Textbook of Palliative Care
暫譯: 緩和醫療教科書

《緩和醫療教科書》是一本全面、臨床相關且最先進的書籍，旨在推進緩和醫療作為一門科學、一種臨床實踐和一種藝術。

緩和醫療已經成為醫療保健的一部分超過五十年，但我們仍然需要向同事和公眾解釋其性質和實踐。醫療保健教育和訓練在認識確保所有從業人員對於照顧重病或晚期病人及其家庭所涉及的內容有良好理解的重要性方面進展緩慢。然而，緩和醫療的科學正在進步，我們對於緩和醫療許多方面的理解也在迅速發展。

本書分為不同的部分以便於使用。超過100章由各自領域的專家撰寫，提供與臨終關懷相關的各種主題的最新資訊，無論疾病為何。我們從全球的角度呈現當代和經典的緩和醫療議題，作者來自於涉及這一重要護理方面的各種學科。本教科書包括針對症狀管理和護理提供、不同環境中的護理組織、特定疾病群體的護理、緩和醫療緊急情況、倫理學、公共衛生方法以及緩和醫療研究等方面的內容。

這本教科書對於所有學科和職業的從業人員都具有價值，無論是專家還是非專家，在任何有重病晚期病人居住的環境中，照顧臨近死亡的人都是重要的。它也是國家或地區層級的研究者、政策和決策者的重要資源。緩和醫療的科學和藝術都不會停滯不前，因此我們的目標是隨著作者發現新的證據和護理方法，持續更新這本教科書。

Roderick Duncan MacLeod is a Palliative Medicine Specialist at Harbour Hospice in Auckland, New Zealand, and Consultant to HammondCare in Sydney where he is also Honorary Professor in the University of Sydney, School of Medicine. He gained his primary medical degrees from the University of Dundee in 1976 and went on to train for general practice. He was a Principal in general practice for almost 10 years before moving to the discipline of palliative care. He was first appointed as Medical Director of the Dorothy House Foundation in Bath, England, in 1989 after having completed a period of prolonged study leave exploring palliative care in the community. In 1994, he was appointed Medical Director and subsequently Director of Palliative Care at the Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington, New Zealand. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (UK) in 1999. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Australasian Chapter of Palliative Medicine, in 2000. He received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Glamorgan (Prifysgol De Cymru) for his work and publications on "Changing the Way that Doctors Learn to Care for People Who Are Dying." In 2003, he was appointed to New Zealand's first Chair in Palliative Care as the inaugural South Link Health Professor in Palliative Care at the University of Otago Dunedin School of Medicine and in 2013 was appointed Conjoint Professor in Palliative Care at the University of Sydney and worked clinically as Senior Staff Specialist in Palliative Care for HammondCare in Sydney. He has been a Member of the Australasian Chapter of Palliative Medicine Education Committee, the NZ National Health Committee -Working Party on Care of People Who Are Dying, the NZ Palliative Care Expert Working Group, and the Council of the Asia Pacific Hospice Network. He was appointed to the Expert Advisory Group (Physician Education) and the Chapter of Palliative Medicine Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the NZ Ministry of Health Palliative Care Advisory Group. He has also held a number of roles within Hospice NZ. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles in the field of palliative care in national and international journals and has written over 20 chapters for palliative care texts. In addition, he has been on editorial boards of international peer-reviewed journals in the field of palliative care and has reviewed manuscripts for over 25 different academic journals. He has also published two anthologies of poetry, exploring what it might be like to approach death and experience bereavement and loss. He is one of the authors of The Palliative Care Handbook, which has become a freely available standard text for healthcare professionals in New Zealand and parts of Australia. He was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the Queen's birthday honors in 2015.

