2016; Volume 17, No 5, May
IAHPC Book Reviews
By Dr. Roger Woodruff, IAHPC Reviews Editor
Dr. Roger Woodruff, our IAHPC Book Reviews Editor, is taking a well-deserved break this month. In his absence, we’re presenting a retrospective look at the books Roger selected as ‘Palliative Care Book of the Month’ for 2014. Links to the full online reviews are given so that you can browse your favorites from that year, and new readers can catch up with more of Roger’s reviews.
Please note that prices were correct at the time the review was published.
January 2014 – Palliative Care Book of the Month
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS AND THE POLITICS OF EUTHANASIA
Constructing Risk and Selling Death in an Ageing Society
Megan-Jane Johnstone
Ashgate, 2013
223 pp
ISBN 978-1-4094-5192-1
February 2014 – Palliative Care Book of the Month
WHEN PROFESSIONALS WEEP
Emotional and countertransference responses in end-of-life care
Renee Katz and Therese Johnson (eds)
Routledge, 2006
303 pp
ISBN 978-0-415-95095-3
RRP $US 44.95, £ 24.99.
March 2014 – Palliative Care Book of the Month
POTENTIAL AND POSSIBILITY: REHABILITATION AT THE END OF LIFE
Physiotherapy in Palliative Care
J. Taylor, R. Simader and P. Nieland (Eds.)
Elsevier (Urban & Fischer, München), 2013
193 pp
ISBN 978-0-7020-5027-5
RRP £ 38.78, $US – not listed at Amazon.com.
April 2014 – Palliative Care Book of the Month
DEATH, DYING, AND BEREAVEMENT
Contemporary Perspectives, Institutions, and Practices.
Judith M. Stillion and Thomas Attig (eds.)
Springer Publishing, 2014
414 pp
ISBN 978-0-8261-7141-2
RRP $US75.00 £59.50
Review copy supplied by Footprint Books.
May 2014 – Palliative Care Book of the Month
HEART FAILURE
From Advanced Disease to Bereavement
Miriam Johnson, Karen Hogg and James Beattie
Oxford University Press, 2012
216 pp
ISBN 978-0-19-929930-0
RRP £ 29.99, $US 74.95.
June 2014 – Palliative Care Book of the Month
HAPPIER ENDINGS
A Meditation on Life and Death
Erica Brown
Simon & Schuster, 2013
340 pp
ISBN 978-1-4516-4922-2
RRP $US26.00 £15.41 $AU29.99.
July 2014 – Palliative Care Book of the Month
END OF LIFE CARE
A Guide for Therapists, Artists and Arts Therapists
Nigel Hartley
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014
272 pp
ISBN 978-1-84905-133-0
RRP £ 25.00, $US 39.95.
August 2014 – Palliative Care Book of the Month
PSYCHOSOCIAL PALLIATIVE CARE
William Breitbart and Yesne Alici
Oxford University Press, 2014
179 pp
ISBN 978-0-19-991740-2.
September 2014 – Palliative Care Book of the Month
THE INNER LIFE OF THE DYING PERSON
Allan Kellehear
Columbia University Press, 2014
264 pp
ISBN 978-0-231-16785-7
RRP $US 35.00, £ 24.00.
Review copy supplied by Footprint Books.
October 2014 – Palliative Care Book of the Month
INTERNAL MEDICINE ISSUES IN PALLIATIVE CANCER CARE
David Hui and Eduardo Bruera (eds.)
Oxford University Press, 2014
242 pp
ISBN 978-0-19-932975-5
RRP $US 45.00, £ 29.99.
November 2014 – Palliative Care Book of the Month
LIFE TO BE LIVED: CHALLENGES AND CHOICES FOR PATIENTS AND CARERS IN LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESSES
Catherine Proot and Michael Yorke
Oxford University Press, 2014
160 pp
ISBN 978-0-19-968501-1
RRP £23.99, $US42.95.
December 2014 – Palliative Care Book of the Month
BEING MORTAL
Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2014
282 pp
ISBN 978-0-8050-9515-9
RRP $US26.00 £13.60.
Roger Woodruff, MD (Australia)
Dr. Woodruff is a Lifetime Member of the IAHPC Board and Past Chair. His bio may be found here.
Note for authors and publishers: If you wish to have your book reviewed, please send to:
Dr Roger Woodruff
IAHPC Bookshop Editor
210 Burgundy St, Suite 9
Heidelberg, Victoria 3084
AUSTRALIA
Note: Review copies become property of IAHPC and are not returned to the author. Only palliative care related books, which are previously approved, and which have an ISBN, will be reviewed. Due to the large number of requests, we can’t provide exact dates of when books will be reviewed.
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