The Dying Patient - Softcover

Brim, Orville

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878556842 ISBN 13: 9780878556847

Publisher: Routledge, 1980

Synopsis

“Recommended for the provocative questions it raises concerning the effect on the patient of the structure of medical care, concerning the important decisions regarding policy facing the medical profession, the hospital administrator, and the public, and for the discussions of legal and economic dimensions which are frequently forgotten by personnel working directly with the patient. –Edmund C. Payne, Psychiatry in Medicine

The fourteen original articles in The Dying Patient examine the problems of dying and medical conduct from the perspectives of sociology, economics, medicine, and the law.

About this title

About the Author

Sol Levine (1922-1996) was professor of health behavior at Harvard School of Public Health. Previously he was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and Boston University. He is the author of many works, including Society and Health, Handbook of Medical Sociology, and Life after a Heart Attack: Social and Psychological Factors after Eight Years.

Review

"Recommended for the provocative questions it raises concerning the effect on the patient of the structure of medical care; concerning the important decisions regarding policy facing the medical profession, the hospital administrator, and the public; and for the discussions of legal and economic dimensions which are frequently forgotten by personnel working directly with the patient."

—Edmund C. Payne, Psychiatry in Medicine

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0878556842
• ISBN 13: 9780878556847
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 390