Final Acts

Gerry R. Cox (Author) ,  Robert G. Stevenson (Author)

• ForewordPreface Acknowledgments SECTION 1 Professional Applications in End-of-Life CareCHAPTER 1 Existential Empathy: Caregiver Understanding of Patients’ Religious Beliefs at the End-of-LifeJoseph M. Currier, Miyoung Yoon Hammer, and Robert A. NeimeyerCHAPTER 2 Attachments and Losses: Individual and Global PerspectivesColin Murray ParkesCHAPTER 3 The Private Worlds of Professionals, Teams, and Organizations in Palliative CareDanai PapadatouCHAPTER 4 Honoring Relationship in Pediatric Palliative CareKathie KoblerCHAPTER 5 Meeting the Stress Challenge Neil Thompson and Denise BevanCHAPTER 6 When Birth and Death Collide: Best Practices in End-of-Life at the BeginningLori Ives-Baine, Jessica Faust, Jessica Drewry, Jatinder Kalra, Michael Marshall, Roop Johal, and Alyson MayneSECTION 2 Facing End-of-Life and Its CareCHAPTER 7 To Be is To Be, and the Do-ing Should FollowRichard B. GilbertCHAPTER 8 Stepping Through the Looking Glass into “Cancer World” Kent KoppelmanCHAPTER 9 The Psycho-Spiritual Side of Palliative Care: Two Stories and Ten Transformations Toward Healing Douglas C. Smith and Conley M. PotterCHAPTER 10 "And the Sun Refused to Shine" Susan AdamsCHAPTER 11 The Experience of Dying in Prison Nicole PizziniCHAPTER 12 The "Other" Kind of Pain: Understanding Suicide in the Context of End-of-Life CareJanet S. McCordCHAPTER 13 The End of Life: Two Perspectives Robert G. StevensonSECTION 3 Cultural ConsiderationsCHAPTER 14 Palliative Care is a Human RightStephen R. ConnorCHAPTER 15 Spirituality in End-of-Life Care: A Roman Catholic Perspective Gerry R. Cox and Rev. Christopher W. CoxCHAPTER 16 Grief and the American Indian Gerry R. Cox and Andrea R. SullivanCHAPTER 17 “It Will Do When I Am Dying”: Navigating the Nuances of Fundamentalist Christianity’s Understandings of Death and DyingHarold Ivan SmithMeet the Contributors Index