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Author Bearison, David J.

Title When treatment fails : how medicine cares for dying children / David J. Bearison.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  362.175083 B38w 2006    ---  Available
Description xvii, 289 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-283) and index.
Contents 1. Pediatric end-of-life care -- 2. Narrative theory, medicine, and methods -- 3. Twenty stories about how children die -- 4. Withholding or withdrawing curative treatments -- 5. Pain and suffering -- 6. Staff reacting -- 7. Patients and families reacting -- 8. Conclusions.
Subject Terminally ill children -- Care.
Terminally ill children -- Medical care.
Terminally ill children -- Care -- Psychological aspects.
Terminal Care -- psychology.
Child.
Terminally Ill -- psychology.
ISBN 0195156129 (alk. paper)
9780195156126 (alk. paper)
Standard No. NLM 101270998
YDXCP 2244307
NZ1 9193895
AU@ 000026770651

 
    
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