When treatment fails : how medicine cares for dying children
Bearison, David JAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2006.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Terminally ill children
Terminally ill children
Terminally ill children
Terminal Care
Psychology
Child
Terminally Ill
Behavioral Sciences
Patient Care
Persons
Age Groups
Therapeutics
Health Services
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
Named Groups
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Psychiatry and Psychology
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
Health Care
Pediatrics
Medicine
Health & Biological Sciences