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Loving, supporting, and caring for the cancer patient : a guide to communication, compassion, and courage / Stan Goldberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldberg, Stan, 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer--Patients--Care.
- Caregivers.
- Caregivers--Popular works.
- Cancer--Patients--Care--Popular works.
- Cancer.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Loving, Supporting, and Caring for the Cancer Patient is the first book to show readers how to transform the compassion felt for someone living with cancer into helpful behaviors based on suggestions from cancer patients themselves. It not only describes why certain actions are important, but also how to implement them.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter 1. THE BASICS; Chapter 2. REVEALING A CANCER DIAGNOSIS; Chapter 3. A LIFE OF UNCERTAINTY; Chapter 4. THE NATURE OF LOSSES; Chapter 5. CONVERSATIONS; Chapter 6. DISCOMFORT, PAIN, AND SUFFERING; Chapter 7. EASING A LOVED ONE'S DEATH; Chapter 8. RECOVERING JOY; NOTES; Appendix. WHAT TO DO FOR YOURLOVED ONE AND HOW TO DO IT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-41109-3
- 1-4422-6616-3
- OCLC:
- 950519598
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