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• Title:Reflections on palliative care / David Clark, Jane Seymour.
  
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• Author/Creator:Clark, David, 1953-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Seymour, Jane, 1958-
  
• Published/Created:Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1999.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB310 .C537 1999
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Great Britain. National Health Service.
  Palliative treatment--Sociological aspects.
  Palliative treatment--Political aspects.
  Terminal care--Sociological aspects.
  Terminal care--Political aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Palliative Care--psychology.
  Terminal Care--psychology.
  Health Policy.
  
• Description:viii, 213 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Facing death.
  
• Summary:By drawing on a wide range of sources Clark and Seymour offer a set of reflections on the development of palliative care and its place within a wider social context. This work considers ethical questions and palliative care's history too.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-210) and index.
  
• ISBN:0335194559
  9780335194551
  0335194540 (pbk.)
  9780335194544 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. The social meaning of death and suffering
  Ch. 2. Ageing, dying, and grieving
  Ch. 3. The ethics of dying
  Ch. 4. History and development
  Ch. 5. Definitions, components, meanings
  Ch. 6. Routinization and medicalization
  Ch. 7. Policy development and palliative care
  Ch. 8. The delivery of palliative care services
  Ch. 9. The future for palliative care.