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| Awareness and modern dying | | Author(s) | David Field |
| Journal title | Mortality, vol 1, no 3, 1996 |
| Pages | pp 255-265 |
| Keywords | Dying ; Terminal care ; Sociology, Social Science. |
| Annotation | A modern role of dying is emerging, based mainly on the experiences of cancer patients. This paper takes as its starting point sociological research which conceptualised modern dying as a status passage. Most deaths in modern Britain result from long-term disease conditions over a period of months or even years, so are likely to be predictable. The certainty of death may develop slowly over a long period of time: even when the fact of death is certain, its timing may remain in doubt. Although such uncertainty applies to all long-term terminal conditions, they are more readily resolved for cancer deaths than for other types of terminal conditions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010315205 A |
| Classmark | CX: LV: S * |
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