The last dance : encountering death and dying /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeSpelder, Lynne Ann, 1944-
Other Authors: Strickland, Albert Lee
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : McGraw Hill Higher Education, c2009.
Edition:8th ed.
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of 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.