Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Introduction --

Section one: This is how it all began --

Death of Apu, my father : almost a lifetime ago --

My mother is dying : the change to my professional thinking --

Death of my life's partner --

Afterthought --

Section two: My way of getting there --

Writing that marries personal experience with transformation --

Partnership of narrative and knowledge --

Power of knowledge : patterns of knowing --

consciousness : the patient and the nurse's knowledge building --

Hospice and palliative care : a historical review --

Palliative care : the ideology and practice --

My palliative care.