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Book Synopsis Transforming the Culture of Dying by : David Clark
Download or read book Transforming the Culture of Dying written by David Clark and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming the Culture of Dying assesses the establishment of the Project on Death in America and evaluates its the contributions to the development of the palliative care field and end of life care in American society.
Book Synopsis Deconstructing Death by : Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Download or read book Deconstructing Death written by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deconstructing Death deals with some of the most recent changes and transformations within the realms of death, dying, bereavement, and care in contemporary Nordic countries. The book deals with some of the major - as well as some of the less conspicuous - changes in the cultural and social engagement with the phenomenon of death. Among the themes touched upon are: organ transplantation, death education, communication with the dead, changes in commemorative rituals, mourning practices on the internet, parental responses to children's suicide, death control, the practice and ethics of end-of-life care, and the lonely death. Deconstructing Death contains contributions written by researchers and practitioners from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland, with professional and academic backgrounds within areas such as sociology, anthropology, religious studies, and palliative care.
Download or read book Seper mʼŵrey ʼŵr written by סלומון אזרד and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Craft of Dying, 40th Anniversary Edition by : Lyn H. Lofland
Download or read book The Craft of Dying, 40th Anniversary Edition written by Lyn H. Lofland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying. Much of today's literature on end-of-life issues overlooks the importance of 1970s social movements in shaping our understanding of death, dying, and the dead body. This anniversary edition of Lyn Lofland's The Craft of Dying begins to repair this omission. Lofland identifies, critiques, and theorizes 1970s death movements, including the Death Acceptance Movement, the Death with Dignity Movement, and the Natural Death movement. All these groups attempted to transform death into a “positive experience,” anticipating much of today's death and dying activism. Lofland turns a sociologist's eye on the era's increased interest in death, considering, among other things, the components of the modern “face of death” and the “craft of dying,” the construction of a dying role or identity by those who are dying, and the constraints on their freedom to do this. Lofland wrote just before the AIDS epidemic transformed the landscape of death and dying in the West; many of the trends she identified became the building blocks of AIDS activism in the 1980s and 1990s. The Craft of Dying will help readers understand contemporary death social movements' historical relationships to questions of race, class, gender, and sexuality and is a book that everyone interested in end-of-life politics should read.
Book Synopsis A Cross-cultural Look at Death, Dying, and Religion by : Joan K. Parry
Download or read book A Cross-cultural Look at Death, Dying, and Religion written by Joan K. Parry and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important collection explores how people of various backgrounds -religious, ethnic, gender, and/or sexual orientation- cope with death, dying, and grieving. It is a guide for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, physicians, nurses, other practitioners, educators, and students who are concerned with helping persons who are dying and families who are grieving, and who must understand why certain groups react as they do to such events.
Book Synopsis Transforming the Culture of Dying by : David Clark
Download or read book Transforming the Culture of Dying written by David Clark and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over almost 10 years, the work of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a formative role in the advancement of end-of-life care in the US. The project concerned itself with adults and children, and with interests crossing boundaries between the clinical disciplines, the social sciences, arts, and humanities. PDIA engaged with the problems of resources in poor communities and marginalized groups and settings, and it attempted to foster collaboration across a range of sectors and organisations. This book examines the broad, ambitious conception of PDIA and assesses PDIA's contribution to the development of the palliative care field and to wider debates about end-of-life care within American society.
Book Synopsis Death, Memory and Material Culture by : Elizabeth Hallam
Download or read book Death, Memory and Material Culture written by Elizabeth Hallam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - How do the living maintain ongoing relationships with the dead in Western societies? - How have the residual belongings of the dead been used to evoke memories? - Why has the body and its material environment remained so important in memory-making? Objects, images, practices, and places remind us of the deaths of others and of our own mortality. At the time of death, embodied persons disappear from view, their relationships with others come under threat and their influence may cease. Emotionally, socially, politically, much is at stake at the time of death. In this context, memories and memory-making can be highly charged, and often provide the dead with a social presence amongst the living. Memories of the dead are a bulwark against the terror of forgetting, as well as an inescapable outcome of a life's ending. Objects in attics, gardens, museums, streets and cemeteries can tell us much about the processes of remembering. This unusual and absorbing book develops perspectives in anthropology and cultural history to reveal the importance of material objects in experiences of grief, mourning and memorializing. Far from being ‘invisible', the authors show how past generations, dead friends and lovers remain manifest - through well-worn garments, letters, photographs, flowers, residual drops of perfume, funerary sculpture. Tracing the rituals, gestures and materials that have been used to shape and preserve memories of personal loss, Hallam and Hockey show how material culture provides the deceased with a powerful presence within the here and now.
