Death, Dying and BereavementDonna Dickenson, Malcolm Johnson, Jeanne Katz 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 wo |
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Contents
the public invigilation of private emotion | 14 |
Approaches to death in Hindu and Sikh communities | 28 |
Health policy and services for dying people and their | 44 |
The dream T R S | 58 |
Doctors mask on pain Jane Martin | 71 |
Caring for Dying People | 87 |
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 |
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 main tradition Fiona Randall and R S Downie | 263 |
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 |
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 |
Dilemmas and Decisions at the End of Life Introduction | 209 |
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,Malcolm Lewis Johnson,Jeanne Katz Limited preview - 2000 |
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 |
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