320 Pages
    by Routledge

    320 Pages
    by Routledge

    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?

    PART I: INTRODUCTION, PART II: TYPES OF AWARENESS CONTEXTS, PART III: PROBLEMS OF AWARENESS, PART IV: CONCLUSIONS, APPENDIX: Methods of Collection and Analysis of Data, Index

    Biography

    Barney G. Glaser, Anselm L. Strauss