- Title Pages
- Disclaimer
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
-
1 Dying of Cancer -
2 Should a Patient Know … ? -
3 When a Patient is Dying -
4 The Management of Patients in the Terminal Stage -
5 And From Sudden Death… -
6 A Patient -
7 the Care of the Dying -
8 Terminal Illness -
9 Working at St. Joseph's Hospice Hackney -
10 The Treatment of Intractable Pain In Terminal Cancer -
11 Distress in Dying -
12 The Depths and the Possible Heights -
13 The Need for Institutional Care for the Patient with Advanced Cancer -
14 the Last Stages of Life -
15 the Last Frontier -
16 The Management of Terminal Illness -
17 St. Christopher's Hospice -
18 Training for the Practice of Clinical Gerontology: The Role of Social Medicine -
19 A Place to Die -
20 Dimensions of Death -
21 The Problem of Euthanasia (Care of the Dying—1) -
22 Appropriate Treatment, Appropriate Death -
23 The Philosophy of Terminal Care -
24 Templeton Prize Speech -
25 Current Views on Pain Relief and Terminal Care -
26 Heroin and Morphine In Advanced Cancer -
27 Pain and Impending Death -
28 On Dying Well -
29 Evaluation of Hospice Activities -
30 The Modern Hospice -
31 Foreword (Pain: an Exploration) -
32 Spiritual Pain -
33 Hospice—a Meeting Place for Religion and Science -
34 Letter (On Alfred Worcester) -
35 Voluntary Euthanasia -
36 Foreword (Mortally Wounded:Stories of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing) -
37 Why I Welcome TV Cameras at the Death Bed -
38 Foreword (Good Practices In Palliative Care: A Psychosocial Perspective) -
39 Origins: International Perspectives, Then and Now -
40 the Evolution of Palliative Care -
41 A Voice for the Voiceless -
42 The Evolution of Palliative Care -
43 Foreword (Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine) -
44 Introduction (Management of Advanced Disease) - Index
Foreword (Good Practices In Palliative Care: A Psychosocial Perspective)
Foreword (Good Practices In Palliative Care: A Psychosocial Perspective)
First published as a Foreword in Good Practices in Palliative Care: A Psychosocial Perspective (1998), eds. D. Oliviere, R. Hargreaves and B. Monroe, pp. ix–x. Aldershot: Ashgate.
- Chapter:
- (p.243) 38 Foreword (Good Practices In Palliative Care: A Psychosocial Perspective)
- Source:
- Cicely Saunders
- Author(s):
Cicely Saunders
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter presents another short foreword to a book on psycho-social perspectives on Good Practices in Palliative Care in which Cicely Saunders reminds readers that the emphasis on symptom control in palliative care is ‘only the beginning’ — since to be effective it must focus much more widely on patients in their family and social contexts.
Keywords: palliative care, symptom control, family context, social context
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- Title Pages
- Disclaimer
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
-
1 Dying of Cancer -
2 Should a Patient Know … ? -
3 When a Patient is Dying -
4 The Management of Patients in the Terminal Stage -
5 And From Sudden Death… -
6 A Patient -
7 the Care of the Dying -
8 Terminal Illness -
9 Working at St. Joseph's Hospice Hackney -
10 The Treatment of Intractable Pain In Terminal Cancer -
11 Distress in Dying -
12 The Depths and the Possible Heights -
13 The Need for Institutional Care for the Patient with Advanced Cancer -
14 the Last Stages of Life -
15 the Last Frontier -
16 The Management of Terminal Illness -
17 St. Christopher's Hospice -
18 Training for the Practice of Clinical Gerontology: The Role of Social Medicine -
19 A Place to Die -
20 Dimensions of Death -
21 The Problem of Euthanasia (Care of the Dying—1) -
22 Appropriate Treatment, Appropriate Death -
23 The Philosophy of Terminal Care -
24 Templeton Prize Speech -
25 Current Views on Pain Relief and Terminal Care -
26 Heroin and Morphine In Advanced Cancer -
27 Pain and Impending Death -
28 On Dying Well -
29 Evaluation of Hospice Activities -
30 The Modern Hospice -
31 Foreword (Pain: an Exploration) -
32 Spiritual Pain -
33 Hospice—a Meeting Place for Religion and Science -
34 Letter (On Alfred Worcester) -
35 Voluntary Euthanasia -
36 Foreword (Mortally Wounded:Stories of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing) -
37 Why I Welcome TV Cameras at the Death Bed -
38 Foreword (Good Practices In Palliative Care: A Psychosocial Perspective) -
39 Origins: International Perspectives, Then and Now -
40 the Evolution of Palliative Care -
41 A Voice for the Voiceless -
42 The Evolution of Palliative Care -
43 Foreword (Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine) -
44 Introduction (Management of Advanced Disease) - Index
