The viva (oral examination) is part of postgraduate examinations in surgery. This book provides a revision guide for the viva examination and its replacement, the new membership (MRCS) examination. It covers the most common general surgical operations, together with other topics…
"This book is essential reading for general practitioners; practice, district and Macmillan nurses; social workers and all others involved in terminal care in the community."--Jacket
"This book is essential reading for general practitioners; practice, district and Macmillan nurses; social workers and all others involved in terminal care in the community."--Jacket.
This book is about psychotherapy with a terminally ill patient but it is intended for a far broader readership than this indicates. In an intensely moving narrative Joy Schaverien raises questions regarding the meaning of love and death in psychotherapy. The multiple layers of a…
This work is about psychotherapy with a terminally ill patient but it is intended for a far broader readership than this indicates. Joy Schaverien raises questions regarding the meaning of love and endings in psychotherapy.
"This book explores the emotional problems patients, relatives, close friends and professionals experience and the support they need when someone is dying. It focuses on the skills required to support the patient and to provide pre- and post-bereavement counselling for relatives…
Offers valuable insights and inspiration for any practitioner working in a palliative care setting. Australian contributor.
Awareness of dying
by Strauss, Anselm L., Glaser, Barney G.
fromObservations (Chicago, Ill.)
"Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of day care and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death." "Placing the bodily realities of dying very firmly centre stage and quest…