Foreword Preface Acknowledgments SECTION 1 Professional Applications in End-of-Life Care CHAPTER 1 Existential Empathy: Caregiver Understanding of Patients’ Religious Beliefs at the End-of-LifeJoseph M. Currier, Miyoung Yoon Hammer, and Robert A. Neimeyer CHAPTER 2 Attachments and Losses: Individual and Global PerspectivesColin Murray Parkes CHAPTER 3 The Private Worlds of Professionals, Teams, and Organizations in Palliative CareDanai Papadatou CHAPTER 4 Honoring Relationship in Pediatric Palliative CareKathie Kobler CHAPTER 5 Meeting the Stress Challenge Neil Thompson and Denise Bevan CHAPTER 6 When Birth and Death Collide: Best Practices in End-of-Life at the BeginningLori Ives-Baine, Jessica Faust, Jessica Drewry, Jatinder Kalra, Michael Marshall, Roop Johal, and Alyson Mayne SECTION 2 Facing End-of-Life and Its Care CHAPTER 7 To Be is To Be, and the Do-ing Should FollowRichard B. Gilbert CHAPTER 8 Stepping Through the Looking Glass into “Cancer World” Kent Koppelman CHAPTER 9 The Psycho-Spiritual Side of Palliative Care: Two Stories and Ten Transformations Toward Healing Douglas C. Smith and Conley M. Potter CHAPTER 10 "And the Sun Refused to Shine" Susan Adams CHAPTER 11 The Experience of Dying in Prison Nicole Pizzini CHAPTER 12 The "Other" Kind of Pain: Understanding Suicide in the Context of End-of-Life CareJanet S. McCord CHAPTER 13 The End of Life: Two Perspectives Robert G. Stevenson SECTION 3 Cultural Considerations CHAPTER 14 Palliative Care is a Human RightStephen R. Connor CHAPTER 15 Spirituality in End-of-Life Care: A Roman Catholic Perspective Gerry R. Cox and Rev. Christopher W. Cox CHAPTER 16 Grief and the American Indian Gerry R. Cox and Andrea R. Sullivan CHAPTER 17 “It Will Do When I Am Dying”: Navigating the Nuances of Fundamentalist Christianity’s Understandings of Death and DyingHarold Ivan Smith Meet the Contributors Index
