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And death shall have Dominion : interdisciplinary perspectives on dying, caregivers, death, mourning and bereaved
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This collection of essays presents a variety of perspectives on death and dying by scholars from different countries. The areas covered in the volume include: Conceptual, Cultural, and Gender Appro...
This collection of essays presents a variety of perspectives on death and dying by scholars from different countries. The areas covered in the volume include: Conceptual, Cultural, and Gender Approaches to Death and the Deceased; Children and Death; Legal Aspects of Euthanasia and Discussion on Choices at End of Life; Palliative Care and Responsibilities and Challenges of Medical and Family Caregivers; the Aesthetic Experience of Life’s End; and Modern Ways of Grieving and Commemorating the Dead.
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- edited by Katarzyna Małecka and Rossanna Gibbs
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- Books
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- English
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- Oxford, England : Inter-Diciplinary Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 9781848884182, 1848884184, 9004370722
- Preliminary Material / Katarzyna Małecka and Rossanna Gibbs -- Culture and the Social Reality of Death: The Afghan Experience / Panagiotis Pentaris -- Paediatric Terminal Illness and the Role of Narrative: An Examination of Hauerwas’s Theology of Suffering and Childhood Palliative Care / Jonathan Knoche -- Adventures in Normalizing New: Death with Dignity in Montana and Vermont / Arthur G. Svenson -- Philosophical Analysis of Modern Brain Death Controversies / Yuichi Minemura -- The New Pulse of Palliative Care: How Emergent Trends in Caring for the Dying Are Transforming Healthcare / Nate Hinerman -- A Valence Issue or a Transformational Definition: Is Palliative Care No More, No Less than High-Quality Care? / Pablo Hernández-Marrero and Sandra Martins Pereira -- Professional Caregivers’ Emotional Well-Being, Empowerment and Burnout Prevention: Lessons to Be Learned from Palliative Care / Pablo Hernández-Marrero and Sandra Martins Pereira -- The Complex Role of Relatives in Patients’ Last Stage of Life / Ellen Kristvik -- Disparities in the Care of the Dying With Life-Limiting Illness Within the National Health Service (UK) / Rossanna Gibbs and Adam Ryder -- The Aesthetic Experience of Death / Yanxia Song -- Moving Stories: The Embodiment of Personal Narrative at Life’s End / Colin Funk and J. Brian Woodward -- Death Ritual in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea / Tianzhong Deng -- Psychoanalytical Perspectives on Death and Dying: Ideas for Theory and Practice / Barış Özgen Şensoy -- Memorialising the Dead Child: Confronting Lost Childhoods / Brian Simpson -- Symbol-Making in Bereavement: The Temples at Burning Man / Kimberly Bateman -- Memorial Tattoos: Grief Inked into Your Skin / Jaanika Hunt -- The W Word: Modern Ways of Grieving in The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and A Widow’s Story by Joyce Carol Oates / Katarzyna Małecka