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The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying

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 eighth edition of this acclaimed text has been revised to offer cutting-edge and comprehensive coverage of death studies. 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

Chapter 1 – Attitudes Toward Death: A Climate of Change

Chapter 2 – Learning About Death: The Influence of Sociocultural Forces

Chapter 3 – Perspectives on Death: Cultural and Historical

Chapter 4 – Death Systems: Mortality and Society

Chapter 5 – Health Care: Patients, Staff, and Institutions

Chapter 6 – End-of-Life Issues and Decisions

Chapter 7 – Facing Death: Living with Life-Threatening Illness

Chapter 8 – Last Rites: Funerals and Body Disposition

Chapter 9 – Survivors: Understanding the Experience of Loss

Chapter 10 – Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents

Chapter 11 – Death in the Lives of Adults

Chapter 12 – Suicide

Chapter 13 – Threats of Horrendous Death

Chapter 14 – Beyond Death / After Life

Chapter 15 – The Path Ahead: Personal and Social Choices

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780073405469
Subtitle:
Encountering Death and Dying
Author:
Despelder, Lynne Ann
Author:
Strickland, Albert Lee
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
Subject:
Death & Dying
Subject:
Death
Subject:
Social aspects
Subject:
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Subject:
Death -- Social aspects.
Copyright:
2009
Publication Date:
July 2008
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
648
Dimensions:
9.20x7.40x1.20 in. 2.60 lbs.
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