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Last Dance (7TH 05 - Old Edition)

by Lynne Ann Despelder

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The best-selling textbook in the field, The Last Dance offers 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 seventh 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 of The Last Dance provides solid grounding in theory and research, as well as practical application to students' lives.
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Table of Contents

Prologue, by David Gordon

1. Attitudes Toward Death: A Cimate of Change

2. Learning About Death: The Influence of Sociocultural Forces

3. Perspectives on Death: Cross-Cultural and Historical

4. Health Care Systems: Patients, Staff, and Institutions

5. Death Systems: Matters of Public Policy

6. Facing Death: Living with Life-Threatening Illness

7. End-of-Life Issues and Decisions

8. Survivors: Understanding the Experience of Loss

9. Last Rites: Funerals and Body Disposition

10. Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents

11. Death in the Lives of Adults

12. Suicide

13. Risks of Death in the Modern World

14. Beyond Death / After Life

15. The Path Ahead: Personal and Social Choices

Epilogue, by David Gordon

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780072920963
Subtitle:
Encountering Death and Dying
Author:
Despelder, Lynne Ann
Author:
Cram 101
Author:
Despelder, Lynne Ann
Author:
All Material Written by Cram101, Materia
Author:
Strickland, Albert Lee
Author:
Cram 101
Author:
Despelder &. Strickland, &. Strickland
Author:
Cram101 Textbook Reviews
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
Location:
Boston
Subject:
Sociology - General
Subject:
Death
Subject:
Death, Grief, Bereavement
Subject:
Death & Dying
Subject:
Social aspects
Subject:
General
Subject:
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Subject:
Death -- Social aspects.
Copyright:
2005
Edition Number:
7
Series Volume:
11355
Publication Date:
February 2004
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
696
Dimensions:
9.44x7.46x1.19 in. 2.58 lbs.
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