Lieve Van den Block is Professor of Ageing and Palliative Care at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Chair of the Ageing and Palliative Care Research Programme at the End-of-Life Care Research Group of the VUB and Ghent University in Belgium. She holds a Ph.D. in Medical Social Sciences and a master's in Clinical Psychology. Professor Van den Block has been involved in palliative care research for over 15 years, focusing on national and international public health and interventional research aimed at monitoring and improving palliative and end-of-life care. She has received several scientific awards for her work, including the 2014 Early Researcher Award of the European Association for Palliative Care. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles on palliative care and is editor and author of several books and chapters. Her work has been supported by grants from the European Commission, national fundamental and applied research foundations, and leading medical and health charities.

羅德里克·鄧肯·麥克勞德（Roderick Duncan MacLeod）是紐西蘭奧克蘭港安寧醫療中心（Harbour Hospice）的安寧醫學專家，並擔任悉尼哈蒙德護理（HammondCare）的顧問，同時也是悉尼大學醫學院的名譽教授。他於1976年獲得邓迪大學（University of Dundee）的醫學學位，隨後接受一般醫療的訓練。在轉向安寧醫療之前，他在一般醫療領域擔任了近10年的主治醫師。他於1989年首次被任命為英國巴斯的多蘿西之家基金會（Dorothy House Foundation）的醫療主任，並在此之前完成了一段時間的研究假期，探索社區中的安寧醫療。1994年，他被任命為紐西蘭威靈頓的瑪麗·波特護理院（Mary Potter Hospice）的醫療主任，隨後成為安寧醫療主任。1999年，他被授予英國皇家全科醫生學院（Royal College of General Practitioners）的院士。2000年，他成為澳大利亞皇家內科醫學院（Royal Australasian College of Physicians）安寧醫學分會的創始院士。他於2001年在格拉摩根大學（University of Glamorgan）獲得博士學位，研究主題為「改變醫生學習照顧臨終病人的方式」。2003年，他被任命為紐西蘭首位安寧醫療講座教授，成為奧塔哥大學（University of Otago）達尼丁醫學院的首任南聯健康安寧醫療教授，並於2013年被任命為悉尼大學的聯合教授，並在悉尼的哈蒙德護理擔任高級專科醫師。他曾是澳大利亞安寧醫學教育委員會、紐西蘭國家健康委員會臨終病人護理工作小組、紐西蘭安寧醫療專家工作小組及亞太安寧醫療網絡理事會的成員。他被任命為澳大利亞皇家內科醫學院的專家諮詢小組（醫生教育）及安寧醫學分會的成員，並參與紐西蘭衛生部的安寧醫療諮詢小組。他在紐西蘭安寧醫療機構中也擔任過多個職位。他在國內外期刊上發表了超過130篇經過同行評審的安寧醫療文章，並為安寧醫療相關書籍撰寫了超過20章。此外，他還擔任國際同行評審期刊的編輯委員會成員，並為超過25本不同的學術期刊審稿。他還出版了兩本詩集，探討接近死亡及經歷喪失的感受。他是《安寧醫療手冊》（The Palliative Care Handbook）的作者之一，該書已成為紐西蘭及澳大利亞部分地區醫療專業人員的免費標準教材。他於2015年在女王生日榮譽中被伊莉莎白二世女王授予紐西蘭功績勳章（New Zealand Order of Merit）成員。

莉維·范登·布洛克（Lieve Van den Block）是布魯塞爾自由大學（Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB）老年與安寧醫療教授，並擔任VUB及根特大學（Ghent University）臨終護理研究小組的老年與安寧醫療研究計畫主席。她擁有醫學社會科學的博士學位及臨床心理學的碩士學位。范登·布洛克教授在安寧醫療研究方面已有超過15年的經驗，專注於國內外公共衛生及介入研究，旨在監測和改善安寧及臨終護理。她因其工作獲得多項科學獎項，包括2014年歐洲安寧醫療協會的早期研究者獎。她在安寧醫療領域發表了超過100篇經過同行評審的文章，並編輯及撰寫了多本書籍和章節。她的研究工作得到了歐洲委員會、國家基礎及應用研究基金會以及主要醫療和健康慈善機構的資助。