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Communication as Comfort

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Multiple Voices in Palliative Care

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Multiple Voices in Palliative Care
BySandra L. Ragan, Elaine M. Wittenberg-Lyles, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra Sanchez Reilly
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2008
eBook Published 18 March 2008
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203938676
Pages 184
eBook ISBN 9780203938676
Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Communication Studies
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Ragan, S.L., Wittenberg-Lyles, E.M., Goldsmith, J., & Sanchez Reilly, S. (2008). Communication as Comfort: Multiple Voices in Palliative Care (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203938676

ABSTRACT

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 model that informs much communication between seriously 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 designed 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 explain 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 (physical, psychological, social, and spiritual) during life-threatening illness.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|19 pages

The communication of palliative care

chapter 2|14 pages

The history and practice of palliative care

chapter 3|23 pages

The patient’s perspective

chapter 4|30 pages

The medical perspective

chapter 5|21 pages

The family/caregiver perspective

chapter 6|22 pages

The health care team’s perspective

chapter 7|19 pages

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