Our changing journey to the end : reshaping death, dying, and grief in America. Volume I, New paths of engagement

Our changing journey to the end : reshaping death, dying, and grief in America. Volume I, New paths of engagement /

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.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Staudt, Christina, Ellens, J. Harold
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara : Praeger, 2014
Subjects:
Terminal care > United States.
Right to die > United States.
Death > Social aspects > United States.
Grief > Social aspects > United States.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.
  • 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.

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