The dying process

Lawton, J

The dying process - London : Routledge, 2000

Key text (CCPC)

Introduction ; Day care : a safe retreat ; Body-subject to body-object : hospice care and the dying patient ; Inpatient hospice care : the sequestration of the unbounded body and 'dirty dying' ; Invisible suffering : the social death ; Final reflections

Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, this book draws on the experiences of day care and hospice patients to provide an analysis of the period of decline prior to death.

0415226791


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