Psychosocial Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease : : The Life-Threatened Patient, the Family, and the Staff / / ed. by James Reiffel, Robert Debellis, Bernard Schoenberg, Austin H. Kutscher, Paul R. Patterson, Lester C. Mark.
Provides a thanatologic perspective on cardiovascular disease with the goal being adaption to life regardless of the deficit from the pre-disease physical state and performance levels.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1980] ©1980 |
Year of Publication: | 1980 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Principles of Thanatology -- Part I. Psychosocial Aspects of Care -- 1. Care of the Patient with Coronary Heart Disease -- 2. Care of the Severely Ill Cardiovascular Patient -- 3. Approaches to the Seriously Cardiac Patient -- 4. Psychological Intervention During Transfer from the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit -- 5. The Psychosocial Needs of the Cardiovascular Patient -- Part II. Personality Patterns and Coronary Heart Disease -- 6. Introduction to Part II: The Cardiovascular Patient -- 7. Psychosocial Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease -- 8. Sudden, Unexpected Death in Patients with Healed Myocardial Infarction -- 9. The Role of Type A Behavior Pattern in Coronary Heart Disease -- 10. Thoughts on the Current Status of Investigations of Personality Patterns and Coronary Heart Disease -- 11. Toward an Index of Emotional Drain: A Comparative Study of Coronary Patients and Controls -- Part III. Psychosocial Aspects of Cardiovascular Surgery -- 12. Interactions Among Patient, Family, Cardiovascular Surgeon, And Staff -- 13. Psychosocial Implications of Surgery for the Life-Threatened -- 14. Heart Disease, Heart Surgery, and Death -- 15. Psychological Preparation of the Cardiac Surgery Patient -- 16. Surgery and the Congenital Cardiac Patient -- 17. Assessing and Expanding the Coping Abilities of the Child Hospitalized for Cardiac Surgery -- 18. Nursing Care of the Cardiosurgical Patient -- 19. The Rapid Rise of Heart Clubs -- 20. Changes in Family Interrelationships Following Cardiac Surgery -- Part IV. Care of the Stroke Patient -- 21. The Stroke Patient -- 22. Stroke Symptoms and Their Implications -- Part V. The Life-Threatened Patient -- 23. To Die from Cancer or from a Heart Attack -- 24. Cardiovascular Disease and Cancers Comparisons and Contrasts -- 25. Role of Death Concern in Cardiac Illness -- 26. A Cardiac Patient Speaks Out -- 27. Reflections on Facing Death -- 28. Two Men, Four Episodes -- 29. Commemoration Wishes -- Part VI. Commentaries from Physicians -- 30. An Amateur Looks at Psychosocial Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease -- 31. Responsibility of the Physician in the Preservation of Life -- 32. Death -- Part VII. Psychosocial Aspects of Bereavement -- 33. Understanding Your Grief -- 34. Methodological Problems in Assessing the Relationship Between Acuteness of Death and the Bereavement Outcome -- 35. Survivors of Cardiovascular and Cancer Deaths -- 36. Living with Cardiovascular Disease: A Widow’s Perspective -- Appendixes -- A. The Facts of Cardiovascular Disease -- B. The California “Right To Die” Law -- C. The Living Will -- D. Confidential Financial Checklist for the Terminally Ill -- General Bibliography -- Index -- List of Contributors |
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Summary: | Provides a thanatologic perspective on cardiovascular disease with the goal being adaption to life regardless of the deficit from the pre-disease physical state and performance levels. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231888851 9783110442489 |
DOI: | 10.7312/reif92466 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by James Reiffel, Robert Debellis, Bernard Schoenberg, Austin H. Kutscher, Paul R. Patterson, Lester C. Mark. |