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  • The Good Doctor

    Why Medical Uncertainty Matters

    by Kenneth Brigham, Michael M. E. Johns ...
    What makes a good doctor? It's not what you think. A doctor willing to face their own uncertainty in the face of illness and treatment might just be the best medicine.Too often we choose the wrong doctor for the wrong reasons. It doesn't have to be that way. In The Good Doctor, Ken Brigham, MD, and Michael M.E. Johns, MD, argue that we need to change the way we think about health care if we want ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Predictive Health

    How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years

    by Kenneth L. Brigham, Michael ME Johns ...
    Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget -- nearly 175 billion -- is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments. Such efforts betray a fundamental flaw in how we think about healthcare: we squander resources on hopeless situations, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • 100 Plus

    How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and

    by Sonia Arrison ...
    Humanity is on the cusp of an exciting longevity revolution. The first person to live to 150 years has probably already been born.What will your life look like when you live to be over 100? Will you be healthy? Will your marriage need a sunset clause? How long will you have to work? Will you finish one career at sixty-five only to go back to school to learn a new one? And then, will you be happily ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Ethics, Aging, and Society

    The Critical Turn

    by Martha B. Holstein, PhD, Mark Waymack, PhD, Jennifer A. Parks, PhD ...
    "Ethics, Aging and Society...is the first major work in ten years to critically address issues and methodologies in aging and ethics...This well-organized volume begins theoretically and offers new ways of thinking about ethics that can handle the complexities and realities of aging in particular social contexts."--Choice"This new research-based book, by experts in the field of ethics, is ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Aging Thoughtfully

    Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret

    by Martha C. Nussbaum, Saul Levmore ...
    We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully combine a philosopher's approach with a lawyer-economist's. Here are ideas about when to retire, how to refashion social security to help the elderly poor, how to learn from King Lear -- who did not retire successfully -- and whether to enjoy or criticize anti ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Aging: an Encyclopedia for Adding Years to Your Life and Life to Your Years

    by Arthur F. Beringause ...
    As the number of old persons increases dramatically, information is the one thing both the young who are trying to take care of the old and the elderly who are trying to take care of themselves need to assuage concerns and solve problems that advancing years bring. Like their young counterparts, the old know shockingly little about care and upkeep, not only of the automobile, but more important of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Parkinson's Disease and Nonmotor Dysfunction

    Edited by Ronald F. Pfeiffer, ivan Bodis-Wollner ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The first edition of Parkinson’s Disease and Nonmotor Dysfunction was published in 2005 to provide a source of detailed information that could be readily accessed by the practicing physician. The widely praised first edition described and explained these nonmotor features that had at that point received insufficient attention both in the medical and in the lay literature. Since the publication of ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience

    by Stephen J. McPhee, Margaret A. Winker, Michael W. Rabow, Steven Z. Pantilat, Amy J. Markowitz ...
    From one of the world’s leading medical journals comes the definitive evidence-based, full-color guide to end-of-life and palliative care"...represents an important milestone in the evolution of care for people with advanced disease—-for which its editors and authors and JAMA should be rightly proud. It is wonderful that JAMA had the foresight to publish a series on this topic, which, as medicine ... Read more

    $119.89 CAD

  • Stroke and Stroke Related Disorders in the Elderly

    by Kujan Nagaratnam, Nages Nagaratnam ...
    The incidence of stroke increases with age and with the increase in the life expectancy, the older people will contribute to a large portion of those afflicted with stroke. Stroke and Stroke related disorders in the Elderly begins with a historical review of stroke and its management followed by an overview of the anatomy and functions of the brain. Detailed knowledge of which is mandatory and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Oxford Case Histories in Geriatric Medicine

    by Sanja Thompson, Nicola Lovett, John Grimley Evans, Sarah Pendlebury ...
    Series series Oxford Case Histories
    Based around the core curriculum for specialist trainees and consultants, Oxford Case Histories in Geriatric Medicine is a valuable reference and teaching tool, which provides an opportunity for case-based learning across a rapidly growing field. This book uses well-structured and concise cases from the Oxford hospitals. Each case has associated questions on the differential diagnosis and aspects ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • Pressure Ulcers in the Aging Population

    A Guide for Clinicians

    Edited by David R. Thomas, MD, Gregory A. Compton, MD ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Medical practitioners receive little, if any, formal training in the prevention, assessment and management of pressure ulcers and other chronic wounds. Pressure Ulcers in the Aging Population: A Guide for Clinicians is a resource primarily aimed at physicians interested in the fundamentals of wound care. This book is written for geriatricians, internists, general practitioners, residents and ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Designing and Delivering Dementia Services

    Edited by Constantine Lyketsos, David Ames, John O'Brien, Hugo de Waal ...
    Dementia is increasingly and widely recognised as a serious health and social challenge, in the developed world as well as in the developing world. The need therefore to design and implement dementia care services of high quality is becoming more and more vital, particularly given the likelihood of ever increasing demand in a world, which likely sees resources at best remaining at current levels ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD