the current medical literature in order to present a review of the pragmatic psychiatric issue frequently encountered in palliative care. Topics covered include adjustment and anxiety; families and caregivers; the role of spirituality; pain and other symptoms; depression; delirium; sleep, sedation, and coma; neoplasms; cognitive dysfunction and dementia; terminological neurological disorders; chronic mental illness and dying; euthanasia; and psychopharmacology. Published by Radcliffe Publishing, UK, and distributed in the US by BookMasters. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
