Hospice and Palliative Care Acupuncture

A book for acupuncturists and healthcare professionals on the use of acupuncture for the major hospice and palliative care diagnoses, and for grief and loss. Includes Chinese perspectives on death and dying and evidence-based pain management approaches. A handbook for acupuncturists and healthcare practitioners on the use of acupuncture for end-of-life care. The book covers the major hospice and palliative care diagnoses from a Chinese medicine perspective, as well as grief and loss, and includes the roots of Chinese historical perspectives on death and dying. The acupuncturist is introduced to the working medical model of hospice care and the interdisciplinary team approach and provided with evidence-based strategies for the use the acupuncture in symptom management.