Final Acts

Gerry R. Cox (Author) , Robert G. Stevenson (Author)

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

SECTION 1 Professional Applications in End-of-Life Care

CHAPTER 1 Existential Empathy: Caregiver Understanding of Patients’ Religious Beliefs at the End-of-Life
Joseph M. Currier, Miyoung Yoon Hammer, and Robert A. Neimeyer

CHAPTER 2 Attachments and Losses: Individual and Global Perspectives
Colin Murray Parkes

CHAPTER 3 The Private Worlds of Professionals, Teams, and Organizations in Palliative Care
Danai Papadatou

CHAPTER 4 Honoring Relationship in Pediatric Palliative Care
Kathie Kobler

CHAPTER 5 Meeting the Stress Challenge
Neil Thompson and Denise Bevan

CHAPTER 6 When Birth and Death Collide: Best Practices in End-of-Life at the Beginning
Lori Ives-Baine, Jessica Faust, Jessica Drewry, Jatinder Kalra, Michael Marshall, Roop Johal, and Alyson Mayne

SECTION 2 Facing End-of-Life and Its Care

CHAPTER 7 To Be is To Be, and the Do-ing Should Follow
Richard B. Gilbert

CHAPTER 8 Stepping Through the Looking Glass into “Cancer World”
Kent Koppelman

CHAPTER 9 The Psycho-Spiritual Side of Palliative Care: Two Stories and Ten Transformations Toward Healing
Douglas C. Smith and Conley M. Potter

CHAPTER 10 "And the Sun Refused to Shine"
Susan Adams

CHAPTER 11 The Experience of Dying in Prison
Nicole Pizzini

CHAPTER 12 The "Other" Kind of Pain: Understanding Suicide in the Context of End-of-Life Care
Janet S. McCord

CHAPTER 13 The End of Life: Two Perspectives
Robert G. Stevenson

SECTION 3 Cultural Considerations

CHAPTER 14 Palliative Care is a Human Right
Stephen R. Connor

CHAPTER 15 Spirituality in End-of-Life Care: A Roman Catholic Perspective
Gerry R. Cox and Rev. Christopher W. Cox

CHAPTER 16 Grief and the American Indian
Gerry R. Cox and Andrea R. Sullivan

CHAPTER 17 “It Will Do When I Am Dying”: Navigating the Nuances of Fundamentalist Christianity’s Understandings of Death and Dying
Harold Ivan Smith

Meet the Contributors

Index