Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care

This comprehensive revision of the invaluable reference presents a rigorous survey of pain and palliative care phenomena across the lifespan and across disciplines. Grounded in the biopsychosocial viewpoint of its predecessor, it offers up-to-date understanding of assessments and interventions for pain, the communication of pain, common pain conditions and their mechanisms, and research and policy issues. In keeping with the current public attention to painkiller use and misuse, contributors discuss a full range of pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to pain relief and management. And palliative care is given expanded coverage, with chapters on interventive, ethical, and spiritual concerns.

·         Pain, intercultural communication, and narrative medicine.

·         Assessment of pain: tools, challenges, and special populations.

·         Persistent pain in the older adult: practical considerations for evaluation and management.

·         Acute to chronic pain: transition in the post-surgical patient. 

·          Evidence-based pharmacotherapy of chronic pain.

·         Complementary and integrative health in chronic pain and palliative care.

·         Disparities in pain and pain care.

This mix of evolving and emerging topics makes the Second Edition of the Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care a necessity for health practitioners specializing in pain management or palliative care, clinical and health psychologists, public health professionals, and clinicians and administrators in long-term care and hospice.

Rhonda Moore, PhD is a Medical Anthropologist and Social Scientist  She received her doctoral degree in cultural and medical anthropology from Stanford University and completed her post-doctoral fellowships in behavioral science from Stanford Medical School and in epidemiology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Moore has edited or co-edited three other books for Springer: Cancer, Culture and Communication (2004), Biobehavioral Approaches to Pain (2009), and Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care,First Edition (2013). Her primary research interests are biobehavioral mechanisms of health and disease in cancer and pain, patient reported outcomes, qualitative methods, bioethics of privacy and security,  and health disparities and vulnerable populations with special attention to chronic pain and palliative care.