1st Edition
Palliative Care and Hospice Interdisciplinary Perspectives over the Decades
Preface
Erica Borgstrom, Bethan Michael-Fox, and Arnar Arnason
1. Hospice
Cicely Saunders
2. Originating a movement:: Cicely Saunders and the development of St Christopher's Hospice, 1957-1967
David Clark
3. Looking back, looking forward: The evolution of palliative and end-of-life care in England
Jane Seymour
4. Mapping and comparison of palliative care nationally and across nations: Denmark as a case in point
Helle Timm and Rikke Vittrup
5. Working bi-culturally within a palliative care research context: The development of the Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group
Merryn Gott, Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Tessa Morgan, Stella Black, Lisa Williams, Michal Boyd, Rosemary Frey, Jackie Robinson, Julia Slark, Gabriella Trussardi, Susan Waterworth, Rawiri Wharemate, Whio Hansen, Eliza Smith, Kiripai Kaka, Kohi Henare, Eileen Henare, Manaaki Poto, Eliza Tipene-Carter and Devi-ann Hal
6. Care for the dying in contemporary Russia: The hospice movement in a low-income context
Sergei Mokhov
7. Health-promoting palliative care: Developing a social model for practice
Allan Kellehear
8. Palliative care in the USA and England: A critical analysis of meaning and implementation towards a public health approach
Jane Seymour and Brian Cassel
9. A ‘good death’ for all?: Examining issues for palliative care in correctional settings
Meridith C. Burles, Cindy A. Peternelj-Taylor and Lorraine Holtslander
10. Tellable and untellable stories in suffering and palliative care
Maxxine Rattner
11. Rites of passage and the hospice culture
Katherine Froggatt
12. Families and the transition to specialist palliative care
Emma Kirby, Alex Broom, Phillip Good, Julia Wootton and Jon Adams
13. Hospice Care: Between Existential and Medical Hope
Vibeke Graven, Anders Petersen and Helle Timm
14. “Going down” and “getting deeper”: Physical and metaphorical location and movement in relation to death and spiritual care in a Scottish hospice
Bella Vivat
15. Fostering cultural humility in perinatal palliative care. An interpretative qualitative study from the United Kingdom
Marie Clancya and Felicity Thomas
16. Dilemmas in the use of volunteers to provide hospice bereavement support: Evidence from New Zealand
Sheila Payne
Biography
Erica Borgstrom is a Professor of Medical Anthropology at The Open University in the United Kingdom. She was Mortality Co-Editor-in-Chief from 2020 to 2024.
Bethan Michael-Fox is Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at The Open University in the United Kingdom. She has been the Mortality Managing Editor since 2020.
Arnar Árnason is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is Mortality Co-Editor-in-Chief.
