The Dying Process: Experiences of Patients in Palliative Care

Julia Lawton

Routledge, £14.99, pp 240

ISBN 0 415 22679 1

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This is a book that can—and will—be read on many different levels. To patients, or their families, it may truly reflect some of the distress that they have experienced. To the medical sociologist it is no doubt an interesting academic discourse on the concept of “self” in contemporary England, and the changes that the “self” goes through when faced with impending death. To a doctor, particularly one working in palliative medicine, it throws up many …