Let's talk about death
Subtitle: breaking through old traditions and looking for a new peaceful approach
By: M. Maurice Abitbol.
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781933132600
Subjects: Terminal care; Palliative treatment; Terminally ill -- Psychology; Death; Attitude to Death; Palliative Care; Right to Die; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill -- psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The revolutionary concept of a better death; title: Good and bad deaths : what we can learn from other people's stories; title: Fear of death; title: The successive stages of the dying process; title: Mismanagement of dying patients; title: Family matters from a harmful to a helpful role; title: How the elderly really feel about dying and death; title: Doctors and hospitals : divinity, bureaucracy, and other ills; title: The transition from religion-managed to medical-managed death; title: Religious differences : where East doesn't meet West; title: The difficulty of defining natural death in humans; title: Mind, body, and the nature of death; title: Treating death like a disease rather than as a natural process; title: Drug therapy : the means to achieve a better death; title: Management of pain in terminal patients; title: Diagnosis and treatment of depression in dying patients; title: Drugs for the management of depression in terminal patients; title: Mood elevation : an alternative to fear, anxiety and depression; title: From assisted suicide and mercy killing to assisted terminal condition (ATC); title: Hope for the future.