A 3 page paper that uses both interviews and research to investigate the nature of care for patients who are dying. The hospice program is described and discussed from a predominantly nursing point of view. Bibliography lists 3 sources. A 4 page paper comparing the ideas expressed in Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death, William I. Miller's The Anatomy of Disgust, and Erich Fromm's The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness. The paper shows how all three of these thinkers see the denial of death, and with it man's lack of comfort with his own physicality, as the prime rationale in man's self-concept.
Bibliography lists three sources.
A study is discussed in which the various new organizational areas of caring are outlined. Bibliography lists three sources.