Dying: a transition
by Renz, Monika
A critical success in Europe, this book offers a process-based, patient-centered approach to palliative care that substantiates an indication-oriented treatment and radical reconsideration of our transition to death. Drawing on decades of work with terminally ill cancer patients and a trove of research into near-death experiences, Monika Renz encourages practitioners to not only safeguard patients' dignity as they die but also take stock of their verbal, nonverbal, and metaphorical cues as they…
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- Full title :Dying : a transition / Monika Renz ; translated by Mark Kyburz with John Peck.
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A critical success in Europe, this book offers a process-based, patient-centered approach to palliative care that substantiates an indication-oriented treatment and radical reconsideration of our transition to death. Drawing on decades of work with terminally ill cancer patients and a trove of research into near-death experiences, Monika Renz encourages practitioners to not only safeguard patients' dignity as they die but also take stock of their verbal, nonverbal, and metaphorical cues as they progress, helping to personalize treatment and realize a more peaceful death. Renz divides dying int.
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- Publication Date:©2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
Notes
Translation from German.
Translation of: Hinübergehen : was beim Sterben geschieht. 2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 164 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780231540230, 023154023X
- DOI:10.7312/renz17088
- oclc:ocn922528374
- LC Classification:BF789.D4
- Dewey Decimal:616.02/9
Table of Contents
Dying and the transformation of perception -- The three stages of transition and dignity -- What is primordial fear? The I dies into a thou -- Other hearing : beyond space and time -- Metaphors of transition -- The sites of transition : fear, struggle, acceptance, family processes, maturation -- Dying with dignity : indication-oriented end-of-life care.
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