Product Description

Palliative care is spreading beyond its original hospice base to encompass care in the community, in hospitals, health centres, clinics and nursing homes. What challenges does this multidisciplinary speciality face as it seeks to combine high grade pain and symptom control with sensitive psychological, spiritual and social care? Addressing many such issues, this book, will be readily accessible to students of health and social care as well as to those involved in purchasing or providing palliative care services, and to social scientists interested in chronic illness, death and dying.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1020030 in Books
• Published on: 1997-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 306 pages

Review
"The 300 pages of this book are packed with information oninternational developments in palliative care." - Community Care "This book is a must for all those working in thefield, an interesting read for others working across the spectrum of health care and core reading for students from a wide range of disciplines studying health policy, sociology and health care delivery, as wemove into the 21st century." - Information Exchange "In terms of student suitability, I would recommend the text for two main reasons. First, it is rich in detail and analysis of developments in palliative care...Second, it allows the students to see howsocial science based ideas and concepts can be applied to the 'real world'...In overall terms, this text should be a valuable resource for social scientists and practitioners alike. It's bias is towards the latter audience, but I would still urge social science students and researchers interested in death and dying to look at what, I believe, is avery informative and reasonably priced little book." - Medical Sociology News

About the Author
David Clark has wide-ranging interests in the sociology of health, illness and family life. He is currently Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Sheffield.
Jo Hockley trained as a nurse at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London and has specialized in palliative care for many years. She is currently a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist with the palliative care team at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.
Sam Ahmedzai was appointed to the chair of Palliative Medicine at the University of Sheffield in 1994, following nine years as Medical Director of the Leicestershire Hospice; he has a particular interest in quality of life issues.

Customer Reviews

Excellent overview of a rapidly moving field
David Clark has observed and commented on palliative care matters from the objectivity of an academic. However, he takes trouble to get under the skins of the practitioners and recipiants of such care. He is able to provide very valuable advice, which we all should listen to carefully.