The classic that revolutionized the way we treat the terminally ill--and how we view death itself--now substantially updated and expanded with three entirely new chapters and an extensive appendix on pain and symptom management. Plus, new material on the movement's growth and response to the challenge of AIDS.
Sixteen-year-old Barney Snow, a boy with only fleeting memories of his past, agrees to become a voluntary patient at an institute for experimental medicine. Through his involvement with Mazzo, a terminally ill patient also being treated at the institute, Barney faces the future, for the first time, with a sense of hope.
Describes the work of the Hospice at Home in West Cumbria, a community-based hospice service which has chosen to focus its work on a nursing and medical service available to patients in their own homes. Bibby describes the work of the organisation from the point of view of the nurses, doctors and patients.
This book's striking message is that palliative care does not deliver on its aims to value people who are dying and make death and dying a natural part of life. The book draws from wider social science perspectives and critically and specifically applies these to palliative care and its dominant medical model. The author offers a new approach to ...
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