Final Acts: The End of Life, Hospice and Palliative Care
In: Death, Value and Meaning Series
Intro -- Final Acts: The End of Life, Hospice and Palliative Care -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- SECTION 1 Professional Applications in End-of-Life Care -- CHAPTER 1 Existential Empathy: Caregiver Understanding of Patients' Religious Beliefs at the End-of-Life -- CHAPTER 2 Attachments and Losses: Individual and Global Perspectives -- CHAPTER 3 The Private Worlds of Professionals, Teams, and Organizations in Palliative Care -- CHAPTER 4 Honoring Relationship in Pediatric Palliative Care -- CHAPTER 5 Meeting the Stress Challenge -- CHAPTER 6 When Birth and Death Collide: Best Practices in End-of-Life at the Beginning -- SECTION 2 Facing End-of-Life and Its Care -- CHAPTER 7 To Be is To Be, and the Do-ing Should Follow -- CHAPTER 8 Stepping Through the Looking Glass into "Cancer World" -- CHAPTER 9 The Psycho-Spiritual Side of Palliative Care: Two Stories and Ten Transformations Toward Healing -- CHAPTER 10 "And the Sun Refused to Shine" -- CHAPTER 11 The Experience of Dying in Prison -- CHAPTER 12 The "Other" Kind of Pain: Understanding Suicide in the Context of End-of-Life Care -- CHAPTER 13 The End of Life: Two Perspectives -- SECTION 3 Cultural Considerations -- CHAPTER 14 Palliative Care is a Human Right -- CHAPTER 15 Spirituality in End-of-Life Care: A Roman Catholic Perspective -- CHAPTER 16 Grief and the American Indian -- CHAPTER 17 "It Will Do When I Am Dying": Navigating the Nuances of Fundamentalist Christianity's Understandings of Death and Dying -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.