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Medical Aspects
of Disability, 3rd Edition
A Handbook for the Rehabilitation Professional
Herbert H. Zaretsky, PhD; Edwin F. Richter III, MD; Myron G. Eisenberg, PhD
Product Details:
ISBN: 0-8261-7973-8
Format: Hardcover, 800 pages
Publication Date: April 2005
Publisher: Springer Publishing
Company
Price: $79.95
Posted: September 16, 2005
Editorial Review:
June Halper, MSN, ANP, FAAN
This third edition of a comprehensive resource has much to
offer the MS healthcare team or other healthcare delivery systems in neurorehabilitation
and chronic illness. It is a compendium of resource material and basic concepts
that the reader will find extremely valuable in long-term practice.
It
opens with a chapter on themes, models and issues in a comprehensive setting
and describes a variety of programs and leit motifs that can provide a range
of assessments and interventions. The authors present a focus on data collection
both on the inpatient and outpatient basis with an emphasis of measures to assess
quality of life and outcomes of rehabilitation. This chapter is followed by
a thorough overview of the structure and function of the body systems in clear
and understandable was supported by graphics and diagrams.
Once
the basic framework is provided, the book is divided Section II and Section
III. Section II focuses on disabling conditions and disorders such as HIV-AIDS,
SCI, hemiplegia, visual impairments, neuromuscular disorders, and developmental
disabilities. These chapters (3-27) are succinct but well done with a vast amount
of information about each topic.
Section
III contains a unique focus on rehabilitation nursing, CAM in rehabilitation,
Social Work and rehabilitation, trends in Medical Rehabilitation Delivery, assistive
devices, advocacy topics such as legislations, and outcomes measurement.
Medical
Aspects of Disability (3rd Edition) edited by Herbert H. Zaretsky, Edwin F.
Richter III, and Myron G. Eisenberg is a valuable compendium and excellent resource.
It is well written, theme driven, and up-to-date in its information. This reviewer
is pleased to recommend it to our readers without reservation.
About the Reviewer
June
Halper is a certified adult nurse practitioner who has specialized
in multiple sclerosis since 1978. She was a founder of the Gimbel MS Center
in Teaneck, NJ and has been the Executive Director since 1989. In 1993, the
Gimbel MS Center was named the administrative seat of the Consortium of Multiple
Sclerosis Centers, the largest organization of MS healthcare professionals in
the world. Ms. Halper was president of the CMSC from 1995-97 and has been the
Executive Director since 1997.
Ms. Halper has published and lectured extensively on multiple sclerosis and
its ramifications and is the editor of Comprehensive Nursing Care in Multiple
Sclerosis and Advanced Concepts in Nursing Care in Multiple Sclerosis, and co-editor
of Staying Well with Multiple Sclerosis: A Self-Care Guide. Ms. Halper chaired
the first Multiple Sclerosis Nurse Specialist Consensus Committee’s development
of a monograph on the nurse’s role in adherence to complex protocols;
the impact of cognitive impairment in MS nursing care; and the nurse’s
role in patient’s and family’s quality of life. She chaired the
second such committee which published Multiple Sclerosis: Best Practices in
Nursing Care, Disease Management, Pharmacologic Treatment, Nursing Research.
She is a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the founding
director of IOMSN, the International Organization of MS Nurses, and the recipient
of the IOMSN’s first June Halper Award for Excellence in Nursing in Multiple
Sclerosis. She was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing
in November 1999.
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