Death, Dying and BereavementDonna Dickenson, Malcolm Johnson, Malcolm Lewis Johnson, Jeanne Katz `This second edition, which has also been edited by Samson Katz, utilizes around half of the original text, of which a significant portions has been revised and updated. The remainder comprises new material reflecting both the changes in attitudes generally towards death and dying, and also designed to meet the needs of students undertaking the revised curriculum of the K260. This book will stimulate thinking and challenge the personal views of both academics and those in practice. ...[A] valuable tool for both those new to the area of palliative and cancer care and those experienced professionals searching for a new angle on several key topics in relation to ethical issues occurring in this speciality... [A]n excellent balance of theoretical contents and moving prose... [T]his book is directed towards all professionals working in health and social care. ...This book is a must for pre-registration students wishing to gain greater understanding of the psychosocial issues faced by those with a terminal illness and their significant others' - Nurse Education Today The fully revised and updated edition of this bestselling collection combines academic research with professional and personal reflections. Death, Dying and Bereavement addresses both the practical and the more metaphysical aspects of death. Topics such as new methods of pain relief, guidelines for breaking bad news, and current attitudes to euthanasia are considered, while the mystery of death and its wider implications are also explored. A highly distinctive interdisciplinary approach is adopted, including perspectives from literature, theology, sociology and psychology. There are wide-ranging contributions from those who come into professional contact with death and bereavement - doctors, nurses, social workers and councellors. In addition there are more intimate personal accounts from carers and from bereaved people. Death, Dying and Bereavement is the Course Reader for The Open University course Death and Dying, which is offered as part of The Open University Dilpoma in Health and Social Welfare. Praise for the First Edition: `The book does give a broad overview of many of the issues around death, dying and bereavement. It raises the reader's awareness and encourages deeper investigation at every level. It is easy to reda and therefore accessible to a wide audience' - Changes `Provides a richly woven tapestry of personal, professional and literary accounts of death, dying and bereavement' - Health Psychology Update `Offers a unique collection of fascinating information, research, stories, poems and personal reflections. It is unusual to experience such a diversity of writings in one book' - Nursing Times `It brings together the knowledge and skills from a multi-occupational group and thereby offers and opportunity, to whoever reads it, to enable better experiences for those who are dying and bereaved' - Journal of Interprofessional Care `For those trying to help the dying and bereaved, this volume will inspire and move you as much as it will inform and guide your work' - Bereavement Care `Provides a unique overview, and in many areas, penetrating insights into various aspects of death, dying and bereavement. One of it's major strengths is that it brings together a wide and varied discourse on death across cultures and through time' - British Journal of Sociology |
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Contents
Death denied Philippe Ariès | 10 |
Approaches to death in Hindu and Sikh communities | 28 |
Demographic change and the experience of dying Clive Seale | 35 |
Sudden death from suicide Stella Ridley | 59 |
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Spiritual care of dying people Alyson Peberdy | 73 |
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Extending specialist palliative care to all? David Field | 91 |
Dilemmas and Decisions at the End of Life Introduction | 209 |
Learning the hard way Clare Williams | 212 |
Somebody loves me Anthony Masters | 214 |
The death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy | 220 |
Intimacy and terminal care Judy Gilley | 227 |
The use of deception in nursing Kevin Teasdale and Gerry Kent | 232 |
Donotresuscitate decisions Johannes J M van Delden | 240 |
donotresuscitate decisions in the acute surgical wards of an English district general hospital Basiro Davey | 250 |
The case for palliative care in residential and nursing homes | 107 |
Complementary medicine its place in the care of dying people Patrick C Pietroni | 122 |
Speaking out Sarah Palmer | 129 |
Caring for mother plus portscript Susan Leifer | 131 |
Living with MS Richard Were | 136 |
Saturday Times column 3 10 98 John Diamond | 142 |
The alphabet JeanDominique Bauby | 144 |
a practical guide Robert Buckman | 146 |
Saturday Times column 23 1 99 John Diamond | 174 |
Communicating with dying children Dorothy Judd | 176 |
Jewish perspectives on death dying and bereavement Jeanne Samson Katz 183 8382 | 183 |
The syllabus Mitch Albom | 192 |
Dying trajectories the organization of work and expectations of dying Anselm Strauss | 196 |
Sitting it out Elizabeth Dean | 200 |
A very easy death Simone de Beauvoir | 203 |
Teach me to hear mermaids singing Clare Vaughan | 206 |
The main tradition Fiona Randall and R S Downie | 263 |
Right to die or duty to live? The problem of euthanasia William Grey | 270 |
seven reasons why they | 284 |
an argument against certain advance | 291 |
Palliative care and the doctrine of double effect | 299 |
J E Ellershaw M J Baines N Sykes and C M Saunders | 319 |
processes | 325 |
The social distribution of sentiments Lindsay Prior | 332 |
Crosscultural perspectives on bereavement Shirley Firth | 338 |
A single parent confronting the loss of an only child | 350 |
When a baby dies a fathers view Gavin Fairbairn | 360 |
The grief that does not speak Maureen Oswin | 367 |
death by murder Lesley Moreland | 376 |
December Douglas Dunn | 383 |
Other editions - View all
Death, Dying and Bereavement Donna Dickenson,Malcolm Johnson,Jeanne Samson Katz Limited preview - 2000 |
Death, Dying and Bereavement Donna Dickenson,Malcolm Johnson,Jeanne Samson Katz No preview available - 2000 |