Copp G
Centre for Cancer and Palliative Care, Institute of Cancer Research, University of London, The Royal Marsden Hospital, England.
J Adv Nurs. 1998 Aug;28(2):382-90. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1998.00794.x.
Recently, attention has been focused on the care of dying individuals and their families. Although this area of care remains topical for health care professionals, there have been few attempts undertaken to explore critically both the seminal and more recent theories of death and dying in order to extend and develop the theoretical scope and orientation of this field further. The purpose of this paper is therefore twofold: first, to provide a general overview of the current theories of death and dying, and second, to discuss some specific and general contributions and limitations of the current theories. To this end, a review of seminal and more recent theoretical frameworks is presented in this paper. Implications for future research in theory development in the field of death and dying are highlighted.
最近，人们的注意力集中在临终者及其家人的护理上。尽管这一护理领域对医疗保健专业人员来说仍然是热门话题，但很少有人尝试批判性地探索死亡与临终的开创性理论和最新理论，以便进一步扩展和发展该领域的理论范围与方向。因此，本文的目的有两个：第一，对当前的死亡与临终理论进行总体概述；第二，讨论当前理论的一些具体和普遍的贡献与局限性。为此，本文对开创性理论框架和最新理论框架进行了综述。文中强调了对死亡与临终领域理论发展未来研究的启示。
