Awareness of dying
Publication details: New York : Aldine, 1965ISBN:- 0202300013
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| Book | David Adams Library (Royal Marsden) | WY 152 GLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 54031000090910 | ||
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| WB311 DIC Death dying and bereavement | WB311 ELI The loneliness of the dying | WB311 FIE Death, gender and ethnicity | WB311 GLA Awareness of dying | WB311 GRE Dealing with death: a handbook of practices, procedures and law | WB311 HOL Negotiating death in contemporary health and social care | WB311 HOW Contemporary issues in the sociology of death, dying and disposal |
Key text (CCPC)
Introduction ; The problem of awareness of dying ; Expectations of death : a problem in social definition ; Types of awareness contexts ; Closed awareness ; Suspicion awareness : the contest for control ; The ritual drama of mutual pretense ; The ambiguities of open awareness ; Discounting awareness ; Problems of awareness ; Direct disclosure of terminality ; The unaware family ; The aware family ; Nothing more to do : the problem of no recovery ; Nothing more to do : the problem of comfort ; Awareness and the nurse's composure ; Conclusions ; The practical use of awareness theory ; Awareness and the study of social interaction ; Methods of collection and analysis of data ; Index
This book is the result of fieldwork conducted at six hospitals in San Fransisco and examines the interaction between patients dying in hospital and hospital staff.
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