CiNii Books - Death, dying, and bereavement in a changing world

In this introductory text on thanatology, Alan Kemp continues to take on the central question of mortality: the centrality of death coupled with the denial of death in the human experience. Drawing from the work of Ernest Becker, Death, Dying, and Bereavement in a Changing World provides a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to the study of death, putting extra emphasis on the how death takes place in a rapidly changing world. This new, second edition includes the most up-to-date research, data, and figures related to death and dying. New research on the alternative death movement, natural disaster-related deaths, and cannabis as a form of treatment for life-threatening illnesses, and updated research on physician-assisted suicide, as well as on grief as it relates to the DSM-5 have been added.

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Preface
PART I: Introduction and Context
Chapter 1: Lifting the Pall
Chapter 2: Death and Dying in a Rapidly Changing World
Chapter 3: For Everything There Is a Season
Chapter 4: Coureurs de Bois
PART II: Death
Chapter 5: The Grim Reaper through Time
Chapter 6: The Grim Reaper Today
Chapter 7: Traumatic Death
PART III: Dying
Chapter 8: In the Valley of the Shadow
Chapter 9: Intensive Caring
PART IV: Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning
Chapter 10: Life After Loss
Chapter 11: When Grief Goes Awry
PART V: Legal and Ethical Borderlands
Chapter 12: Physician-Assisted Death
Chapter 13: Withdrawing Life Support and Organ Transplantation
PART VI: Into the Future
Chapter 14: Life after Life
Chapter 15: The Road Ahead
Glossary
References
Index

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