| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages) |
| Contents |
v. 1. New paths of engagement. A bird's eye view of the territory / Christina Staudt -- From death denial to death control : the new baby-boomer approach / J. Harold Ellens -- Dying while living : the problem of social death / Donald Joralemon -- The biology of decision : implications of neuroscientific research for end-of-life care / Daniel Liechty and Bruce Hiebert -- Prognosis, costs, and end-of-life care / Daniel Callahan -- Stories in the end : a narrative medicine curriculum to reframe death and dying / Marsha Hurst and Craig Irvine -- What rational philosophy cannot tell us about death in the 21st century / Jerry S. Piven -- Grim discoveries : Agnés Varda's Vagabond (1985) and Karen Moncrieff's The Dead Girl (2006) / Marcelline Block -- Unveiling the corpse in the 21st century / Kathryn Beattie -- Expansion of new rituals for the dying and bereaved / Sherry R. Schachter and Kristen M. Finneran -- Virtual memorials : bereavement and the internet / Candi K. Cann -- Strange eternity : virtual memorials, grief, and entertainment / Angela Riechers -- Roadside memorials : a 21st-century development / George E. Dickinson and Heath C. Hoffman -- Reconfiguring urban spaces of disposal, sanctuary, and remembrance / Karla Maria Rothstein |
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v. 2. New venues in the search for dignity and grace. The need for accommodation / Christina Staudt -- The future of death and two challenges that will shape it / James W. Green -- Assisted suicide in the age of AIDS and Alzheimer's / Michael Teitelman -- Dying persons and their families / Margaret Souza -- Decision making at the end of life : from informed consent to family consent / Lawrence A. Frolik -- A changing landscape : evolving ethical duties and obligation of patients, families, and providers / Miriam Piven Cotler -- The Hippocratic and the Veterinary Oaths : medical ethics at the end of life / Sara Waller -- Palliative care and hospice : caring for patients with serious illness / Kerrianne P. Page and Maura L. Del Bene -- The health advocate in end-of-life care / Linda Koebner -- Culturally competent care in an increasingly diverse society / Karen Bullock and Jasmin Volkel -- Attending to the pain of the dying : the nursing home care paradox / Anthony J. Lechich -- The evolving role of hospital chaplains at the end of life / Martha R. Jacobs and Linda S. Golding -- Before their time : the need for communication when they die young / Nathan Ionascu -- Advance directives and hospice care : cost savers at the end / Edward J. Lusk, Nellie Selander, and Michael Halperin -- Conspicuous metabolism : life support and life extension as luxury goods / Kevin T. Keith -- Solidarity, mortality : the tolling bell of civic palliative care / Bruce Jennings |
| Summary |
This novel, cross-disciplinary collection explains how dying, death, and grieving have changed in America, for better or worse, since the turn of the millennium |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Terminal care -- United States
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Right to die -- United States
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Death -- Social aspects -- United States
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Grief -- Social aspects -- United States
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Death -- Social aspects
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Grief -- Social aspects
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Right to die
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Terminal care
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Staudt, Christina
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Ellens, J. Harold
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| ISBN |
9781440828461 |
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1440828466 |
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