The last dance : encountering death and dying / Lynne Ann DeSpelder.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill Higher Education ; London : McGraw-Hill [distributor], 2008.Edition: 8th edDescription: 672 pISBN:- 9780073405469 (hbk.) :
- 9780073405469
- 155.937 DES
- BF789.D4 D53 2008
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Previous ed.: 2005.
Includes index.
1.Attitudes toward death: a climate of change -- 2.Learning about death: the influence of sociocultural forces -- 3.Perspectives on death: cultural and historical -- 4.Death systems: motablity and society -- 5.Health care: patients, staff and institutions --6.End-of-life issues and decisions -- 7.Facing death: living with life-threatening illness -- 8.Last rites: funerals and body disposition -- 9.Survivors: understanding the experience of loss -- 10.Death in the lives of children and adolescents -- 11.Death in the lives of adults -- 12.Suicide -- 13.Threats of horrendous death -- 14.Beyond death after life -- 15.The path ahead: personal and social choices.
This is an interdisciplinary introduction to death, dying and bereavement. It includes discussions of ethical principles, informed consent to treatment, financial planning and caregiver-patient relationships.