A Brief Guide to the Supernatural
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A Brief Guide to the Supernatural by Leo Ruickbie
Consultants and nurses in palliative medicine who do not have a background in oncology need to know about the different types of cancer to be able to deal with palliation in these patients. The new edition of this popular book continues to provide comprehensive coverage of cancer management aimed at palliative care professionals. The opening chapters describe the principles that lie behind surgical, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy treatments for cancer. Further chapters look in detail at different cancers, their aetiology, pathology and management pathways. The book goes on to consider the effects of advanced or metastatic cancer at various sites in the body, with emphasis on the pathophysiology of symptoms and the key factors that may influence treatment decisions. This book will help the reader to identify opportunities for active palliative care and focuses on the problems of recurrent and advanced cancer, discussing the key factors that may influence treatment decisions. To aid understanding in the specialty, the format of the book has been thoroughly revised to include numerous tables, figures, algorithms, case histories and key points to ensure that it will prove an invaluable, practical guide to oncology for all health care professionals involed in the care of patients with malignant disease.
Described as 'a young Van Helsing' in The Ghost Club Journal, Dr Leo Ruickbie has been investigating, writing about and experiencing the bizarre side of life - from vampire epidemics (there really was one) to sightings of angels - for most of his professional career. He has a PhD from King's College, London, on modern witchcraft and magic, and is the author of Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician, A Brief Guide to the Supernatural, and A Brief Guide to Ghost Hunting, as well as being published in Fortean Times, Paranormal magazine, academic journals and the national press. He is also the co-editor of Little Horrors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anomalous Children and the Construction of Monstrosity with Dr Simon Bacon, and The Material Culture of Magic with Dr Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie. His work has been mentioned in the media from The Guardian to Radio Jamaica, and his expertise has been sought by film companies and the likes of the International Society for Human Rights. He is an Associate of King's College, London, and a member of Societas Magica, the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, the Society for Psychical Research and the Parapsychological Association. He is a committee member of the Gesellschaft fü¾Œ¶Œ¼1/4r Anomalistik (Society for Anomalistics) and is the editor of the Paranormal Review, the magazine of the Society for Psychical Research. As a Scotsman, the impossible zoo has always been a living folk memory: he has stood on the banks of Loch Ness and stared into those sullen waters.
Visit him online at www.witchology.com
Visit him online at www.witchology.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9780762444380 |
| ISBN 10 | 076244438X |
| Title | A Brief Guide to the Supernatural |
| Author | Leo Ruickbie |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Running Press |
| Year published | 2012-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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