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The first resource on end-of-life care for healthcare practitioners who work with the terminally ill and their families, Living with Dying begins with the narratives of five healthcare professionals, who, when faced with overwhelming personal losses altered their clinical practices and philosophies. The book provides ways to ensure a respectful death for individuals, families, groups, and communities and is organized around theoretical issues in loss, grief, and bereavement and around clinical practice with individuals, families, and groups. Living with Dying addresses practice with people who have specific illnesses such as AIDS, bone marrow disease, and cancer and pays special attention to patients who have been stigmatized by culture, ability, sexual orientation, age, race, or homelessness. The book includes content on trauma and developmental issues for children, adults, and the aging who are dying, and it addresses legal, ethical, spiritual, cultural, and social class issues as core factors in the assessment of and work with the dying. It explores interdisciplinary teamwork, supervision, and the organizational and financing contexts in which dying occurs. Current research in end-of-life care, ways to provide leadership in the field, and a call for compassion, insight, and respect for the dying makes this an indispensable resource for social workers, healthcare educators, administrators, consultants, advocates, and practitioners who work with the dying and their families.
Series: End-of-Life Care: A Series
Hardcover: 928 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press; 1 edition (July 14, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0231127944
ISBN-13: 978-0231127943
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 2.1 x 9.6 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #109,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #10 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Medicine > Clinical > Hospice & Palliative Care #26 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Hospice Care #40 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Administration & Policy > Health Policy
I was required to purchase this book for an end of life class for my masters program in social work. I learned a great deal from it and keep it as a reference for my practice. However picky this may seem I must comment on the format of the book - it's small size and print size. I struggle to find a comfortable way to read this book. It is very heavy and small, can't be easily held up and the print is too small to lay it down to read. My shoulders and wrists ached from wrestling with the book during my coursework, and when I revisit it from time to time I am reminded of this problem. Such a helpful book. Such an oversight on the authors/publishers part. Still worth the struggle to gain the wisdom contained within, but please make a change when you reprint it!
Book is a collection of articles on a variety of death and dying topics. Very thorough and helpful, but some articles are inevitably more helpful than others. Overall very good though!
If you are interested in end-of-life care as a profession, this book is amazing. It is very insightful and full of valuable perspectives and information.
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