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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Review of the Palliative Care Field: Original Article | |
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| The Development, Status, and Future of Palliative Care | |
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| Reprints of Key Articles and Book Chapters | |
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| Care of the Seriously Ill: Why Is It an Important Issue? Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life | |
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| Decisions Near the End of Life | |
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| Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, American Medical Association | |
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| Efforts to Cope with Death and Provide Care for the Dying | |
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| Hope | |
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| The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine | |
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| The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Nursing | |
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| Death: "The Distinguished Thing" | |
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| The Philosophy of Terminal Care | |
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| Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, Overcoming Barriers | |
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| Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues | |
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| The Health Care Proxy and the Living Will | |
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| Terri Schiavo: A Tragedy Compounded | |
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| Research into End-of-Life Care | |
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| A Controlled Trial to Improve Care for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients: The Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments (SUPPORT) | |
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| SUPPORT Principal Investigators | |
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| Factors Considered Important at the End of Life by Patients, Family, Physicians, and Other Care Providers | |
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| Use of Hospitals, Physician Visits, and Hospice Care During Last Six Months of Life Among Cohorts Loyal to Highly Respected Hospitals in the United States | |
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| Family Perspectives on End-of-Life Care at the Last Place of Care | |
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| Palliative Care | |
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| The Treatment of Cancer Pain | |
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| Responding to Intractable Terminal Suffering: The Role of Terminal Sedation and Voluntary Refusal of Food and Fluids | |
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| Response to Quill and Byock, "Responding to Intractable Suffering" | |
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| Challenges in Palliative Care: Four Clinical Areas That Confront and Challenge Hospice Practitioners | |
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| Outcomes from a National Multispecialty Palliative Care Curriculum Development Project | |
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| Negotiating Cross-Cultural Issues at the End of Life: "You Got to Go Where He Lives" | |
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| Variability in Access to Hospital Palliative Care in the United States | |
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| Do Palliative Care Consultations Improve Patient Outcomes | |
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| Cost Savings Associated with U.S. Hospital Palliative Care Consultation Programs | |
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| The Loneliness of the Long-Term Care Giver | |
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| Understanding Economic and Other Burdens of Terminal Illness: The Experience of Patients and Their Caregivers | |
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| The Ends of Medicine and Society | |
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| Finding Our Way: Perspectives on Care at the Close of Life | |
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| The Editors | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |