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Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Nursing > Terminal care nursing
In the new edition of this unique professional resource, hospice
and palliative care team members-especially social workers and
counselors-will find the empirical evidence and compassionate
advice they need to provide excellent holistic psychosocial care to
individuals who are dying or bereaved. Encompassing the journey
through diagnosis, treatment, recurrence, palliative care, and
bereavement, this guide describes appropriate interventions for
each of the key transitions that more dying patients and their
families face. Included throughout are personal reflections and
experiences of social workers, counselors, and other team members,
common major challenges to the healthcare team, and important
considerations for each transition.
In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a
philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has
gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary medicine
and in our social and political views of death, as shaped by our
scientific successes and ongoing debates about euthanasia and the
"right to die"-or to live. The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine,
Power, and the Care of the Dying, informed by Foucault's genealogy
of medicine and power as well as by a thorough grasp of current
medical practices and medical ethics, argues that a view of people
as machines in motion-people as, in effect, temporarily animated
corpses with interchangeable parts-has become epistemologically
normative for medicine. The dead body is subtly anticipated in our
practices of exercising control over the suffering person, whether
through technological mastery in the intensive care unit or through
the impersonal, quasi-scientific assessments of psychological and
spiritual "medicine." The result is a kind of nihilistic attitude
toward the dying, and troubling contradictions and absurdities in
our practices. Wide-ranging in its examples, from organ donation
rules in the United States, to ICU medicine, to "spiritual
surveys," to presidential bioethics commissions attempting to
define death, and to high-profile cases such as Terri Schiavo's,
The Anticipatory Corpse explores the historical, political, and
philosophical underpinnings of our care of the dying and, finally,
the possibilities of change. This book is a ground-breaking work in
bioethics. It will provoke thought and argument for all those
engaged in medicine, philosophy, theology, and health policy.
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Unbinding Love
(Paperback)
Rebecca Stewart; Illustrated by Miriam Cavanaugh
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Rachel Clark died after living with cancer for three years and this
is her moving account of her treatment and experiences with health
professionals in Britain and Australia. She was brave to write her
story, and to share it so that others may learn from her
experiences. Her account is a valuable legacy, espcially in helping
health professionals learn lessons in communication and care. It
includes an epilogue by her twin sister Naomi Jefferies, and
learning points to provide insights of practical benefit for health
professionals by John Hasler and David Pendleton.
One of 17 titles in the 'Living Therapy' series, Counselling For Progressive Disdability addresses issues that arise when coming to terms with a progressive disability.
The first part focuses specifically on the emotional and psychological impact of being diagnosed with a disabling condition. The second part deals specifically with coming to terms with a worsening condition, the nature of pain and the prospect of having to accept the use of a wheelchair.
Like all other titles in this series it includes a helpful overview of the person-centred approach to counselling and psychotherapy.
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