Preface
Introduction: Toward Standards of Care for the Terminally Ill, Robert Kastenbaum
PART ONE Relationships With the Dying
Dying vs. Well-Being, Ronald Koenig
Toward a Social Theory of Dying, Natalie Rosel
Family Communication in the Crisis of a Child's Fatal Illness: A Literature Review and Analysis, Lynda Share
Story of a First-Born, Wende Kernan Bowie
Dignity of Person in the Final Phase of Life: An Exploratory Study, Mary Louise Nash
PART TWO Survivors of Death
Shouldering a Burden, Kathy Calkins
A Psychosocial Aspect of Terminal Care: Anticipatory Grief, Robert Fulton and Julie Fulton
The Reactions of Family Systems to Sudden and Unexpected Death, Rita R. Vollman, Amy Ganzert, Lewis Picher, and W. Vail Williams
SIDS: The Survivor as Victim, Eric Markusen, Greg Owen, Robert Fulton, and Robert Bendiksen
Repressed Affect and Memory Reactive to Grief: A Case Fragment, David K. Switzer
PART THREE The Relationships of Health ProfessionalsNursing Care of the Terminal Patient, Sandra Simmons and Barbara Given
The Relationship to Death as a Source of Stress for Nurses on a Coronary Care Unit, Trevor R. Price and Bernard J. Bergen
How the Medical Staff Copes with Dying Patients: A Critical Review, Richard Schulz and David Aderman
Attitudes of Physicians on Disclosing Information to and Maintaining Life for Terminal Patients Raymond G. Carey and Emil J. Posavac