The concept of a" good death" has been hotly debated in medical circles for decades. This
volume delves into the possibility and desirability of a" good death" by presenting the …

A Good Dying: Shaping Health Care for the Last Months of Life examines the critical issues
of improving the quality of health care for end-of-life patients. Managers of health care will …

The twentieth century has seen birth and death—and much that happens in between—
become events for institutional management. For most Americans, physicians direct and …

Palliative care practitioners are now better able than ever before to ameliorate end‐of‐life
symptom distress. What remains less developed, however, is the knowledgebase and skill …

Dying is at once a fact of life and a profound mystery. Death comes to all, yet each person
experiences it in ways that are only partly accessible to the physician or family member, the …

People are talking about death and dying in hospitals more than ever before and in a wide
spectrum of settings and contexts. Nurses trained during the past 20 years know that dying …

Care of the terminally ill and dying in the hospice setting is a growing practice field for social
workers. Support to family, as well as the patient, is implicit in hospice care, adding to the …

Institutes of Health (NIH) responsible for coordinating research on palliative care at the end
of life. Whether palliative care research involves conventional or complementary …

As modern technology advances, people live longer and are more likely to face death later
in life from chronic or degenerative diseases. The location of death has also changed …

Despite a recent increase in the attention given to improving end-of-life care, our
understanding of what constitutes a good death is surprisingly lacking. The purpose of this …