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A Good Death : Conversations with East Londoners.
Title:
A Good Death : Conversations with East Londoners.
Author:
Cullen, Lesley.
ISBN:
9780203991657
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (275 pages)
Contents:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Slow death -- Method of study -- Terminally ill -- Seen at home -- Willing to talk -- Chapter 2 The patients -- The Kubler-Ross stages -- Their families -- Age -- The younger -- Fighting spirit -- Chapter 3 The battle for independence -- Messages from within -- Loss of mobility -- The struggle for independence -- The day-by-day -- Routines of medication -- Weekly cycles -- Plan for attainable goals -- Chapter 4 The carer at home -- Relatives -- Traditional families -- The Allens -- The Chandlers -- The Barnes family -- The Rahmans -- No full-time carers -- Neighbours -- Neighbours to the fore -- Access to support services -- Where to die? -- Why not more often? -- Hospice or hospital? -- Chapter 5 The doctor -- Hustle and bustle -- A quiet revolution -- Parallel changes in the US -- Mutual reinforcement -- In course of transition -- Telling the wrong person first -- Telling all -- How terminal is terminal? -- Making patients wait -- Getting to the hospital -- Multiple doctors -- The asymmetry of time -- Chapter 6 Pain and euthanasia -- Levels of pain -- Euthanasia -- Legalised? -- The delicate balance -- Chapter 7 Beyond our care but not our caring -- The greater grief -- Good death, bad bereavement -- Maria -- Anniversaries -- Ivy -- Chapter 8 The afterlife -- Looking forward to the reunion -- Phantoms -- The comfort and the pain -- Pulling the other way -- A family religion -- Chapter 9 In conclusion: collective immortality -- The goodness of the patients -- Support for the carers -- The nursing services -- Older people -- The wider community -- 1 More personal funerals -- 2 Prolong support beyond the grave -- 3 Establish continuity between the dead and the living -- 4 Death to regenerate morality -- Actors without lines -- Appendix I List of patients.

Appendix II Hospices, Macmillan nurses and other services -- Hospices -- Palliative care -- Macmillan nurses -- Types of hospice care -- The position now and the future -- Appendix III Information about services -- 1 For information about hospices and similar units, home care facilities and Macmillan services -- 2 For medical help -- 3 For information about some serious illnesses -- 4 For information about services, social support and financial help for the seriously ill and their carers -- 5 Information for carers -- 6 General information and advice -- 7 When there is a death -- 8 To arrange a funeral -- 9 For advice and counselling -- Appendix IV National Funerals College -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
A Good Death is based on a survey in East London and provides a wide range of fascinating and helpful insights into all aspects of experiencing death and surviving grief. The voices in the book are those of people who have managed to cope despite being under the shadow of impending death. Their experience could be a comfort to anybody in a similar situation. A Good Death is intended for people who are dying, for their lay and professional carers and for student doctors, nurses and social workers.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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