Communication as comfort
Subtitle: multiple voices in palliative care
By: by Sandra L. Ragan ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ragan, Sandra L.
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780805858082; 9780805858099; 9780203938676
Subjects: Palliative treatment; Terminal care; Medical personnel and patient; Communication in medicine; Death; Palliative Care -- methods; Terminal Care -- methods; Attitude to Death; Communication; Interpersonal Relations; Terminally Ill -- psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The American way of death : dying in silence; title: A brief history of hospice and palliative medicine; title: The patient's perspective; title: The medical perspective; title: The family/caregiver perspective; title: The health care team's perspective.