Dying and death in oncology / Lawrence Berk, editor.
Berk, Lawrence, editor.
2016
R726.8 .D95 2016eb
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Title Dying and death in oncology / Lawrence Berk, editor.
ISBN 9783319418612 (electronic book)
3319418610 (electronic book)
9783319418599
3319418599
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2016]
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource (v, 185 pages) : color illustrations
Call Number R726.8 .D95 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.9
Summary This book brings together in one volume many important topics about death and dying, including the pathophysiology of death, the causes of death among cancer patients, the ethics of death, the legal aspects of death for the physician and for the patient and caregivers, the economics of death, the medical management of the dying patient, including pain and dyspnea, the prediction of death, and the spiritual management of the dying patient. It also discusses other medical and humanistic aspects of death and dying, such as the historical definition of death and various cultures' and religions' viewpoints on death and the afterlife. Everybody, including every patient with cancer, will die, and every physician will have to assist dying patients. Oncologists face this prospect more often than many physicians. And yet to date there has been no comprehensive textbook on Thanatology, the academic discipline studying death and dying, to assist oncologists in this difficult task. This book will help the physician to understand his or her own relationship with death and to communicate about death and dying with the patient and the patient's caregivers.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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