Conclusion: Additional vistas / Preface and acknowledgements ; Introduction: Bird's eye view of the territory / Christina Staudt. Changing landscape. From death denial to death control : the new Baby Boomer approach / J. Harold Ellens -- Dying while living : the problem of social death / Donald Joralemon -- Biology of decision : implications of neuroscientific research for end-of-life care / Daniel Liechty, Bruce Hiebert -- Prognosis, costs, and end-of-life care / Daniel Callahan -- Speaking in a new language. Stories of the end : a narrative medicine curriculum to reframe death and dying / Marsha Hurst, Craig Irvine -- What rational philosophy cannot tell us about death in the 21st century / Jerry S. Piven -- Grim discoveries : Agnès Vardas's Vagabond (1985) and Karen Moncrieff's The dead girl (2006) / Marcelline Block -- Unveiling the corpse in the 21st century / Kathryn Beattie -- Transforming the aftermath. Expansion of new rituals for the dying and bereaved / Sherry R. Schachter, 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 / Geroge E. Dickinson, Heath C. Hoffmann -- Reconfiguring urban spaces of disposal, sanctuary, and remembrance / Karla Maria Rothstein -- Conclusion: Additional vistas / Christina Staudt. Afterword / Letter from a fellow traveler / Introduction: Need for accommodation / J. Harold Ellens. 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 -- Changing landscape : evolving ethical duties and obligation of patients, families and providers / Miriam Piven Cotler -- Hippocratic and veterinary oaths : medical ethics at the end of life / Sara Waller -- Improving the vehicles of care. Palliative care and hospice : caring for patients with serious illness / Kerrianne P. Page, Maura L. Del Bene -- Health advocate in end-of-life care / Linda Koebner -- Culturally competent care in an increasingly diverse society / Karen Bullock, Jasmin Volkel -- Attending to the pain of the dying : the nursing home care paradox / AnthonyJ. Lechich -- Evolving role of hospital chaplains at the end of life / Martha R. Jacobs, Linda S. Golding -- Before their time : the need for communication when they die young / Nathan Ionascu -- Redrawing the map. Advance directives and hospice care : cost savers at the end / Edward J. Lusk, Nellie Selander, 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 -- Conclusion: Letter from a fellow traveler / Christina Staudt -- Afterword / J. Harold Ellens.
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