Emma Murphy – författare

Kidney Disease: From advanced disease to bereavement provides guidance to renal and palliative care professionals dealing with patients with advanced kidney disease, who are approaching end of life. The book describes the tools used to achieve a good death including advance care planning, symptom control law and ethics, recognizing dying, withdrawal of treatment, and a holistic approach to patient care. By using case histories, the book highlights how to facilitate good communication between patients, families and their renal and palliative teams. There are also chapters on support for carers and bereavement. Revised and updated, this new edition is written in a bullet point style to provide an indispensable guide to the day-to-day management of patient care. This pocketbook will be an essential guide for nephrologists, renal nurses, nephrologist trainees, and doctors and nurses working in palliative care.

The liberal approach to transitional justice and peacebuilding has been widely critiqued for its shallow approach to gendered inclusion and inattention to local context, yet has historically remained dominant. This book puts forward an alternative framework: agonistic transitional justice.Agonism embraces contestation and multiplicity rather than trying to work towards consensus or objectivity. To assess the feasibility of agonistic approaches as an alternative to the liberal model, the book compares three cases reflecting different degrees of institutional adoption: Colombia (high), Northern Ireland (mixed) and Uganda (minimal). Taking gender as an entry point, it examines how agonistic transitional justice addresses identity-based hierarchies, domination and oppression.Combining theoretical innovation with original empirical research, the book offers insights for scholars and practitioners seeking alternatives to liberal peacebuilding and transitional justice.