David Barnard, Anna M. Towers, Patricia Boston, Yanna Lambrinidou

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Crossing Over (eBook, PDF)

Narratives of Palliative Care

Beschreibung

Crossing Over provides a unique view of patients, families, and their caregivers striving together to maintain comfort and hope in the face of incurable illness. The narratives weave together emotions, physical symptoms, spiritual concerns, and the stresses of family life, as well as the professional and personal challenges of providing hospice and palliative care. Based on a vast amount of participant-observation and in-depth interviews, Crossing Over moves far beyond dry technical manuals for symptom control, and tired clichés about death with dignity, to depict the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of the daily in patients homes and the palliative care unit. It captures the breathtaking diversity of people's aspirations and ideals as they face death, and the views of the professionals who care for them. Anger and fear, tenderness and reconciliation, jealousy and love, social support and falling through the cracks, unexpected courage and unshakable faith-- all of these are part of facing death in late twentieth-century North America, and this book brings them to life in an extraordinary portrait of the processes of giving and receiving palliative care.

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Autor

David Barnard is an internationally recognized authority on the integration of the humanities in medical education and the humanistic aspects of end-of-life care. He retired as Professor of Medicine and Law at the University of Pittsburgh, the founding Director of the University of Pittsburgh Institute to Enhance Palliative Care, and Director of the Global Health and Human Rights Track at the School of Law. Previously, he was University Professor of Humanities and Chairman of the Department of Humanities at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, the first Department of Humanities ever established at any medical school. Anna Towers is Associate Professor in the Departments of Oncology and Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, and a palliative care physician at the McGill University Health Centre. She was Director of Palliative Care McGill from 1999-2009. In this position she helped create the first accredited residency in Palliative Medicine for Canada. She was Chair of the biennial International Congress on Palliative Care from 2004 to 2014. Her academic interests include ethical issues in palliative care, and, more recently, cancer-related lymphedema, an area in which she has received international recognition. Patricia Boston is currently a clinical professor in The Department of Family Practice at The University of British Columbia. She was Director of the UBC Division of Palliative Care between 2003 - 2012 prior to which she was Associate Director of The McGill Programs in Whole Person Care. Patricia's research and teaching interests include: palliative care, grief and bereavement, psycho-social nursing issues and qualitative research methodologies. Yanna Lambrinidou is a medical ethnographer, environmental justice activist, and affiliate faculty in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. She served as the Smith College Lucille Geier Lakes Writer-in-Residence and the EPA National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC) Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) workgroup. She advised former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's Flint Water Interagency Coordinating Committee (FWICC) and testified at the US House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee hearing on the Flint water crisis. Her ethnographic teaching module "Learning to Listen" was distinguished by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as an exemplary engineering ethics program.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199748839
• Artikelnr.: 54562132