Jennifer L. Hollis

Music at the End of Life (eBook, PDF)

Easing the Pain and Preparing the Passage

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A practicing music thanatologist provides an insider's history of this remarkable profession, which combines music, medicine, and spirituality to help the terminally ill and their families face the end of life. Reflecting on the author's experiences as a music-thanatologist, Jennifer Hollis's Music at the End of Life: Easing the Pain and Preparing the Passage is an enlightening and emotional examination of the ways in which the experience of dying can be transformed with music. Music at the End of Life highlights the unique role music has come to play in hospice and palliative medicine. Jennifer Hollis interweaves narrative memoir, the personal experiences of fellow music-thanatologists and caregivers, and extensive research to demonstrate the transformative power of music when curing is no longer an option. Through story after unforgettable story, Hollis offers a new vision of end-of-life care, in which music creates a beautiful space for the work of letting go, grieving, and saying goodbye.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313362217
• Artikelnr.: 37838497

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Hollis is a music-thanatologist at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington, MA, and is the president of the Music-Thanatology Association International.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Building a Harp,
Building a Life Chapter 2 A Confluence of Ideas: Historical Influences on
Music-Thanatology Chapter 3 An Introduction to Music-Thanatology Chapter 4
Stories from the Bedside Chapter 5 Prayers, Resumes, and Nightline:
Music-Thanatologists Consider Vocation Chapter 6 Integrating
Music-Thanatology into Medical Institutions Chapter 7 Encounters with
Death: Music and Transformation Resources Bibliography Index