Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
by Anna M. Towers, Anna Towers, David Barnard, Patricia Boston, Yanna Lambrinidou
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Author: Anna M. Towers, Anna Towers, David Barnard, Patricia Boston, Yanna LambrinidouEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-03-15
ISBN: 0195123433
Number of pages: 451
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Summary: 4 Stars
An ethicist, a physician, a nurse and an anthropologist, all working in the USA and Canada have combined their skills, their experience and, more importantly their sentitive insights into the kaleidoscope of emotions and reactions encountered when caring for those with life-threatening illnesses. The reader new to this field will probably assume that the cases are fictitious so incredibly complex is each one. The doctor, nurse or social worker who has spent any time in palliative care will recognise the challenges he or she meets every single day - challenges infinitely more difficult and demanding that purely ' pain and symptom control' If, as the authors suggest, this book is read alongside MacDonald's Palliative Medicine - a case-based manual ( also from Oxford Press incidentally )they will have some of the best teaching material in the field of palliative care. Criticisms ? Possibly a trifle too long and wordy and, so far as the details of medical care are concerned, a reflection of North American practise, at times different from the rest of the world but neverthless a book for everyone in palliative care to read and benefit from. A welcome addition to the fast-growing literature in this field of human need and response.
Summary of Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
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 clich�s 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.Aging Parents Books
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