The Dying Patient The Medical Management of Incurable and Terminal Illness
The main purpose of this book is to bring together some description of the skills and attitudes of those working in the hospice units specializing in terminal care with those rather different but overlapping skills used daily in the palliation of chronic or incurable disease. This varied collection...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1982, 1982
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1982 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 The Elderly at the End of Life
- 2 The Failing Mind
- 3 Caring for Children with Cancer
- 4 Death, Dying and the Cardiac Patient
- 5 Common Problems in Advancing Chronic Renal Failure
- 6 Management of Disseminated Breast Cancer
- 7 The Patient with Lung Cancer
- 8 Palliation of Malignant Disease of the Gastrointestinal Tract
- 9 Management of Refractory Disease (Myeloma, the Lymphomas and Gonadal Tumours)
- 10 The Control of Pain: I by Drugs: II by Non-drug Methods
- 11 Management of Other Common Symptoms of the Terminally III
- 12 The Personal Impact of Dying
- 13 Therapeutic Uses of Truth
- 14 At Home and in the Ward: The Establishment of a Support Team in an Acute General Hospital
- 15 The Role of the Specialist or Hospice Unit
- Appendix I: Ten Bereavement Interviews Linda Liddamant
- Appendix II: Stoma Patients Interviewed E. E. Lawton