RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Mortality and medicine: forms of silence and of speech
JF Medical Humanities
JO J Med Humanit
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 72
OP 76
DO 10.1136/mh.29.2.72
VO 29
IS 2
A1 M Rowe
YR 2003
UL http://mh.bmj.com/content/29/2/72.abstract
AB 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.