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Title:

Facing death : where culture, religion, and medicine meet / edited by Howard M. Spiro, Mary G. McCrea Curnen, and Lee Palmer Wandel.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1996

Description:

xxii, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Terminally ill.
Death--Psychological aspects.
Death--Religious aspects.
Death--Moral and ethical aspects.
Terminal Care.
Death.
Religion and Medicine.
Ethics, Professional.
Sterven.
Sociologische aspecten.
Stervensbegeleiding.

Other Authors:

Spiro, Howard M. (Howard Marget), 1924-
Curnen, Mary G. McCrea.
Wandel, Lee Palmer.
Yale University. Program for Humanities in Medicine.
Goethe-Institut (Boston, Mass.)

Notes:

"Prepared under the auspices of the Program for Humanities in Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and the Goethe-Institut, Boston." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Attending to dying : limitations of medical technology (a resident's perspective) / Eric L. Krakauer -- Before their time : a clinicians's reflections on death and AIDS / Peter A. Selwyn -- The doctor's role in death / Sherwin B. Nuland -- Thoughts on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Alan B. Astrow -- Learning to care for the dying / Alan C. Mermann -- Thoughts on witnessing death / James D. Kenney -- The changing face of death in children / Diane M. Komp -- When children mourn a loved one / Morris A. Wessel -- The emergence of hospice care in the United States / Florence S. Wald -- Caring for those who die in old age / Joanne Lynn -- Living in the maelstrom / Alvin Novick -- An ars moriendi for our time : to live a fulfilled life ; to die a peaceful death / Arthur E. Imhof -- The art of dying in Hindu India / Sylvia Vatuk -- Reflections on mortality from a Jewish perspective / James E. Ponet -- Catholic theology's main thoughts on death / Harald Wagner -- The law of the spirits : Chinese popular beliefs / Valerie Hansen -- The meaning of death in Islam / Ira M. Lapidius -- From this world to the next : notes on death and dying in early America / John Demos -- Ars memoriandi : the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt / Peter S. Hawkins -- Bearing the spirit home / Frederick J. Streets -- Witnessing death versus framing death / William B. McCullough -- Conclusion : retrospect and prospect / William J. Bouwsma.

ISBN:

9780300063493 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300063490 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

96002487

Locations:

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ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

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OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

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PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

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