TY  - JOUR
T1  - The study of dying: From autonomy to transformation
AU  - Miksanek T
Y1  - 2010/03/03
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2010.246
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 887
EP  - 887
VL  - 303
IS  - 9
N2  - 
The process of dying can be complicated and influenced by many factors—physical, cultural, spiritual, and psychological. The Study of Dying scrutinizes the course of dying from almost every perspective imaginable: historical, demographic, philosophical, religious, artistic, social, behavioral, literary, cinematic, and biomedical. Additionally, editor Allan Kellehear has identified 7 recurring themes related to the conduct of dying. These concepts are issues of personal control, withdrawal, fluctuation, collapse, disenfranchisement, transformation, and dying as a journey. As a death-centric tome, The Study of Dying uses some distinctive terminology: proto-corpse, religious slaughter, convenience euthanasia, verbal autopsy, and dirty dying.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.246
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.246
ER  -