palliative treatment

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palliative treatment

Final journeys

a practical guide for bringing care and comfort at the end of life
  • Callanan, Maggie
2009
Hospice nurse Maggie Callanan shares the lessons she has learned about how to offer comfort and care to loved ones in their final days.

Compassion in dying

stories of dignity and hope
  • Lee, Barbara Coombs
2003

Terminal illness

opposing viewpoints
  • Nakaya, Andrea C.
2005
Presents various articles which discuss how care of the terminally ill can be improved, how their physical and emotional pain should be addressed, the morality of physicians aiding in the deaths of terminally ill patients, and the right of the terminally ill to die.

In defiance of death

exposing the real costs of end-of-life care
  • Fisher, Kenneth A.
2008
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