End-Of-Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary BoundariesDonald E. Gelfand, PhD, Richard Raspa, PhD, Sherylyn H. Briller, PhD, Stephanie Myers Schim, PhD, RN, APRN, CNAA, BC Springer Publishing Company, 2005 M05 2 - 256 pages End-of-life experiences are often viewed in terms of only one perspective such as medicine. In this volume, a variety of end-of life experiences are presented and each case is analyzed from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. These range across a broad array of the helping professions, and disciplines such as information, law and the social sciences. The book provides a variety of narratives about end-of-life experiences contributed by members of the Wayne State University End-of-Life Interdisciplinary Project. Each of the narratives is then analyzed from several different disciplinary perspectives. These analyzes illustrate how specific end-of-life narratives can be viewed from different dimensions and helps students, researchers and practitioners see the important and varied meanings that end-of-life experiences have at the level of the individual, the family, and the community. The narratives include end-of-life experiences of individuals from a number of diverse backgrounds. |
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... Children's Hospital of Michigan and a clinical associate professor at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Among her areas of expertise are craniofacial abnormalities, epilepsy, hydrocephalus, and tumors of the spinal cord and ...
... Child House Society Boys' Home. Ms. Harris requested that Malika's name be used to tell her story and agreed to share her personal perspective in tribute to her daughter's memory. Allison M. Kabel is a PhD candidate in anthropology at ...
... Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit. She is a clinical researcher with special interests in end-of-life care and ... child and family services at Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit. She is an ordained Unitarian Universalist ...
... child. Peter Wolf, MSW, MDiv, is a clinical pediatric social worker in private practice, specializing in children's issues of loss, abuse, and trauma. He also works with the Hospice of Michigan pediatric team. Reverend Wolf is a ...
... children and different ethnic groups, including Native Americans and African Americans. Death stories of veterans and the homeless are included as well. As a teacher, I know how much easier it is to hold a class's attention with case ...
Contents
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An Ojibwa Journey | 51 |
Gifts and Givers | 64 |
Living and Dying Well | 77 |
Family Dynamite | 92 |
Defining a Person | 105 |
Surviving EndofLife Care | 134 |
Family Choices and Challenges | 148 |
Trouble With God and Family | 156 |
Homeless and at Home | 168 |
Culture and Karma | 177 |
A Spectrum of Palliation | 189 |
16 Boundaries and Bridges | 209 |
Tattoos and Tolerance | 120 |