Dying: Facing the FactsHannelore Wass, Felix M. Berardo, Robert A. Neimeyer Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, 1988 - 472 páginas Experts in thanatology look at the ways people face dying and bereavement, incorporating disciplines including psychology, nursing, family studies, philosophy, law, religion, and political science, while highlighting thanatology's core psychological and therapeutic dimensions. Chapters touch on subjects such as historical and cultural attitudes, institutional dying, the hospice approach, American funeral practice, and spiritual aspects of grief and mourning. This third edition includes material on AIDS and the right to die. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Página 192
... Palliative Care Units Hospital - based units are a fourth model for hospice care . They obviate the need to create new referral and funding sources or to build new facilities . The palliative care unit of the Royal Victoria Hospital in ...
... Palliative Care Units Hospital - based units are a fourth model for hospice care . They obviate the need to create new referral and funding sources or to build new facilities . The palliative care unit of the Royal Victoria Hospital in ...
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... palliative care is per- ceived as condemnation of the dominant health care delivery system . In still other communities , hospice facilities , providing volunteer services in patients ' homes with relatively inexpensive costs , are seen ...
... palliative care is per- ceived as condemnation of the dominant health care delivery system . In still other communities , hospice facilities , providing volunteer services in patients ' homes with relatively inexpensive costs , are seen ...
Página 435
... palliative care measure . SECTION 3 . A competent person may execute a declaration directing the withholding or withdrawal of any medical procedure or treatment or any palliative care measure , which is in use or may be used in the ...
... palliative care measure . SECTION 3 . A competent person may execute a declaration directing the withholding or withdrawal of any medical procedure or treatment or any palliative care measure , which is in use or may be used in the ...
Contenido
Social and Cultural Considerations | 13 |
Problems for Public Policy | 29 |
A Psychosocial Perspective | 55 |
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