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Crossing Over - Narratives of Palliative Care, Revised Edition (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Crossing Over - Narratives of Palliative Care, Revised Edition (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Crossing Over provides a unique view of patients, families, and
their caregivers in the face of incurable illness. Twenty
richly-detailed narratives bring vividly to life the experiences of
dying and bereavement, weaving together emotions, physical
symptoms, spiritual concerns, and the stresses of family life, as
well as the professional and personal challenges of providing
hospice and palliative care. Drawing on a variety of qualitative
research methods, including participant-observation, interviews,
and journal keeping, the narratives depict the sights, sounds,
tastes, and smells of daily life in patients' homes and in the
palliative care unit. Crossing Over moves far beyond conventional
case reports in medicine, which typically concentrate narrowly on
symptoms and treatments, and beyond cliches about "dying with
dignity." It provides intimate views of the anger and fear,
tenderness and reconciliation, jealousy and love, unexpected
courage and unshakable faith, social support and "falling through
the cracks," which are all part of facing death in North American
society. It provides an extraordinary portrait of the processes of
giving and receiving hospice and palliative care in the real world,
as opposed to idealized versions in many textbooks. This edition of
Crossing Over has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect
changes in hospice and palliative care and in North American
society since the first edition in 2000. Chief among these are the
expansion of hospice and palliative care as a field, the ravages of
the COVID-19 pandemic, the wider availability of medical aid in
dying, and a heightened awareness of how structural racism,
classism, and other forms of discrimination shape individuals' and
families' experiences right up to the close of life.
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