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Klappentext `This second edition, ...utilizes around half of the original text, of which a significant portion has been revised and updated. The remainder comprises new material... This book will stimulate thinking and challenge the personal views of both academics and those in practice. ¿[A] valuable tool for... those experienced professionals searching for a new angle on several key topics¿ [A]n excellent balance of theoretical contents and moving prose¿ [T]his book is directed towards all professionals working in health and social care. ¿ [and] students wishing to gain greater understanding' - Nurse Education Today Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction to Second Edition - Jeanne Katz PART ONE: LIFE AND DEATH Introduction - Jeanne Katz Death in Staithes - David Clark Death Denied - Philippe Ari[ac]es Death in the News - Tony Walter, Jane Littlewood and Michael Pickering The Public Invigilation of Private Emotion Approaches to Death in Hindu and Sikh Communities in Britain - Shirley Firth Demographic Change and the Experience of Dying - Clive Seale Health Policy and Services for Dying People and Their Careers - Christina R Victor Sudden Death from Suicide - Stella Ridley The Dream - T R S The Good Death? - Mary Bradbury Little Henry; or, God Will Take Care of Me - H M Benson Death Be Not Proud - John Donne Aubade - Philip Larkin Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas The Prophet - Kahil Gibran Doctor¿s Mask on Pain - Jane Martin Spiritual Care of Dying People - Alyson Peberdy Death and the Meaning of Life - Leo Tolstoy PART TWO: CARING FOR DYING PEOPLE Introduction - Jeanne Katz Extending Specialist Palliative Care to All? - David Field and Julia Addington-Hall The Case for Palliative Care in Residential and Nursing Homes - Moyral Sidell, Jeanne Katz and Carol Komaromy Complementary Medicine - Patrick C Pietroni Its Place in the Care of Dying People Speaking Out - Sarah Palmer Caring for Mother - Susan Leifer Plus Postscript Living with MS - Richard Were Saturday Times Column 3.10.98 - John Diamond The Alphabet - Jean-Dominique Bauby Communication in Palliative Care - Robert Buckman A Practical Guide Saturday Times Column 23.1.99 - John Diamond Communicating with Dying Children - Dorothy Judd Jewish Perspectives on Death, Dying and Bereavement - Jeanne Samson Katz The Syllabus - Mitch Albom Dying Trajectories, the Organization of Work and Expectations of Dying - Anselm Strauss Sitting It Out - Elizabeth Dean A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir Teach Me to Hear Mermaids Singing - Clare Vaughan PART THREE: DILEMMAS AND DECISIONS AT THE END OF LIFE Introduction - Jeanne Katz Learning the Hard Way - Clare Williams Somebody Loves Me - Anthony Masters The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy Intimacy and Terminal Care - Judy Gilley The Use of Deception in Nursing - Kevin Teasdale and Gerry Kent Do-Not-Resusciate Decisions - Johannes J M van Delden The ¿Blue-Spotted¿ Patient - Basiro Davey Do-not-resuscitate decisions in the acute surgical wards of a district general hospital. The Main Tradition - Fiona Randall and R S Downie Right to Die or Duty to Live? - William Grey The Problem of Euthanasia Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide - Luke Gormally Seven Reasons Why They Should Not be Legalized A Student¿s Story - Anonymous Betting Your Life - Christopher James Ryan An Argument against Certain Advance Directives Palliative Care and the Doctrine of Double Effect - Stephen Wilkinson Palliative Care and the Ethics of Resource Allocation - Eve Gerrard On Withholding Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill - Gillian M Craig Has Palliative Care Medicine Gone Too Far? On Withholding Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill - R J Dunlop, J E...