Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Howarth, Glennys; Leaman, Oliver

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This A-Z volume provides readers with a wide range of information that draws from the arts, humanities, medicine, sciences and social sciences. The entries, written by leading specialists in the field, are based on the latest research and cover virtually every conceivable aspect of the subject:
Abortion * Acceptance * Accidents * Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) * Aging * Ahimsa * All Souls' Day * Ancestors * Anthropology * Anxiety * Architecture * Ars Moriendi * Art History * Ashes * Assisted Suicide * Attitudes To Death * Banshee Bells * Bereavement * Historical Perspectives * Black Death * Body, Two Bodies Theory * Bowlby, John * Brain Death * Buddhism * Burial Rites * Care of Dying Children * Causes of Death * Cemeteries * Ceremonies * Churchyards * Clinical Assessment * Coffins * Coma * Communication With Dead * Complicated Grief *Consciousness * Coping * Death Certificate * Death Instinct * Death Notices * Death Of The King * Denial * Dreams Of Death * Aboriginal Attitudes to Death and Dying * Eating the Dead * Epitaphs * Immortality * Near-Death Experiences * Pets, Death of * Tombs * Unbaptized Infants * Vampires * Wakes * And many more.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136913600
• Artikelnr.: 40438618

Autorenporträt

Glennys Howarth, Oliver Leaman

Inhaltsangabe

adolescence
afterlife
ageing
All Saints Day
All Souls' Day
angels
bereavement
Black Death
brain death
Buddhism
burial rites
cancer
care of the dying child
Catholicism
cot death
cremation
death instinct
Death Row
depression
disasters
drugs
Egypt, ancient
embalming
euthanasia
epitaphs
evil
fate and fatalism
fear
film
funerals
gas chambers
ghosts
good death
graves
Greece, ancient
healing
Heaven
Hell
Hinduism
immortality
Islam
Journal of Death Studies
Judaism
kamikaze
laying out
life support
longevity
medicine
meditation
memorial
mourning
near-death experiences
nursing homes
obituaries
old age
organ donation
out-of-body experience
pathology
pilgrimage
post-mortem rituals
psychology
reincarnation
Requiem Mass
resurrection
resuscitation
spiritual healing
suicide
superstitions
Tibetan Book of the Dead
transplants
Tutenkhamen
vampires
wakes
war memorials
widowhood