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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.
Descriptionxv, 525 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Abstract:"Provides basic consumer health information about management of end-of-life symptoms, caregiving and facility evaluation, and legal and economic issues associated with end-of-life. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:9780780814967 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN:0780814967 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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