Death, society, and the human experience

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Death, society, and the human experience

Robert J. Kastenbaum

Pearson A and B, c2007

9th ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

This landmark text in death education draws on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, such as history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage of understanding death and the dying process. The text focuses on both individual and societal attitudes and how they influence both how and when we die and how we live and deal with the knowledge of death and loss. Robert Kastenbaum is a renowned scholar in the field who developed one of the world's first death education courses and introduced the first text for this market.

目次

  • Each chapter includes Summary, References, Glossary. 1. As We Think About Death. Not Thinking about Death: A Failed Experiment. Your Self-Inventory of Attitudes, Beliefs, and Feelings. Some Answers-And the Questions They Raise. Humans Are Mortal: But What Does That Have to Do with Me? Anxiety, Denial, and Acceptance: Three Core Concepts. Theories and Studies of Death Anxiety.Major Findings From Self-Reports of Death AnxietyTheoretical Perspectives on Death Anxiety Accepting and Denying Death. 2. What Is Death? What Does Death Mean? Competing Ideas about the Nature and Meaning of Death.Death Observed, Proclaimed, and Imagined Biomedical Approaches to the Definition of Death.Event Versus State What Does Death Mean?Interpretations of the Death State Conditions That Resemble Death. Death as a Person. Conditions That Death Resembles. Death as an Agent of Personal, Political, and Social Change. 3. The Death System. A World without Death. Basic Characteristics of the Death System. Functions of the Death SystemTsunami and Hurricane Katarina: Challenges to the Death SystemHurricanes Katarina and RitaHow Our Death System Has Been Changing-And the "Deathniks" Who Are Making a Difference. Causes of Death: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Basic Terms and Concepts. 4. Dying: Transition from life. Transition From Life. What Is Dying and When Does It Begin? Trajectories of Dying: From Beginning to End. Healthy People Who Are at Risk: Hemophilia. Guarded Feelings, Subtle Communications. Individuality and Universality in the Experience of Dying. Theoretical Models of the Dying Process. 5. The Hospice Approach to Terminal Care. Hospice: A Flowering from Ancient Roots. Standards of Care for the Terminally Ill. Establishment of Hospice Programs in the United States. The Hospice in Action.Relief of Pain and Suffering Hospice Access, Decision-Making, and Challenges.Dame Cicely Saunder's Reflection on Hospice 6. End-of-Life Issues and Decisions. From Description to Decision-MakingWho Should Participate in End-of-Life Decisions?The Living Will and Its Impact. Right-to-Die Decisions That We Can Make.A Right Not to Die? The Cryonics Alternative.Organ DonationFuneral-Related Decisions 7. Suicide. What Do the Statistics Tell Us? Four Problem Areas. Some Cultural Meanings of Suicide. A Powerful Sociological Theory of Suicide. Some Individual Meanings of Suicide. Facts, Myths, and Guidelines. Suicide Prevention. 8. Violent Death
  • Murder, Terrorism, Genocide, Disaster, and Accident. Murder. Terrorism.Immediate Responses to Loss and TraumaLater responsesThe Darfur Genocide Accident and Disaster. 9. Euthanasia, Assisted Death, Abortion, and the Right to Die. "I Swear by Apollo the Physician": What Happened to the Hippocratic Oath? Key Terms and Concepts. Our Changing Attitudes Toward a Right to Die. The Right-to-Die Dilemma: Case Examples.Terri Schiavo: Who Decides? Dr. Kevorkian and the Assisted Suicide Movement.Assisted Death in the U.S.Abortion 10. Death in the World of Childhood. Adult Assumptions about Children and Death. Concepts of Death: Developing through Experience. How Do Children Cope with Bereavement? The Dying Child. Sharing the Child's Death Concerns: A Few Guidelines. The "Right" to Decide: Should the Child's Voice Be Heard? 11. Bereavement, Grief, And Mourning. Some Responses to LossDefining Our Terms: Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning. Theoretical Perspectives on Grief.Types of GriefTheories of Grief How Do People Recover from Grief?The Family That Has Lost a Child Bereavement in Later Life. Are Bereaved People at Higher Risk for Death? How Well do we Support the Bereaved? Meaningful Help for Bereaved People.Professional Help: When is it Needed?Widows in Third World Nations. 12. The Funeral Process. What Do Funerals Mean to Us? From Dead Body to Living Memory: A Process Approach. Making Death "Legal." What Does the Funeral Process Accomplish? Memories of Our People: Cemeteries in the United States. The Place of the Dead in Society: Yesterday and Today. The Funeral Director's Perspective. Improving the Funeral Process.Integrity and Abuse in the Funeral and Memorial Process. 13. Do We Survive Death? Concept of Survival in Historical Perspective. Heavens and HellsThe Desert religions and Their One GodWhat Other People BelieveCan Survival Be Proved?Near-Death Experiences: New Evidence for Survival? The Dead as Evidence for Survival. Should We Survive Death? But What Kind of Survival? Assisted and Symbolic Survival The Suicide-Survival Connection. 14. How Can We Help? Caregiving and Death Education The Promise of Death Education and Counseling."Compassionate Fatigue": Burnout and the Health Care Provider Death Educators and Counselors: The "Border Patrol.". Death Education and Counseling: The Current Scene. Counseling and the Counselors. How We All Can Help. 16. Good Life, Good Death. Trying to Make Sense of It All. Trying to Make Sense of It All. Horrendous Death. "The Good Death" : Fantasy or Reality? From Good Life to Good Death: A Personal Statement. Appendix: Selected Learning Resources Index

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