Death and Dying Sourcebook

Death and Dying Sourcebook

Author: Joyce Brennfleck Shannon

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13:

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Provides information about end-of-life perspectives and the medical management of symptoms that can occur as death draws near.


Death in Ancient Rome

Death in Ancient Rome

Author: Valerie Hope

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-11-13

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1134323093

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Presenting a wide range of relevant, translated texts on death, burial and commemoration in the Roman world,this book is organized thematically and supported by discussion of recent scholarship. The breadth of material included ensures that this sourcebook will shed light on the way death was thought about and dealt with in Roman society.


Death and Dying Sourcebook, 4th Ed.

Death and Dying Sourcebook, 4th Ed.

Author: James Chambers

Publisher: Infobase Holdings, Inc

Published: 2019-11-01

Total Pages: 573

ISBN-13: 078081732X

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Provides basic consumer health information about management of end-of-life symptoms, caregiving and facility evaluation, and legal and economic issues associated with end-of-life.


What to Do When a Loved One Dies

What to Do When a Loved One Dies

Author: Eva Shaw

Publisher:

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 9780970575821

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As an all-encompassing approach to grief management, assists with every detail, from the daily realities to the long-term adjustments. - Immediate action to take, the death certificate, organ donation, autopsy, transporting the body; Understanding your options for funerals and memorial services, costs, contracts, etc.; Coping with the emotional upheaval from the death of a parent, spouse, child, etc.; Living through suicide, homicide, still birth, death from a terminal illness, etc.; Where to find emotional support and how to work through grief; The practical matters of trusts, wills, probate, and estates, taxes, etc.; When death occurs away from home.


Perspectives On Loss

Perspectives On Loss

Author: John H. Harvey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1317771915

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Losses are integral to the human experience, but they sometimes unfold in subtle ways. Loss is not just about death, but can encompass a number of situations, such as those gradual losses experienced by the elderly: loss of vision, mental capacity, or hope. Intended to stimulate ideas and research in the new area of psychological aspects of loss, this sourcebook collects the writing of a set of distinguished scholars representing psychology and related fields. The author presents a case for a broadly-construed field of loss-both personal and interpersonal-that would complement other fields such as death and dying, traumatology, and stress and coping. No other volume is as comprehensive in its treatment of this intriguing subject. The book begins with an introduction to the concept of loss and discusses the definition of the term and the salience of the topic in the general public in the 1990s. Contributors were chosen to represent some of the most interesting current work on different types of loss and adaptation in the whole of the social and behavioral sciences. Contents cover such diverse subjects as loss in intimate relationships, disability, chronic illness, genocide, sports, unemployment, and homelessness. The book concludes with a commentary section on loss theory and research.


Death and Dying Sourcebook

Death and Dying Sourcebook

Author: Annemarie Muth

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13:

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"This book provides the reader with timely information on the medical, legal, and ethical issues related to death and dying in the United States. Documents selected from a wide variety of government and private organizations that offer advice on such topics as selecting the right health care facility, Medicare and Medicaid, patients' rights, advance directives, innovations in hospice care, pain management, physician-assisted suicide, funeral costs, and the grieving process are included. A glossary and resource directory offer additional help and information."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


A Chosen Death

A Chosen Death

Author: Lonny Shavelson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0684801000

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Featuring moving accounts of terminally ill people who have faced the choice of ending their own lives, this book adds a profound human dimension to the debate over assisted suicide


Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe

Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe

Author: Marius Rotar

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1443832561

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This book features a selection of the most representative papers presented during the international conference Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe (ABDD). It invites you on a fascinating journey across the last three centuries of Europe, with death as your guide. The past and present realities of the complex phenomena of death and dying in Romania, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Serbia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Italy are dealt with, by authors from varying backgrounds: historians, sociologists, priests, humanists, anthropologists, and doctors. This is yet more proof that death as a topic cannot be confined to one science, the deciphering of its meanings and of the shifts it effects requiring a joint, interdisciplinary effort.


Death, Mourning, and Burial

Death, Mourning, and Burial

Author: Antonius C. G. M. Robben

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-02-04

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1405137509

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In Death, Mourning, and Burial, an indispensable introduction to the anthropology of death, readers will find a rich selection of some of the finest ethnographic work on this fascinating topic. Comprised of six sections that mirror the social trajectory of death: conceptualizations of death; death and dying; uncommon death; grief and mourning; mortuary rituals; and remembrance and regeneration Includes canonical readings as well as recent studies on topics such as organ donation and cannibalism Designed for anyone concerned with issues of death and dying, as well as: violence, terrorism, war, state terror, organ theft, and mortuary rituals Serves as a text for anthropology classes, as well as providing a genuinely cross-cultural perspective to all those studying death and dying


Sick To Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore!

Sick To Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore!

Author: Joanne Lynn

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2004-10-11

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780520931428

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Just a few generations ago, serious illness, like hazardous weather, arrived with little warning, and people either lived through it or died. In this important, convincing, and long-overdue call for health care reform, Joanne Lynn demonstrates that our current health system, like our concepts of health and disease, developed at a time when life was mostly short, serious illnesses and disabilities were common at every age, and dying was quick. Today, most Americans live a long life, with the disabilities and discomforts of progressive chronic illness appearing only during the final chapters of their life stories. Sick to Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore! maintains that health care and community services are not set up to meet the needs of the large number of people who face a prolonged period of progressive illness and disability before death. Lynn offers what she calls an "owner's manual for the health care system," which lays out facts, concepts, strategies, and action plans for genuine reform and gives the reader new ways to interpret information creatively, imagine innovative possibilities, and take steps to implement them.