Download or read book Androgen Deprivation Therapy written by Richard J. Wassersug, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Androgen Deprivation Therapy: "To my knowledge [this] is the only book written in plain language (no medical jargon) explaining what’s happening during ADT, and detailing how to limit and often solve most associated side effects. It should be read by every man undergoing ADT, as well as family members and also healthcare providers. They will find all the details they need to get the most from this treatment..." Prof. N. Mottet, MD, PhD, Urologist, Medical Oncologist, Head of the Prostate Cancer Guidelines panel of the European Association of Urology Androgen Deprivation Therapy is the only guide written exclusively about the side effects of hormone therapy. The authors have collaborated with the European Association of Urology to produce this specially revised new edition to serve men affected by ADT across the globe. This comprehensive workbook for prostate cancer patients and their loved ones is filled with practical advice from experts in the field. The book covers a wealth of strategies to help men cope with ADT and maintain a good quality of life while on this treatment. It is not only an informational manual, but a guide for both patients and partners about ways to make changes in their lives that can keep them healthy and positive when the patient is on ADT. New to this Edition: Updates on the physical side effects of ADT and management strategies Expanded information on exercise and nutrition for men diagnosed with prostate cancer Updates on the primary drugs used to treat prostate cancer and extensive drug tables with common brand names worldwide Revisions throughout based on critical feedback from international medical experts in the field of prostate cancer and related disciplines Exercises, activities, worksheets, and other tools to promote discussion and inspire behavioural changes that can reduce the burden of ADT Officially endorsed by the European Association of Urology

Download or read book Vivants jusqu la mort dition 2023 written by Tanguy Châtel and published by Albin Michel. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: À l'heure où la société française débat sur l'opportunité de légaliser l'euthanasie ou le suicide assisté, ce livre fondateur, aujourd'hui réédité, rappelle que la fin de vie ne se résume pas aux situations tragiques et sans issue toujours mises en avant. Par sa double expérience d'accompagnant bénévole en soins palliatifs et de sociologue, Tanguy Châtel nous invite au coeur du cheminement des personnes confrontées à leur fin de vie : à travers leur ultime quête de sens et de lien, il nous emporte dans l'exploration de ce qu'on nomme la «souffrance spirituelle», qui rattrape indistinctement croyants et non-croyants, pour mettre en évidence le jaillissement d'une «extrême fécondité de la fin de vie», quand elle est bien accompagnée. Il montre de manière positive comment, mieux que l'euthanasie, l'accompagnement est la réponse moderne et responsable pour transformer une résignation désespérée à mourir en un désir renouvelé de rester vivant jusqu'à la mort. Préfacé par Jean Leonetti, enrichi d'une nouvelle introduction, ce livre demeure d'une totale actualité. C'est un ouvrage clé pour aborder ces questions avec profondeur, engagement et espérance. Tanguy Châtel est sociologue, spécialisé dans les soins palliatifs et l'accompagnement en général. Il a été chargé de mission à l'Observatoire national de la fin de vie. Il est également co-fondateur du Cercle Vulnérabilités et Société.

Download or read book The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine written by Eric J. Cassell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991. With three added chapters and a new preface summarizing our progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-hve for those in palliative medicine and hospice care. The obligation of physicians to relieve human suffering stretches back into antiquity. But what exactly, is suffering? One patient with metastic cancer of the stomach, from which he knew he would shortly die, said he was not suffering. Another, someone who had been operated on for a mior problem--in little pain and not seemingly distressed--said that even coming into the hospital had been a source of pain and not suffering. With such varied responses to the problem of suffering, inevitable questions arise. Is it the doctor's responsibility to treat the disease or the patient? And what is the relationship between suffering and the goals of medicine? According to Dr. Eric Cassell, these are crucial questions, but unfortunately, have remained only queries void of adequate solutions. It is time for the sick person, Cassell believes, to be not merely an important concern for physicians but the central focus of medicine. With this in mind, Cassell argues for an understanding of what changes should be made in order to successfully treat the sick while alleviating suffering, and how to actually go about making these changes with the methods and training techniques firmly rooted in the doctor's relationship with the patient. Dr. Cassell offers an incisive critique of the approach of modern medicine. Drawing on a number of evocative patient narratives, he writes that the goal of medicine must be to treat an individual's suffering, and not just the disease. In addition, Cassell's thoughtful and incisive argument will appeal to psychologists and psychiatrists interested in the nature of pain and suffering.

