The Aâ¿"Z of Death and Dying

Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects
Herausgeber: Brennan, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This engaging and informative resource provides readers with an understanding of the social, cultural, and historical influences that shape our encounters with death, dying, and bereavement-a universal experience across humanity. Written in an engaging and accessible style by leading international scholars and practitioners from within the field of death and bereavement studies, this book will have broad appeal, providing in a single volume insights from some of the key thinkers within the interdisciplinary field of death, dying, and bereavement. Its approximately 200 entries will serve as useful starting points for those new to the topic and will be informative to those already acquainted with some of the core concepts and ideas within this burgeoning field of inquiry. This encyclopedia will serve as an essential resource for high school and undergraduate students, those engaged in independent research, and professionals whose work involves caring for the dead, dying, and bereaved. It will also be of great interest to general readers intrigued by the social, medical, and cultural dimensions to human mortality. Underscored by the inescapable biological certainties that affect us all, The A-Z of Death and Dying offers a highly relevant examination of the social and historical variation in the rituals, practices, and beliefs surrounding the end of life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1063g
• ISBN-13: 9781440803437
• ISBN-10: 1440803439
• Artikelnr.: 36965857

Autorenporträt

Michael Brennan, PhD, is associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Death Education and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction The Contributors Entries A-Z Abortion
Accidental Death Active Dying ADEC (Association for Death Education and
Counseling) Adolescents Advance Directives African Americans Afterlife
Beliefs Aging Alcohol Alzheimer's Disease American Indians Ancestor Worship
Angels Animism Anthropology Apocalypse Archaeology Ariès, Philippe Ars
Moriendi Art and Literature Assassination Autoerotic Asphyxia Autopsy
Awareness Contexts Banshees Bereavement Bioethics Body Disposal Body Worlds
Exhibition Buddhism Burial Cadavers Cancer Cannibalism Capital Punishment
Cardiovascular Disease Catholicism Cause of Death Cemeteries Charnel Houses
Children Christianity Cloning Condolence (and Condolence Books)
Confucianism Continuing Bonds Coroner/Medical Examiner Cremains Cremation
Cryonics Cults Curses Cyberspace Dance of Death Dark Tourism Databases Day
of the Dead Death Anxiety Death Awareness Movement Death Certification
Death Denial Death Education Death Mask Death Notification Death Obsession
Deathbed Scene Definitions of Death Devil Dignitas Disasters Disease
Domestic Violence Drugs Dying Trajectory Eating Disorders Elegy Embalming
Epidemics and Plagues Epidemiology Epitaphs Estates Eulogy Euphemisms
Euthanasia Exhumation Existentialism Facebook Familicide Famine Forensic
Science Freud, Sigmund Funeral Director Funeral Industry Funerals Gender
Genocide Ghosts Good Death Grave Robbing Green Burials Grief Grief
Counseling Health Promotion Hearse Heaven Hell Hinduism HIV/AIDS Holocaust
Homicide Honor Killings Hospice Movement Humor Images of Death Immortality
Infant Mortality Infanticide Informed Consent Islam Jihad Judaism
Kevorkian, Jack Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth Life Expectancy Life Support
Therapies Make-A-Wish Foundation Martyrs Media and Death Medicalization
Megadeath Memento Mori Memorial Day Memorial Tattoos Memorials and
Memorialization Monuments Mortality Rates Mortuary Science Mourning
Near-Death Experiences Near-to-Death Experiences Necrophilia Obituary Organ
Donation/Transplantation Oscar the Cat Palliative Care Perinatal Death Pets
Philosophy Photography Physician-Assisted Suicide Popular Culture
Protestantism Psychology Public Dying Public Mourning Purgatory
Reincarnation Religion Right-to-Die Movement Rigor Mortis School Shootings
Sex and Death Social Class Social Death Sociology Spirituality Spontaneous
Shrines/Roadside Memorials Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Suicide Suicide
Prevention and Postvention Superstitions Taboo Taxidermy Terminal Illness
and Care Terror Management Theory Terrorism Thanatology Tobacco
Tombs/Mausoleums Totemism Valhalla Vampires Video Games Wakes/Visitation
War Zombies Index About the Editor