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Nothing Personal
This is a remarkable book. It is the story of just one person but it is repeated time and time again by many, all over the world. She has a complex but potentially curable cancer from the outset - one that requires a surgical intervention, radiotherapy and chemotherapy to treat optimally. So Mitzi experiences everything. With a young and very active family to look after, she has a lot to live for so how she deals with uncertainty is fascinating. The disruption to her life by the cancer and its treatment is massive and to add to it all she is going through a marital breakdown at the same time.I feel it's an incredible privilege to be allowed to follow her journey so closely. 'This is essentia...
Modernising Cancer Services
This concise but comprehensive text provides those new to palliative care with an overview of the many aspects of their work. It is based on lecture notes which have been used by clinical students and nurses at Oxford and elsewhere, and is now available for a wider readership.
Dying, Bereavement, and the Healing Arts
Offers valuable insights and inspiration for any practioner working in a palliative care setting. Australian contributor.
Towards the Emancipation of Patients
Despite a policy focus on involving patients in health care and increasing patient autonomy, much covert coercion of patients takes place in everyday healthcare. This book, by a leading patient activist, examines for the first time how the patient movement, which works to improve the quality of healthcare, can actually be considered an emancipation movement when led by its radical elements. In this highly original book the author argues that radical patient groups and individual activists who repeatedly challenge or oppose some standards in healthcare, can be seen as working in the direction of freeing patients from coercion and from its associated injustice and inequality. Combining new academic theory with rich empirical evidence, the book explains how looking at healthcare from an emancipatory perspective could improve its quality as patients experience it. It will appeal to health professionals, managers, patient activists, policy makers and others concerned with the quality of healthcare.
Hospital Medicine
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E-Book - Massage and Bodywork
Ideal for qualified massage and bodywork therapists wanting to expand their knowledge and skills, this unique resource brings together the most common forms of bodywork with a focus on this important and challenging area of practice. Emphasizing the need for safe practice, this book illustrates how massage can be safely adapted for patients and dispels some misconceptions about working with people who have cancer. Key topics include integrative and collaborative working, the psychological aspects of bodywork, therapists as teachers, professionalism, the control of symptoms, working with vulnerability, potency in practice, and the skilful combination of voice and touch. - Written by experienced therapists working in this area of practice - Introduces the modalities with clear explanations of their development and application to cancer care settings - Logical organization makes it easy to find key information quickly - Each section includes an overview, an abstract of each chapter, a summary of key issues, and conclusions and recommendations for best practice - Focuses on specialized aspects of massage and bodywork to support safe, competent, and compassionate practice
Living with the Long-Term Effects of Cancer
Challenging a number of myths about living long term with or after cancer, this book offers new insights by delving into areas that are not usually spoken about. Written from a dual perspective- that of a psychologist who had breast cancer and who copes with the long-term effects of treatment - the book contests the assumption that the afflicted person will simply 'get better' or 'move through' to a better situation. Emotional and physical side-effects can worsen over time and people living beyond or with cancer often endure a mismatch between expectations and reality, because they have been told that life would be easier than it actually is. This can leave both those suffering longer term a...
Providing Compassionate Healthcare
Despite the scope and sophistication of contemporary health care, there is increasing international concern about the perceived lack of compassion in its delivery. Citing evidence that when the basic needs of patients are attended to with kindness and understanding, recovery often takes place at a faster level, patients cope more effectively with the self-management of chronic disorders and can more easily overcome anxiety associated with various disorders, this book looks at how good care can be put back into the process of caring. Beginning with an introduction to the historical values associated with the concept of compassion, the text goes on to provide a bio-psycho-social theoretical fr...
Kunst und Kreativität in der Palliative Care
'Kunst und Kreativität in der Palliative Care' beschreibt erfolgreiche künstlerische Programme, die von Künstlern, Autoren, Pflegenden, Musikern, Therapeuten, Sozialarbeitern und Seelsorgern in der Palliative Care initiiert wurden. Das Spektrum der Projekte reicht von Malerei, über kreatives Schreiben, bis hin zu organisierten Theateraufführungen. Die vorgestellten künstlerischen und kreativen Arbeiten spiegeln Erinnerungen, Hoffnungen, Befürchtungen und Ängste wieder und gehen den emotionalen, spirituellen und psychologischen Fragen nach, die ein besseres Verständnis seiner selbst vermitteln. Mit Hilfe der Kunst gelingt es auch schwierigen und komplexe Gefühle auszudrücken, die in alltäglichen Gesprächen vielfach unausgesprochen bleiben. 'Kunst und Kreativität' vermittelt wichtige Einsichten und Inspirationen für alle in der Palliative Care arbeitenden Berufsgruppen.