Book Synopsis The Funny Thing about Death by : Donna Lynne Erickson
Download or read book The Funny Thing about Death written by Donna Lynne Erickson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is among the most natural, and most confusing, parts of being human. Its inevitability and universality do nothing to alleviate our messy feelings about the subject. It’s why you have no idea what to say when your friend loses a beloved family member. You are not alone. Somehow, our privileged North American ethos has taught us that we need not suffer, that a quick fix to pain and sadness is always available. But this “no-tears please” approach has created a culture of loss avoidance and stifled the natural human need to grieve and mourn losses. With The Funny Thing About Death, find an alternative course of action for a society that’s decided an absence of emotion around death’s unavoidability is the best way to deal with it. In its pages, readers—including adult children watching parents recede and die—will find comfort and counsel on how to lean into the discomfort of grief and allow natural mourning to occur. By sharing stories about death—both her own and those with which she’s come into contact through her bereavement work—Donna Lynne Erickson shows that healing is possible and that there are safe places in which to do so. Ultimately, she looks to challenge the way society regards bereavement, grief, and mourning, and to inspire a revolution that offers a fresh reception of the subject. We all face loss, eventually—let’s do it together.
Book Synopsis Coping with the Final Tragedy by : David R. Counts
Download or read book Coping with the Final Tragedy written by David R. Counts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1991 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book as a whole emphasizes common concerns shared by all humanity while the volume chapters emphasize various cultural diversities, and the remarkable varieties in the ways that people understood and experience death and grief. The articles in this new text demonstrate these differences and provide insight into human resourcefulness and ingenuity as people cope with death, the final tragedy.
Book Synopsis The Study of Dying by : Allan Kellehear
Download or read book The Study of Dying written by Allan Kellehear and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it really like to die? Though our understanding about the biology of dying is complex and incomplete, greater complexity and diversity can be found in the study of what human beings encounter socially, psychologically and spiritually during the experience. Contributors from disciplines as diverse as social and behavioural studies, medicine, demography, history, philosophy, art, literature, popular culture and religion examine the process of dying through the lens of both animal and human studies. Despite common fears to the contrary, dying is not simply an awful journey of illness and decline; cultural influences, social circumstances, personal choice and the search for meaning are all crucial in shaping personal experiences. This intriguing volume will be of interest to clinicians, professionals, academics and students of death, dying and end-of-life care, and anyone curious about the human confrontation with mortality.
Book Synopsis Dying in America by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Dying in America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. Unfortunately, the experience of dying in the United States is often characterized by fragmented care, inadequate treatment of distressing symptoms, frequent transitions among care settings, and enormous care responsibilities for families. According to this report, the current health care system of rendering more intensive services than are necessary and desired by patients, and the lack of coordination among programs increases risks to patients and creates avoidable burdens on them and their families. Dying in America is a study of the current state of health care for persons of all ages who are nearing the end of life. Death is not a strictly medical event. Ideally, health care for those nearing the end of life harmonizes with social, psychological, and spiritual support. All people with advanced illnesses who may be approaching the end of life are entitled to access to high-quality, compassionate, evidence-based care, consistent with their wishes. Dying in America evaluates strategies to integrate care into a person- and family-centered, team-based framework, and makes recommendations to create a system that coordinates care and supports and respects the choices of patients and their families. The findings and recommendations of this report will address the needs of patients and their families and assist policy makers, clinicians and their educational and credentialing bodies, leaders of health care delivery and financing organizations, researchers, public and private funders, religious and community leaders, advocates of better care, journalists, and the public to provide the best care possible for people nearing the end of life.
Book Synopsis Death Across Cultures by : Helaine Selin
Download or read book Death Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. It includes chapters on countries in Africa, Asia, South America, as well as indigenous people in Australia and North America. These chapters address changes in death rituals and beliefs, medicalization and the industry of death, and the different ways cultures mediate the impacts of modernity. Comparative studies with the west and among countries are included. This book brings together global research conducted by anthropologists, social scientists and scholars who work closely with individuals from the cultures they are writing about.
