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Care at the End of Life : An Economic Perspective
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ISBN: 3319282662 3319282670 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Adis,

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This work carefully guides the reader through the methodological, policy and ethical challenges facing health economists conducting research in palliative care. It has collected the opinions of many cutting-edge researchers. Those who design and conduct economic evaluations or economics-related research in end of life populations will find this book thought provoking, instructive and informative. The provision of care to individuals with disorders associated with advancing age, such as cancer and dementia, is an increasing concern amongst policy makers and providers of health and social care. Accordingly, the burden on state and private funders in providing care to patients with these complex illnesses is of growing importance to health economists. However, answering the questions raised by the research community on end of life and palliative care health economics has received little attention. The authors shed light on many questions including: Are economic evaluation methods fit for purpose in patients at the end of life? What is the best way to measure and value health outcomes in this population? What are the appropriate societal rules to govern resource allocation for people at the end of life? Are these people more or less deserving of resources than other patients? Does age matter? How can we define a good death for the purposes of resource allocation decision making? What ethics govern research in end of life patients?


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A Guide to Psychosocial and Spiritual Care at the End of Life
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ISBN: 1493968025 1493968041 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,

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Psychological, social, and spiritual care is as important as physical care at the end of life. Yet caregivers often feel ill-equipped to give that nonphysical care. This book shows how to do it. The book addresses all caregivers who attend dying patients: doctors, nurses, chaplains, clergy in the pastorate, social workers, clinical psychologists, family caregivers, and others. It covers such topics as the functional and emotional trajectories of dying; the varied approaches of patients and caregivers to end-of-life decisions; culturally based beliefs about dying; the differences between depression and grief; and people’s views about the right time to die, the death experience itself, and the afterlife. For each topic the book introduces core concepts and summarizes recent research about them. The book presents much of its material in readable tables for easy reference; applies the material to real-life cases; lists the main “take home” points for each chapter; and gives references for additional reading. The book helps caregivers anticipate the reactions of patients and survivors to end-of-life traumas and suggests how caregivers can respond insightfully and compassionately. At the same time the book challenges caregivers to think through their own views about death and dying. This book, therefore, is a must-read for all caregivers―professional and nonprofessional alike―who strive to give their patients comprehensive, high-quality end-of-life care.


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Death in the Middle Ages and early modern time
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ISBN: 9783110436976 9783110442304 9783110434873 3110442302 3110436973 3110434873 9783110436983 3110436981 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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"Death has never been a simple matter, neither for the victim/s nor for the survivors. All societies have deeply struggled with the issue of death and have found material and spiritual answers in response to death. The medieval and early modern world had to cope with the same questions, but found its own characteristic answers, as the contributions to this volume illustrate in a myriad of approaches"--Provided by publisher.


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Visualizing the afterlife in the tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt
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ISBN: 9781107048089 9781107256576 9781107626669 1316465608 1316464431 1316466388 1107256577 1316463656 1316464040 1107048087 1107626668 1316461319 9781316466384 9781316465608 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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"Lost in Egypt's honeycombed hills, distanced by its western desert, or rendered inaccessible by subsequent urban occupation, the monumental decorated tombs of the Graeco-Roman period have received little scholarly attention. By the early first decade of the twenty-first century none had been subjected to critical analysis or interpretation, and most had largely been ignored. This volume serves to redress this deficiency. It explores the narrative pictorial programs of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman-period Egypt (ca. 300 BCE - 250 CE). Its aim is to recognize the tombs' commonalities and differences across ethnic divides and to determine the rationale that lies behind these connections and dissonances, as it sets the tomb programs within their social, political, and religious context and analyzes the manner in which the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt chose to negotiate death and the afterlife"--

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Narrative art --- Tombs --- Death --- Decoration and ornament --- Cultural pluralism --- Tombeaux --- Mort --- Décoration et ornement --- Art narratif --- Diversité culturelle --- Social aspects --- History --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Egypt --- Egypte --- Antiquities. --- Ethnic relations --- Religious life and customs. --- Antiquités --- Relations interethniques --- Vie religieuse --- Art, Decorative --- Decorative art --- Decorative design --- Design, Decorative --- Nature in ornament --- Ornament --- Painting, Decorative --- Art --- Decorative arts --- Arts and crafts movement --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Mastabas --- Philosophy --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Antiquities --- Religious life and customs --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Art, Narrative --- Narrative art (Visual arts) --- Art genres --- Decoration and ornament, Primitive --- Tombs - Egypt --- Death - Social aspects - Egypt - History - To 1500 --- Decoration and ornament - Egypt - History - To 1500 --- Narrative art - Egypt - History - To 1500 --- Cultural pluralism - Egypt - History - To 1500 --- Egypt - Antiquities --- Egypt - History - Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D. --- Egypt - Ethnic relations - History - To 1500 --- Egypt - Religious life and customs

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