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Death and Dying, Life and Living Links and Biblio:  Health Care and Nursing Issues in Caring for People with Life-Altering, Chronic, and Terminal Illnesses


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See also Aging; AIDS; Alzheimers/Dementia; Cancer; Caregiving, Children and Dying; Chronic Illness; Dying Process Diversity/Equity;  Ethics; Grief; Hospice; Life Threatening and Prolonged Illnesses;

Nursing Homes and Assisted Living; Palliative Care; Respiratory; Sickle Cell Disease; Stroke,

 

For a detailed bibliography on Diversity issues in health care download pdf: http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~kfowler/divsocjusticebibhealth.pdf

 

Baird, Robert M.  and Stuart E. Rosenbaum.  Caring for the Dying:  Critical Issues at the Edge of Life.  2002.  R7268 .C3857 2003

Barrick, A. L.  et al. (Eds.). Bathing without a battle : person-directed care of individuals with dementia.  2nd ed.  New York : Springer Pub,  RC521 .B38 2008

Burkhardt, M. ., Nathaniel, A. (2002).  Ethics and issues in contemporary nursing.  Delmar/Thomson.

Callahan, Maggie and Patricia Kelley.  Final Gifts:  Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying.  1997.  BF787 .O4 C25 1997

Callahan, M. & Kelley, P. (2008).  Final Journeys:  A practical guide for bringing comfort at the end of life.  NY: Bantam. 

Cluff, Leighton E.  and Robert H. Binstock.  Lost Art of Caring: A Challenge to Health Professionals, Families, Communities, and Society.  2001.  RT42 .L67 2001.

Coberly, Margaret, Ph.D., R. N.  Sacred Passage:  How to Provide Fearless Compassionate Care for the Dying. 2003.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael.  Right to Die with Dignity: An Argument in Ethics, Medicine and Law.  2001.  R726 .C635 2001

Doka, K. J.  (2009).  Counseling individuals with life-threatening illness.  NY: Springer. 

Doka, K. J. (Ed.).  (2007). Living with grief:  Before and after the death. Washington, D. C.: HFA.

Dorff, E. Matters of Life and Death:  A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics.  1998.

Ebrahim, A. Organ Transplantation, Euthanasia, Cloning and Animal Experimentation: An Islamic View.  2001.

End-of-life: A nurses’s guide to compassionate care.  (2007).  Ambler, Pa:  Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.

Feldman, D. B. & Lasher, S. A. (2007).  The end-of-life handbook:  A compassionate guide to connecting with and caring for a dying loved one.  Oakland, CA:  New Harbinger Pub.

Field, Marilyn J. and Christine K. Cassel, eds.  Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. Washington, D. C.: National Academy Press, 1997.  Electronic book via library catalog.

Galanti, Geri-Ann.  Caring for Patients from Different Cultures.  2004.  RT86.54 .G53 2004.

Giger, J. N. & Davidhizar, R. E. eds. (2004).  Transcultural nursing : Assessment & intervention . 4th ed. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

Gilbert,  R.  Healthcare and Spirituality:  Listening, Assessing Caring.  2002.

Griffith, William H.  More than a Parting Prayer:  Lessons in Caregiving for the Dying.  2004.

Halifax, J. (2008).  Being with dying:  Cultivating compassion and fearlessness in the presence of death.  Boston:  Shambala.

Hall, E. Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's Disease:  A Christian Perspective. 2000.

Harakas, S. Health and Medicine in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition.  1990

Ikeda, Daisaku, Guy Bourgeault, Rene Simard.  On Being Human:  Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge.  2003. BQ4570 .M4 1324 2003

Kinghorn, S., & Gaines, S. (Eds.). (2007).  Palliative Nursing: Improving End of Life Care.  2nd. Ed. BailliereTindall.

Krapp, Kristine, ed.  Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health.  2002.  REFERENCE  RT21 .G353 2002

LoboPrabhu, S. M., Molinari, V. A., Lomax, J. W. (Eds.). (2006).  Supporting the caregiver in dementia : a guide for health care professionals.  Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press.  RC521 .S87

Lynn, Joanne, J. L. Schuster, and A. Kabcenell.  Improving Care for the End of Life:  A Source Book for Health Care Managers and and Clinicians.  Oxford UP, 2000.

Mackler, A., ed.  Life and Death Responsibilities in Jewish Biomedical Ethics. 2000.

Matzo, M. L. (2006). Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life.  2nd ed.  Springer Publishing.

McBee, Lucia.  Mindfulness-based elder care : a CAM model for frail elders and their caregivers .  New York : Springer Pub.  RC953.8.A48 M23 2008

O’Brien, M. (2003).  Spirituality in nursing:  Standing on holy ground.  2nd ed.  Ontario, Canada:  Jones & Bartlett.

O'Rourke, K. and P. Boyle.  Medical Ethics:  Sources of Catholic Teachings.  3rd ed.  1999.

Peppin, J. F., M. J. Cherry, and A. Iltis, eds.  The Annals of Bioethics:  Religious Perspectives in Bioethics.  2004.

Purnell, L. D. (2008).  Guide to culturally competent health care. 2nd ed. F. A. Davis.

Ring, Kenneth and Evelyn Elsaesser.  Lessons from the Light: What We Can Learn from the Near-Death Experience.  NY: Plenum/Insight, 1998. BF1045 .N4 R556 2000

Rispler-Chaim, V.  Islamic Medical Ethics in the Twentieth Century.  1993.

Spiro, Howard M., Mary G. McCrea Curnen, and Lee Palmer Wandel, eds.  Facing Death:  Where Culture, Religon, and Medicine Meet.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1996.  F7268 .F33 1996

Valle, Ramon.  Caregiving Across Cultures: Working with Dementing Illness and Ethnically Diverse Populations.  1998.  RC521 .V34 1998.

Zerkweth, J. V. (2005). Nursing Care at the End of Life: Palliative Care For Patients and Families.  F.A. Davis.