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When a space shuttle goes missing during a test flight, James Bond
(Roger Moore) is the man who must track it down. His investigations
take him to Venice (where he uses his specially customized
gondola), Rio de Janeiro (where he fights steel-toothed henchman
Jaws on top of a cable car), and finally into outer space (where he
uncovers a ruthless plot to wipe out the human race and replace it
with genetically engineered humanoids). Highlights include Bond's
encounters with NASA scientist Dr Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) and
the climactic battle aboard villain Hugo Drax's (Michael Lonsdale)
space station.
In this book, first published in 1991, David Mann argues for more
attention to the performer in the study of Elizabethan plays and
less concern for their supposed meanings and morals. He
concentrates on a collection of extracts from plays which show the
Elizabethan actor as a character onstage. He draws from the texts a
range of issues concerning performance practice: the nature of
iterance; doubling and its implications for presentational acting;
the importance of clowning and improvisation; and the effects of
audience and venue on the dynamics of performance. The author
suggests that the stage representation of players is in part a
nostalgic farewell to the passing of an impure but perhaps more
vital theatre, and in part an acknowledgement of the threat the
adult theatre's growing sophistication offered to its institutional
and adolescent rivals. This title will be of interest to students
of Drama and Performance.
Examining the evidence from Belgium - one of only five countries
where euthanasia is practised legally - an international panel of
experts considers the implications of legalised euthanasia and
assisted suicide. Looking at the issue from an international
perspective, the authors have written an invaluable in-depth
analysis of the ethical aspects of this complex area. The
discussion forms a solid foundation for informed debate about
assisted dying. With contributors from a broad range of
disciplines, this book is ideal for students, academics,
legislators and anyone interested in legal, medical, social and
philosophical ethics. A vital and timely examination of a growing
phenomenon and one of the most challenging ethical questions of our
time.
Intraperitoneal chemotherapy is increasingly being used as
first-line treatment for ovarian cancer. Nevertheless, it is
difficult for the oncologist to find a definitive text that
documents both the fundamental methods required to optimize therapy
and the up-to-date results of phase I, II, and III clinical trials.
With this in mind, the editors of Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy have
assembled a team of highly experienced clinicians and researchers
to cover every aspect of the subject. The topics addressed include
treatment principles, patient, drug, and catheter selection,
administration guidelines, the role of hyperthermia, supportive
care requirements, novel drugs, and the most recent results of
clinical trials. This book will be an invaluable source of
information for both practicing clinical oncologists and
oncologists in training.
Where do you begin to look for a recent, authoritative article on
the diag nosis or management of a particular malignancy? The few
general oncology textbooks are generally out of date. Single papers
in specialized journals are informative but seldom comprehensive;
these are more often preliminary reports on a very limited number
of patients. Certain general journals fre quently publish good
in-depth reviews of cancer topics, and published sym posium
lectures are often the best overviews available. Unfortunately,
these reviews and supplements appear sporadically, and the reader
can never be sure when a topic of special interest will be covered.
Cancer Treatment and Research is a series of authoritative volumes
which aim to meet this need. It is an attempt to establish a
critical mass of oncology literature covering virtually all
oncology topics, revised frequently to keep the coverage up to
date, easily available on a single library shelf or by a single
personal subscription. We have approached the problem in the
following fashion. First, by di viding the oncology literature into
specific subdivisions such as lung cancer, genitourinary cancer,
pediatric oncology, etc. Second, by asking eminent authorities in
each of these areas to edit a volume on the specific topic on an
annual or biannual basis. Each topic and tumor type is covered in a
volume appearing frequently and predictably, discussing current
diagnosis, staging, markers, all forms of treatment modalities,
basic biology, and more."
The incidence of endometrial cancer rose sharply in the United
States in the early 1970s, paralleling changes in the use of
postmenopausal estrogens by American women. A sizeable body of
evidence supports the role of both excessive endogenous estrogen
and exogenous estrogen in the etiology of endometrial cancer. There
is growing evidence that inadequate progesterone has the opposite
effect, in that progesterone supplementation of postmeno pausal
estrogen therapy reduces the incidence of endometrial cancer.
Despite this new awareness of the hormonal role that is played in
carcino ma of the endometrium, the disease still plagues the
oncologist. The general approach to carcinoma of the endometrium in
the United States is that of primary surgical staging. This
provides the maximum amount of information to best plan
postoperative radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy for these
patients. In general, patients who are considered candidates for
surgical staging are those with advanced disease or high-risk stage
I endometrial carcinoma. High-risk endometrial carcinoma is defined
as those patients with moderately differentiated lesions with deep
myometrial invasion, poor ly differentiated carcinoma of the
endometrium, and the high-risk histolo gies such as papillary
carcinoma and clear-cell carcinomas. The surgical staging has
extended in most institutions to patients with occult stage II
carcinoma of the endometrium, i. e."
Cytological screening for the identification of intraepithelial
neoplasia of the cervix as a precursor lesion for cervical cancer
has been well established as an effective means for decreasing the
incidence of invasive carcinoma. Despite these screening efforts,
carcinoma of the cervix remains one of the more common malignancies
in women and it is the leading cause of cancer death in many
countries in the western hemisphere. It is estimated that in 1986
there will still be 14,000 new cases of invasive cancer, with 6,800
deaths in the United States alone. Unfortunately, many of these
patients present with advanced disease, posing difficult management
problems for the clinician responsible for their care. The
treatment of early stage invasive carcinoma of the cervix (lesions
confined to the cervix and vagina) remains either radical surgery,
radical radiation therapy or a combination thereof This approach is
extraordinarily effective in the vast majority of patients.
