Death, dying, and bereavement in a changing world
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Death, dying, and bereavement in a changing world
Routledge, 2019
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-461) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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