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UNINA9910792245103321 |
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Quill Timothy E |
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Caring for patients at the end of life [[electronic resource] ] : facing an uncertain future together / / Timothy E. Quill |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
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1-280-83481-1 |
9786610834815 |
0-19-974891-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Terminal care |
Palliative treatment |
Physician and patient |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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In this work the author uses his clinical experience caring for severely ill patients and their families to illustrate the challenges and potential |
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of end-of-life care. Topics covered include near death experiences, communication issues, ethical and policy changes, and terminal sedation. |
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UNINA9910969621703321 |
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New perspectives on prehistoric art / / edited by Günter Berghaus |
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Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2004 |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024 |
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9798400691171 |
9786612409158 |
9781282409156 |
1282409158 |
9780313059575 |
0313059578 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-254) and index. |
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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 |
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Following the discovery of Franco-Caribbean cave art in the nineteenth century, standard interpretations of these works usually revolved |
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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 |
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