The Health Care Professional and the Care of the Dying: The Crisis of AIDS

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Illich Medical Nemesis (New York: Viking, 1983) p. 24.

See the encyclical letter of Pope John XXIII, Pacem in Terris, par. 11.

See the furor created by Masters and Johnson in their book Crisis (1988) on the effects of the AIDS epidemic on heterosexuals. A summary of the book appeared in Newsweek (March 7, 1988).

See the reaction to a small, anonymous article which appeared in JAMA for March 1, 1988 about a resident who killed a dying woman who suffered from terminal ovarian cancer.

See studies in the magazine. Death Studies.

Leara E. “Grief Among Health Care Workers,” 37 Journal of Gerontology, 604–608 (1982).

Millerd E. “Health Professionals as Survivors,” JPN and Health Services (April, 1977), pp. 33–37; S. Shanfield, “The Mourning of the Health Care Professional,” 4 Death Education, pp. 385-395 (1981).

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Millerd op cit., supra, note #10, p. 36.

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