TY - JOUR T1 - Mortality and medicine: forms of silence and of speech JF - Medical Humanities JO - J Med Humanit SP - 72 LP - 76 DO - 10.1136/mh.29.2.72 VL - 29 IS - 2 AU - M Rowe Y1 - 2003/12/01 UR - http://mh.bmj.com/content/29/2/72.abstract N2 - Silence can be harmful to patients, their loved ones, and doctors within the contexts of illness and bereavement. I draw from my experience with my son’s illness and death to discuss five forms of silence—the silence around the experience of critical illness; the silence between life and death; the silence of doctors; the silence of the dead, and the silence of the ill—and of speech that may emerge in response to these silences. ER -