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Informationen zum Autor Gerry R. Cox (Author) , Robert G. Stevenson (Author) Zusammenfassung The editors undertook this project to promote the International Conference on Death, Grief, and Bereavement in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. Throughout its history, the conference has attracted internationally known speakers. This book illustrates the quality of their presentations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
