Few Months to Live - Different Paths to Lifes End

Documenting a study of end-of-life experiences that included detailed conversations in home care settings, this book focuses on how participants lived their daily lives, understood their illnesses, coped with symptoms - especially pain - and searched for meaning or spiritual growth in their final months of life.

About the author

Jana Staton is a researcher with the Missoula Demonstration Project, a community-wide effort in Missoula, Montana to study and transform end-of-life experience and care. She is author of Listening to Families. Roger Shuy is Distinguished Research Professor of Linguistics Emeritus at Georgetown University. He is author of Bureaucratic Language of Government and Business. Ira Byock, MD, is the cofounder of and principal investigator for the Missoula Demonstration Project and is a research professor in the department of philosophy at the University of Montana. He is author of Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life.

Summary

Documenting a study of end-of-life experiences that included detailed conversations in home care settings, this book focuses on how participants lived their daily lives, understood their illnesses, coped with symptoms - especially pain - and searched for meaning or spiritual growth in their final months of life.

Product details

• Authors: Ira Byock, Ira (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) Byock, Roger W. Shuy, Jana Staton, Jana Shuy Staton, Jana/ Shuy Staton
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.04.2001
• EAN: 9780878408412
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-841-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Series: A Few Months to Live; A Few Months to Live
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology