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  • Death, Dying, and Social Differences

    Edited by David Oliviere, Barbara Monroe, Sheila Payne ...
    Society has become increasingly diverse; multi-cultural, multi-faith and wide ranging in family structures. The wealthier are healthier and social inequalities are more pronounced. Respecting and working with the range of 'differences' among service users, families and communities in health and social care with ill, dying and bereaved people is a neglected area in the literature. As the principles ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • Death, Dying, and Social Differences

    Edited by David Oliviere, Barbara Monroe, Sheila Payne ...
    Society has become increasingly diverse; multi-cultural, multi-faith and wide ranging in family structures. The wealthier are healthier and social inequalities are more pronounced. Respecting and working with the range of 'differences' among service users, families and communities in health and social care with ill, dying and bereaved people is a neglected area in the literature. As the principles ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • A Butterfly Called Hope

    by Mary Alice Monroe ...
    The colorful flowers in Mamas garden reveal a strange-looking creature. “What is it? Does it sting, does it bite?” Join in this photographic journey as the young girl and her mother care for the caterpillar. Watch as it transforms into a chrysalis and then emerges as a beautiful monarch butterfly. How can the young girl “claim” the butterfly as her own but still let it go free? ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

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    Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

    by Kathryn Mannix ...
    For readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor's breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying.Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we understand death. Once a familiar, peaceful, and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • The Forgetting

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    by David Shenk ...
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    $10.99 CAD

  • Last Rights

    Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System

    by Stephen P. Kiernan ...
    A Polk Award winner for medical journalism examines how patients and families can regain control of the dying process: "A superb resource." — Kirkus ReviewsWith advances in medicine, technology, and daily diet and exercise practices, Americans are living longer than ever before. We have an unprecedented opportunity for meaningful closure—free of pain, among loved ones, with our affairs in order ... Read more

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  • The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine

    by Eric J. Cassell ...
    This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991. With three added chapters and a new preface summarizing our progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-hve for those in palliative medicine and hospice care. The obligation of physicians to relieve human suffering stretches back into antiquity. But what exactly, is suffering? One ... Read more

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  • Modern Death

    How Medicine Changed the End of Life

    by Haider Warraich ...
    "Elegant and poignant . . . [Warraich] succeeds in humanizing a complex topic and gives us remarkable insights about the changing nature of 'modern death'." ―Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times –bestselling author of The Emperor of All MaladiesThere is no more universal truth in life than death but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today's modern age.... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Last Wish: Stories to Inspire a Peaceful Passing (Updated Edition with New Hospice Story)

    by Lauren Van Scoy, M.D. ...
    As a doctor at the end of a 24-hour shift in the intensive care unit, it's usually easy for me to fall asleep. Exhaustion hits me like a rock and it doesn't matter that the morning sun is pouring into my bedroom. After so many long hours of fighting for life and pushing back death, when I finally hit my bed and close my eyes, the next day arrives in an instant.Except for that one day when I couldn ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming Dead Right

    A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes

    by Frances Shani Parker ...
    All of us are entitled to the rewards of apeaceful, pain-free death. This book honors that with true storiesabout hospice patients and inspiring insights from theauthor. Becoming Dead Right guides us through thegeneral and "how to" information maze that preparesus for dealing with death.Improving and expanding hospice services willrequire systemic changes in healthcare institutionssoutreach to ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of Near-Death Experiences

    A Handbook for Clinicians

    by Satwant Pasricha, David J. Wilde ...
    *Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards* A near-death experience (NDE) is a phenomenon whereby powerful physical and emotional sensations and visions are experienced by someone who is either close to death or has been declared clinically dead. This is an accessible guide to the theory and evidence underlying the phenomenon of NDEs. With ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • Speaking of Dying

    A Practical Guide to Using Counselling Skills in Palliative Care

    by Louis Heyse-Moore ...
    Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most. Compassionate and tactful communication skills can make the difference between an awkward encounter with a dying patient, and an engaging, empathic bond between two people.Louis Heyse-Moore draws on his wealth of experience as a trained counsellor and palliative medicine specialist. Covering difficult subjects ... Read more

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