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Spirituality in hospice palliative care /

This groundbreaking book addresses the spiritual aspect of hospice care for those who do not fit easily within traditional religious beliefs and categories. A companion volume to Religious Understandings of a Good Death in Hospice Palliative Care, this work also advocates for renewed attention to th...

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Group Author: Bramadat, Paul, 1967; Coward, Harold G; Stajduhar, Kelli I
Published: State University of New York Press,
Publisher Address: Albany, New York :
Publication Dates: [2013]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: SUNY series in religious studies
Subjects:
Terminal care > Religious aspects
Hospice care
Spirituality
Attitude to Death
Palliative Care
Religion and Medicine
Terminal Care
Hospice care > Religious aspects
Summary: This groundbreaking book addresses the spiritual aspect of hospice care for those who do not fit easily within traditional religious beliefs and categories. A companion volume to Religious Understandings of a Good Death in Hospice Palliative Care, this work also advocates for renewed attention to the spiritual, the often overlooked element of hospice care. Drawing on data from clinical case studies, new sociological research, and the perspectives of agnostics, atheists, those who emphasize the spiritual rather than institutional dimensions of a traditional religion, and the rapidly growing c
Carrier Form: viii, 206 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781438447780 (paperback : alkaline paper) :
9781438447773 (alkaline paper)
1438447779 (alkaline paper)
1438447787 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Index Number: R726
CLC: R473-05
R48-05
Call Number: R48-05/S759
Contents: Hospice and the politics of spirituality / Kathleen Garces-Foley -- Spiritual care in nursing: following patients and families' view of a good death / Anne Bruce and Kelli I. Stajduhar -- Religion, spirituality, medical education, and hospice palliative care / Paul Bramadat and Joseph Kaufert -- Research and practice: spiritual perspectives of a good death within evidence-based health care / Shane Sinclair and Harvey Max Chochinov -- Hospice chaplains, spirituality, and the idea of a good death / W. Wilson Will III -- Personal perspectives -- Tragedy and the eternal yea: a personal reflectio

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