PEDIATRICS Vol. 54 No. 1 July 1974, pp. 128-129
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Psychosocial Aspects of Terminal Care, edited by B. Schoenberg, A. C. Carr, D. Peretz, and A. H. Kutscher. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972

Richard Galdston M.D.1

1 Newton Center, Massachusetts

Thanatology, the study of death and dying, is a medical specialty of recent establishment. Over the past two or three decades, there has been a marked increased interest in this topic and in the number of articles and books devoted to its discussion. It has been said that this development is due to a lifting of earlier taboos against public discussion and that the medical profession had been remiss in its failure to provide a more open, forthright airing of its experience with death.