Journal article
The Patient, Death, and the Family
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.231(13), pp.1396-1396
03/31/1975
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1975.03240250062043
Abstract
Since Kubler-Ross drew popular attention to psychological and ethical issues in the management of dying patients, a flood of books and articles on the subject has appeared. This book is one of the better ones. It grew from a conference on the management of dying patients at the University of Rochester College of Medicine, a school that has a strong tradition for producing thoughtful studies in psychosomatic medicine. The contributors come from a variety of backgrounds, and they give an unusual richness. Playwright Robert Anderson writes a moving autobiographical account of his responses to his wife's lingering illness and death. Psychohistorian Robert Jay Lifton has a conceptually fuzzy but interesting essay on man's need for a sense of transcendence and immortality. Clergyman Nathaniel Whitcomb writes briefly about ethical issues such as "the right to die." Psychiatrist George Engel describes clinical "signs of giving up" among the grieving and the dying,
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Patient, Death, and the Family
- Creators
- Nancy C Andreasen
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.231(13), pp.1396-1396
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- DOI
- 10.1001/jama.1975.03240250062043
- ISSN
- 0098-7484
- eISSN
- 1538-3598
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/31/1975
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984068227802771
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