Author: Eric J. Cassell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: medicine, goals, suffering, nature
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-03-25
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0195156161
ISBN-13: 9780195156164

This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991. With three added chapters and a new preface summarizing our progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-hve for those in palliative medicine and hospice care. The obligation of physicians to relieve human suffering stretches back into antiquity. But what exactly, is suffering? One patient with metastic cancer of the stomach, from which he knew he would shortly die, said he was not suffering. Another, someone who had been operated on for a mior problem--in little pain and not see

Author: Eric J. Cassell
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: technique, clinical, vol, patients, talking
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1985-03-27
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0262530562
ISBN-13: 9780262530569

Spoken language is the most important diagnostic and therapeutic tool in medicine, and, according to Dr. Cassell, "we must be as precise with it as a surgeon with a scalpel." In these two volumes, he analyzes doctor-patient communication and shows how doctors can use language for the maximum benefit of their patients. Throughout, Dr. Cassell stresses that patients are complex, changing, psychological, social and physical beings whose illnesses are well represented by their own communication. He proposes that both listening and speaking are arts that can be learned best when they are based on t

Author: Eric J. Cassell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: medicine, care, primary, nature, doctoring
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-11-14
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0195158628
ISBN-13: 9780195158625

American medicine attracts some of the brightest and most motivated people the country has to offer, and it boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world, a wondrous parade of machines and techniques such as PET scans, MRI, angioplasty, endoscopy, bypasses, organ transplants, and much more besides. And yet, writes Dr. Eric Cassell, what started out early in the century as the exciting conquest of disease, has evolved into an overly expensive, over technologized, uncaring medicine, poorly suited to the health care needs of a society marked by an aging population and a predominance of

Author: Eric J. Cassell
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: art, healer
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1985-05-07
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0262530627
ISBN-13: 9780262530620

Beyond drugs, beyond technology, there will always be the human element, "the healer’s art." Dr. Cassell discusses the world of the sick, the healing connection and healer’s battle, the role of omnipotence in the healer’s art, illness and disease, and overcoming the fear of death. Eric J. Cassell, M.D., is an internist and clinical director of the Program for the Study of Ethics and Values in Medicine at Cornell Medical School. His two-volume work Talking with Patients: The Theory of Doctor-Patient Communication, and Clinical Technique, is available from The MIT Press in c

Author: Jay Cassell
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Keywords: stories, hunting, book, gigantic
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 160239301X
ISBN-13: 9781602393011

The ultimate gift book for the hunter—800 pages of adventure.This volume has something for everyone who hunts, be they rabbit hunters in the deep South, Cape buffalo hunters in the African bush, or white-tailed deer hunters in the woods of North America. Its selections celebrate hunting for big game, small game, waterfowl, upland birds, turkeys, African and Asian game, and much more. Readers will find many of their favorite writers represented here, along with authors who have penned inspired pieces that few have read, until now. The book has been put together in keeping with the spirit and

Author: Jay Cassell
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Keywords: firearms, reference, bestselling, world, bible, shooter
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2009-11-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1602398011
ISBN-13: 9781602398016

The ultimate annual reference book for firearm collectors and enthusiasts.Published annually for more than eighty years, with more than seven million copies sold worldwide, Shooter’s Bible is the most complete reference guide for new products, specifications, and up-to-date prices on thousands of firearms and related equipment. This new edition of Shooter’s Bible contains a series of informative feature articles by nationally recognized firearms experts writing on subjects ranging from hunting and shooting to firearms technology and history. The Shooter’s Bible contains up-to-date and co

Author: Joan Cassell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: surgeon, woman
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2000-10-16
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 0674004078
ISBN-13: 9780674004078

Surgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. The combat with death is carried out in the operating room, where the intrepid surgeon challenges the forces of destruction and disease. What, then, if the surgeon is a woman? Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters this closely guarded arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man’s world. Cassell observed thirty-three surgeons in five North American cities over the course of three years. We follow these women through their grueling days: racing through corridors to make roun