Positive Approaches to Living with End Stage Renal Disease: Psychosocial and Thanatalogic Aspects

by Austin Kutscher

Overview

Aspects of cancer and cancer therapies; long-term adjustments of renal donors and recipients; community life (including support facilities and home dialysis); medical aspects of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD); psychiatric disturbances; public policy issues; the role of the doctor, staff, and society, sexuality and loss of sexual function, surgical aspects; and anticipatory grief, acute grief, and bereavement are all discussed in this book for caregivers working with ESRD patients.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275920197
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/22/1986
Series:	The Foundation of Thanatology Series , #6
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile:	1270L (what's this?)