Facing death : where culture, religion, and medicine meet / edited by Howard M. Spiro, Mary G. McCrea Curnen, and Lee Palmer Wandel.
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TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1996.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 212 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585388199
- 9780585388199
- Terminally ill
- Death -- Psychological aspects
- Death -- Religious aspects
- Death -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Death
- Medicine -- Religious aspects
- Professional ethics
- Terminal Care
- Death
- Religion and Medicine
- Ethics, Professional
- Terminally Ill
- Attitude to Death
- Malades en phase terminale
- Mort -- Aspect psychologique
- Mort -- Aspect religieux
- Mort -- Aspect moral
- Soins en phase terminale
- Mort
- Médecine -- Aspect religieux
- Déontologie professionnelle
- terminally ill
- deaths
- professional ethics
- SELF-HELP -- Death, Grief, Bereavement
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Death -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Death -- Psychological aspects
- Death -- Religious aspects
- Terminally ill
- Sterven
- Sociologische aspecten
- Stervensbegeleiding
- 155.9/37 20
- R726.8 .F33 1996eb
- 1996 K-080
- BF 789.D4
- 44.07
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"Prepared under the auspices of the Program for Humanities in Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and the Goethe-Institut, Boston."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Attending to dying : limitations of medical technology (a resident's perspective) / Eric L. Krakauer -- Before their time : a clinicians's reflections on death and AIDS / Peter A. Selwyn -- The doctor's role in death / Sherwin B. Nuland -- Thoughts on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Alan B. Astrow -- Learning to care for the dying / Alan C. Mermann -- Thoughts on witnessing death / James D. Kenney -- The changing face of death in children / Diane M. Komp -- When children mourn a loved one / Morris A. Wessel -- The emergence of hospice care in the United States / Florence S. Wald -- Caring for those who die in old age / Joanne Lynn -- Living in the maelstrom / Alvin Novick -- An ars moriendi for our time : to live a fulfilled life ; to die a peaceful death / Arthur E. Imhof -- The art of dying in Hindu India / Sylvia Vatuk -- Reflections on mortality from a Jewish perspective / James E. Ponet -- Catholic theology's main thoughts on death / Harald Wagner -- The law of the spirits : Chinese popular beliefs / Valerie Hansen -- The meaning of death in Islam / Ira M. Lapidius -- From this world to the next : notes on death and dying in early America / John Demos -- Ars memoriandi : the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt / Peter S. Hawkins -- Bearing the spirit home / Frederick J. Streets -- Witnessing death versus framing death / William B. McCullough -- Conclusion : retrospect and prospect / William J. Bouwsma.
This is an important manual for those professionally involved with the dying, as well as a treatment & consolation for private readers. It brings together medical and humanities experts, to reflect on medical, cultural and religious responses to death.
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