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The purpose of this volume is to ask and propose a positive answer to the question: "Can we attend to the personhood of individuals within systems and cultures which are mass oriented?" One of the most interesting changes in contemporary thinking has been the emphasis on the unique person. While the distinction between a person (a unique rational being) and individual (one of several similar things) has long existed, it is in the twentieth century that we seem to have become fully conscious of this distinction. There is good reason for such as emphasis today. Repeatedly in this century the...

Compassionate communities are communities that provide assistance for those in need of end of life care, separate from any official heath service provision that may already be available within the community. This idea was developed in 2005 in Allan Kellehear’s seminal volume- Compassionate Cities: Public Health and End of Life Care. In the ensuing ten years the theoretical aspects of the idea have been continually explored, primarily rehearsing academic concerns rather than practical ones.

Although I have been a hospice nurse for almost 19 years, I am not a counselor. However, I will be able to use some of the information I learned here to assist my patients and my colleagues with issues encountered during the difficult time when patients are dying and families are struggling with realities. I will definitely share this book with our bereavement counselors and social workers." Score: 90, 4 stars

--Doody's

T]his is a√nbook about possibilities-not finalities...about all the different ways that people deal with loss and...

Die Steigerung menschlicher Fahigkeiten hat die Menschheit schon seit jeher beschaftigt. Die heute noch strittige Debatte befasst sich in erster Linie mit dem vielfaltigen Bereich nicht indizierter arztlicher Manahmen zur Steigerung der menschlichen Leistungsfahigkeit, Verschonerung, Verbesserung und Selbststilisierung, einem Bereich, der in der einschlagigen Literatur umfassend mit "Enhancement" bezeichnet wird.

Die rechtswissenschaftliche Debatte zur "wunscherfullenden Medizin" oder "Wunschmedizin" steht erst ganz am Anfang. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinrecht (DGMR) e.V....

Reflecting on the author's experiences as a music-thanatologist, Jennifer Hollis's "Music at the End of Life: Easing the Pain and Preparing the Passage" is an enlightening and emotional examination of the ways in which the experience of dying can be transformed with music.

"Music at the End of Life" highlights the unique role music has come to play in hospice and palliative medicine. Jennifer Hollis interweaves narrative memoir, the personal experiences of fellow music-thanatologists and caregivers, and extensive research to demonstrate the transformative power of music when curing is...