Authoritative, multi-authored text includes information on asthma, emphysema, and related chronic bronchitis, as well as therapeutic procedures. Emphasizes comprehensive care of the patient, employing pharmacologic agents and pulmonary rehabilitative techniques.

"I'm on death row; the state wants to kill me, but I'm innocent! Can you help me get through these days?" In this manner, I was invited to become Joe's pen pal. My agreement set in motion a long, arduous pilgrimage. Little in my background seemed suitable for such an undertaking, yet I had personally wrestled with the issues of criminal behavior, corrections, and capital punishment. Also, as a Christian, I felt that there was a spiritual dimension to be explored. If execution was to come, shouldn't we deal with Job's question: "If a man die, will he live again?" Indeed I believe that all people should prepare for the aftermath of physical death. Joe was an exceptional young man, an atypical inmate. He was a scholar in a place where such would be deemed next to impossible. He was a trustyin a place where the rank-and-file would ridicule industriousness. He became a saintin a place where unrepentant sinners were the norm. The pending peril of execution became the linchpin for our ongoing exchanges regarding the issues of capital punishment and spiritual readiness for early death. For the Living of These Days was, for both of us, a living toward dying. But isn't that true for everyone?

A convenient and practical guide to diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. Pulmonary Disorders of the Elderly focuses on the issues that are critical to the care of patients aged 65 and older. Eight pulmonologists and a cardiologist have teamed to create this short but comprehensive review. Topics include the aging lung and its unique characteristics, dyspnea and cough, community-acquired pneumonia, hospital-acquired pneumonia, influenza and other viral infections, nursing home acquired pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis and other mycobacterial disease, and end-of-life issues.

Sooner or later, all people begin to dwell on the fact they are aging. How they handle or act upon their thoughts is what David Petty hopes to help them with. In Aging Gracefully he shares his passion: to equip readers with "tools" that can make this stage of life all God intends it to be.