Facing death : where culture, religion, and medicine meet /
This is an important manual for those professionally involved with the dying, as well as a treatment & consolation for private readers. It brings together medical and humanities experts, to reflect on medical, cultural and religious responses to death.
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1996.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=52878 |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Attending to dying : limitations of medical technology (a resident's perspective) / Eric L. Krakauer
- Before their time : a clinicians's reflections on death and AIDS / Peter A. Selwyn
- The doctor's role in death / Sherwin B. Nuland
- Thoughts on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Alan B. Astrow
- Learning to care for the dying / Alan C. Mermann
- Thoughts on witnessing death / James D. Kenney
- The changing face of death in children / Diane M. Komp
- When children mourn a loved one / Morris A. Wessel
- The emergence of hospice care in the United States / Florence S. Wald
- Caring for those who die in old age / Joanne Lynn
- Living in the maelstrom / Alvin Novick
- An ars moriendi for our time : to live a fulfilled life ; to die a peaceful death / Arthur E. Imhof
- The art of dying in Hindu India / Sylvia Vatuk
- Reflections on mortality from a Jewish perspective / James E. Ponet
- Catholic theology's main thoughts on death / Harald Wagner
- The law of the spirits : Chinese popular beliefs / Valerie Hansen
- The meaning of death in Islam / Ira M. Lapidius
- From this world to the next : notes on death and dying in early America / John Demos
- Ars memoriandi : the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt / Peter S. Hawkins
- Bearing the spirit home / Frederick J. Streets
- Witnessing death versus framing death / William B. McCullough
- Conclusion : retrospect and prospect / William J. Bouwsma.