Recognizing spiritual needs in people who are dying [electronic resource] / Rachel Stanworth

Author:: Stanworth, Rachel
Published:: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

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Summary:

This book is based on the author's time spent with twenty-five patients at St Christopher's Hospice in South London. It aims to help to understand and recognise spiritual issues even when religious language is not used. The author refers to this as a 'language of spirit'.

Subject(s):

Terminally ill—Psychology
Spiritual life
Death—Religious aspects
Terminal care

ISBN:

9780191730504 (ebook)
0191730505 (ebook)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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