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Fatigue in Cancer: A Multidimensional Approach

Author(s): Maryl L. Winningham, APRN, PhD, FACSM, FACSM, Institute for the Advancement of Health Care Engineering, Salt Lake City, Utah
Margaret Barton-Burke, PhD, RN, University of Missouri at St. Louis
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763706302
  • ISBN-10:0763706302
  • Hardcover    464 pages      © 1999
Price: International Sales $177.95 US List
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Overview

This book takes an extraordinary approach to an evasive topic.  It winds its way through a universe of fatigue-related topics, including theory, research, historical roots, contemporary thoughts, self-reports, survivor stories, poetic interpretations, and pencil sketch illustrations.  It is a composite of ideas from many sources and many disciplines.  The clinician is left with a new understanding of fatigue that will impact his or her practice forever.

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Includes tips about quantifying, measuring, and comparing fatigue.
For the clinician, the book offers many approaches to the management of fatigue, with contributions from nurses, psychiatrists, oncologists, pharmacists, exercise physiatrists, and psychologists.

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ShowTable of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction by Wendy S. Harpham

Part I. Background
1. The Puzzle of Fatigue: How Do You Nail Pudding to the Wall? by Maryl L. Winningham
2. The Foundations of Energetics: Fatigue, Fuel, and Functioning by Maryl L. Winningham
3. Measurement and Assessment: What Are the Issues? by Claudette G. Varricchio
4. Fatigue in Children and Adolescents With Cancer by Marilyn Hockenberry-Eaton and Pamela S. Hinds
5. A Behavioral Medicine Perspective by Marjorie H. Royle
6. Physiological and Psychological Foundations of Fatigue Research: An Historical Perspective by Sandra J. Smeeding
7. Psychoneuroimmunology: Foundations for Mind-Body Interaction by Kathryn Ann Caudell

Part II. Clinical Issues
8. Treatment: An Overview by Patricia C. Buchsel, Margaret Barton-Burke, and Maryl L. Winningham
9. A Medical Oncologist's View by Brian T. Pruitt
10. The Pharmacist's Perspective by Lisa N. Meadows
11. Select Psychiatric and Psychological Considerations by Henry Olders and Maryl L. Winningham
12. Clinical Issues in Allergy and Immunology by Renata J.M. Engler and Maryl L. Winningham

Part III. A Global Approach to Rehabilitation
13. Fatigue and Oncology Rehabilitation: An Historical Perspective by Maryl L. Winningham and Eileen S. Donovan
14. Assessing Manifestations: Quality of Life From a Quality Improvement Perspective by Maryl L. Winningham and Marilyn Bookbinder
15. The Role of the Physiatrist by Theresa A. Gillis
16. What the Rehabilitation Therapies Can Do by Eileen S. Donovan and The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Rehabilitation Services Team
17. Cognitive Deficits by Christina A. Meyers as interviewed by Maryl L. Winningham
18. Therapeutic Exercise: Guidelines and Precautions by Maryl L. Winningham

Part IV. Personal Issues
19. Fatigue and Quality of Life With Cancer by Marcia Grant
20. The Family Experience by Margaret Barton-Burke
21. Fatigue as a Spiritual Crisis by Gerald Kelly
22. Fatigue From Opposite Ends of the Stethoscope by Theodore P. McDade
23. Issues in Fatigue and Cognition: Quality of Life in a Survivor by Tricia C. Corbett as interviewed by Maryl L. Winningham

Part V. New Beginnings
24. Toward a New Understanding of Fatigue by Maryl L. Winningham and Margaret Barton-Burke

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Maryl L. Winningham, APRN, PhD, FACSM, FACSM-Institute for the Advancement of Health Care Engineering, Salt Lake City, Utah

Margaret Barton-Burke, PhD, RN-University of Missouri at St. Louis

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  • "This book is filled with fatigue-related information.  From the detailed etymology of the word itself to tables with tips for energy conservation, the book is required reading for anyone seriously interested in fatigue in patients with cancer.  Scholars in all disciplines should find that the information in this book adds to the ongoing dialogue about the conceptual and methodologic issues surrounding the study of fatigue.  Clinicians will find a wealth of management strategies grounded in scientific principles.  Patients and their families will recognize the all-too-familiar descriptions of the devastating impact of fatigue.  For researchers, clinicians, and patients, this book is a useful resource." 

    --Oncology Nursing Forum, April 2001
    Reviewed by Janet S. Fulton, PhD, RN
    Wright State University - Dayton, Ohio

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