Well-Being at the End of Life
Reimagining Palliative Care
$50.93
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2026
Summary
The field of palliative care promises support for a dying person’s physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs, as well as the needs of family and community. Has this powerful vision been achieved? This state-of-the-field book argues that palliative care has drifted away from its transformative goals—and shows what to do about it.
Bringing together leading international scholars and practitioners, Well-Being at the End of Life demonstrates how contemporary palliative…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780231216289 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0231216289 |
| Author: | Julian Abel, Allan Kellehear |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Imprint: | Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | End-of-Life Care: A Series |
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Critics Review
Well-written, accessible, and inspiring, this book will be of immense value to palliative care professionals and to others who work with aged populations. – Ellen L. Idler, editor of Religion as a Social Determinant of Public HealthThis groundbreaking book offers a rigorously academic yet profoundly human framework centering social and spiritual dimensions of end-of-life experience. Moving beyond medicalized models, it reclaims something essential about being human; how we live, whom we love, and where we belong are as medically significant as any drug we might prescribe. – BJ Miller, coauthor of A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing DeathFor decades, societies have responded to aging populations by medicalizing the end of life. This book provides an important alternative: a public health approach to the end of life. – Luc Deliens, president of Public Health Palliative Care International
About The Author
Julian Abel
Julian Abel is a palliative care physician and visiting professor at Northumbria University.
Allan Kellehear is professor of end-of-life care at Northumbria University.
Abel and Kellehear are cofounders of Compassionate Communities UK and coeditors of the Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care (2022).
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