TY  - BOOK
AU  - DeSpelder,Lynne Ann
AU  - Strickland,Albert Lee
TI  - The last dance: encountering death and dying 
SN  - 9780073405469 (hbk.) :
AV  - BF789.D4 D53 2008
U1  - 155.937 DES 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York, London
PB  - McGraw-Hill Higher Education, McGraw-Hill [distributor]
KW  - Death
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Family and Relationships
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Child, developmental, and lifespan psychology
KW  - thema
KW  - Sociology: death & dying
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -