| Description |
xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Facing death |
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Facing death.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Notes on the editors -- List of contributors -- Series editor's preface -- Introduction -- 1. Assessing needs and effectiveness: is palliative care a special case? -- 2. Costs of palliative care -- 3. Resource allocation and palliative care -- 4. Half full or half empty? The impact of health reforms on palliative care services in the UK -- 5. The evolution of the hospice approach -- 6. Terminal care in South Australia: historical aspects and equity issues -- 7. Palliative care in India -- 8. Palliative home care -- 9. A Swedish model of home care -- 10. Rational planning and policy implementation in palliative care -- 11. Palliative care in eastern Europe -- 12. Is hospice a western concept? A personal view of palliative care in Asia -- 13. The WHO Cancer Pain and Palliative Care Programme -- 14. Therapeutic innovations -- 15. Beyond cancer? -- 16. Teamwork in end-of-life care: a nurse-physician perspective on introducing physicians to palliative care concepts -- 17. Voluntary euthanasia in terminal illness -- 18. New approaches to care -- Index |
| Summary |
The contributors examine the challenges faced by this multidisciplinary speciality as it seeks to combine high grade pain and symptom control with sensitive psychological, spiritual and social care. Ethical and resourcing aspects are discussed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Death.
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Palliative treatment.
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Terminal care.
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Palliative Care.
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Terminal Care.
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Palliative Care.
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Terminal Care.
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| Author |
Ahmedzai, Sam, 1950-
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Clark, David, 1953-
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Hockley, J. M.
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| LC no. |
97012123 |
| ISBN |
0335196055 (paperback) |
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0335196063 (hc.) |
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