-Sociologists Glaser and Strauss have made yet another contribution to members of the health professions. This book is the result of field research, intensive observation, and interviewing in six hospitals in the Bay Area of San Francisco, as well as in hospitals in Scotland, Italy, and Greece.... In addition to presenting important new data and formulating sociologic theory, the authors... offer suggestions toward improving the care of the dying. Not only have they made brilliant observations about dying patients and those who interact with them in the contemporary American hospital, they also do some of the work left undone by those who care for the dying. Nurses should not miss this book.-
--Carol Ren Kneisl, The American Journal of Nursing
-Glaser and Strauss began their study of hospital deaths with two notions: first, that because it -takes time,- dying could be thought of as a process; and second, -that a collective game of 'evasion of the truth' often occurred around dying people.- The outcome of the study is rather complex but succinctly written document on an event that is majestic but horrifying, and inevitable but demanding--the transition from life to death.... Time for Dying is an exquisitely thorough and professional work.... [T]he book... [is] a rather impressive sample of a sociological inquiry.-
--Thomas J. Cottle, American Sociological Review
-The authors of this book are sociologists who are not biased against death in the way doctors and nurses are. They have studied the effects that patients, family, staff, and institutional structures have upon one another in the context of the hospital as a work institution.... Doctors and nurses reading the book will frequently experience a strong feeling of familiarity, and some may even think that they knew it all. If so, these reactions would be to the atuhors' credit. They bring a new and very important approach to bear on the terminal phase of life.-
--E. Stengel, The British Medical Journal
"Sociologists Glaser and Strauss have made yet another contribution to members of the health professions. This book is the result of field research, intensive observation, and interviewing in six hospitals in the Bay Area of San Francisco, as well as in hospitals in Scotland, Italy, and Greece.... In addition to presenting important new data and formulating sociologic theory, the authors... offer suggestions toward improving the care of the dying. Not only have they made brilliant observations about dying patients and those who interact with them in the contemporary American hospital, they also do some of the work left undone by those who care for the dying. Nurses should not miss this book."
--Carol Ren Kneisl, The American Journal of Nursing
"Glaser and Strauss began their study of hospital deaths with two notions: first, that because it "takes time," dying could be thought of as a process; and second, "that a collective game of 'evasion of the truth' often occurred around dying people." The outcome of the study is rather complex but succinctly written document on an event that is majestic but horrifying, and inevitable but demanding--the transition from life to death.... Time for Dying is an exquisitely thorough and professional work.... [T]he book... [is] a rather impressive sample of a sociological inquiry."
--Thomas J. Cottle, American Sociological Review
"The authors of this book are sociologists who are not biased against death in the way doctors and nurses are. They have studied the effects that patients, family, staff, and institutional structures have upon one another in the context of the hospital as a work institution.... Doctors and nurses reading the book will frequently experience a strong feeling of familiarity, and some may even think that they knew it all. If so, these reactions would be to the atuhors' credit. They bring a new and very important approach to bear on the terminal phase of life."
--E. Stengel, The British Medical Journal
"Sociologists Glaser and Strauss have made yet another contribution to members of the health professions. This book is the result of field research, intensive observation, and interviewing in six hospitals in the Bay Area of San Francisco, as well as in hospitals in Scotland, Italy, and Greece.... In addition to presenting important new data and formulating sociologic theory, the authors... offer suggestions toward improving the care of the dying. Not only have they made brilliant observations about dying patients and those who interact with them in the contemporary American hospital, they also do some of the work left undone by those who care for the dying. Nurses should not miss this book."
--Carol Ren Kneisl, The American Journal of Nursing
"Glaser and Strauss began their study of hospital deaths with two notions: first, that because it "takes time," dying could be thought of as a process; and second, "that a collective game of 'evasion of the truth' often occurred around dying people." The outcome of the study is rather complex but succinctly written document on an event that is majestic but horrifying, and inevitable but demanding--the transition from life to death.... Time for Dying is an exquisitely thorough and professional work.... [T]he book... [is] a rather impressive sample of a sociological inquiry."
--Thomas J. Cottle, American Sociological Review
"The authors of this book are sociologists who are not biased against death in the way doctors and nurses are. They have studied the effects that patients, family, staff, and institutional structures have upon one another in the context of the hospital as a work institution.... Doctors and nurses reading the book will frequently experience a strong feeling of familiarity, and some may even think that they knew it all. If so, these reactions would be to the atuhors' credit. They bring a new and very important approach to bear on the terminal phase of life."
--E. Stengel, The British Medical Journal
