Understanding Dying, Death, and Bereavement
Using a social-psychological approach, this edition remains solidly grounded in theory and research, but places greater emphasis on the individual and coping with death and dying. These two well-known authors and researchers integrate stimulating personal accounts throughout the text, and apply concepts to specific examples that deal with cross cultural perspectives and the practical matters of death and dying.
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This sixth edition updates the 2002 fifth edition and includes updated statistics and discussion of terrorism and of the tsunami of 2004. Leming (sociology, St. Olaf College) and Dickinson (sociology, College of Charleston) multidisciplinary textbook is for undergraduates and students in professional programs. Coverage encompasses the study of death and dying, the American experience, growing up with death, cultural perspectives including life after death, the dying process, and living with a terminal illness. Further detailed are the American health care system, biomedical issues and euthanasia, suicide, rituals in different cultures, funerals and services, legal aspects, loss, and grieving. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Booknews This update of the 1998 edition reflects the coming "out of the closet" of discussions of these topics since the original 1985 edition. Sociologists Leming (St. Olaf College, MN) and Dickinson (College of Charleston, SC) have added chapters on living with dying, dying in the American healthcare system, the business of dying, legal aspects of death, and grieving throughout the life cycle. Other chapters on standard topics have been updated. Includes boxed inserts on practical matters, voices of those experiencing these states, other words of wisdom, and death across cultures; discussion questions; glossaries; suggested readings; and cartoons. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
1. Studying Dying, Death, and Bereavement. 2. The American Experience of Death. 3. Growing Up with Death. 4. Perspectives on Death and Life After Death. 5. The Dying Process. 6. Living with Dying. 7. Dying in the American Health-Care System. 8. Biomedical Issues and Euthanasia. 9. Suicide. 10. Diversity in Death Rituals. 11. The Business of Dying. 12. The Legal Aspects of Dying. 13. Coping with Loss. 14. Grieving Throughout the Life Cycle. References. Index. Credits.
\ BooknewsThis update of the 1998 edition reflects the coming "out of the closet" of discussions of these topics since the original 1985 edition. Sociologists Leming (St. Olaf College, MN) and Dickinson (College of Charleston, SC) have added chapters on living with dying, dying in the American healthcare system, the business of dying, legal aspects of death, and grieving throughout the life cycle. Other chapters on standard topics have been updated. Includes boxed inserts on practical matters, voices of those experiencing these states, other words of wisdom, and death across cultures; discussion questions; glossaries; suggested readings; and cartoons. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
