Rethinking Palliative Care: A Social Role Valorisation Approach

by Paul Sinclair

This book's striking message is that palliative care does not deliver on its aims to value people who are dying and make death and dying a natural part of life. This book draws from wider social science perspectives and critically and specifically applies these perspectives to palliative care and its dominant medical model. Applying Social Role Valorisation, the author argues for the de-institutionalisation of palliative care and the development of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861349211
• ISBN13: 9781861349217
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"