Mortally Wounded Stories of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing - Softcover

Kearney, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1882670795 ISBN 13: 9781882670796

Publisher: Spring Journal, Inc., 2016

Synopsis

Rare book

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Kearney, M.D., has over 25 years of working as a physician in end-of-life care. He is currently Medical Director of the Palliative Care Service at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and Associate Medical Director at Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care. He also acts as medical director to the Anam Cara Project for Compassionate Companionship in Life and Death in Bend, Oregon. Other publications by Dr. Kearney include A Place of Healing: Working with Suffering in Living and Dying and Spiritual Care of the Dying Patient, (co-authored with Balfour Mount, M.D.), in Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine (eds. Harvey Max Chochinov and William Breitbart).

Synopsis:

Drawing on his own case studies as a hospice doctor, the author describes the art of dying with dignity, wholeness, and acceptance, and explores the ways other cultures have dealt with death.

About this edition

• Publisher: Spring Journal, Inc.
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1882670795
• ISBN 13: 9781882670796
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172