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The Future for palliative care : issues of policy and practice / edited by David Clark.

Title
The Future for palliative care : issues of policy and practice / edited by David Clark.
Publication
Buckingham : Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1993.

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Clark, David, 1953-
Description
xi, 180 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Multidisciplinary study of palliative care: reviews the processes of care, the problems of non-professional carers, the increasing integration of hospices within the NHS and questions of audit and quality.
Subject
  • National Health Service
  • Public Policy
  • Palliative Care > trends
  • Palliative treatment
  • Hospice care
  • United Kingdom
  • United Kingdom
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Eric Wilkes -- Where and how people die / David Field and Nicky James -- Quality, costs and contracts of care / Irene Higginson -- Informal care and community care / Brenda Neale -- Developments in bereavement services / Ann Faulkner -- HIV/AIDS: lessons for policy and practice / Neil Small -- Cultural issues in terminal care / Shirley Firth -- Euthanasia / Tony Crowther -- Medicalization of dyingA: a nurse's view / Bronwen Biswas -- Doctor's view / Sam Ahmedzai -- Issues in pain management / Richard Atkinson and Graham Davies -- Whither the hospices? / David Clark.
ISBN
  • 0335157653
  • 0335157645 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^92049440^
OCLC
26552536
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library