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Music at the End of Life Easing the Pain and Preparing the Passage
Jennifer L. Hollis
ISBN: 0-313-36220-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-36220-0
208 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 4/30/2010
List Price: $44.95 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 4/30/2010)
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Description: Reflecting on the author's experiences as a music-thanatologist, Jennifer Hollis's Music at the End of Life: Easing the Pain and Preparing the Passage is an enlightening and emotional examination of the ways in which the experience of dying can be transformed with music.

Music at the End of Life highlights the unique role music has come to play in palliative medicine. Jennifer Hollis, known among colleagues and patients as “The Harp Lady in the Hospital,” interweaves narrative memoir, the personal experiences of fellow music-thanatologists and caregivers, and extensive research to demonstrate the transformative power of music when curing is no longer an option. Through story after unforgettable story, Hollis offers a new vision of end-of-life-care, in which music creates a beautiful space for the work of letting go, saying good-bye, grieving, and resting deeply.

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Bibliography includes material from the fields of anthropology, history, hospice and palliative medicine and music therapy

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