Susan S. Lang's Books

You Don't Have to Suffer

A Complete Guide to Relieving Cancer Pain for Patients and Their Families

By: Susan S. Lang,Richard B. Patt

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You Don't Have to Suffer

A Complete Guide to Relieving Cancer Pain for Patients and Their Families

By: Susan S. Lang,Richard B. Patt

On March 2, 1994, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (a division of the Public Health Service) made headlines by releasing new cancer pain management guidelines. That report revealed that pain is frequently undertreated, and that relief is not only possible for most patients, but actually aids in recovery. For many cancer victims, the agency's guidelines offered new hope; for Dr. Richard B. Patt and coauthor Susan S. Lang, it was a resounding vindication of the findings they set forth in You Don't Have to Suffer. Written by one of the country's leading cancer pain experts and science writer Lang, You Don't Have to Suffer provides an invaluable, no-nonsense handbook for anyone with cancer, for anyone caring for a loved one with cancer, and for the doctors and nurses who treat these patients. The authors first illuminate the reasons why patients are so often undermedicated, including unfounded fears of addiction, patients thinking they need to tough it out, time-consuming paperwork for doctors who prescribe narcotics, and laws that fail to distinguish between drug abuse and the legitimate employment of narcotics. In a careful argument now taken up by the AHCPR's guidelines, Lang and Patt demonstrate that properly medicated patients are better able to resume active lives and marshall strength to fight their disease--while those in chronic pain not only suffer, but also may jeopardize their potential for recovery. You Don't Have to Suffer explores all the pain-relieving options available in the modern medical arsenal--from drugs and high-tech medical procedures to psychological and cognitive techniques and home nursing tips to make a patient more comfortable. Detailed chapters discuss the medications that can fight cancer pain or relieve the undesirable side effects of chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, and other cancer treatments; anaesthetic and neurosurgical options for pain that has not responded well to simpler techniques; ways to prevent or relieve constipation, nausea, drowsiness, and other complaints of cancer patients; and mind/body techniques and other ways of coping with depression and various psychological symptoms that contribute to the relief of suffering. Pulling together a wealth of long-needed information on the latest medical advances, You Don't Have To Suffer is a volume for the growing numbers of patients, family members, and health-care professionals who are determined to relieve needless cancer pain.

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Oxford University Press

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0198024568

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9780198024569

Headache Help

A Complete Guide to Understanding Headaches and the Medications That Relieve Them

By: Lawrence D. Robbins,Susan S. Lang

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Headache Help

A Complete Guide to Understanding Headaches and the Medications That Relieve Them

By: Lawrence D. Robbins,Susan S. Lang

Arguing that an appropriate medication has the best potential for relieving a headache, a guide to headache treatment discusses different types of pain, and conventional and alternative options for prevention or treatment.

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356

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618044361

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9780618044368

Beating the Blues

New Approaches to Overcoming Dysthymia and Chronic Mild Depression

By: Michael E. Thase,Susan S. Lang

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Beating the Blues

New Approaches to Overcoming Dysthymia and Chronic Mild Depression

By: Michael E. Thase,Susan S. Lang

A guide to overcoming dysthymia and chronic mild depression, discussing how to recognize the signs of chronic depression, what the best medications and psychotherapies are, how the right exercise, diet, and stress reducers can help combat depression, and other related topics.

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214

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195304535

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9780195304534

The Complete Guide to Relieving Cancer Pain and Suffering

By: Richard B. Patt,Susan S. Lang

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The Complete Guide to Relieving Cancer Pain and Suffering

By: Richard B. Patt,Susan S. Lang

This is a comprehensive manual containing all the necessary information for making the best of living with a devastating disease and its miserable symptoms and side effects.

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468

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0195312023

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9780195312027

Free Hands and Minds

Pioneering Australian Legal Scholars

By: Susan Bartie

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Free Hands and Minds

Pioneering Australian Legal Scholars

By: Susan Bartie

Peter Brett (1918–1975), Alice Erh-Soon Tay (1934–2004) and Geoffrey Sawer (1910–1996) are key, yet largely overlooked, members of Australia's first community of legal scholars. This book is a critical study of how their ideas and endeavours contributed to Australia's discipline of law and the first Australian legal theories. It examines how three marginal figures – a Jewish man (Brett), a Chinese woman (Tay), and a war orphan (Sawer) – rose to prominence during a transformative period for Australian legal education and scholarship. Drawing on in-depth interviews with former colleagues and students, extensive archival research, and an appraisal of their contributions to scholarship and teaching, this book explores the three professors' international networks and broader social and historical milieux. Their pivotal leadership roles in law departments at the University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, and the Australian National University are also critically assessed. Ranging from local experiences and the concerns of a nascent Australian legal academy to the complex transnational phenomena of legal scholarship and theory, Free Hands and Minds makes a compelling case for contextualising law and legal culture within society. At a time of renewed crisis in legal education and research in the common law world, it also offers a vivid, nuanced and critical account of the enduring liberal foundations of Australia's discipline of law.

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575

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509922628

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Pain and Neurogenic Inflammation

By: Susan Brain,P.K. Moore

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Pain and Neurogenic Inflammation

By: Susan Brain,P.K. Moore

This volume is intended to bring together recent advances in the often separate fields of pain and neurogenic inflammation. To this end, eminent researchers from both domains have contributed in-depth discussion of the mechanisms underlying these processes. Individual chapters focus on important recent discoveries such as the cloning of the capsaicin receptor and the discovery of RAMP proteins for CGRP receptors. This book provides an integrated account of recent advances in the fields of pain and neurogenic inflammation. The volume is intended to bring together studies from eminent researchers in the often separate research fields of pain and inflammation. "Pain and Neurogenic Inflammation" is aimed primarily at postgraduate researchers as well as academic and industrial researchers in pain and inflammation but is also likely to be of interest to undergraduate students seeking a firm grounding in the mechanisms underlying these important clinical conditions.

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366

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3764358750

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9783764358754

Managing Human Resources for Environmental Sustainability

By: Susan E. Jackson,Deniz S. Ones,Stephan Dilchert

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Managing Human Resources for Environmental Sustainability

By: Susan E. Jackson,Deniz S. Ones,Stephan Dilchert

Managing Human Resources for Environmental Sustainability The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) is the premier membership organization for those practicing industrial and organizational psychology. The Society's mission is to enhance human well-being and performance in organizational and work settings by promoting the science, practice, and teaching of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology. I-O psychologists apply research that improves the well-being and performance of people and the organizations that employ them. This involves everything from workforce planning, employee selection, and leader development to studying job attitudes and job motivation, implementing work teams, and facilitating organizational change. SIOP is a nonprofit organization with more than 6,000 members. While an independent organization with its own governance, SIOP is also a division within the American Psychological Association and an organizational affiliate of the Association for Psychological Science.

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