The Experience of Dying

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I. Introduction -- Attitudes towards death / E. Mansell Pattison -- Death throughout the life cycle / E. Mansell Pattison -- The family matrix of dying and death / E. Mansell Pattison -- The experience of dying / E. Mansell Pattison -- The will to live and the expectation of death / E. Mansell Pattison -- Religion, faith, and healing / E. Mansell Pattison -- An interview with a dying mother / E. Mansell Pattison -- II. Early childhood: -- The life of the malformed child / Jean Carlin -- Meningomyelocele infants / Paul E. Wood -- The burned child / Roslyn Seligman -- Childhood leukemia / Brenda D. Townes, David A. Wold -- III. Middle childhood. A death in a family of Hemophiliacs / Ake Mattson -- Accidents and trauma / William M. Easson -- Cancer in the school-age child / Rudolph Toch -- IV. Adolescence. The effects of the cardiac pacemaker in adolescence / Richard Galdston -- Renal transplantation / Henry P. Copolillo -- The adolescent with cancer / John E. Schowalter -- V. Young adults. Life, limbo, and death with Multiple Sclerosis / Stanley van den Noort -- Trauma in the young adult / Herbert G. Steger -- A father with Leukemia / Don De Francisco, Donald E. Watson -- VI. Middle Age. Acute uncertainty: the Intensive Care Unit / Thomas R. Swanson, Marcia J. Swanson -- Living in a Cancer Unit / Leonard J. Hertzberg -- Acute Leukemia: a personal encounter / David B. Friedman -- Hope and fear with Hemodialysis / Bruce H. Beard -- VII. The elderly. Partial grief for the aged and their families / Martin A. Berezin -- The aged and euthanasia / Caroline E. Preston -- A memo from ML / Maurice Levine -- VIII. Styles of dying. The dying experience--Retrospective analyses / E. Mansell Pattison -- Helping with dying / E. Mansell Pattison.