Book Synopsis Dying in Place by : Judith K. Endrizal Louras
Download or read book Dying in Place written by Judith K. Endrizal Louras and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the twentieth century signaled a reversal in how society had been managing dying in modern America. Back in the beginning of that century, the average American lifespan was steadily increasing, while at the same time a psychosocial shift away from death awareness and acceptance was taking place. Institutions replaced the domestic spaces where the terminally ill traditionally spent their final hours and days. Dying became the province of medical professionals and medical places, effectively restricting death and dying both physically and psychologically. Why and how did this cultural transformation occur? What have been the consequences of cordoning off implications of our own mortality and how did this trend eventually begin to reverse direction? Finally, what is at stake for all of us who will die in this century? The intricate weaving of religion, science, and industry throughout American history has created a tapestry illustrating why the modern American medical system followed the trajectory it did and how it generated the culture of death denial that accompanied it. The turning point in this cultural phenomenon began in the 1990s when the collective attitudes of both the medical and political establishments became more open, allowing for increased dialogue regarding the concept and realities of death and dying. At the same time, notable changes in the frequency and manner in which the entertainment industry and literature represented death and dying to their wide audiences emerged. Consequently, heightened death awareness and broader death acceptance have been prompting substantive responses that often expand options for the terminally ill, thereby honoring their individuality and legitimizing their personal agency during the end-of-life transition.
Book Synopsis The Changing Culture of Death by : Jennifer Quigley
Download or read book The Changing Culture of Death written by Jennifer Quigley and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Architects of the Culture of Death by : Benjamin Wiker
Download or read book Architects of the Culture of Death written by Benjamin Wiker and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase, ""the Culture of Death"", is bandied about as a catch-all term that covers abortion, euthanasia and other attacks on the sanctity of life. In Architects of the Culture of Death, authors Donald DeMarco and Benjamin Wiker expose the Culture of Death as an intentional and malevolent ideology promoted by influential thinkers who specifically attack Christian morality's core belief in the sanctity of human life and the existence of man's immortal soul. In scholarly, yet reader-friendly prose, DeMarco and Wiker examine the roots of the Culture of Death by introducing 23 of its architects, including Ayn Rand, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alfred Kinsey, Margaret Sanger, Jack Kevorkian, and Peter Singer. Still, this is not a book without hope. If the Culture of Death rests on a fragmented view of the person and an eclipse of God, the future of the Culture of Life relies on an understanding and restoration of the human being as a person, and the rediscovery of a benevolent God. The personalism of John Paul II is an illuminating thread that runs through Architects, serving as a hopeful antidote.
Book Synopsis Studies in a Dying Culture by : Christopher St. John Sprigg
Download or read book Studies in a Dying Culture written by Christopher St. John Sprigg and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Committee on Care at the End of Life Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :0309518253 Total Pages :457 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (95 download)
Book Synopsis Approaching Death by : Committee on Care at the End of Life
Download or read book Approaching Death written by Committee on Care at the End of Life and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the end of life makes its inevitable appearance, people should be able to expect reliable, humane, and effective caregiving. Yet too many dying people suffer unnecessarily. While an "overtreated" dying is feared, untreated pain or emotional abandonment are equally frightening. Approaching Death reflects a wide-ranging effort to understand what we know about care at the end of life, what we have yet to learn, and what we know but do not adequately apply. It seeks to build understanding of what constitutes good care for the dying and offers recommendations to decisionmakers that address specific barriers to achieving good care. This volume offers a profile of when, where, and how Americans die. It examines the dimensions of caring at the end of life: Determining diagnosis and prognosis and communicating these to patient and family. Establishing clinical and personal goals. Matching physical, psychological, spiritual, and practical care strategies to the patient's values and circumstances. Approaching Death considers the dying experience in hospitals, nursing homes, and other settings and the role of interdisciplinary teams and managed care. It offers perspectives on quality measurement and improvement, the role of practice guidelines, cost concerns, and legal issues such as assisted suicide. The book proposes how health professionals can become better prepared to care well for those who are dying and to understand that these are not patients for whom "nothing can be done."
