Megalies

by Lodovico Balducci

Overview

About the Contributor(s): Lodovico Balducci is a physician, medical oncologist, Senior Member of the Moffitt Cancer Center, and he is Professor of Medicine and Oncologic Science at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He is considered the father of geriatric oncology, a discipline he developed and publicized over the past twenty-five years. He is the senior editor of three textbooks of geriatric oncology and two textbooks of geriatric hematology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781625644084
Publisher:	Resource Publications
Publication date:	02/28/2014
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Lodovico Balducci is a physician, medical oncologist, Senior Member of the Moffitt Cancer Center, and he is Professor of Medicine and Oncologic Science at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He is considered the father of geriatric oncology, a discipline he developed and publicized over the past twenty-five years. He is the senior editor of three textbooks of geriatric oncology and two textbooks of geriatric hematology.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"In Megalies, Dr. Balducci blends his personal life with the practice of medicine, and with larger historical, religious, and social events to create a provocative interpretation of living a life worth living. . . . This kind of thoughtful and spiritual person is the kind of physician I want by my side now and at the end of my life."
—Carolyn Ellis, Professor of Communication, University of South Florida

"This is, without doubt, an extraordinary volume. . . . I can say little else other than to ask, not recommend, doctors, nurses, and all those involved with the care of patients as persons, to read this volume very carefully and to learn well from it."
—Professor Andrew Miles, WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London

"Dr. Balducci is against taking the person out of the person. He is for medicine at the service of the human being and not the other way around. He takes the radically countercultural and glorious stance that life is not a commodity to be managed and controlled, but a mystery."
—Heather King, author of Stripped

Editorial Reviews

"In Megalies, Dr. Balducci blends his personal life with the practice of medicine, and with larger historical, religious, and social events to create a provocative interpretation of living a life worth living. . . . This kind of thoughtful and spiritual person is the kind of physician I want by my side now and at the end of my life."
—Carolyn Ellis, Professor of Communication, University of South Florida

"This is, without doubt, an extraordinary volume. . . . I can say little else other than to ask, not recommend, doctors, nurses, and all those involved with the care of patients as persons, to read this volume very carefully and to learn well from it."
—Professor Andrew Miles, WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London

"Dr. Balducci is against taking the person out of the person. He is for medicine at the service of the human being and not the other way around. He takes the radically countercultural and glorious stance that life is not a commodity to be managed and controlled, but a mystery."
—Heather King, author of Stripped

From the Publisher