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Death and dying sourcebook : basic consumer health information about end-of-life care and related perspectives and ethical issues, including end-of-life symptoms and treatments, pain management, quality-of-life concerns, the use of life support, patients' rights and privacy issues, advance directives, physician-assisted suicide, caregiving, organ and tissue donation, autopsies, funeral arrangements, and grief ; along with statistical data, information about the leading causes of death, a glossary, and directories of support groups and other resources / edited by Joyce Brennfleck Shannon.
ImprintDetroit, MI : Omnigraphics, c2006.
Descriptionxvi, 653 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Note: ContentEnd-of-life perspectives -- Medical management of end-of-life symptoms -- Medical decisions surrounding the end of life -- End-of-life care facilities -- End-of-life caregiving -- Death and children : information for parents -- Legal and economic issues at the end of life -- Final arrangements -- Mortality statistics -- Additional help and information.
Abstract:"Provides basic consumer health information about end-of-life care and related issues. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--Provided by publisher.
ISBN:0780808711 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN:9780780808713 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN:9780780808713
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