1st Edition
Final Acts The End of Life: Hospice and Palliative Care
The editors undertook this project to promote the International Conference on Death, Grief, and Bereavement in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. Throughout its history, the conference has attracted internationally known speakers. This book illustrates the quality of their presentations.
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
SECTION 1 Professional Applications in End-of-Life Care
CHAPTER 1 Existential Empathy: Caregiver Understanding of Patients’ Religious Beliefs at the End-of-Life
Joseph M. Currier, Miyoung Yoon Hammer, and Robert A. Neimeyer
CHAPTER 2 Attachments and Losses: Individual and Global Perspectives
Colin Murray Parkes
CHAPTER 3 The Private Worlds of Professionals, Teams, and Organizations in Palliative Care
Danai Papadatou
CHAPTER 4 Honoring Relationship in Pediatric Palliative Care
Kathie Kobler
CHAPTER 5 Meeting the Stress Challenge
Neil Thompson and Denise Bevan
CHAPTER 6 When Birth and Death Collide: Best Practices in End-of-Life at the Beginning
Lori Ives-Baine, Jessica Faust, Jessica Drewry, Jatinder Kalra, Michael Marshall, Roop Johal, and Alyson Mayne
SECTION 2 Facing End-of-Life and Its Care
CHAPTER 7 To Be is To Be, and the Do-ing Should Follow
Richard B. Gilbert
CHAPTER 8 Stepping Through the Looking Glass into “Cancer World”
Kent Koppelman
CHAPTER 9 The Psycho-Spiritual Side of Palliative Care: Two Stories and Ten Transformations Toward Healing
Douglas C. Smith and Conley M. Potter
CHAPTER 10 "And the Sun Refused to Shine"
Susan Adams
CHAPTER 11 The Experience of Dying in Prison
Nicole Pizzini
CHAPTER 12 The "Other" Kind of Pain: Understanding Suicide in the Context of End-of-Life Care
Janet S. McCord
CHAPTER 13 The End of Life: Two Perspectives
Robert G. Stevenson
SECTION 3 Cultural Considerations
CHAPTER 14 Palliative Care is a Human Right
Stephen R. Connor
CHAPTER 15 Spirituality in End-of-Life Care: A Roman Catholic Perspective
Gerry R. Cox and Rev. Christopher W. Cox
CHAPTER 16 Grief and the American Indian
Gerry R. Cox and Andrea R. Sullivan
CHAPTER 17 “It Will Do When I Am Dying”: Navigating the Nuances of Fundamentalist Christianity’s Understandings of Death and Dying
Harold Ivan Smith
Meet the Contributors
Index
Biography
Gerry R. Cox (Author) , Robert G. Stevenson (Author)
