Dying : : A Transition / / Monika Renz.
This book introduces a process-based, patient-centered approach to palliative care that substantiates an indication-oriented treatment and radical reconsideration of our transition to death. Drawing on decades of work with terminally ill cancer patients and a trove of research on near-death experien...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | End-of-Life Care: A Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: In Search of Inner Experiences of Dying
- 1. Dying and the Transformation of Perception
- 2. The Three Stages of Transition and Dignity
- 3. What Is Primordial Fear? “The ‘I’ Dies into a ‘Thou’ ”
- 4. Other Hearing: Beyond Space and Time
- 5. Metaphors of Transition
- 6. The Sites of Transition: Fear, Struggle, Acceptance, Family Processes, Maturation
- 7. Dying with Dignity: Indication-Oriented End-of-Life Care
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index