| The Dying Patient Contributor(s): Brim, Orville (Author) |
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ISBN: 0878556842 ISBN-13: 9780878556847 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.38 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1980 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Care Delivery - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 362.196 |
| LCCN: 80020141 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.08" W x 8.92" (1.20 lbs) 390 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Levine, Sol: - 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. |