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Few Months to Live
Staton, Jana; Shuy, Roger W.; Byock, Ira
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Description for Few Months to Live
Paperback. Documenting a study of end-of-life experiences that included detailed conversations in home care settings, this book focuses on how participants lived their daily lives, understood their illnesses, coped with symptoms - especially pain - and searched for meaning or spiritual growth in their final months of life. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
"A Few Months to Live" describes what dying is like from the perspectives of nine terminally ill individuals and their caregivers. Documenting a unique study of end-of-life experiences that included detailed conversations in home care settings, the book focuses on how participants lived their daily lives, understood their illnesses, coped with symptoms - especially pain - and searched for meaning or spiritual growth in their final months of life. The accounts are presented largely in the participants' own words, illuminating both the medical and non-medical challenges that arose from the time each learned the "bad news" through their final days ... Read more
"A Few Months to Live" describes what dying is like from the perspectives of nine terminally ill individuals and their caregivers. Documenting a unique study of end-of-life experiences that included detailed conversations in home care settings, the book focuses on how participants lived their daily lives, understood their illnesses, coped with symptoms - especially pain - and searched for meaning or spiritual growth in their final months of life. The accounts are presented largely in the participants' own words, illuminating both the medical and non-medical challenges that arose from the time each learned the "bad news" through their final days ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9780878408412
SKU
V9780878408412
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About Staton, Jana; Shuy, Roger W.; Byock, Ira
Jana Staton is a researcher with the Missoula Demonstration Project, a community-wide effort in Missoula, Montana to study and transform end-of-life experience and care. She is author of Listening to Families. Roger Shuy is Distinguished Research Professor of Linguistics Emeritus at Georgetown University. He is author of Bureaucratic Language of Government and Business. Ira Byock, MD, ... Read more
Reviews for Few Months to Live
"A minute, unsparing, yet tender study that gets closer to the thoughts and feelings of the dying (and those around them) than any comparable research known to me.... A very important book, which must be compared to Sherwin Nuland's How We Die." - Oliver Sacks, author of Awakenings"