1. AIDS and terminal illness
- Author
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Rosemary Moynihan, Grace Christ, and Les Gallo Silver
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ,Social Work ,Terminal Care ,Attitude to Death ,Attitude of Health Personnel ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Self Concept ,Young age ,Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) ,Terminal (electronics) ,medicine ,Quality of Life ,Humans ,Disease process ,Psychology ,Psychiatry - Abstract
The authors discuss the specific social and psychological tasks that confront individuals who are dying with AIDS. The young age of the patient, the nature of the disease process, and the social context in which the death occurs profoundly affect the patients' experience.
- Published
- 1988