Intensive Caring
a practical handbook for catholics about serious illness and end-of-life care
$45.20
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
3 October 2024
Summary
Intensive Caring: A Catholic Handbook for Serious Illness and End-of-Life Care
Winner of a 2025 Excellence in Publishing Award from the Association of Catholic Publishers: General Interest (Second Place).
Winner of three 2025 CMA Book Awards from the Catholic Media Association: Grief and Bereavement (Second Place), Life and Dignity of the Human Person (Third Place), and First-Time Author of Theological Subject Matters (Honorable Mention).
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781646803187 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1646803183 |
| Author: | Natalie King MD |
| Publisher: | Ave Maria Press |
| Imprint: | Ave Maria Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 3 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 209g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 154mm x 12mm |
About The Author
Natalie King MD
Natalie King, MD, is a palliative medicine physician who cares for patients with serious illness and those nearing the end of life. King writes and speaks nationally educating about and advocating for the expansion of palliative medicine as the surest way to safeguard human dignity in serious illness and end-of-life care.
After finishing her medical training, King worked as a palliative medicine physician for several years at a hospital in Colorado where she led the hospital’s ethics committee and helped teach trainees. She partnered with the USCCB to improve education for Catholic laity about palliative care and organized a forum for the Catholic Medical Association on end-of-life issues.
King holds a bachelor of arts in anthropology and pre-professional studies from the University of Notre Dame, a master of arts in bioethics from the Ohio State University College of Medicine, and a doctor of medicine from Tulane University School of Medicine.
She lives with her family in Utah.
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