ABSTRACT
"Recommended for the provocative questions it raises concerning the effect on the patient of the structure of medical care, concerning the important decisions regarding policy facing the medical profession, the hospital administrator, and the public, and for the discussions of legal and economic dimensions which are frequently forgotten by personnel working directly with the patient." - Edmund C. Payne, Psychiatry in Medicine. The fourteen original articles in The Dying Patient examine the problems of dying and medical conduct from the perspectives of sociology, economics, medicine, and the law.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|62 pages
The Social Context of Dying
part Two|144 pages
How Doctors, Nurses, and Hospitals Cope with Death
part Three|94 pages
Termination of Life—Social, Ethical, Legal, and Economic Questions