Download or read book Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing written by Betty Rolling Ferrell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing remains the most comprehensive treatise on the art and science of palliative care nursing available. Dr. Betty Rolling Ferrell and Dr. Judith A. Paice have invited 162 nursing experts to contribute 76 chapters addressing the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs pertinent to the successful palliative care team. Organized within 7 Sections, this new edition covers the gamut of principles of care: from the time of initial diagnosis of a serious illness to the end of a patient's life and beyond. This fifth edition features several new chapters, including chapters on advance care planning, organ donation, self-care, global palliative care, and the ethos of palliative nursing. Each chapter is rich with tables and figures, case examples for improved learning, and a strong evidence-based practice to support the highest quality of care. The book offers a valuable and practical resource for students and clinicians across all settings of care. The content is relevant for specialty hospice agencies and palliative care programs, as well as generalist knowledge for schools of nursing, oncology, critical care, and pediatric. Developed with the intention of emphasizing the need to extend palliative care beyond the specialty to be integrated in all settings and by all clinicians caring for the seriously ill, this new edition will continue to serve as the cornerstone of palliative care education.

Download or read book couter H riter Accompagner written by Gilles Nadeau and published by Novalis. This book was released on 2016-05-06T00:00:00-04:00 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « “ Ça réveille peut-être un peu la spiritualité, veux, veux pas ! ” confiait un malade. Je dois reconnaître que mon service auprès d’eux réveille souvent ma propre spiritualité, et pas juste un peu ! Sans doute que d’autres accompagnateurs l’affirment, eux aussi. Si, fidèle à sa mission, la communauté chrétienne se met à l’écoute de leur parole comme elle se livre, elle pourra sans doute vérifier, elle aussi, que l’expérience spirituelle de ces hommes contribue d’une certaine façon à réveiller sa spiritualité en tant que communauté. » S’appuyant sur une longue expérience en accompagnement spirituel, notamment auprès des personnes en soins palliatifs, Gilles Nadeau rend compte de ses observations et propose des pistes éclairantes pour quiconque désire accompagner un proche en fin de vie – et s’en faire son héritier, son héritière sur le plan humain.

Download or read book Congregations in Europe written by Christophe Monnot and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes and maps congregations of Christian confessions and denominations, as well as groups with Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, and various other spiritual faiths, in different European countries. Consisting of three parts, it presents concrete sociological studies addressing how established and not established, old and new congregations of various faiths create a new kind of religious diversity at the country level; how religious congregations are challenged and thrive in large cities; and how religious congregations change in the 21st century. The book enlightens by its descriptive analysis and the theoretical questions it raises concerning the religious transformations happening all over Europe. It addresses issues of religious diversity in the cities of Europe by presenting large studies conducted in cities such as Barcelona in Spain, and Aarhus in Denmark. By means of large-scale censuses taken in areas such as North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany and in countries like Switzerland and Italy, the book shows how the historically established churches restructure their congregations and activities. It clarifies for the new gatherers where and how a new diversity of religious congregations is in the process of being established. Finally, the book covers two important topical issues: pluralisation and secularisation. It provides new data on religious diversity, painting a new picture of secularisation: the impact and structural consequences of the long-term decrease of membership in the established churches.