However, there remains a subset of patients with early stage
disease that are at high risk for recurrence. Dr Kjorstad (Chapter
2) has identified adenocarcinomas and adenosqua mous carcinomas as
having a particularly poor prognosis. In addition, patients with
more than three positive lymph nodes or with involvement of lymph
nodes outside of the pelvis have a very poor prognosis. He has iden
tified the CEA as a potentially predictive marker for these
patients with poor prognosis, especially in patients with
adenocarcinomas."
An authoritative work that provides a detailed review of the
current status of cancer prevention and control practice and
research. This volume is an essential reference guide and tool for
primary care physicians, the research community and students.
Written as a collaborative work by the faculty of the nationally
renowned Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Arizona
Cancer Center, this book brings together the expertise of
specialists in the field of cancer prevention and control to
provide the medical and research community that does not specialize
in this field with insight to the disciplines of cancer prevention
and control.
Intraperitoneal chemotherapy is increasingly being used as
first-line treatment for ovarian cancer. Nevertheless, it is
difficult for the oncologist to find a definitive text that
documents both the fundamental methods required to optimize therapy
and the up-to-date results of phase I, II, and III clinical trials.
With this in mind, the editors of Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy have
assembled a team of highly experienced clinicians and researchers
to cover every aspect of the subject. The topics addressed include
treatment principles, patient, drug, and catheter selection,
administration guidelines, the role of hyperthermia, supportive
care requirements, novel drugs, and the most recent results of
clinical trials. This book will be an invaluable source of
information for both practicing clinical oncologists and
oncologists in training.
Cytological screening for the identification of intraepithelial
neoplasia of the cervix as a precursor lesion for cervical cancer
has been well established as an effective means for decreasing the
incidence of invasive carcinoma. Despite these screening efforts,
carcinoma of the cervix remains one of the more common malignancies
in women and it is the leading cause of cancer death in many
countries in the western hemisphere. It is estimated that in 1986
there will still be 14,000 new cases of invasive cancer, with 6,800
deaths in the United States alone. Unfortunately, many of these
patients present with advanced disease, posing difficult management
problems for the clinician responsible for their care. The
treatment of early stage invasive carcinoma of the cervix (lesions
confined to the cervix and vagina) remains either radical surgery,
radical radiation therapy or a combination thereof This approach is
extraordinarily effective in the vast majority of patients.
However, there remains a subset of patients with early stage
disease that are at high risk for recurrence. Dr Kjorstad (Chapter
2) has identified adenocarcinomas and adenosqua mous carcinomas as
having a particularly poor prognosis. In addition, patients with
more than three positive lymph nodes or with involvement of lymph
nodes outside of the pelvis have a very poor prognosis. He has iden
tified the CEA as a potentially predictive marker for these
patients with poor prognosis, especially in patients with
adenocarcinomas."
Where do you begin to look for a recent, authoritative article on
the diag nosis or management of a particular malignancy? The few
general oncology textbooks are generally out of date. Single papers
in specialized journals are informative but seldom comprehensive;
these are more often preliminary reports on a very limited number
of patients. Certain general journals fre quently publish good
in-depth reviews of cancer topics, and published sym posium
lectures are often the best overviews available. Unfortunately,
these reviews and supplements appear sporadically, and the reader
can never be sure when a topic of special interest will be covered.
Cancer Treatment and Research is a series of authoritative volumes
which aim to meet this need. It is an attempt to establish a
critical mass of oncology literature covering virtually all
oncology topics, revised frequently to keep the coverage up to
date, easily available on a single library shelf or by a single
personal subscription. We have approached the problem in the
following fashion. First, by di viding the oncology literature into
specific subdivisions such as lung cancer, genitourinary cancer,
pediatric oncology, etc. Second, by asking eminent authorities in
each of these areas to edit a volume on the specific topic on an
annual or biannual basis. Each topic and tumor type is covered in a
volume appearing frequently and predictably, discussing current
diagnosis, staging, markers, all forms of treatment modalities,
basic biology, and more."
Examining the evidence from Belgium - one of only five countries
where euthanasia is practised legally - an international panel of
experts considers the implications of legalised euthanasia and
assisted suicide. Looking at the issue from an international
perspective, the authors have written an invaluable in-depth
analysis of the ethical aspects of this complex area. The
discussion forms a solid foundation for informed debate about
assisted dying. With contributors from a broad range of
disciplines, this book is ideal for students, academics,
legislators and anyone interested in legal, medical, social and
philosophical ethics. A vital and timely examination of a growing
phenomenon and one of the most challenging ethical questions of our
time.
Elizabeth Anscombe's 1958 essay 'Modern Moral Philosophy'
contributed to the transformation of the subject from the late
1960s, reversing the trend to assume that there is no intrinsic
connection between facts, values, and reasons for action; and
directing attention towards the category of virtues. Her later
ethical writings were focused on particular ideas and issues such
as those of conscience, double-effect, murder, and sexual ethics.
In this collection of new essays deriving from a conference held in
Oxford these and other aspects of her moral philosophy are
examined. Anyone interested in Anscombe's work all want to read
this volume.
This timely volume is an engaging look at presidential candidate
images, featuring a wide range of essays that dissect how these
images are formed and manipulated during campaigns. As more and
more emphasis is placed on a candidates persona and how it affects
our voting decisions, Kenneth Hackers book provides a variety of
frameworks and cases for analyzing candidate images in past,
current, and future elections.
This timely volume is an engaging look at presidential candidate
images, featuring a wide range of essays that dissect how these
images are formed and manipulated during campaigns. As more and
more emphasis is placed on a candidates persona and how it affects
our voting decisions, Kenneth Hackers book provides a variety of
frameworks and cases for analyzing candidate images in past,
current, and future elections.
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