Encyclopedia of death and dying
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Encyclopedia of death and dying
Routledge, 2014
- : pbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published: 2001
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In recent years there has been a massive 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.
Until now the majority of reference material on death and dying has been designed for particular disciplinary audiences and has addressed only specific academic or professional concerns. There has been an urgent need for an authoritative but accessible reference work reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the field. This Encyclopedia answers that need.
The Encyclopedia of Death and Dying consolidates and contextualizes the disparate research that has been carried out to date. The phenomena of death and dying and its related concepts are explored and explained in depth, from the approaches of varied disciplines and related professions in the arts, social sciences, humanities, medicine and the sciences.
In addition to scholars and students in the field-from anthropologists and sociologists to art and social historians - the Encyclopedia will be of interest to other professionals and practitioners whose work brings them into contact with dying, dead and bereaved people. It will be welcomed as the definitive death and dying reference source, and an essential tool for teaching, research and independent study.
Table of Contents
- 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
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