Dying : Facing the Facts

ISBN-13: 9781560322856 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 486 str.

Hannelore Wass;Robert A. Neimeyer;Hannelore Wass

Opis

This work provides an up-to-date examination of the ways people face dying and bereavement. In this third edition previous chapters are throrughly revised, and new contributors expand areas that have changed significantly. Reflecting the field's complex interdisciplinary character, the chapters cover such diverse areas as psychology, nursing, medicine, AIDS, family studies, sociology, education, philosophy, law, religion, the humanities and political science, whilst highlighting thanatology's core psychological and therapeutic (caregiving) dimensions.

Spis treści

Part 1: Contexts and Perspectives; Death and Politics: A Psychosocial Perspective; Living Our Dying and Our Grieving: Historical and Cultural Attitudes. Part 2: Data; Death Anxiety; The Dying Process; Institutional Dying: A Convergence of Cultural Values, Technology and Social Organisation; Care of the Dying: The Hospice Approach; Legal Perspectives on Planning for Death. Part 3: Issues and Challenges; AIDS: The Second Decade; Suicide; Rights and the Dying; The Definition of Death: Problems for Public Policy. Part 4: Conclusion; Some Closing Reflections; Resources.

O autorze

Hannelore Wass, Robert A. Neimeyer