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Palliative Care Textbooks and Journals

Please find below a list of useful palliative care textbooks and journals which will be of use to all staff who deliver palliative care as part of their role.

Textbooks

The Syringe Driver: Continuous subcutaneous infusions in palliative care.

Dickman, A, Schneider, J & Varda, J. (2005) Oxford University Press

Textbook of Palliative Medicine.

Doyle, D Hanks, G, Cherny, N & Calman, K (Eds) (2005). Oxford, Oxford University Press

Care of the Dying: A pathway to excellence

Ellershaw, J, Wilkinson, S and Saunders, C, Oxford, Oxford University Press (2003)

Pain Explained: A guide for patients and carers.

Gamlin R and Lovel, T. (2001) London, Altman Publications.

Fundamentals of Palliative Nursing.

Gamlin, R & Becker, R. (2004) London. Quay Books.

Palliative Nursing Bringing Comfort and Hope

Kinghorn, S.W. & Gamlin, R.D. (Eds) (2001) Edinburgh Bailliere Tindall

Palliative Care: the nursing role (2nd edition)

Lugton, J & McIntyre, R Eds (2005) Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone

Palliative Care Formulary, (2nd edition).

Twycross, Richard, Wilcock, A, Charelesworth S, Dickman, A (2002) Oxford, Radcliffe Medical Press

Oxford Handbook of Palliative Medicine.

Watson, M, Lucas, C, Hoy, A & Back, I. (Eds) (2005) Oxford. Oxford University Press.

Journals

International Journal of Palliative Nursing.

Palliative Medicine

Amazon website - will take you to the a section of the Amazon website displaying detailed information of all the palliative care textbooks they stock (currently 490)