Allan Kellehear (Middlesex Universit Professor of Community Health

The Inner Life of the Dying Person

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Produktbeschreibung

The Inner Life of the Person Dying recounts the experience of facing one's death solely from the dying person's perspective, showing that-along with suffering, loss, anger, sadness, and fear-we can also feel courage, love, hope, transcendence, transformation, and even happiness as we die.

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Produktdetails

• End-of-Life Care: A Series
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780231167857
• ISBN-10: 0231167857
• Artikelnr.: 40098659

Autorenporträt

Allan Kellehear is professor of community health at Middlesex University in London. His most recent books on dying include A Social History of Dying and The Study of Dying: From Autonomy to Transformation, an edited volume of essays.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. In the Beginning . . .
2. Suffering—Enduring the New Reality
3. Fear—a Threat Observed
4. Courage—Facing the Overwhelming
5. Resistance—Facing the Choices
6. Sadness and Anger—Facing Loss
7. Hope and Love—Connection
8. Waiting—In-between-ness
9. Review and Reminiscence—Remembering
10. Aloneness—Disconnection
11. Transformation—Change, Change, Change
12. Some Final Reflections
Notes
Bibliography
Index