1st Edition

Death, Distress, and Solidarity Special Issue "OMEGA Journal of Death and Dying"

By Robert Kastenbaum Copyright 1993
    102 Pages
    by Routledge

    96 Pages
    by Routledge

    In preparing this special issue of "Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying" - we choose to consider solidarity in a somewhat larger perspective than the other one usually adopted by a clear majority of social support studies. This perspective gives priority to microscopic, immediate, direct transactions between a focal individual - the one affected by the prospect of soon to come death and two classes of people: those included in the core of that person's personal network and the health care personnel treating and accompanying soon to die people, many of them already advanced into agony.

    Contributors

    Introduction: Death, Distress, and Solidarity Roger Tessier

    Distress, Stress, and Solidarity in Palliative Care Johanne de Montigny

    Death of the Nursed: Burnout of the Provider Serge Marquis

    The Organization of Life Before Death in Two Québec Cultural Configurations Luce Des Aulniers

    Death and its Rituals in the Novels on AIDS Joseph J. Lévy and Alexis Nouss

    Death, Grief, and Solidarity: The Polytechnique Case Joseph J. Lévy, Daniel Sansfacon, Jean-Marc Samson, and Louise Champagne

    Reconstructing Death in Postmodern Society Robert Kastenbaum

    Thanatology Research from Québec: A Different Emphasis Brian L. Mishara

    Contributors 

    Biography

    Robert Kastenbaumwas Professor Emeritus, at Arizona State University.