3rd Edition

Dying Facing the Facts

Edited By Hannelore Wass, Robert A. Neimeyer Copyright 1995
486 Pages
by Taylor & Francis

486 Pages
by Taylor & Francis

486 Pages
by Taylor & Francis

This work provides an up-to-date examination of the ways people face dying and bereavement. In this third edition previous chapters are throrughly revised, and new contributors expand areas that have changed significantly. Reflecting the field's complex interdisciplinary character, the chapters cover such diverse areas as psychology, nursing, medicine, AIDS, family studies, sociology,... Read more
Part 1: Contexts and Perspectives; Death and Politics: A Psychosocial Perspective; Living Our Dying and Our Grieving: Historical and Cultural Attitudes. Part 2: Data; Death Anxiety; The Dying Process; Institutional Dying: A Convergence of Cultural Values, Technology and Social Organisation; Care of  the Dying: The Hospice Approach; Legal Perspectives on Planning for Death. Part 3: Issues and Challenges; AIDS: The Second Decade; Suicide; Rights and the Dying; The Definition of  Death: Problems for Public Policy. Part 4: Conclusion; Some  Closing Reflections; Resources.

Biography

Hannelore Wass, Robert A. Neimeyer