Anthropology of Dying

• Author : Mira Menzfeld
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 10 October 2017

Mira Menzfeld explores dying persons’ experiences of their own dying processes. She reveals cultural specificities of pre-exital dying in contemporary Germany, paying special attention to how concepts of dying ‘(un)well’ are perceived and realized by dying persons. Her methodological focus centers on classical ethnographic approaches: Close participant observation as well as informal and semi-structured conversations. For a better understanding of the specificities of dying in contemporary Germany, the author provides a refined definition catalogue of adequate terms to describe

• Author : Klaus Häger,Olaf Krause
• Publisher : Fischer Gustav Verlag GmbH & Company KG
• Release : 01 November 2017

Für alle Nicht-Geriater, die sich mit dem Thema Altersmedizin vertraut machen möchten, ohne zu tief einzusteigen, hält ELSEVIER ESSENTIALS Geriatrie genau das richtige Wissen bereit. Kurze Kapitel, Tabellen, Algorithmen, Kästen z.B. zur Evidenz, Merkekästen u.v.m. machen es dem Leser leicht, die Inhalte zu bewältigen und Zusammenhänge schnell zu erfassen. Geriatrische Patienten stellen für alle in der hausärztlichen Versorgung tätigen Ärzte eine große Herausforderung dar. Häufig

• Author : Cornelia M. Ulrich,Karen Steindorf,Nathan A. Berger
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 10 October 2012

​​ While it is well established that the worldwide pandemic of overweight and obesity has profound effects on promoting cancer, it is now recognized that an alternative aspect of energy balance, namely physical activity and exercise have significant beneficial effects on all aspects of cancer across the spectrum from prevention through treatment and extending through survivorship. Moreover, salutary effects of physical activity and exercise extend across the age span from youth to old age and occur at all stages of cancer

• Author : Anna-Henrikje Seidlein
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 27 January 2022

• Author : Peter Ammann
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release : 01 January 2012

This research is an extensive survey and the first explorative empirical study of awareness in comatose states and the possibility of contact and communication with comatose patients in a neurological intensive care unit setting using Process-oriented Coma Work methods developed by Arnold Mindell. Practical and ethical consequences will be discussed.

• Author : Johann Ch. Student,Albert Mühlum,Ute Student
• Publisher : UTB
• Release : 12 September 2016

• Author : Ute Goerling,Anja Mehnert
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 18 September 2017

This book examines in detail the psychosocial impacts of cancer and its management, explaining the relevance of psycho-oncology during all stages from diagnosis and treatment through to cancer survivorship and rehabilitation and end-of-life care. This new edition has been revised throughout to reflect the latest knowledge and places particular emphasis on patients’ perspectives and what professionals can learn from patients. Readers will find information on a variety of psycho-oncological interventions, and detailed attention is paid to quality of life and

• Author : Reimer Gronemeyer
• Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
• Release : 27 January 2022

A comprehensive analysis of today's situation of palliative care in Europe is provided, including previously unidentified statistics and standardized profiles of sixteen European countries. The analysis contains demographics, the history of hospice and palliative care, the number of current services, funding, education, and training of professional staff and the role of volunteers, with an in-depth case portrayal of particular services. Reimer Gronemeyer is professor of sociology at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen (Germany). Michaela Fink, a sociologist, is working with Gronemeyer

• Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 January 2022

• Author : Monika Renz
• Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Release : 21 March 2016

Conventional coping strategies can be pushed to their limits when people find themselves in situations of suffering, illness, and dying. Moved beyond their everyday consciousness, individuals often have spiritual experiences of grace and encounters with the transcendent or the divine. The author shows how care providers can support patients in their suffering and how they can recognize patients' spiritual experiences. Explaining different types of experiences of transcendence such as seeing angels or feelings of otherness and presence, this book will

• Author : Manfred Cassens,Zsófia Kollányi,Aleksandar Tsenov
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 16 February 2022

In recent decades, policymakers all over the world have sought to strengthen the meaning and effect of public, non-medical healthcare. This publication is the result of the research initiation project »Arteria Danubia ‒ Analysis and Discussion on the Implementation of Model Health Regions in the Upper and Lower Reaches of the Danube« (2017 to 2019), which focused on healthcare in Bulgaria, Germany and Hungary. In this book, researchers from the participating universities and organizations explore the topic of public health in all its

• Author : Michael M. Kochen
• Publisher : Springer-Verlag
• Release : 12 March 2013

In dem Buch werden sowohl von allgemeinärztlicher wie von klinisch-pharmakologischer Seite die Möglichkeiten, aber auch die Grenzen rationaler Arzneimitteltherapie in der primärärztlichen Praxis dargestellt; insbesondere werden die Rahmenbedingungen und Probleme des Umgangs mit Arzneimitteln in der Allgemeinpraxis behandelt, die sich in vielen Bereichen von denen der medikamentösen Therapie im Krankenhaus erheblich unterscheiden. Das Buch markiert einen neuen Anfang bei der langfristigen Kooperation zwischen Allgemeinärzten und klinischen Pharmakologen zur Optimierung der Arzneimitteltherapie in der Praxis.

• Author : Die deutsche Nationalbibliothek
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 January 2022

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 January 1893

• Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 January 1985

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.