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Caring for the dying : critical issues at the edge of life / edited by Robert M. Baird & Stuart E. Rosenbaum.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)
- Contemporary issues series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terminal care.
- Palliative treatment.
- Death--Psychological aspects.
- Death.
- Physical Description:
- 316 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, [2003]
- Summary:
- The essays in this collection will help readers recognize and prepare for the difficult end of life decisions. Topics include hospice care, dealing with pain, spiritual needs and legal issues.
- Contents:
- Debunking the myths of hospice / Naomi Naierman
- A comparison of hospice in the U.K. and the U.S. / Karen Y. Chapman and Lessie Bass
- Changing the game in the intensive care unit : letting nature take its course / Helen S. Chapple
- Beyond "death with dignity" : a hospice vignette / Douglas MacDonald
- What's in a name? / Bruce H. Chamberlain
- A caregiver's quandary : how am I to evaluate and respond to the other's suffering? / Clyde Nabe
- Palliative treatments of last resort : choosing the least harmful alternative / Timothy E. Quill, Barbara Coombs Lee and Sally Nunn
- Caring for the dying : congressional mischief / Marcia Angell
- House testimony on the Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999 / Ann Jackson
- House testimony on the Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999 / N. Gregory Hamilton for Physicians for Compassionate Care
- Existential suffering and palliative sedation : a brief commentary with a proposal for clinical guidelines / Paul Rousseau
- Palliative sedation vs. terminal sedation : what's in a name? / W. Clay Jackson
- Spirituality and care at the end of life / Myles N. Sheehan
- Spiritual care at the end of life / Tad Dunne
- Control theory in dying : what do we know? / Susan Redding
- In search of a good death : observations of patients, families, and providers / Karen E. Steinhauser ... [et al.]
- The Jewish patient and terminal dehydration : a hospice ethical dilemma / Janet Bodell and Marie-Ange Weng
- Avoiding family feuds : responding to surrogate demands for life-sustaining interventions / Ann Alpers and Bernard Lo
- Commentary : anxieties as a legal impediment to the doctor-proxy relationship / Marshall B. Kapp
- Commentary : from contract to covenant in advance-care planning / Joseph J. Fins
- Twenty-five years after Quinlan : a review of the jurisprudence of death and dying / Norman L. Cantor.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1573929697
- OCLC:
- 50022975
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