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""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.
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Author: Orville Brim ,
Howard E. Freeman ,
Sol Levine ,
Norman A. Scotch
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.929kg
ISBN: 9781138535251
ISBN 10: 1138535257
Pages: 390
Publication Date: 18 December 2020
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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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 -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
-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 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
Author Information
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.
