Dying and Death in Oncology / edited by Lawrence Berk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berk, Lawrence, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine.

General practice (Medicine).

Oncology.

Nursing.

Pain medicine.

Medicine & Public Health.

General Practice / Family Medicine.

Pain Medicine.

Local Subjects:

Medicine & Public Health.

Oncology.

Nursing.

General Practice / Family Medicine.

Pain Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (V, 185 pages 12 illustrations, 6 illustrations in color.)

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This book brings together in one volume many important topics about death and dying, including the pathophysiology of death, the causes of death among cancer patients, the ethics of death, the legal aspects of death for the physician and for the patient and caregivers, the economics of death, the medical management of the dying patient, including pain and dyspnea, the prediction of death, and the spiritual management of the dying patient. It also discusses other medical and humanistic aspects of death and dying, such as the historical definition of death and various cultures' and religions' viewpoints on death and the afterlife. Everybody, including every patient with cancer, will die, and every physician will have to assist dying patients. Oncologists face this prospect more often than many physicians. And yet to date there has been no comprehensive textbook on Thanatology, the academic discipline studying death and dying, to assist oncologists in this difficult task. This book will help the physician to understand his or her own relationship with death and to communicate about death and dying with the patient and the patient's caregivers.

Contents:

Introduction to Oncologic Thanatology

Pathophysiology of Death

Common Causes of Death of Cancer Patients

Definitions of Death- Historical and Current

Ethics of Death

Economics of Death

Legal Aspects of Death

Predicting death

Medical Care of the Dying Patient

Spiritual Care of the Dying Patient

Communicating with the Dying Patient and Family

Bereavement - Death and the Survivors

The Afterlife - Common Religious Representations of Life After Death.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

9783319418612

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.