The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying
ISBN: 9780073405469 | 0073405469
Edition: 8thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 7/8/2008
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The best-selling textbook in the field,The Last Danceoffers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of death and dying. Integrating the experiential, scholarly, social, individual, emotional, and intellectual dimensions of death and dying, the eighth edition of this acclaimed text has been thoroughly revised to offer cutting-edge and comprehensive coverage of death studies. Together with its companion volumes, this new edition ofThe Last Danceprovides solid grounding in theory and research, as well as practical application to students' lives.
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| Attitudes Toward Death: A Climate of Change | p. 5 |
| Learning About Death: The Influence of Sociocultural Forces | p. 47 |
| Perspectives on Death: Cultural and Historical | p. 85 |
| Death Systems: Mortality and Society | p. 127 |
| Health Care: Patients, Staff, and Institutions | p. 167 |
| End-of-Life Issues and Decisions | p. 199 |
| Facing Death: Living with Life-Threateni... MORE | p. 239 |
| Last Rites: Funerals and Body Disposition | p. 273 |
| Survivors: Understanding the Experience of Loss | p. 311 |
| Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents | p. 351 |
| Death in the Lives of Adults | p. 385 |
| Suicide | p. 413 |
| Threats of Horrendous Death | p. 453 |
| Beyond Death/After Life | p. 491 |
| The Path Ahead: Personal and Social Choices | p. 525 |
| Epilogue | p. 551 |
| Notes | p. 553 |
| Credits and Sources | p. 627 |
| Name Index | p. 631 |
| Subject Index | p. 644 |
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