Appropriate Death and the Hospice Program

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsAvery D. WeismanAvery D. Weisman, MD, is Senior Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, and Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School. His current affiliations are the Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.NotesWeisman, A. The coping capacity: On the nature of being mortal. New York, Human Sciences Press, 1984.Parkes, C. M. & Weiss, R. S. Recovery from bereavement. New York, Basic Books, Inc., 1983.Vachon, M. L. S. Occupational stress in the care of the critically ill, the dying, and the bereaved. Washington, Hemisphere Publishing Co., Harper & Row, 1987.Weisman, A. Coping with cancer. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1979.Weisman, A. On dying and denying: A psychiatrie study of terminality. New York, Behavioral Publications, Inc., pp 65-78, 1972.Glaser, B. G. & Strauss, A. L. Time for dying. Chicago, Aldine Publishing Co., 1968.Weisman, A. & Hackett, T. Predilection to death. Psychosomatic Medicine: 23, 232-255, 1961.