| Death, Dying and Bereavement Contributor(s): Dickenson, Donna L. (Editor), Johnson, Malcolm (Editor), Samson Katz, Jeanne (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0761968563 ISBN-13: 9780761968566 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $158.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2000 Annotation: 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 workers and councellors. In addition there are more intimate personal accounts from carers and from bereaved people. Death, Dying and Bereavement is the Course Reader for The Open University course Death and Dying, which is offered as part of The Open University Dilpoma in Health and Social Welfare. Some reviews of the First Edition: The book does give a broad overview of many of the issues around death, dying and bereavement. It raises the reader's awareness and encourages deeper investigation at every level. It is easy to reda and therefore accessible to a wide audience' - Changes Provides a richly woven tapestry of personal, professional and literary accounts of death, dying and bereavement' - Health Psychology Update Offers a unique collection of fascinating information, research, stories, poems and personal reflections. It is unusual to experience such a diversity of writings in one book' - Nursing Times It brings together the knowledge and skills from a multi-occupational groupand thereby offers and opportunity, to whoever reads it, to enable better experiences for those who are dying and bereaved' - Journal of Interprofessional Care For those trying to help the dying and bereaved, this volume will inspire and move you as much as it will inform and guide your work' - Bereavement Care Provides a unique overview, and in many areas, penetrating insights into various aspects of death, dying and bereavement. One of it's major strengths is that it brings together a wide and varied discourse on death across cultures and through time' - British Journal of Sociology |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Death & Dying - Self-help | Death, Grief, Bereavement - Medical | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 306.9 |
| LCCN: 00711196 |
| Series: Published in Association with the Open University |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 6.9" W x 9.02" (1.64 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |