The last dance : encountering death and dying /
DeSpelder, Lynne Ann, 1944-
The last dance : encountering death and dying / Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland. - 8th ed. - Boston : McGraw Hill Higher Education, c2009. - xxiv, 648 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-626) and indexes.
Attitudes toward death : a climate of change -- Learning about death : the influence of sociocultural forces -- Perspectives on death : cultural and historical -- Death systems : mortality and society -- Health care : patients, staff, and institutions -- End-of-life issues and decisions -- Facing death : living with life-threatening illness -- Last rites : funerals and body disposition -- Survivors : understanding the experience of loss -- Death in the lives of children and adolescents -- Death in the lives of adults -- Suicide -- Threats of horrendous death -- Beyond death/after life -- The path ahead : personal and social choices.
9780073405469 (alk. paper) 0073405469 (alk. paper)
2008344527
Death--Psychological aspects--Textbooks.
Death--Social aspects--Textbooks.
BF789.D4 / D53 2009
155.9/37
The last dance : encountering death and dying / Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland. - 8th ed. - Boston : McGraw Hill Higher Education, c2009. - xxiv, 648 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-626) and indexes.
Attitudes toward death : a climate of change -- Learning about death : the influence of sociocultural forces -- Perspectives on death : cultural and historical -- Death systems : mortality and society -- Health care : patients, staff, and institutions -- End-of-life issues and decisions -- Facing death : living with life-threatening illness -- Last rites : funerals and body disposition -- Survivors : understanding the experience of loss -- Death in the lives of children and adolescents -- Death in the lives of adults -- Suicide -- Threats of horrendous death -- Beyond death/after life -- The path ahead : personal and social choices.
9780073405469 (alk. paper) 0073405469 (alk. paper)
2008344527
Death--Psychological aspects--Textbooks.
Death--Social aspects--Textbooks.
BF789.D4 / D53 2009
155.9/37