Crossing Over

Narratives of Palliative Care
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-512343-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

This volume presents a series of case narratives, following individual patients and families throughout the course of illness and death in the context of hospice and palliative care. Using a variety of qualitative research methods, including participant-observation, interviews, and journal-keeping, the experiences, perceptions, and feelings of the patient, the family and a range of caregivers are recorded, providing the reader with rich, multi-textured narratives. Going beyond conventional case reports in Medicine, typically concentrating on symptoms and treatment, these narratives depict how individuals find personal meaning in illness, and how this influences the experience and outcome of care.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnard, David

Towers, Anna

Boston, Patricia

Lambrinidou, Yanna

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Palliativmedizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Foreword by Cicely Saunders

- Preface

- 1: Introduction

- Part One: Narratives

- 2: Raymond Hynes: When the Storm of a Lifetime Hits in Mid-Dance

- 3: Albert Hoffer: Bonds Through Thick and Thin

- 4: Klara Bergman: Burdens from the Past

- 5: Frances Legendre: The Price of a Death of One's Own

- 6: Shamira Cook: Who Am I?

- 7: Rose Picard: "I'm Allowed to be Happy Even Though I'm Dying"

- 8: Victor Sloski: "I Want to Die At Home"

- 9: Leonard Patterson: Jagged Edges

- 10: Miriam Lambert: Total Pain and the Despair of an Unlived Life

- 11: Sadie Fineman: A Question of Denial?

- 12: Stanley Gray: "Like Lazarus, He Came Back From the Dead"

- 13: Martin Roy: Trying to Live and Die Well

- 14 Richard Johnson: Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night

- 15: Jenny Doyle: Do I Really Belong in a Hospice Program Yet?

- 16: Jasmine Claude: A Study in Faith

- 17: Katie Melnick: Living and Dying With God

- 18: Susan Mulroney: A Private Matter

- 19: Costas Metrakis: "It Was Not A Peaceful Death"

- 20: Joey Court: The Death of a Child

- 21: Paula Ferrari: Another Triumph of the Spiritual Over the Practical

- Part Two: Supplemental Material

- 22: Research Methods and Educational Resources

- 23: Authors' Comments and Questions for Discussion

- 24: Index of Themes

- Suggestions for Further Reading