Download or read book Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies written by Matthias Gross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance today has become a highly influential topic in its own right, commanding growing attention across the natural and social sciences where a wide range of scholars have begun to explore the social life and political issues involved in the distribution and strategic use of not knowing. The field is growing fast and this handbook reflects this interdisciplinary field of study by drawing contributions from economics, sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, feminist studies, and related fields in order to serve as a seminal guide to the political, legal and social uses of ignorance in social and political life. Chapter 33 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available here: https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780415718967_oachapter33.pdf

Download or read book Living with Dying written by Joan Berzoff and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first resource on end-of-life care for healthcare practitioners who work with the terminally ill and their families, Living with Dying begins with the narratives of five healthcare professionals, who, when faced with overwhelming personal losses altered their clinical practices and philosophies. The book provides ways to ensure a respectful death for individuals, families, groups, and communities and is organized around theoretical issues in loss, grief, and bereavement and around clinical practice with individuals, families, and groups. Living with Dying addresses practice with people who have specific illnesses such as AIDS, bone marrow disease, and cancer and pays special attention to patients who have been stigmatized by culture, ability, sexual orientation, age, race, or homelessness. The book includes content on trauma and developmental issues for children, adults, and the aging who are dying, and it addresses legal, ethical, spiritual, cultural, and social class issues as core factors in the assessment of and work with the dying. It explores interdisciplinary teamwork, supervision, and the organizational and financing contexts in which dying occurs. Current research in end-of-life care, ways to provide leadership in the field, and a call for compassion, insight, and respect for the dying makes this an indispensable resource for social workers, healthcare educators, administrators, consultants, advocates, and practitioners who work with the dying and their families.

Download or read book Dying A Social Perspective on the End of Life written by Assoc Prof Alex Broom and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inevitable and universal experience, dying is experienced by individuals in different ways, often related to the character of our relationships, family structures, gender identities, cultural backgrounds, and economic means. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork with patients, carers and health professionals in Australia and the United Kingdom, Dying: A Social Perspective on the End of Life provides a critical examination of the different spheres of dying, in social and cultural context. Exploring complex issues such as the politics of assisted dying, negotiating medical futility, gender and dying, the desire for redemption, the moralities of 'the good fight' and the lived experience of bodily disintegration, this book links novel theoretical ideas within sociology to cutting-edge empirical data collected in palliative and end-of-life care contexts. A theoretically engaged understanding of the social mediation of the end of life, Dying: A Social Perspective on the End of Life also sheds light on the manner in which the end of life can be shaped by major economic, cultural and socio-cultural shifts including neo-liberalism, individualisation, medicalisation, professionalisation and detraditionalisation. As such, it will appeal to social science, health and medical researchers interested in the end of life, as well as those working in palliative and end-of-life care settings.

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Download or read book Accompagnement spirituel des personnes en fin de vie written by Jean-Gustave Hentz and published by Labor et Fides. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alors que la fin de vie et le vieillissement de la population occupent une place de plus en plus importante dans nos sociétés industrialisées, le constat est là : on meurt toujours mal en France. Dans un certain nombre de pays moins marqués que d'autres par une vision stricte de la laïcité, les aumôneries religieuses jouent un rôle central, notamment sur la question de l'accompagnement spirituel de personnes arrivées près du terme de leur existence. Le spiritual care est une discipline majeure que ce livre propose de présenter via des réflexions et surtout des témoignages. Après des portraits sur les conditions dans lesquelles se prodiguent les soins palliatifs en France, des aumôniers, médecins et théologiens présentent des expériences d'accompagnements spirituels émanant notamment des Etats-Unis et des Pays-Bas. Les questions interreligieuses et des exemples d'accompagnements originaux prohibant toute récupération religieuse sont abondamment évoqués. Au final, un livre indispensable pour construire une réflexion et des pratiques autour d'une demande toujours plus pressante.

