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.

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• MitwirkendeR: Baranowitz, Adrienne,; Bieri, Michael D.,; Billig, Donal M.,; Blacher, Richard S.,; Blumenthal, James A.,; Bruhn, John G.,; Brust, John C. M.,; Burch, George E.,; Carr, Arthur C.,; Chan, Joan,; Chow, Rita K.,; Clayton, Paula J.,; Click, Gerald,; Coombs, R. K.,; Epstein, Franklin H.,; Eson, Morris E.,; Eys, Jan van,; Formo, A.,; Frater, Robert W. M.,; Freedman, K.,; Freeman, S. J. J.,; Gentry, W. Doyle,; Glenn, Frank,; Greenhill, Maurice H.,; Harris, Raymond,; Humphreys, George H.,; Hutschnecker, Arnold A.,; Keon, W. J.,; Lefkowitz, Nathan,; Lyall, W. A. L.,; Moser, Marvin,; Moss, Steven A.,; Nadel, Edwin,; Page, Irvine H.,; Parilla, Ramon H.,; Parker, John,; Parnes, Yvonne M.,; Paul, Boris J.,; Rogers, J.,; Rosenman, Ray H.,; Rostoker, Jack B.,; Ruskin, H. D.,; Shaffer, Aaron B.,; Shortridge, Lillie,; Vachon, M. L. S.,; Williams, Roger R.,; Wittstein, Raphael L.,; Wolf, Stewart G.,; Wright, Irving S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Debellis, Robert,; Kutscher, Austin H.,; Mark, Lester C.,; Patterson, Paul R.,; Reiffel, James,; Schoenberg, Bernard,
• TeilnehmendeR: Kutscher, Lillian G.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1980]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 1980
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

• 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