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

By: DeSpelder, Lynne Ann, 1944- [author]
Contributor(s): Strickland, Albert Lee
Publisher: Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2009Edition: Eight EditionDescription: xxiv, 648 pages : illjustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780073405469 (alk. paper); 0073405469 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Death -- Psychological aspects -- Textbooks | Death -- Social aspects -- Textbooks | Attitude to deathDDC classification: 155.937 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Item type Current location Home library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK COLLEGE LIBRARY
COLLEGE LIBRARY
SUBJECT REFERENCE
155.937 D468 2009 (Browse shelf) Available CITU-CL-43250
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

There are no comments for this item.

to post a comment.