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1 online resource (xxviii, 300 pages) : illustrations
A remarkable story of a personal vision and sense of calling this text provides an insight into the establishment of the hospice movement and its development world-wide.
Dying of cancer -- Should a patient know ...? -- When a patient is dying -- The management of patients in the terminal stage -- And from sudden death -- A patient -- the care of the dying -- Terminal illness -- Working at St. Joseph's Hospice Hackney -- The treatment of intractable pain in terminal cancer -- Distress in dying -- The depths and the possible heights -- The need for institutional care for the patient with advanced cancer -- The last stages of life -- The last frontier -- The management of terminal illness -- St. Christopher's Hospice -- Training for the practice of clinical gerontology: the role of social medicine -- A place to die -- Dimensions of death -- The problem of euthanasia (care of the dying -- 1) -- Appropriate treatment, appropriate death.
The philosophy of terminal care -- Templeton prize speech -- Current views on pain relief and terminal care -- Heroin and morphine in advanced cancer -- Pain and impending death -- On dying well -- Evaluation of hospice activities -- The modern hospice -- Foreword (Pain: an exploration) -- Spiritual pain -- Hospice -- a meeting place for religion and science -- Letter (on alfred Worcester) -- Voluntary euthanasia -- Foreword (Mortally wounded: stories of soul pain, death, and healing) -- Why I welcome TV cameras at the death bed -- Foreword (Good practices in palliative care: a psychosocial perspective) -- Origins: international perspectives, then and now -- The evolution of palliative care -- A voice for the voiceless -- The evolution of palliative care -- Foreword (Oxford textbook of palliative medicine) -- Introduction (Management of advanced disease).
Cicely Saunders ; with an introduction by David Clark.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006