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This unique book recounts the experience of facing one's death solely from the dying person's point of view rather than from the perspective of caregivers, survivors, or rescuers. Such unmediated access challenges assumptions about the emotional and spiritual dimensions of dying, showing readers that?along with suffering, loss, anger, sadness, and fear?we can also feel courage, love, hope, reminiscence, transcendence, transformation, and even happiness as we die.A work that is at once psychological, sociological, and philosophical, this book brings together testimonies of those dying from term

Once it was difficult to see end of life care beyond conventional medical intervention, but hospice and palliative care introduced a more holistic approach, providing quality of life for the dying and their families. This ground-breaking work takes end-of-life care beyond these palliative boundaries, describing a public health vision that involves whole communities adopting a compassionate approach to dying, death and loss. Written by a leading academic in the field of death and bereavement, this text outlines the historical, political and conceptual basis of compassionate cities, providing a

(Publisher-supplied data) Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as otherworld journey to the contemporary Cosmopolitan Age of dying in nursing homes, Allan Kellehear takes the reader on a 2 million year journey of discovery that covers the major challenges we will all eventually face: anticipating, preparing, taming and timing for our eventual deaths. This is a major review of the human and clinical sciences literature about human dying conduct. The historical approach of this book places our recent images of cancer dying and medical care in broader historical, epidemiological and global context. Professor Kellehear argues that we are witnessing a rise in shameful forms of dying. It is not cancer, heart disease or medical science that presents modern dying conduct with its greatest moral tests, but rather poverty, aging and social exclusion

In November 2006 a joint National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) guideline to improve the care of people with dementia was released. This influential policy document reflects both a medicalized approach to care (emphasizing pharmacological management and health services) as well as one characterized by professional dominance (an emphasis on professional authority and control). Despite the involvement of social sciences in its development the policy reflects common biases in other areas of policy and practice in the care of older people. Furthermore, the idea that people with dementia have complex end of life care needs is addressed only with the most cursory and clinically oriented approaches to palliative care. A critical commentary about this policy approach is supplemented with a brief description of an alternative policy vision that connects older people's care with a wider public health approach to end of life care for older people.

"This is a book about the public health approach within palliative care. Often when we think about 'public health' it is more usual to think about palliative care as part of the public health system - similar to the hospitals, nursing homes, community clinics but also the broader supports for population health such as sewerage and water purification systems or workplace health and safety. In universities, we often think of public health in terms of the surveillance sciences - epidemiology, health services research, computer modeling, or the bench sciences devoted to understanding disease. But in this volume of contributors, we are specifically addressing a newer and less recognized aspect of public health - public health practice methods such as education, health policy, community development, or social ecology. We are also specifically examining the role of the 'new' public health, sometimes also known as health promotion. Health promotion is a major departure from the emphases on surveillance, disease, and health services by placing its gaze and efforts on practice solutions, health and wellbeing, and community and civic involvement in healthcare - in this case, palliative care. This Oxford Textbook of Public health Palliative Care is an introduction to this dimension of practice"--

Death, dying, loss, and care giving are not just medical issues, but societal ones. This volume explores the adoption of public health principles to palliative care, including harm reduction, early intervention, health and well-being promotion, and compassionate communities