Includes bibliographical references and index.

The worldwide status of palliative care / edited by Russ Portenoy, Debbie Ashby, and Stein Kaasa -- The challenge of palliative medicine / edited by Nicholas Christakis and Stein Kaasa -- The interdisciplinary team / edited by Stein Kaasa ... [et al.] -- Ethical issues / edited by Nathan I. Cherny -- Communication and palliative medicine / edited by Nicholas Christakis and Nathan I. Cherny -- Research in palliative medicine / edited by Nicholas Christakis and Nathan I. Cherny -- The principles of drug use in palliative medicine / edited by Stein Kaasa -- Disease modifying management in advanced cancer / edited by Stein Kaasa, Nathan I. Cherny, and Debbie Ashby -- The management of common symptoms and disorders / edited by Stein Kaasa ... [et al.] -- Issues in specific neoplastic disease / edited by Stein Kaasa, Marie Fallon, and Russ Portenoy --

Palliative medicine in non-malignant disease / edited by Stein Kaasa ... [et al.] -- Paediatric palliative medicine / edited by Marie Fallon -- Geriatric palliative medicine / edited by Russ Portenoy and Nicholas Christakis -- Psychiatric, psychosocial, and spiritual issues in palliative medicine / edited by Nathan I. Cherny and Stein Kaasa -- Medical rehabilitation and the palliative care patient / edited by Marie Fallon -- Complementary therapies in palliative medicine / edited by Russ Portenoy -- Palliative care in the home / edited by Debbie Ashby -- The terminal phase / edited by Nicholas Christakis and Nathan I. Cherny -- Education and training in palliative medicine / edited by Marie Fallon.