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Dying : a transition / Monika Renz ; translated by Mark Kyburz with John Peck.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 164 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231540230
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BF789 .D956 2015
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The three stages of transition and dignity -- What is primordial fear? The I dies into a thou -- Other hearing : beyond space and time -- Metaphors of transition -- The sites of transition : fear, struggle, acceptance, family processes, maturation -- Dying with dignity : indication-oriented end-of-life care.
Subject: A critical success in Europe, this book offers a process-based, patient-centered approach to palliative care that substantiates an indication-oriented treatment and radical reconsideration of our transition to death. Drawing on decades of work with terminally ill cancer patients and a trove of research into near-death experiences, Monika Renz encourages practitioners to not only safeguard patients' dignity as they die but also take stock of their verbal, nonverbal, and metaphorical cues as they progress, helping to personalize treatment and realize a more peaceful death. Renz divides dying int.
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Translation from German.

Translation of: Hinübergehen : was beim Sterben geschieht. 2014.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Dying and the transformation of perception -- The three stages of transition and dignity -- What is primordial fear? The I dies into a thou -- Other hearing : beyond space and time -- Metaphors of transition -- The sites of transition : fear, struggle, acceptance, family processes, maturation -- Dying with dignity : indication-oriented end-of-life care.

A critical success in Europe, this book offers a process-based, patient-centered approach to palliative care that substantiates an indication-oriented treatment and radical reconsideration of our transition to death. Drawing on decades of work with terminally ill cancer patients and a trove of research into near-death experiences, Monika Renz encourages practitioners to not only safeguard patients' dignity as they die but also take stock of their verbal, nonverbal, and metaphorical cues as they progress, helping to personalize treatment and realize a more peaceful death. Renz divides dying int.

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