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1965 book by Barney Glaser

Awareness of Dying is a 1965 book (ISBN 0-202-30763-8) by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss. In his 2007 article, sociologist Stefan Timmermans called the book "landmark".^[1]

History and content

When Strauss came to the medical school of the University of California, San Francisco, he looked for an interesting subject that would also get the attention of medical people.

Visiting hospitals, he discovered that dying was a highly problematic issue.

Barney glaser and anselm strauss

Strauss started field studies and six months later hired Glaser from Columbia University. Both researchers already had personal experience with the subject: Strauss had lost his mother and a friend in recent years, Glaser his father.

Strauss and Glaser suspected early on that the expectation of death by both the dying and the relatives were a key to understanding the interactions between those people.

Their choice of hospitals and stations allowed them to compare var