This open access book offers essential information on values-based practice (VBP): the clinical skills involved, teamwork and person-centered care, links between values and evidence, and the importance of partnerships in shared decision-making. Different cultures have different values; for example, partnership in decision-making looks very different, from the highly individualized perspective of European and North American cultures to the collective and family-oriented perspectives common in South East Asia. In turn, African cultures offer yet another perspective, one that falls between these two extremes (called batho pele).

The book will benefit everyone concerned with the practical challenges of delivering mental health services. Accordingly, all contributions are developed on the basis of case vignettes, and cover a range of situations in which values underlie tensions or uncertainties regarding how to proceed in clinical practice. Examples include the patient’s autonomy and best interest, the physician’s commitment to establishing high standards of clinical governance, clinical versus community best interest, institutional versus clinical interests, patients insisting on medically unsound but legal treatments etc. Thus far, VBP publications have mainly dealt with clinical scenarios involving individual values (of clinicians and patients). Our objective with this book is to develop a model of VBP that is culturally much broader in scope. As such, it offers a vital resource for mental health stakeholders in an increasingly inter-connected world. It also offers opportunities for cross-learning in values-based practice between cultures with very different clinical care traditions.

Essential Med Notes is a clinical complement and resource for medical trainees. This 37th edition features substantial content revisions to the main text, figures, graphics, and evidence-based medicine boxes of all 31 chapters across the 3 volumes - Primary, Medicine, and Surgery.

Primary:
- Ethical, legal, and organizational medicine
- Anesthesia
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Dermatology
- Emergency medicine
- Family Medicine
- Medical Genetics
- Medical Imaging
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Public Health and Preventice Medicine

Sous-titre en page couverture : Repères fondamentaux, questions éthiques, expériences palliatives.
Les soins palliatifs renvoient à une somme de pratiques appuyées sur une démarche scientifique en constant dialogue avec l’expertise clinique des différents intervenants en santé : personnel médical, paramédical, psychologues, professionnels du social...
Si ces équipes interdisciplinaires appréhendent différemment le réel des malades, elles convergent vers un objectif commun : la nécessité d’accompagner de façon expérimentée la période particulière de la fin de vie et du mourir.
Cet aide-mémoire rend compte de cette diversité et expose de façon didactique et exhaustive :
- Les repères de base
- Les pratiques spécifiques
- Des expériences cliniques
Il tente d’expliquer les pratiques spécifiques aux soins palliatifs développés par les équipes interdisciplinaires, en s’appuyant sur de nombreux cas cliniques.