Published June, 2019
By Roi Livne
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Once defiant of death-or even in denial-many American families and health care professionals are embracing the notion that a life consumed by suffering may not be worth living. Sociologist Roi Livne documents the rise and effectiveness of hospice and palliative care, and the growing acceptance that less treatment may be better near the end of life.

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Published June, 2019
By Shamim I. Ahmad
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press)
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Mitochondria produce the chemical energy necessary for eukaryotic cell functions; hence mitochondria are an essential component of health, playing roles in both disease and aging. More than 80 human diseases and syndromes are associated with mitochondrial dysfunction; this book focuses upon diseases linked to mitochondria.

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Published May, 2019
By Chaim Wender and Patricia Morrison
Publisher: Eurospan (Health Professions Press,U.S.)
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Offers an interdisciplinary team perspective on caring, presented by 21 veterans of hospice service representing the array of disciplines. Contributors share professional and personal experiences that encompass the medical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, interpersonal, social, cultural, and economic dimensions of dying and bereavement.

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Published May, 2019
By William A. Haseltine and Jean Galiana
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Singapore)
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Published May, 2019
By Lieve van den Block and Roderick Duncan MacLeod
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
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Published April, 2019
By John Eric Baugher
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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Published April, 2019
By Gregory L. Eastwood, MD
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This book is for people who have questions about the end of life in other words, all of us. Gregory Eastwood, a physician and ethicist, confronts questions such as: what to expect, how to prepare for death, what to do when you get there. The book helps us to prepare for our death or that of loved ones in a careful, thoughtful, and practical way.

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Published March, 2019
By Allison J. Applebaum
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published March, 2019
By Peter J. Cataldo and Dan O'Brien
Publisher: Springer (Springer Nature Switzerland AG)
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This volume will serve as a critically important ethical and theological resource on palliative care, including care at the end of life, for bioethicists, theologians, palliative care specialists, other health care professionals, Catholic health care sponsors, health care administrators and executives, clergy, and students.

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Published February, 2019
By Terry Altilio, Bridget Sumser and Meagan Leimena
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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