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Dying, Death, and Bereavement (Chap. 1 "Mortality and Thanatology") » Read Now
by Lewis R. Aiken. 398 pgs.

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This book is a brief but comprehensive survey of research, writings, and professional practices concerned with death and dying. It is interdisciplinary and eclectic--medical, psychological, religious, philosophical, artistic, demographics, bereavement, and widowhood are all considered--but with an...
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This book is a brief but comprehensive survey of research, writings, and professional practices concerned with death and dying. It is interdisciplinary and eclectic--medical, psychological, religious, philosophical, artistic, demographics, bereavement, and widowhood are all considered--but with an emphasis on psychological aspects. A variety of viewpoints and research findings on topics subsumed under "thanatology" receive thorough consideration. Questions, activities, and projects at the end of each chapter enhance reflection and personalize the material. This fourth edition features material on: * moral issues and court cases concerned with abortion and euthanasia; * the widespread problem of AIDS and other deadly diseases; * the tragedies occasioned by epidemics, starvation, and war; and * the resumption of capital punishment in many states. The book's enhanced multicultural tone reflects the increased economic, social, and physical interdependency among the nations of the world. Topics receiving increased attention in the fourth edition are: terror management; attitudes and practices concerning death; cross-cultural concepts of afterlife; gallows humor, out-of-body experiences; spiritualism; mass suicide; pet and romantic death; euthanasia; right to die; postbereavement depression; firearm deaths in children; children's understanding of death; child, adolescent, adult, and physician-assisted suicide; religious customs and death; confronting death; legal issues in death, dying and bereavement; death education; death music; creativity and death; longevity; broken heart phenomenon; beliefs in life after death; new definitions of death; children's acceptance of a parent's death; terminal illness; and the politics of death and dying.
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Survival Research Today: An Essay Review of Parapsychology and Thanatology, in The Journal of Parapsychology » Read Now
by Emily Willams Cook. 13 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...essay review of parapsychology and thanatology. by Emily Willams Cook Parapsychology and Thanatology is the latest in the series of proceedings...indicates, the topic of...
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Children and Death: Perspectives from Birth through Adolescence » Read Now
by John E. Schowalter, Penelope Buschman, Paul R. Patterson, Austin H. Kutscher, Margot Tallmer, Robert G. Stevenson, Jeanne D. Cole. 215 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Bringing together the views of numerous distinguished scholars, Children and Death investigates the child's concept of death from both academic and clinical points of view. The contributors have aimed at developing practical guidelines for a multidisciplinary approach to the care and support of the...
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Bringing together the views of numerous distinguished scholars, Children and Death investigates the child's concept of death from both academic and clinical points of view. The contributors have aimed at developing practical guidelines for a multidisciplinary approach to the care and support of the dying child, the child's family unit, and staff who work with dying children. The findings presented here are also applicable to care of children with life-threatening illness. Topics discussed include: children's concepts of death; emotional impact of disease; perspectives on children's death and dying; and coping with a child's death.
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Connections between Counseling Theories and Current Theories of Grief and Mourning, in Journal of Mental Health Counseling » Read Now
by Heather L. Servaty-Seib. 20 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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What They Saw...At the Hour of Death (Chap. 1 "The Mystery of Death: What We Believe versus What We Know") » Read Now
by Karlis Osis, Erlendur Haraldsson. 268 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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Death and Dying in the Middle Ages (Part 2 "Christian Eschatology and Thanatology") » Read Now
by Edelgard E. DuBruck, Barbara I. Gusick. 515 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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Hitler's Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness ("Thanatology and Experimentation" p. 37) » Read Now
by Konnilyn G. Feig. 547 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Transport Program 36 6. Thanatology and Experimentation 37...agency, the Bundesbahn. 47 6. Thanatology and Experimentation The Holocaust...the creation of the macabre...
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Positive Approaches to Living with End Stage Renal Disease: Psychosocial and Thanatologic Aspects » Read Now
by Mark A. Hardy, Gerald B. Appel, John M. Kiernan, Austin H. Kutscher, Martha L. Orr, Carole Smith Torres, Lissa Parsonnet, Lillian G. Kutscher. 232 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...Stage Renal Disease The Foundation of Thanatology Series, Volume 6 Other Volumes in...Prichard, et al.: Geriatrics and Thanatology Susczycki, et al.: Social...stage renal...
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The Ways of the Will: Selected Essays (Chap. 12 "O Death, Where Is Thy Sting-a-Ling-a-Ling?") » Read Now
by Leslie H. Farber. 326 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

The psychologist Leslie Farber, who died in 1981, has been revered as one of the most astute observers of the human condition and a writer of penetrating wisdom. His essays, on topics as diverse as the pornographic anguish of jealousy and the despair of psychotherapy, were collected in 1966 (The...
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The psychologist Leslie Farber, who died in 1981, has been revered as one of the most astute observers of the human condition and a writer of penetrating wisdom. His essays, on topics as diverse as the pornographic anguish of jealousy and the despair of psychotherapy, were collected in 1966 (The Ways of the Will) and 1976 (Lying, Despair, Jealousy, Envy, Sex, Suicide, Drugs, and the Good Life) and have been out of print for nearly twenty years. Based partly on his experiences as a therapist, but more importantly on his special insight, Dr. Farber's observations provide us with a unique glimpse into ourselves that is frequently startling, but in the end always consoling.
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The Last Passage: Recovering a Death of Our Own (Chap. 8 "Ritual Quarrying: The Arts and Letters of Hope") » Read Now
by Donald Heinz. 300 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Is death merely the cessation of life? Are our final years simply a wearing out of the body? Are hospitals and funeral homes--the bureaucratic machinery of death--capable of handling the profound spiritual dimension of dying? In The Last Passage, Donald Heinz offers wise answers to these questions...
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Is death merely the cessation of life? Are our final years simply a wearing out of the body? Are hospitals and funeral homes--the bureaucratic machinery of death--capable of handling the profound spiritual dimension of dying? In The Last Passage, Donald Heinz offers wise answers to these questions in a book that urges us to "recover a death of our own" and to view our final years as a fulfillment, a "last career." Despite the recent spate of books on death and dying, death remains a fact our culture tries desperately to ignore. In other times and in other cultures, preparing for death was seen as an important spiritual task--perhaps the most important task of our lives. Heinz argues that we can reconceive of death, reinvest it with meaning, and save it from becoming a meaningless biological event. Seeking appropriate models for such a reconstruction, Heinz offers a fascinating overview of the many ways death has been envisioned and ritualized throughout human history, from the Tibetan Book of the Dead to 15th century Christian ars moriendi--manuals on the art of dying--and from Jean Paul Sartre to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. He also surveys the more recent contributions of psychologists, anthropologists, cultural critics, and death awareness advocates, whose efforts have largely failed to integrate death into a larger human story and the larger human community. Finally, Heinz shows us how we might create rituals through the use of music, visual arts, dance, drama, and language that would enable us to approach death with reverence, as the spiritual consummation of our lives.
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