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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777486303321

Autore

Sinclair Paul <1954->

Titolo

Rethinking palliative care : a social role valorisation approach / / Paul Sinclair [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK : , : Policy Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-4473-0324-5

1-281-74176-0

9786611741761

1-84742-234-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

616/.029

Soggetti

Palliative treatment

Terminal care

Terminally ill - Social conditions

Death - Psychological aspects

Death - Social aspects

Terminal care facilities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Jan 2022).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; RETHINKING PALLIATIVECARE; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Origin of the argument; 2. Paradigm of care; 3. Palliative care; 4. Social Role Valorisation; 5. Implications for palliative care; 6. An ideal palliative care model; 7. Reconceptualising death; 8. The choice; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book's striking message is that palliative care does not deliver on its aims to value people who are dying and make death and dying a natural part of life. This book draws from wider social science perspectives and critically and specifically applies these perspectives to palliative care and its dominant medical model. Applying Social Role Valorisation, the author argues for the de-institutionalisation of palliative care and the development of an alternative framework to the approaches found in hospices, palliative care units and community-based palliative care services. He offers a new conceptualisation of death and loss that refines and expands modern understandings in a



way that also resonates with traditional religious views concerning death. Wide-ranging recommendations advise fundamental change in the concept of palliative care, the way support and services are organised and the day-to-day practice of palliative care. Rethinking palliative care will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners in palliative care as well as those in disability, social policy, sociology, social work, religion, thanatology, nursing and other health-related fields.