The Dying Patient

Orville G. Brim, Jr. is president of the Foundation for Child Development and former president of the Russell Sage Foundation. Howard E. Freeman is director of the Institute for Social Science Research and professor of sociology at the University of California in Los Angeles. Sol Levine is university professor of sociology and community medicine at Boston University, and Norman Scotch is professor and chairman of the Department of Socio-Medical Services and Community Medicine at Boston University's School of Medicine.

CONTRIBUTORS, PREFACE, INTRODUCTION: New Dimensions of Dying, 1. When, Why, and Where People Die, 2. What People Think About Death, 3. Cultural Beliefs on Life and Death, 4. The Prognosis of Death, 5. Physicians’ Behavior Toward the Dying Patient, 6. Innovations and Heroic Acts in Prolonging Life, 7. Patterns of Dying, 8. The Dying Patient’s Point of View, 9. Consequences of Death for Physicians, Nurses, and Hospitals, 10. Dying in a Public Hospital, 11. Dying as an Emerging Social Problem, 12. Control of Medical Conduct, 13. Legal and Policy Issues in the Allocation of Death, 14. Economic and Social Costs of Death, CONCLUSION: Dying and Its Dilemmas as a Field of Research, Death and Dying, a Briefly Annotated Bibliography, INDEX