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The last dance : encountering death and dying
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The Last Dance offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of death and dying.Integrating the facing death: living with life-threatening illness, social, individual, emotional, and understand...
The Last Dance offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of death and dying.Integrating the facing death: living with life-threatening illness, social, individual, emotional, and understanding the experience of loss.Funerals and body disposition.
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- Creator
- Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland
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- English
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- Eighth edition
- Boston : McGraw Hill Higher Education, [2009]
- ©2009
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- xxiv, 648 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780073405469, 0073405469
- OCLC
- ocn234146407
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-626) and indexes.
- Attitudes toward death : a climate of change -- Learning about death : the influence of sociocultural forces -- Perspectives on death : cultural and historical -- Death systems : mortality and society -- Health care : patients, staff, and institutions -- End-of-life issues and decisions -- Facing death : living with life-threatening illness -- Last rites : funerals and body disposition -- Survivors : understanding the experience of loss -- Death in the lives of children and adolescents -- Death in the lives of adults -- Suicide -- Threats of horrendous death -- Beyond death/after life -- The path ahead : personal and social choices
Subjects
- Death -- Psychological aspects -- Textbooks.
- Death -- Social aspects -- Textbooks.
- Attitude to Death.
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