Screen LibraryThe last dance：encountering death and dying
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McGraw Hill Higher Education,
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| Publisher Address: | Boston |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 8th ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | xxiv, 648 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780073405469 (alk. paper) 0073405469 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | B086 |
| CLC: |
B086 B845.9 |
| Call Number: | B845.9/D468/8th.ed. |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-626) and indexes. Attitudes toward death : a climate of change -- Learning about death : the influence of sociocultural forces -- Perspectives on death : cultural and historical -- Death systems : mortality and society -- Health care : patients, staff, and institutions -- End-of-life issues and decisions -- Facing death : living with life-threatening illness -- Last rites : funerals and body disposition -- Survivors : understanding the experience of loss -- Death in the lives of children and adolescents -- Death in the lives of adults -- Suicide -- Threats of horrendous death -- Beyond death/after life -- The path ahead : personal and social choices. |