Palliative Medicine

Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power-an influence it maintains by dis...

Patient-centered care for chronic illness is founded upon the informed and activated patient, but we are not clear what this means. We must underst...

Spiritual, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of Care is the fifth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series. Chapters address how to condu...

This book helps nursing and healthcare students to prepare for the challenges of working with the increasing number of patients requiring palliativ...

Soul Midwives are holistic and spiritual companions to the dying. They support and recognise the individual needs of the dying person and help them...

Through an exploration of the ethical nature of nursing, Caring Matters Most asserts that the act of nursing itself embodies goodness. Nurses can d...

Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organization...

Death is the destiny we all share. This will not change. But the way we die, which had been the same for many generations, has changed drastically ...

All physicians are involved in the management of pain at some level or the other, but of the various specialties and health professions, orthopedic...

This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine takes us now into the third decade for this definitive award-winning textbook. It ...

Nearly half of people at the end of life will receive hospice care, but few psychologists, nurses, physicians, chaplains, and hospice workers have ...