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A Physician's Guide to Pain and Symptom Management in Cancer Patients

By: Janet L. Abrahm

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A Physician's Guide to Pain and Symptom Management in Cancer Patients

By: Janet L. Abrahm

This highly regarded handbook provides clinicians with the information they need to treat their cancer patients effectively and compassionately. This comprehensive guide to managing pain and other symptoms for people with cancer has helped tens of thousands of patients and families. Designed for busy practicing clinicians, A Physician's Guide to Pain and Symptom Management in Cancer Patients provides primary care physicians, advanced practice nurses, internists, and oncologists with detailed information and advice for alleviating the stress and pain of patients and family members alike. Drawing on the work of experts who have developed revolutionary approaches to symptom management and palliative care, as well as on the lessons learned from patients and their families during her thirty years as a teacher and clinician, Dr. Janet L. Abrahm shows how physicians and other caregivers can help patients and families heal emotionally even as the disease progresses. The third edition includes updates to medications and clinical stories, and features two new chapters: “Working with Patients’ Families” and “Sexuality, Intimacy, and Cancer.” New lessons from palliative care and hospice care can help patients, their professional caregivers, and their families support each other every step of the way.

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JHU Press

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142141404X

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Families That Work

Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment

By: Janet C. Gornick,Marcia K. Meyers

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Families That Work

Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment

By: Janet C. Gornick,Marcia K. Meyers

Parents around the world grapple with the common challenge of balancing work and child care. Despite common problems, the industrialized nations have developed dramatically different social and labor market policies—policies that vary widely in the level of support they provide for parents and the extent to which they encourage an equal division of labor between parents as they balance work and care. In Families That Work, Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers take a close look at the work-family policies in the United States and abroad and call for a new and expanded role for the U.S. government in order to bring this country up to the standards taken for granted in many other Western nations. In many countries in Europe and in Canada, family leave policies grant parents paid time off to care for their young children, and labor market regulations go a long way toward ensuring that work does not overwhelm family obligations. In addition, early childhood education and care programs guarantee access to high-quality care for their children. In most of these countries, policies encourage gender equality by strengthening mothers' ties to employment and encouraging fathers to spend more time caregiving at home. In sharp contrast, Gornick and Meyers show how in the United States—an economy with high labor force participation among both fathers and mothers—parents are left to craft private solutions to the society-wide dilemma of "who will care for the children?" Parents—overwhelmingly mothers—must loosen their ties to the workplace to care for their children; workers are forced to negotiate with their employers, often unsuccessfully, for family leave and reduced work schedules; and parents must purchase care of dubious quality, at high prices, from consumer markets. By leaving child care solutions up to hard-pressed working parents, these private solutions exact a high price in terms of gender inequality in the workplace and at home, family stress and economic insecurity, and—not least—child well-being. Gornick and Meyers show that it is possible–based on the experiences of other countries—to enhance child well-being and to increase gender equality by promoting more extensive and egalitarian family leave, work-time, and child care policies. Families That Work demonstrates convincingly that the United States has much to learn from policies in Europe and in Canada, and that the often-repeated claim that the United States is simply "too different" to draw lessons from other countries is based largely on misperceptions about policies in other countries and about the possibility of policy expansion in the United States.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610442512

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9781610442510

In the Presence of Aliens

A Personal Experience of Dual Consciousness

By: Janet Bergmark

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In the Presence of Aliens

A Personal Experience of Dual Consciousness

By: Janet Bergmark

A true-life account of the author's experiences of contact with aliens. She writes about the concept of a dual identity - of human and alien co-existing in one body. Why are some people abducted by alien life forms?

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1567180639

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Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer

By: Janet L. Abrahm,Bethany-Rose Daubman,Molly Collins

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Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer

By: Janet L. Abrahm,Bethany-Rose Daubman,Molly Collins

The contributors educate health care providers on the principles and practices of pain and symptom management in cancer patients. The content was expanded significantly for the fourth edition"--

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JHU Press

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1421443988

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9781421443980

In the Presence of Aliens

A Personal Experience of Dual Consciousness

By: Janet Bergmark

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A Personal Experience of Dual Consciousness

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A Physician's Guide to Pain and Symptom Management in Cancer Patients

A Physician's Guide to Pain and Symptom Management in Cancer Patients

Families That Work

Families That Work

In the Presence of Aliens

In the Presence of Aliens

Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer

Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer

In the Presence of Aliens

In the Presence of Aliens

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