Awareness of Dying,

by Barney G. Glaser and Anselm L. Strauss

Book Overview

Should patients be told they are dying? How do families react when one of their members is facing death? Who should reveal that death is imminent? How does hospital staff--doctors, nurses, and attendants--act toward the dying patient and his family? Death, as a social ritual, is one of the great turning points in human existence, but prior to this classic work, it had been subjected to little scientific study. American perspectives on death seem strangely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202300013
• ISBN13: 9780202300016
• Release Date: December 1965
• Publisher: Aldine Transaction
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"