Dying: Facing the FactsHannelore Wass, Robert A. Neimeyer This work provides an up-to-date examination of the ways people face dying and bereavement. In this third edition previous chapters are throrughly revised, and new contributors expand areas that have changed significantly. Reflecting the field's complex interdisciplinary character, the chapters cover such diverse areas as psychology, nursing, medicine, AIDS, family studies, sociology, education, philosophy, law, religion, the humanities and political science, whilst highlighting thanatology's core psychological and therapeutic caregiving dimensions. First, the text offers broad examinations of death systems from the vantage points of various cultural, historical and disciplinary perspectives. The second section represents the core of the book, offering detailed surveys of the "data" of death, dying and bereavement as they relate to different phases of our encounter with death as an abstract possibility and concrete reality. Next are chapters addressing a cluster of death-related issues and challenges that confront us at both a societal and individual level - such as AIDS - and finally the volume closes with a few reflections on the complexity of contemporary thanatology, framing some issues and recommendations that deserve greater attention by scholars, researchers, policy makers and practitioners. Also included is a comprehensive resource bibliography on the topic. This text is intended to be of use as a resource for all those interested in reading about death studies, both professionals and students alike. |
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... journals , dissertations , audio- visual media , and organizational resources that should be of value to both death educators and readers interested in learning more . Altogether , in this third edition of Dying : Facing the Facts we ...
... journals and other publications but has not been brought together in one book . Nine chapters , almost two - thirds of this book , are devoted to the discussion of the facts of death . A second objective was to provide a volume that is ...
... Journal of Medicine , 329 , 103-109 , " The increasing disparity in mortality between socioeconomic groups in the United States , 1960 and 1986 , " by G. Pappas , S. Queen , W. Hadden , and G. Fisher , 1993. ) ( b ) Homicide rates ( per ...
... Opinion Research Center 1988 General Social Survey ( Rigney & Kearl , 1994 ) . Reprinted by permission of the Journal of Social Phi- losophy . Table 1 Attitudes of Moral Types Toward Selected Death Issues DEATH AND POLITICS 19.
... Journal of Psychiatry , 141 , 645-650 . Kinzie , J. D. , Sack , W. H. , Angell , R. H. , Manson , S. , & Rath , B. ( 1986 ) . Psychiatric effects of mas- sive trauma on Cambodian children . Journal of the American Academy of Child ...
Contents
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Death Anxiety or Death Anxieties? | 58 |
Changes in Death Anxiety as a Result of Death Education | 78 |
Conclusion | 263 |
References | 265 |
Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents | 269 |
Societal Factors and Forces | 275 |
Personal Encounters with Death | 282 |
Conclusion | 296 |
Responding to the Tolling of the Bell | 303 |
Issues and Challenges | 323 |
The Dying Process | 89 |
The End of the Dying Trajectory | 98 |
Managing Serious Illness | 112 |
A Product of Civilization | 118 |
Different Types of Hospital Dying | 128 |
Negotiations Decisions and Adaptations to Dying | 134 |
The Hospice Approach | 143 |
The Delivery of Hospice Services | 151 |
References | 161 |
Defining Life and Death | 173 |
Conclusion | 182 |
American Funeral Practices and Attitudes Toward Funerals | 193 |
Accommodating to Loss | 211 |
Factors that Influence Grief and Mourning | 221 |
Complicated Mourning | 238 |
Solace | 248 |
Worldviews | 254 |
Coping with HIVSpectrum Disease | 330 |
The Prevention of HIV Transmission | 336 |
Suicide | 347 |
Contemporary Developments in Suicidology | 353 |
TheoreticalClinical Observations | 361 |
Gender | 367 |
Rational Suicide Assisted Suicide | 373 |
A Sample of Suicide Notes | 380 |
Philosophy and the Right to Die | 388 |
Medicine and the Right to Die | 395 |
Conclusion | 402 |
Chapter 17 | 435 |
Education about Death Dying and Bereavement | 441 |
Chapter 18 | 447 |
Organizations | 454 |