Amazon.com description: Product Description: The aim of this issue can be summarized in the following question: Is surgical palliative care a new attitude or a new specialty? Articles will address palliative surgery, which is a subset of surgical palliative care, along with quality of life measurements and outcomes, barriers to palliative care, spiritual vs. the mechanistic side of surgery, surgeon-patient communication, end-of-life nutrition, chronic and neuropathic pain management, legal issues and advance directives.