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When treatment fails : how medicine cares for dying children
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bearison, David J., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terminally ill children--Care.
- Terminally ill children.
- Terminally ill children--Medical care.
- Terminally ill children--Care--Psychological aspects.
- Terminal Care.
- Psychology.
- Child.
- Terminally Ill.
- Behavioral Sciences.
- Patient Care.
- Persons.
- Age Groups.
- Therapeutics.
- Health Services.
- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities.
- Psychiatry.
- Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Medical Subjects:
- Terminal Care.
- Psychology.
- Child.
- Terminally Ill.
- Behavioral Sciences.
- Patient Care.
- Persons.
- Age Groups.
- Therapeutics.
- Health Services.
- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities.
- Psychiatry.
- Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 289 p.)
- Other Title:
- When treatment fails
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Illustrates how clinicians from different professional roles speak about the biological, psychological, spiritual, and social dimensions of caring for terminally ill patients. This book analyzes their ways of making sense and giving meaning to their difficult experiences, unearthing common and distinct themes and issues across disciplines.
- Contents:
- 1. Pediatric end-of-life care
- 2. Narrative theory, medicine, and methods
- 3. Twenty stories about how children die
- 4. Withholding or withdrawing curative treatments
- 5. Pain and suffering
- 6. Staff reacting
- 7. Patients and families reacting
- 8. Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199999873 (ebook) :
- 0199999872 (ebook) :
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