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Rethinking Palliative Care: A Social Role Valorisation Approach

Rethinking Palliative Care: A Social Role Valorisation Approach

Paperback

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1861349211
ISBN13: 9781861349217
Publisher: Policy Pr
Published: Apr 4 2007
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

This book's striking message is that palliative care does not deliver on its aims to value people who are dying and make death and dying a natural part of life.

This book draws from wider social science perspectives and critically and specifically applies these perspectives to palliative care and its dominant medical model. Applying Social Role Valorisation, the author argues for the de-institutionalisation of palliative care and the development of an alternative framework to the approaches found in hospices, palliative care units and community-based palliative care services. He offers a new conceptualisation of death and loss that refines and expands modern understandings in a way that also resonates with traditional religious views concerning death.

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