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.