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Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
Contributor(s): Barnard, David (Author), Towers, Anna M. (Author), Boston, Patricia (Author)

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 ISBN: 0195123433     ISBN-13: 9780195123432
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $83.60  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2000
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Annotation: 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 cliches 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Terminal Care
- Medical | Anesthesiology
- Medical | Nursing - Oncology & Cancer
Dewey: 362.175
LCCN: 99-29317
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.7" W x 9.68" L (1.44 lbs) 464 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated
 
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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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