Alternate Title

Cancer : fifty (50) essential things to do

Author

Anderson, Greg

Edition

3rd ed., completely rev. and updated.

Place of Publication

New York, NY

Publisher

Plume

Publication Date

2009

Physical Description

xvii, 198 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - psychology

Patient Participation

Holistic Health

Complementary Therapies

Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical

Self Care

Popular Work

ISBN

9780452290105

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Prince George Cancer Info Ctr

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Vancouver Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

QZ201 A5461 2009

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Author

Whitman, Wynne A

Glisson, Shawn D

Place of Publication

Upper Saddle River, NJ

Publisher

Financial Times Press

Publication Date

2007

Physical Description

xxviii, 302 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects

Physician-Patient Relations

Patient Participation

Health Behavior

Advance Care Planning

Decision Making

Living Wills

Terminally Ill

Popular Work

ISBN

9780131568933

0131568981

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Vancouver Cancer Info Ctr

Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

W85.5 W579 2007

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Editor

Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph

Gudat, Heike

Ohnsorge, Kathrin

Place of Publication

Oxford, UK

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication Date

2015

Series

EBSCOhost eBook

Subjects

Right to Die - ethics

Suicide, Assisted - ethics

Euthanasia

Patient Participation

Attitude to Death

Palliative Care - psychology

Advance Care Planning

Terminal Care

Decision Making

Ethics, Clinical

Abstract

Table of Contents :

PART I: Introduction -- Why it is important to know about patients? wishes to die -- PART II: Research --Illness narratives, meaning making, and epistemic injustice in research at the end of life -- Expressed desire for hastened death in seven patients living with advanced cancer: a phenomenologic inquiry -- Expressed desire for hastened death: a phenomenologic inquiry? 10 years later -- Euthanasia (requests) after the implementation of the euthanasia law in Belgium in 2002. Results of empirical studies in Flanders, Belgium -- The journey to understanding the wish to hasten death -- The desire for hastened death in patients in palliative care -- Intentions, motivations, and social interactions regarding a wish to die -- Acting on a wish to die at the end of life: the Swiss situation -- Understanding older people?s wish to die -- Dialogue intermezzo: I -- PART III: Ethics -- Caring and killing in the clinic: the argument of self-determination -- Towards responsive knowing in matters of life and death -- Dealing with dilemmas around patients? wishes to die: moral case deliberation in a Dutch hospice -- End-of-life ethics from the perspectives of patients? wishes -- Dialogue intermezzo: II -- PART IV: Practice -- Issues of palliative medicine in end-of-life care -- Spirituality at the bedside: negotiating the meaning of dying -- Communication of wishes to die -- From understanding to patient-centred management: clinical pictures of a wish to die -- What does the wish to hasten death mean for the palliative patient? Clinical implications -- PART V: Conclusion -- Concluding dialogue.

ISBN

9780191023330

9780198713982

Language

English

Material Type

Ebook

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

Website Notes

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Author

Palma, David

Place of Publication

Oakland, CA

Publisher

New Harbinger Publications, Inc.

Publication Date

2017

Physical Description

x, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - diagnosis

Neoplasms--therapy

Neoplasms - psychology

Patient Navigation

Patient Participation - methods

Health Services Accessibility

Decision Making

Quality of Health Care

Physician-Patient Relations

Popular Work

Notes

Surrey CIC keep 2022 (F0002328)

ISBN

9781626258624

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr

Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Prince George Cancer Info Ctr

Surrey Cancer Info Ctr

Vancouver Cancer Info Ctr

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

QZ201 P171 2017

Website Notes

This resource was purchased with a donation from the Order of the Eastern Star.

Access to color figures and links relevant to each chapter.

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