Brain, Vol. 124, No. 9, 1877,
September 2001
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PALLIATIVE CARE IN AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS.
Edited by David Oliver, Gian Domenico Borasio and Declan Walsh. 2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press. £49.50. Pp. 202. ISBN 0-19-263166-7.
Department of Neurology, Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
This book is devoted to the palliative care and management of patients with motor neurone disease (MND)/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The goal of the editors was to provide clear guidelines for the management of MND in all its stages from diagnosis to death,