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Graham McAleer, Barney Glaser
-Sociologists Glaser and Strauss have made yet another contribution
to members of the health professions. This book is the result of
field research, intensive observation, and interviewing in six
hospitals in the Bay Area of San Francisco, as well as in hospitals
in Scotland, Italy, and Greece.... In addition to presenting
important new data and formulating sociologic theory, the
authors... offer suggestions toward improving the care of the
dying. Not only have they made brilliant observations about dying
patients and those who interact with them in the contemporary
American hospital, they also do some of the work left undone by
those who care for the dying. Nurses should not miss this book.-
--Carol Ren Kneisl, The American Journal of Nursing -Glaser and
Strauss began their study of hospital deaths with two notions:
first, that because it -takes time,- dying could be thought of as a
process; and second, -that a collective game of 'evasion of the
truth' often occurred around dying people.- The outcome of the
study is rather complex but succinctly written document on an event
that is majestic but horrifying, and inevitable but demanding--the
transition from life to death.... Time for Dying is an exquisitely
thorough and professional work.... [T]he book... [is] a rather
impressive sample of a sociological inquiry.- --Thomas J. Cottle,
American Sociological Review -The authors of this book are
sociologists who are not biased against death in the way doctors
and nurses are. They have studied the effects that patients,
family, staff, and institutional structures have upon one another
in the context of the hospital as a work institution.... Doctors
and nurses reading the book will frequently experience a strong
feeling of familiarity, and some may even think that they knew it
all. If so, these reactions would be to the atuhors' credit. They
bring a new and very important approach to bear on the terminal
phase of life.- --E. Stengel, The British Medical Journal
"Sociologists Glaser and Strauss have made yet another contribution
to members of the health professions. This book is the result of
field research, intensive observation, and interviewing in six
hospitals in the Bay Area of San Francisco, as well as in hospitals
in Scotland, Italy, and Greece.... In addition to presenting
important new data and formulating sociologic theory, the
authors... offer suggestions toward improving the care of the
dying. Not only have they made brilliant observations about dying
patients and those who interact with them in the contemporary
American hospital, they also do some of the work left undone by
those who care for the dying. Nurses should not miss this book."
--Carol Ren Kneisl, The American Journal of Nursing "Glaser and
Strauss began their study of hospital deaths with two notions:
first, that because it "takes time," dying could be thought of as a
process; and second, "that a collective game of 'evasion of the
truth' often occurred around dying people." The outcome of the
study is rather complex but succinctly written document on an event
that is majestic but horrifying, and inevitable but demanding--the
transition from life to death.... Time for Dying is an exquisitely
thorough and professional work.... [T]he book... [is] a rather
impressive sample of a sociological inquiry." --Thomas J. Cottle,
American Sociological Review "The authors of this book are
sociologists who are not biased against death in the way doctors
and nurses are. They have studied the effects that patients,
family, staff, and institutional structures have upon one another
in the context of the hospital as a work institution.... Doctors
and nurses reading the book will frequently experience a strong
feeling of familiarity, and some may even think that they knew it
all. If so, these reactions would be to the atuhors' credit. They
bring a new and very important approach to bear on the terminal
phase of life." --E. Stengel, The British Medical Journal
"Sociologists Glaser and Strauss have made yet another contribution
to members of the health professions. This book is the result of
field research, intensive observation, and interviewing in six
hospitals in the Bay Area of San Francisco, as well as in hospitals
in Scotland, Italy, and Greece.... In addition to presenting
important new data and formulating sociologic theory, the
authors... offer suggestions toward improving the care of the
dying. Not only have they made brilliant observations about dying
patients and those who interact with them in the contemporary
American hospital, they also do some of the work left undone by
those who care for the dying. Nurses should not miss this book."
--Carol Ren Kneisl, The American Journal of Nursing "Glaser and
Strauss began their study of hospital deaths with two notions:
first, that because it "takes time," dying could be thought of as a
process; and second, "that a collective game of 'evasion of the
truth' often occurred around dying people." The outcome of the
study is rather complex but succinctly written document on an event
that is majestic but horrifying, and inevitable but demanding--the
transition from life to death.... Time for Dying is an exquisitely
thorough and professional work.... [T]he book... [is] a rather
impressive sample of a sociological inquiry." --Thomas J. Cottle,
American Sociological Review "The authors of this book are
sociologists who are not biased against death in the way doctors
and nurses are. They have studied the effects that patients,
family, staff, and institutional structures have upon one another
in the context of the hospital as a work institution.... Doctors
and nurses reading the book will frequently experience a strong
feeling of familiarity, and some may even think that they knew it
all. If so, these reactions would be to the atuhors' credit. They
bring a new and very important approach to bear on the terminal
phase of life." --E. Stengel, The British Medical Journal
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