Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction; PART I: THE HOSPICE MOVEMENT IN THE WEST AND IN JAPAN; 2: The Hospice Movement in the West; 3: The Hospice Movement in Japan; 4: A Comparison of Japanese and Western Hospice Movements; PART II: ATTITUDES TO DEATH AND DYING AND THE HOSPICE MOVEMENT; 5: The Western Attitude to Death and Dying; 6: The Japanese Attitude to Death and Dying; 7: Death and Dying and the Japanese Hospice Movement; PART III: THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP AND THE HOSPICE MOVEMENT
8: Doctors, Patients, and the Western Hospice Movement9: Doctors, Patients, and the Japanese Hospice Movement; 10: Doctor-Patient Relationships and the Hospice Movement; 11: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
First published in 1999, Maruyama explores some significant difficulties and differences in bringing the western hospice philosophy to the Japanese medical culture. Whilst not giving any definite answers, this study determines what some of the critical questions that need to be considered into Japanese medicine, as Mayuyama argues without defining these questions to begin with we cannot find appropriate solutions
