Palliative Care and Communication: Experiences in the Clinic
Palliative Care and Communication: Experiences in the Clinic Books
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In Palliative Care and Communication, the author seeks explanations for the sense of optimism about recovery that terminal patients with small-cell bronchial carcinoma – or lung cancer – have. Over a period of five years, she used ethnographic research methods to watch the illness processes of patients from the time of the consultation during which they received the terrible news until their death, from the perspectives of the various people caught up: the patient, the patient’s family and relatives, the doctors and the nursing staff. Based on narrative descriptions, interspersed with observations, the author makes it clear ‘why things happen the way they do in do.’ The book also gives an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and roles of those caught up: informal codes, ambiguous messages, the dilemma between professional detachment and private involvement, the patterns of in rank and communication during the various phases of the illness, the latent realization of approaching death, and the ambivalence of patients with regard to ‘knowing and not knowing.’
The author’s informal writing style and extensive use of narrative make this book accessible to a wide range of readers: doctors, nurses, policy-makers, patients, relatives, researchers in the field of health care, and social scientists. It is apposite for use on various branches of medical and nursing training, and in further education, to illustrate the administer of communication with patients during their terminal phase. It is also not compulsory reading for professionals who are caught up in palliative care and the regulation of informed consent.
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