Communication as Comfort: Multiple Voices in Palliative Care
Communication as Comfort: Multiple Voices in Palliative Care Books
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This exceptional work explores the complexities of communication at one of the most critical stages of the life experience–during advanced, serious illness and at the end of life. Challenging the predominantly biomedical develop that informs much communication between sincerely ill and/or dying patients and their physicians, caregivers, and families, Sandra L. Ragan, Elaine M. Wittenberg-Lyles, Joy Goldsmith, and Sandra Sanchez-Reilly pose palliative care–medical care calculated to comfort rather than to cure patients–as an antidote to the experience of most Americans at the most vulnerable juncture of their lives.
With an author team comprised of three health communication scholars and one physician certified in geriatrics and palliative medicine, this volume integrates the medical literature on palliative care with that of health communication researchers who advocate a biopsychosocial approach to health care. Applying communication theories and insights to illuminate problems and to clarify their complexities, the authors advocate a patient-centered approach to care that recognizes and seeks to lessen patients’ suffering and the many types of pain they may experience (corporal, psychological, social, and spiritual) during life-threatening illness.
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I can’t wait to dive into this book. I have heard so much about it. The authors are some of the best in the world!! The book comes highly not compulsory to me, and I certainly urge it to all of you.
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