A Good Death Case Studies in End-of-Life Care /
At the Sacred Heart Palliative Care Centre in Sydney, Australia, a small group of health care professionals are devoting their careers to death. Sacred Heart's patients have all been diagnosed with a terminal illness-but instead of pursuing elusive cures and treatments, they have embraced the f...
| Other Authors: | Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase. |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, N.Y. :
Infobase,
[2011], c2010.
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| Physical Description: |
1 streaming video file (45 min.) : sd., col. |
| Subjects: |
Pain
-- Treatment.
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Table of Contents:
- Film Prelude: Attitudes About Death (1:47)
- Death as Life's Work (3:01)
- Diagnosis: Terminal Cancer (3:04)
- Diagnosis: Pancreatic Cancer (3:47)
- Diagnosis: Breast Cancer (4:31)
- Diagnosis: Bowel Cancer (5:30)
- Death Wish (1:50)
- Non-Peaceful Deaths (1:47)
- Cost of Intensive Care (1:44)
- When Truth Is Bad News (2:16)
- Death on Life's Journey (1:23)
- Nearness of Death (2:08)
- The Body Begins to Shut Down (2:10)
- Worsening Conditions for Terminally Ill Patients (2:20)
- Death from Bowel Cancer (2:04)
- Reprieve from Death (1:38)
- Close to Death (2:02)
- Future of Palliative Care (1:15)
- Credits: A Good Death: Case Studies in End-of-Life Care (0:37)