Understanding Dying Death and Bereavement
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- Australia Wadsworth Cengage Learning 2011
- 565 p. PB 23x18 cm.
Using a social-psychological approach, this edition remains solidly grounded in theory and research, but places greater emphasis on the individual and coping with death and dying. These two well-known authors and researchers integrate stimulating personal accounts throughout the text, and apply concepts to specific examples that deal with cross cultural perspectives and the practical matters of death and dying.
CONTENTS: Studying dying, death, and bereavement The American experience of death Growing up with death Perspectives on death and life after death The dying process Living with dying Dying in the American health care system Biomedical issues and euthanasia Suicide Diversity in death rituals The business of dying The legal aspects of dying Coping with loss Grieving throughout the life cycle