When treatment fails : how medicine cares for dying children /

Illustrates how clinicians from different professional roles speak about the biological, psychological, spiritual, and social dimensions of caring for terminally ill patients. This book analyzes their ways of making sense and giving meaning to their difficult experiences, unearthing common and disti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bearison, David J.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:	Terminally ill children > Care. Terminally ill children > Medical care. Terminally ill children > Care > Psychological aspects. Children. Terminal Care > psychology Child Terminally Ill > psychology Enfants malades en phase terminale > Soins. Enfants malades en phase terminale > Soins médicaux. Enfants malades en phase terminale > Soins > Aspect psychologique. Enfants. Enfance. children (people by age group) childhood. Children Terminally ill children > Care Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

1. Pediatric end-of-life care
2. Narrative theory, medicine, and methods
3. Twenty stories about how children die
4. Withholding or withdrawing curative treatments
5. Pain and suffering
6. Staff reacting
7. Patients and families reacting
8. Conclusions.