1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792245103321

Autore

Quill Timothy E

Titolo

Caring for patients at the end of life [[electronic resource] ] : facing an uncertain future together / / Timothy E. Quill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-280-83481-1

9786610834815

0-19-974891-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

362.1/75

Soggetti

Terminal care

Palliative treatment

Physician and patient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Challenges and Potential of End-of-Life Care; Part 1. Underlying Values and Assumptions; 1. Same Old Seventeen-Dollar Lamps; 2. Humanistic End-of-Life Care; 3. Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making; 4. Partnerships in the Care of the Dying; 5. Nonabandonment: A Central Obligation of Physicians; Part 2. The Medical Interview: A Critical Clinical Tool; 6. Delivering Bad News; 7. Discussing Palliative Care with Patients; 8. Palliative Care for Patients with Severe Dementia: A Consensus-Based Approach to Decision Making

9. ""Doctor, I Want to Die! Will You Help Me?""Part 3. Difficult Clinical and Ethical Issues; 10. Hospice and Palliative Care: Clinical, Ethical, and Policy Challenges; 11. The Rule of Double Effect: A Critique of Its Role in End-of-Life Decision Making; 12. Palliative Options of Last Resort: A Comparison of Practices, Justifications, and Safeguards; 13. End-of-Life Care in the Netherlands and the United States: A Comparison of Values, Justifications, and Practices; Epilogue: All About My Brother; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

In this work the author uses his clinical experience caring for severely ill patients and their families to illustrate the challenges and potential



of end-of-life care. Topics covered include near death experiences, communication issues, ethical and policy changes, and terminal sedation.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969621703321

Titolo

New perspectives on prehistoric art / / edited by Günter Berghaus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2004

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024

ISBN

9798400691171

9786612409158

9781282409156

1282409158

9780313059575

0313059578

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BerghausGünter <1953->

Disciplina

709/.01

Soggetti

Art, Prehistoric

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-254) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; The Discovery and Study of Prehistoric Art; Consciousness, Intelligence, and Art: A View of the West European Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition; Hunter-Gatherer Imagery in Aboriginal Australia: Interpreting Rock Art by Informed and Formal Methods; Cyclical Nucleation and Sacred Space: Rock Art at the Center; Women in Prehistoric Art; Art in Human Evolution; Paleoperformance: Investigating the Human Use of Caves in the Upper Paleolithic; Rock Art and Rock Sites as Indicators of Prehistoric Theater and Ritual Performances; European Modernism and the Arts of Prehistory

Selective BibliographyIndex; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Following the discovery of Franco-Caribbean cave art in the nineteenth century, standard interpretations of these works usually revolved



around hunting, magic, and fertility cults.  Orthodox positions such as these have weighed heavily on later generations of art historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, even those whose views dissented from those of their predecessors.  In the last few decades, however, new approaches to cave art, often based on discoveries made in Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and the Arctic region, have produced new insights into possible meanings and funct