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Psychosocial aspects of terminal care.

Title
Psychosocial aspects of terminal care. edited by Bernard Schoenberg, Arthur C. Carr, David Peretz, and Austin H. Kutscher.
Publication
New York, Columbia Univ. Press, 1972.

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Additional Authors
  • Schoenberg, Bernard
  • Carr, Arthur C.
  • Peretz, David
  • Kutscher, Austin H.
Description
xiv, 388 pages illustrations
Summary
Examines the psychotherapy of dying persons from the standpoint of a variety of medical perspectives. In general, the texts emphasize the importance of teamwork in dealing with terminal cases, especially the importance of each member of the team knowing what other team members have communicated to the patient and relatives. Addresses the failure of the current culture in comprehending the meaning of death, while advising physicians that to have chosen to become a physician is to acknowledge responsibility for the life-or-death decisions medical science has thrust upon them. A valuable addition to the growing body of texts aimed at helping physicians respond to the stresses of aiding the dying person and the bereaved.
Subject
  • Terminal care
  • Sick > Psychology
  • Death
  • Hospice care
  • Death
  • Terminal Care
  • Sick Role
  • Hospice Care
  • deaths
  • Hospice care
  • Sick > Psychology
  • Terminal care
  • Sterbehilfe
  • Stervensbegeleiding
  • Bioètica
  • Malalts terminals
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Credits (note)
  • With the editorial assistance of Lillian G. Kutscher.
Contents
  • II. Medical care : Human values in the medical care of the terminally ill / Henry O. Heinemann -- Dying as a human experience / Louis Lasagna -- The new ethics / Robert H. Moser -- Patients facing sudden cardiac death / Thomas P. Hackett and Ned H. Cassem -- The approach to the patient with an incurable disease / Edward Henderson.
  • IV. Surgical care : A surgeon looks at terminal illness / Frederic P. Herter -- A surgeon's approach the patient with advanced cancer / Alfred S. Ketcham.
  • V. Other medical specialties : A radiotherapist's view of the management of the cancer patient / Morton M. Kligerman -- Psychopharmacotherapy applied to death-grief situations / Lester A. Bronheim -- While the old man dies: our conflicting attitudes toward the elderly / Robert Kastenbaum -- The psychosocial aspects of the oral care of the dying patient / Austin H. Kutscher.
  • VI. Psychosocial care : Nursing care for the terminal patient: a psychosocial approach / Jeanne Quint Benoliel -- Psychosocial considerations in terminal care / Avery D. Weisman -- The responsibility of social work in terminal cancer / Ruth D. Abrams.
  • VII. Care of the family of the patient : The family of the dying patient / David Maddison and Beverley Raphael -- In the context of dying / Melvin Krant -- Bereavement and illness / W. Dewi Ress -- Hope and the dying patient / Elisabeth K. Ross -- Anticipatory grief: a psychosocial aspect of terminal care / Robert Fulton and Julie Fulton -- Parental anticipatory mourning / Edward H. Futterman, Irwin Hoffman and Melvin Sabshin.
  • VIII. Institutional care : A therapeutic community: St. Christopher's hospice / Cicely Saunders -- Community resources and the care of the terminally ill and their families / Rose Dobrof.
  • IX. Ethical issues : Euthanasia / Fred Rosner -- Organ transplantation and the psychosocial aspects of terminal care / Thomas A. Gonda -- The pastoral use of "the seven last words" in terminal care / Chaplain Leroy G. Kerney.
ISBN
  • 9780231036146
  • 0231036140
LCCN
73184747
OCLC
  • ocm00363909
  • 363909
  • SCSB-273505
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library