Living with dying : a guide to palliative care
Saunders, Cicely M.Author
Baines, MaryContributor
Dunlop, R. JContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
1995.
Takes into account the developments in palliative care, offering advice on the aspects including drug treatment and psychological care. This handbook offers guidelines on bad news and communicating with the patient's relatives. It discusses the ethical issues in palliative care and the spiritual aspects of dying for people of different religions.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Takes into account the developments in palliative care, offering advice on the aspects including drug treatment and psychological care. This handbook offers guidelines on bad news and communicating with the patient's relatives. It discusses the ethical issues in palliative care and the spiritual aspects of dying for people of different religions.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Terminal care
Terminally ill
Patient Care
Delivery of Health Care
Attitude
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Therapeutics
Health Services
Psychiatry and Psychology
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
Health Care
Attitude to Death
Hospice Care
Terminal Care
Palliative Care
Medicine
Health & Biological Sciences
Palliative Care