Synopses & Reviews
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 edition of The Last Dance provides solid grounding in theory and research, as well as practical application to students' lives.
Table of Contents
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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 \n
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