Learn to help others understand, cope with, and even overcome emotional and physical suffering. Suffering: Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care is a unique and insightful volume of observations, anecdotes, and case studies about suffering. In this important book, doctors, nurses, teachers, funeral directors, and members of the clergy discuss the crucial physical, emotional, and psychological issues that patients and their families must confront when death is imminent. They address a variety of topics including terminal illness, chronic illness, loss, grief, and pain. Ideal for professionals who work with dying people and their families, Suffering highlights topics that are particularly common when working with AIDS patients, cancer patients, children, the elderly, and the mentally ill.
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How does the clinical encounter begin? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
somatogenic view, moral stress, simple suffering, existential plight Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, The Haworth Press, New England Journal of Medicine, David Wendell Moller, Religious Worldview, White Plains, Basic Books, Scientific Worldview, Christopher's Hospice, New Jersey, Sister Patrice Murphy, North Carolina, Princeton University Press, Roman Catholic, Westchester Division New!
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- The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine by Eric J. Cassell on 7 pages
- The Clinical Encounter: The Moral Fabric of the Patient-Physician Relationship (Philosophy and Medicine) by E.E. Shelp on page 17, and page 18
- Introduction to Health Psychology by Andrew Baum on page 145, and page 149
- The Human Mystery (Gifford Lectures) by John C. Eccles on page 148, and page 149
- Virtues and Vices: And Other Essays in Moral Philosophy by Philippa Foot on page 8, and page 18
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- Parkinson's Disease and Quality of Life by Lucien A. Cote in Front Matter
- Suffering: A Sociological Introduction by Iain Wilkinson in Back Matter
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