Suffering

Learn to help others understand, cope with, and even overcome emotional and physical suffering. Suffering: Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care is a unique and insightful volume of observations, anecdotes, and case studies about suffering. In this important book, doctors, nurses, teachers, funeral directors, and members of the clergy discuss the crucial physical, emotional, and psychological issues that patients and their families must confront when death is imminent. They address a variety of topics including terminal illness, chronic illness, loss, grief, and pain. Ideal for professionals who work with dying people and their families, Suffering highlights topics that are particularly common when working with AIDS patients, cancer patients, children, the elderly, and the mentally ill.

Robert DeBellis, Eric Marcus, Austin H. Kutscher, Carole Smith Torres, Virginia Barrett, Mary-Ellen Siegel

Chapter 1 Patients' Wants and Needs: The Physicians' Responses, William F. Finn; Chapter 2 Suffering and Autonomy, Frances L. Drew; Chapter 3 The Dying Patient: Physician's Suffering, Sally K. Severino, Richard Friedman, Pamela Moore; Chapter 4 Suffering, Thanatology, and Whole-Person Medicine, Lewis Penhall Bird; Chapter 5 The Pain of the Physician, Richard S. Blacher; Chapter 6 Repetitive Existential Plight: The Emotional Impact of Recurrent Serious lliness, Robert Lynn; Chapter 7 Suffering in Chronic Mental Illness, Francine Cournos; Chapter 8 Reflections on Suffering Prompted by ALS, Claire F. Leach, John Kelemen; Chapter 9 Suffering and End Stage Renal Disease, Kenneth Trachy; Chapter 10 Cancer Patients and Radiotherapy: Close Encounters of a Third Kind, Lynda R. Mandell, Tapan Hazra, Henry L. Tomlin; Chapter 11 Experiences in a Hospice: The AIDS Patient, Sister Patrice Murphy; Chapter 12 Suffering, Leonard M. Liegner; Chapter 13 Home Care for the Dying Child with Cancer: Feasibility and Desirability, Ida M. Martinson; Chapter 14 Euthanasia and Moral Stress, Bernard E. Rollin; Chapter 15 On the Value of Suffering in the Shadow of Death, David Wendell Moller; Chapter 16 Suffering and Pain, Martin H. Blitzer; Chapter 17 Death and Growth: The Problem of Pain, Allen P. Fertziger; Chapter 18 The Child and Suffering: The Role of the School, Robert G. Stevenson; Chapter 19 Spiritual Support for the Suffering: Clergy Attitudes Toward Bereavement, Kenneth J. Doka, Michael Jendreski; Chapter 20 A Pastoral View of Widowhood, Carole Smith Torres; Chapter 21 Push Back the Curtain of Darkness, T. Earl Yarborough; Chapter 22 Aspects of Anxiety: Financial Concerns When Death Is Imminent, Gerald Rosner; Chapter 23 Suffering and the Quest for Meaning, Jeffrey A. Watson; Chapter 24 "And Day Brought Back My Night", Elizabeth K. Hill;