Description:Hospice and Palliative Care: an interdisciplinary approach is both a practical and philosophical book based on the work of the world famous St. Christopher's Hospice and its Home Care Team. Fourteen specialists from a wide range of social and medical disciplines have co-operated to set out the tensions involved in the challenging and demanding field of palliative care. They stress the importance of an interdisciplinary approach when facing the physical, social, emotional and spiritual needs of patients nearing the end of their lives.