| Description |
xix, 225 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Michael Young -- Introduction / Glennys Howarth -- 1. The View from the West: Reading the Anthropology of Non-western Death Ritual / Jennifer Hockey -- 2. The Social Facts of Death / Douglas Davies -- 3. Change and Continuity in the Funeral Rituals of Sikhs in Britain / Sewa Singh Kalsi -- 4. Vile Bodies and Mass Media Chantries / Jon Davies --5. Dirt, Death, Decay and Dissolution: American Denial and British Avoidance / Christie Davies -- 6. Dead Beauty: The Preservation, Memorialization, and Destruction of Beauty in Death / Jacque Lynn Foltyn --7. Representations of 'Good' and 'Bad' Death among Deathworkers and the Bereaved / Mary Bradbury -- 8. The Good Death: Attitudes of British Hindus / Shirley Firth -- 9. Terminal Care Education for Doctors /David Field -- 10. Nurses' Perceptions of Stress when Working with Dying Patients on a Cancer Ward / Jeanne Samson Katz -- 11. Police Coping with Death: Assumptions and Rhetoric / Margaret Mitchell |
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12. Death and the Disease: Inside the Culture of Childhood Cancer / Stephen Ball, Sarah Bignold and Alan Cribb -- 13. Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Are Doctors' Duties when Following Patients' Orders a Bitter Pill to Swallow? / Demetra M. Pappas -- 14. The Donation of Organs for Transplantation: The Donor Families / Margaret Robbins -- 15. Facing Death without Tradition / Tony Walter |
| Analysis |
Humans Death |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index |
| Subject |
Death -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Howarth, Glennys.
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Jupp, Peter C.
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| ISBN |
033363862X |
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