Caring for the dying
Subtitle: critical issues at the edge of life
By: edited by Robert M. Baird & Stuart E. Rosenbaum
Contributors: Baird, Robert M., 1937-; Rosenbaum, Stuart E
Series: Contemporary issues series; Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Terminal care; Palliative treatment; Death -- Psychological aspects
Description: Essays dealing with the different facets of end of life care.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Debunking the myths of hospice / Naomi Naierman; title: A comparison of hospice in the U.K. and the U.S. / Karen Y. Chapman and Lessie Bass; title: Changing the game in the intensive care unit : letting nature take its course / Helen S. Chapple; title: Beyond "death with dignity" : a hospice vignette / Douglas MacDonald; title: What's in a name? / Bruce H. Chamberlain; title: A caregiver's quandary : how am I to evaluate and respond to the other's suffering? / Clyde Nabe; title: Palliative treatments of last resort : choosing the least harmful alternative / Timothy E. Quill, Barbara Coombs Lee and Sally Nunn; title: Caring for the dying : congressional mischief / Marcia Angell; title: House testimony on the Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999 / Ann Jackson; title: House testimony on the Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999 / N. Gregory Hamilton for Physicians for Compassionate Care; title: Existential suffering and palliative sedation : a brief commentary with a proposal for clinical guidelines / Paul Rousseau; title: Palliative sedation vs. terminal sedation : what's in a name? / W. Clay Jackson; title: Spirituality and care at the end of life / Myles N. Sheehan; title: Spiritual care at the end of life / Tad Dunne; title: Control theory in dying : what do we know? / Susan Redding; title: In search of a good death : observations of patients, families, and providers / Karen E. Steinhauser ... [et al.]; title: The Jewish patient and terminal dehydration : a hospice ethical dilemma / Janet Bodell and Marie-Ange Weng; title: Avoiding family feuds : responding to surrogate demands for life-sustaining interventions / Ann Alpers and Bernard Lo; title: Commentary : anxieties as a legal impediment to the doctor-proxy relationship / Marshall B. Kapp; title: Commentary : from contract to covenant in advance-care planning / Joseph J. Fins; title: Twenty-five years after Quinlan : a review of the jurisprudence of death and dying / Norman L. Cantor