Download or read book Status Passage written by Anselm L. Strauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French writer Arnold van Gennep first called attention to the phenomena of status passages in his Rites of Passage one hundred years ago. In Status Passage, first published in 1971, the movement of individuals and groups in contemporary society from one status to another is examined in the light of Gennep's original theory. Glaser and Strauss demonstrate that society emerges as a comparative order. In this order, every organized action, collective or individual, can be seen as a form of status passage.From one status to another-from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, from being single to being married, movement from one income group, social class or religion to another-there are passages that entail movement into different parts of a social structure and loss or gain in privileges. Types of status passage are described by their proper ties. The authors present a formal theory of status passage in the form of a running theoretical discussion.The concepts and categories discussed in Status Passage are illuminated by a large number of examples chosen from a wide range of human behavior, and the applicability of the theory to still other examples is made apparent. The result is a stimulating and provocative book that will interest a wide range of sociologists, social psychologists, and other social scientists, and will be useful in a variety of courses.

Download or read book Diffused Religion written by Roberto Cipriani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of diffused religion as it is found in contemporary society, resulting from a vast process of religious socialisation that continues to pervade our cultural reality. It provides a critical engagement with a framework of non-institutional religion that is based on values largely shared in society by being diffused through primary and secondary socialisation. Cipriani also contends that these very values which give form to diffused religion can also be seen in themselves as their own kind of religion. As a result, they go beyond secularisation and favour the religious continuum extending around the world of diffused religions. This work will be of great interest to scholars in the Sociology of Religion and to anyone wanting to learn more about the social aspects of religion.

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Download or read book The Dying Process written by Julia Lawton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of daycare and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death. Placing the bodily realities of dying very firmly centre stage and questioning the ideology central to the modern hospice movement of enabling patients to 'live until they die', Julia Lawton shows how our concept of a 'good death' is open to interpretation. Her study examines the non-negotiable effects of a patient's bodily deterioration on their sense of self and, in so doing, offers a powerful new perspective in embodiment and emotion in death and dying. A detailed and subtle ethnographic study, The Dying Process engages with a range of deeply complex and ethically contentious issues surrounding the care of dying patients in hospices and elsewhere.

Download or read book Opioids and Pain Relief written by Marcia Meldrum and published by Progress in Pain Research and. This book was released on 2003 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 14 papers from the second conference sponsored by the John C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection (held in August of 2000). The conference brought together scientists and historians in order to examine the history of the opioids--opium, morphine, heroin, and others--as a "Janus drug," showing two faces of therapeutics on the one hand and addiction and degradation on the other. The focus is on the use of opioids within medicine and the growth of scientific understanding about them and their impact on human beings.

Download or read book Vivants jusqu la mort written by Tanguy Châtel and published by Editions Albin Michel. This book was released on 2013 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis quelques années, les acteurs de l’accompagnement des personnes en fin de vie s’interrogent sur les différents types de souffrance auxquels ils ont à faire face : la souffrance physique est maintenant prise en compte par le corps médical, et les accompagnants bénévoles ou institutionnels (psychologues) tentent d’agir sur la souffrance psychologique et la souffrance sociale, provoquées par les pertes familiales, relationnelles, etc. Reste un domaine qui est resté pratiquement vierge, tant il est délicat de l’aborder dans une France laïque où le médico-social doit demeurer distant de la vie privée et des opinions métaphysiques : ce domaine est celui de la souffrance spirituelle, provoquée par un flot d’interrogations sur le sens de la vie et de la mort. Cette souffrance reste sans réponse, à part pour les croyants déclarés qui peuvent faire appel aux différentes aumôneries, mais précisément de plus en plus de mourants ne sont pas en demande de réponses proprement religieuses. Avec beaucoup de rigueur analytique et un vrai talent de narrateur (lorsqu’il témoigne de son expérience), Tanguy Chatel ose aborder cette question encore taboue en essayant de cerner la notion de « spirituel », et de la distinguer des instances du psychologique ou du religieux. Ce faisant, il porte à l’universel des questions qui nous concernent tous.