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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.

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Reviewers -- Summary -- Introduction -- Patterns of Childhood Death in America -- Pathways to a Child's Death -- Communication, Goal Setting, and Care Planning -- Care and Caring from Diagnosis Through Death and Bereavement -- Providing, Organizing, and Improving Care -- Financing of Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families -- Ethical and Legal Issues -- Educating Health Care Professionals -- Directions for Research -- References -- Appendix A Study Origins and Activities -- Appendix B Prognostication Scores -- Appendix C Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life in End-of-Life Care for Children and Adolescents -- Appendix D Cultural Dimensions of Care at Life's End for Children and Their Families -- Appendix E Bereavement Experiences after the Death of a Child -- Appendix F End-of-Life Care in Emergency Medical Services for Children -- Appendix G Education in Pediatric Palliative Care -- Appendix H Progress in Pediatric Palliative Care in New York State-A Demonstration Project -- Appendix I Committee Biographical Statements -- Index.

"A major contribution to our understanding of the practice, theory, and limitations of assisted suicide and euthanasia in seriously ill patients. The book is superbly written and intellectually challenging. I am convinced that it will become standard reading for all -- whether advocates or opponents of assisted suicide -- who want to think more deeply and learn more about what we need to do to improve end-of-life care." -- The Lancet "The writing is of uniformly high quality, and the book achieves stylistic consistency while still reflecting an individual voice in each chapter. The book is sorely needed." -- New England Journal of Medicine "The methods of palliative care, or comfort care, have in the past few decades reached a level of effectiveness such that suffering thought at first to be intractable can almost always be relieved. And this is the ultimate message of this vastly important book that now makes its timely appearance." -- New Republic.

Intro -- What is palliative care? -- When children need palliative care. -- Why it can be hard to get palliative care. -- We can give very ill children the palliative care they need. -- 1. Children should have care that is focused on their needs and the needs of their families. -- 2. Health plans should make it easier for children and families to get palliative care. -- 3. Health care professionals should be trained to give palliative care to children. -- 4. Researchers should find out more about what care works best. -- We can improve palliative care for very ill children and their families. -- A word to families . . . -- We can improve palliative care for very ill children and their families.

The ends of government may be stated as follows: (1) external security, (2) internal order, (3) justice, (4) general welfare, and (5) freedom.To the state, which is the name usually applied to independent political associations, these ends are accorded on the basis of observation and reflection. They may be summed up under the term the "common weal," or the common good. This assumes that there is a community, made up of human personalities, that there are purposes, values, and interests in common, that there is a commonly accepted organization for carrying out these common purposes.It cannot be said that these functions are the property or responsibility of the state alone. They are shared by other agencies of human society, and without their coöperation the political society can do little. The state provides a broad framework within which other societies and persons may operate more effectively, and undertakes common functions which it can more conveniently carry on, than other associations.

My purpose is to consider Machiavellianism. Regarding Machiavelli himself, some preliminary observations seem necessary. Innumerable studies, some of them very good, have been dedicated to Machiavelli. Jean Bodin, in the XVIth Century, criticized The Prince in a profound and wise manner. Later on Frederick the Great of Prussia was to write a refutation of Machiavelli in order to exercise his own hypocrisy in a hyper-Machiavellian fashion, and to shelter cynicism in virtue. During the XIXth Century, the leaders of the bourgeoisie, for instance the French political writer Charles Benoist, were thoroughly, naïvely and stupidly fascinated by the clever Florentine.