Description
"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 the Author
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.
Book Information
ISBN 9781138535251
Author Orville Brim
Format Hardback
Page Count 390
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 930g
