Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions
Facing Death is a unique handbook for educators, healthcare professionals and counselors. It uses materials from the visual arts, excerpts from poetry, fiction, drama, and examples from popular culture to sensitize the reader to important, universal issues confronting the dying, and those responsible for their care.
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Facing Death is a unique handbook for educators, healthcare professionals and counselors. It uses materials from the visual arts, excerpts from poetry, fiction, drama, and examples from popular culture to sensitize the reader to important, universal issues confronting the dying, and those responsible for their care.Nursing TimesIt is hard to know what to praise the most. The writing is perceptive, caring, insightful, helpful, and challenging. The illustrations, poems, quotations, and paintings afford insights into terminal illness and death that textbooks and lectures never could on their own. The three sections of the book are uniformly superb.
\ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross... an excellent teaching tool...especially recommended for health care professionals and counselors who work with terminally ill patients and people who are facing imminent death.\ \ \ \ \ Nursing TimesIt is hard to know what to praise the most. The writing is perceptive, caring, insightful, helpful, and challenging. The illustrations, poems, quotations, and paintings afford insights into terminal illness and death that textbooks and lectures never could on their own. The three sections of the book are uniformly superb.\ \ \ BooknewsBertman director, Program in Medical Humanities, U. of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester uses materials from the visual arts, excerpts from poetry, fiction, and drama, and examples from pop- culture to help sensitize readers to important universal issues confronting the dying and those responsible for their care. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR booknews.com\ \
