PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Galdston, Richard
TI  - <span class="sc">Psychosocial Aspects of Terminal Care,</span> edited by B. Schoenberg, A. C. Carr, D. Peretz, and A. H. Kutscher. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972
DP  - 1974 Jul 01
TA  - Pediatrics
PG  - 128--129
VI  - 54
IP  - 1
4099  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/54/1/128.2.short
4100  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/54/1/128.2.full
SO  - Pediatrics1974 Jul 01; 54
AB  - 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.