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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- About the Contributors -- Preface -- Part 1 Religion, Spirituality, and Palliative Care -- 1 Defining Death Through Individual-Level Determinants -- 2 Finding Dignity at the End of Life Through Palliative Care Everywhere: A Spiritual Reflection on a Clinical Area -- 3 Cultural Factors Enriching Palliative Care in the Middle East -- 4 A Jewish Understanding of Palliative Care: Reclaiming the Healing Process -- 5 Palliative Care: A Hindu Perspective -- 6 Palliative Care: A Christian Perspective -- 7 A Nontraditional Spirituality Perspective on Palliative Care and End of Life -- Part 2 Palliative Care and Practice -- 8 Pain, Suffering, and Palliative Sedation -- 9 Compassionate Presence: The Accompaniment of Patients and Families in the Midst of Their Suffering -- 10 Evidence-Based Communication in the Palliative Conversation: Ways of Restoring Dignity by Simple Actions -- 11 Holy Name Meditation: A Spiritual Intervention to Conserve the Dignity of Patients and Nurses -- 12 Disclosure of Diagnosis to Patients: The Casualty of Incomplete Health Setups for Palliative Care -- Part 3 New Direction on Palliative Care -- 13 Challenges to Dignity From Medically Assisted Death: Lessons From Canada -- 14 Health Policy Considerations for Spiritual Care in the United States -- 15 Pediatrics and Aging: Palliative Care -- 16 International Palliative Care Advocacy: Spiritual and Secular Ethics -- 17 Dignity Redefined: Mindfulness in Suffering -- Conclusions -- Index.

Finding Dignity at the End of Life discusses the need for palliative care as a human right and explores a whole-person methodology for use in treatment. The book examines the concept of palliative care as a holistic human right from the perspective of multiple aspects of faith, ideology, culture, and nationality. Integrating a humanities-based approach, chapters provide detailed discussions of spirituality, suffering, and healing from scholars from around the world. Within each chapter, the authors address a different cultural and religious focus by examining how this topic relates to questions of inherent dignity, both ethically and theologically, and how different spiritual lenses may inform our interpretation of medical outcomes. Mental health practitioners, allied professionals, and theologians will find this a useful and reflective guide to palliative care and its connection to faith, spirituality, and culture.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.