Religious Understandings of a Good Death in Hospice Palliative Care

Religious Understandings of a Good Death in Hospice Palliative CareExplores how religious understandings of death are experienced in hospice care. Winner of the 2012 AJN (American Journal of Nursing) Book of the Year Award in the Hospice and Palliative Care category In the 1960s, English physician and committed Christian Cicely Saunders introduced a new way of treating the terminally ill that she called "hospice care." Emphasizing a holistic and compassionate approach, her model led to the rapid growth of a worldwide

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