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Facing death : where culture, religion, and medicine meet / edited by Howard M. Spiro, Mary G. McCrea Curnen, and Lee Palmer Wandel
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Edited by Yale University Press - 1996
This is an important manual for those professionally involved with the dying, as well as a treatment & consolation for private readers. It brings together medical and humanities experts, to reflect on medical, cultural and religious responses to death
Attending to dying : limitations of medical technology (a resident's perspective) / Eric L. Krakauer. Before their time : a clinicians's reflections on death and AIDS / Peter A. Selwyn. The doctor's role in death / Sherwin B. Nuland. Thoughts on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Alan B. Astrow. Learning to care for the dying / Alan C. Mermann. Thoughts on witnessing death / James D. Kenney. The changing face of death in children / Diane M. Komp. When children mourn a loved one / Morris A. Wessel. The emergence of hospice care in the United States / Florence S. Wald. Caring for those who die in old age / Joanne Lynn. Living in the maelstrom / Alvin Novick. An ars moriendi for our time : to live a fulfilled life ; to die a peaceful death / Arthur E. Imhof. The art of dying in Hindu India / Sylvia Vatuk. Reflections on mortality from a Jewish perspective / James E. Ponet. Catholic theology's main thoughts on death / Harald Wagner. The law of the spirits : Chinese popular beliefs / Valerie Hansen. The meaning of death in Islam / Ira M. Lapidius. From this world to the next : notes on death and dying in early America / John Demos. Ars memoriandi : the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt / Peter S. Hawkins. Bearing the spirit home / Frederick J. Streets. Witnessing death versus framing death / William B. McCullough. Conclusion : retrospect and prospect / William J. Bouwsma.
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