Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. Day care: a safe retreat, Preface to Chapters 3 and 4 – changing contexts: entering the hospice, 3. ‘Body-subject’ to ‘body-object’: hospice care and the dying patient, 4. Inpatient hospice care: the sequestration of the unbounded body and ‘dirty dying’, 5. Invisible suffering: the social death, 6. Final reflections, Appendix A, Appendix B, Notes, Bibliography, Name index, Subject index

About the Author

Lawton, Julia

Reviews

'Although not exactly a comfortable or easy read fopr anyone working in palliative care, this book is a fundamentlly important study of what happens when patients die, especially in hospices. It should become essential reading for anyone with an interest in the care of the dying.' - Paul Keeley, The Lancet

'Although not exactly a comfortable or easy read for anyone working in palliative care, this book is a fundamentally important study of what happens when patients die, especially in hospices. It should become essential reading for anyone with an interest in the care of the dying.'- The Lancet