The last dance : encountering death and dying / Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : McGraw Hill Higher Education, c2009.Edition: 8th edDescription: xxiv, 648 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780073405469 (alk. paper)
  • 0073405469 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.9/37 22
LOC classification:
  • BF789.D4 D53 2009
Contents:
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.
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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.

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