Encyclopedia of Death and Dying

ISBN-13: 9780415188258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 538 str.

Glennys Howarth; Oliver Leaman

Opis

This is a reference source for death, dying and related concepts. It should prove a useful resource for teachers, researchers, professionals and for all those with a lay interest in issues of mortality. There has, over the last 10 to 15 years of the 20th century, been an upsurge in academic, professional and lay interest in mortality. This is reflected in academic and professional literature; in the popular media; and in the proliferation of professional roles and training courses associated with aspects of death and dying. Despite its all pervading significance, however, the majority of texts in death and dying have been designed for particular disciplinary audiences and as such they deal, in depth, with specific academic or professional concerns. By contrast, this volume offers readers a wide range of information that draws from many disciplines and isolated professions in the arts, humanities, medicine, sciences, and social sciences.

Spis treści

adolescence; afterlife; ageing; All Saints Day; All Souls' Day; angels; bereavement; Black Death; brain death; Buddhism; burial rites; cancer; care of the dying child; Catholicism; cot death; cremation; death instinct; Death Row; depression; disasters; drugs; Egypt, ancient; embalming; euthanasia; epitaphs; evil; fate and fatalism; fear; film; funerals; gas chambers; ghosts; good death; graves; Greece, ancient; healing; Heaven; Hell; Hinduism; immortality; Islam; Journal of Death Studies; Judaism; kamikaze; laying out; life support; longevity; medicine; meditation; memorial; mourning; near-death experiences; nursing homes; obituaries; old age; organ donation; out-of-body experience; pathology; pilgrimage; post-mortem rituals; psychology; reincarnation; Requiem Mass; resurrection; resuscitation; spiritual healing; suicide; superstitions; Tibetan Book of the Dead; transplants; Tutenkhamen; vampires; wakes; war memorials; widowhood;

O autorze

Glennys Howarth, Oliver Leaman