Palliative Care in Europe: Concepts and Policies (Biomedical and Health Research, 48) - Hardcover

9781586032005: Palliative Care in Europe: Concepts and Policies (Biomedical and Health Research, 48)

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ISBN 10: 1586032003 ISBN 13: 9781586032005

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2006

This book is the outcome of PALLIUM, an international research project that was started in March 1998. The project united teams of researchers in ethics, palliative medicine, nursing, and other disciplines in order to analyze the conceptual, ethical, and policy issues in the area of palliative care. The first part of the book clarifies concepts of palliative care in various countries including Belgium, Sweden, and Italy, and the second part discusses explanations for the diversity of concepts and organizational forms, with material on the goals of palliative care, the role of health care policy in the development of palliative medicine, and the contribution of nursing to the development of palliative care. The editors are affiliated with the Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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The book is concerned with the organisation, ideas and problems of palliative care in the European context. As a result of a BIOMED project, various organisations, concepts and problematic issues of palliative care have been studied and described. The literature analysing and discussing these issues is rather scarce. So, this book will first provide an excellent overview of developments in palliative care in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The book aims at the following readership:healthcare professionals interested in the characteristics of palliative care; palliative care practitioners interested in exploring and analysing the conceptual and philosophical issues of their discipline; policy-makers, ethicists, social scientists interested in the concepts and philosophical dimensions of palliative care. The contributions to the book have been developed in the context of a three year research project ‘Palliative Care Ethics’ (PALLIUM). This project, funded by the Commission of the European Communities, aims at clarifying the interrelations of concepts and moral issues in palliative care in seven European countries. All authors have co-operated as researchers in the project over the last 3 years. They are experts in palliative care and/or ethics in their respective countries. All of the chapters have been exclusively prepared for this volume in the context of the project.

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The book is concerned with the organisation, ideas and problems of palliative care in the European context. As a result of a BIOMED project, various organisations, concepts and problematic issues of palliative care have been studied and described. The literature analysing and discussing these issues is rather scarce. So, this book will first provide an excellent overview of developments in palliative care in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The book aims at the following readership:healthcare professionals interested in the characteristics of palliative care; palliative care practitioners interested in exploring and analysing the conceptual and philosophical issues of their discipline; policy-makers, ethicists, social scientists interested in the concepts and philosophical dimensions of palliative care. The contributions to the book have been developed in the context of a three year research project 'Palliative Care Ethics' (PALLIUM). This project, funded by the Commission of the European Communities, aims at clarifying the interrelations of concepts and moral issues in palliative care in seven European countries. All authors have co-operated as researchers in the project over the last 3 years. They are experts in palliative care and/or ethics in their respective countries. All of the chapters have been exclusively prepared for this volume in the context of the project.

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