Handbook for mortals : guidance for people facing serious illness
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Handbook for mortals : guidance for people facing serious illness
Oxford University Press, c2011
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Rev. ed. of: Handbook for mortals / Joanne Lynn, Joan Harrold, and the Center to Improve Care of the Dying, George Washington University. 1999
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Living with serious illness
- Enduring and changing
- Finding meaning
- Helping family make decisions and give care
- Getting the help you need
- Talking with your doctor
- Controlling pain
- Managing other symptoms
- Living with specific illnesses
- Planning ahead
- Deciding about medical interventions
- Hastening death
- Coping with events near death
- The dying of children
- Dying suddenly
- Enduring loss
