New Themes In Palliative Care - David Clark, Jo Hockley, Sam Ahmedzai

New Themes In Palliative Care

Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
1997
Open University Press (Verlag)
978-0-335-19605-0 (ISBN)
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Palliative care is spreading beyond its original hospice base to encompass care in the community, in hospitals, health centres, clinics and nursing homes. This book is suitable for students of health and social care as well as to those involved in purchasing or providing palliative care services.
Palliative care is moving through an important period of expansion and development, spreading beyond its original hospice base to encompass care in the community, in hospitals, health centres, clinics and nursing homes. It can now be found in over 70 countries of the world. What challenges does this multidisciplinary speciality face as it seeks to combine high grade pain and symptom control with sensitive psychological, spiritual and social care? What are the implications of current constraints on health policy and planning? How do ethical issues about resource allocation and end of life care impinge? Can palliative care be further extended to include conditions other than cancer?

New Themes in Palliative Care addresses these and many related issues in ways which will be readily accessible to students of health and social care as well as to those involved in purchasing or providing palliative care services, and to social scientists interested in chronic illness, death and dying. Its editors are respected experts in the field with backgrounds in the social sciences, nursing and medicine and the book's contributors include leading international figures from a wide range of palliative care and academic disciplines.

David Clark has wide-ranging interests in the sociology of health, illness and family life. He is currently Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Sheffield. Jo Hockley trained as a nurse at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London and has specialized in palliative care for many years. She is currently a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist with the palliative care team at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. Sam Ahmedzai was appointed to the chair of Palliative Medicine at the University of Sheffield in 1994, following nine years as Medical Director of the Leicestershire Hospice; he has a particular interest in quality of life issues.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part one: Policy, ethics, evidence


Assessing needs and effectiveness
is palliative care a special case?
Cost of palliative care
Resource allocation and palliative care
Half full or half empty? Impact of health reforms on palliative care services in the UK


Part two: Services developments


The evolution of the hospice approach
Terminal care in South Australia
historical aspects and equity issues
Palliative care in India
Palliative home care
A Swedish model of home care
Rational planning and policy implementation in palliative care
Palliative care in Eastern Europe
Is hospice a western concept? A personal view of palliative care in Asia
The WHO cancer pain and palliative care programme


Part three: Clinical issues


Therapeutic innovations
Beyond cancer?
Teamwork in end-of-life care
a nurse-physician perspective on introducing physicians to palliative care concepts
Voluntary euthanasia in terminal illness
New approaches to care
Bibliography
Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.9.1997
Verlagsort Milton Keynes
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 229 mm
Gewicht 504 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Palliativmedizin
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Schmerztherapie
Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-335-19605-5 / 0335196055
ISBN-13 978-0-335-19605-0 / 9780335196050
Zustand Neuware
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