Dying / Neither the Sun nor Death Can be looked at with a Steady Eye - La Rochefoucauld 1613-80
Dying / Neither the Sun nor Death Can be looked at with a Steady Eye - La Rochefoucauld 1613-80
- Penguin Books, 1982
- 224
A most valuable and timely book. It is Pragmatic, scholarly and humane without being sentimental. It is very readable and should prove extremely helpful to all concerned directly and indirectly with the care of the sick or dying. Editorial Forward, Introduction, Attitudes to Death, Fear of Death and Dying, Death No More, Acceptance of Death, The Dying, Moral Illness, Physical Distress in the Terminal Illness, Emotional Distress in the Terminal Illness, Awareness and Denial: Struggle and Acceptance, Care of the Dying, Treatment for the Dying, Speaking of Death with the Dying, Prolonging Life and Hastening Death, Who Care for the dying?, Mourning, Reactions to Bereavement, Mourning and Restitution, References, Index.
A most valuable and timely book. It is Pragmatic, scholarly and humane without being sentimental. It is very readable and should prove extremely helpful to all concerned directly and indirectly with the care of the sick or dying. Editorial Forward, Introduction, Attitudes to Death, Fear of Death and Dying, Death No More, Acceptance of Death, The Dying, Moral Illness, Physical Distress in the Terminal Illness, Emotional Distress in the Terminal Illness, Awareness and Denial: Struggle and Acceptance, Care of the Dying, Treatment for the Dying, Speaking of Death with the Dying, Prolonging Life and Hastening Death, Who Care for the dying?, Mourning, Reactions to Bereavement, Mourning and Restitution, References, Index.