Positive Approaches to Living with End Stage Renal Disease - Psychosocial and Thanatalogic Aspects

Aspects of cancer and cancer therapies; long-term adjustments of renal donors and recipients; community life (including support facilities and home dialysis); medical aspects of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD); psychiatric disturbances; public policy issues; the role of the doctor, staff, and society, sexuality and loss of sexual function, surgical aspects; and anticipatory grief, acute grief, and bereavement are all discussed in this book for caregivers working with ESRD patients.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

JOHN E. SCHOWALTER is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Yale University.

PENELOPE BUSCHMAN is Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing, The School of Nursing, Columbia University.

PAUL R. PATTERSON is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics Albany Medical College of Union University, Albany, NY.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michael A. Hardy, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Defendant Hardy, Austin Kutscher
• Verlag: Bloomsbury
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 22.04.1986
• EAN: 9780275920197
• ISBN: 978-0-275-92019-7
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Nichtklinische Fächer; PSYCHOLOGY / General, MEDICAL / Nephrology, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Psychology, Renal medicine & nephrology, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Renal medicine and nephrology, Health and Wellness