This work approaches the subject of death and dying from a social-psychological perspective while examining the social meanings of dying and death. It addresses such issues as religion and death attitudes, the dying process, euthanasia, bereavement, burial practices, and death perceptions from childhood through older adulthood. This edition has been updated to include information and statistics on death etiology and life expectancy.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 166 mm
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978-0-15-505174-4 (9780155051744)
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Part I: Understanding dying and death; the American way of dying; understanding the social meaning of dying and death. Part II: Understanding death attitudes; children and death; developmental perspective on dying process; the dying process; the hospice - alternative care for the dying; euthanasia and biomedical issues; suicide. Part IV: Understanding the bereavement process; the anthropology of death ritual; the history of bereavement and burial practices in American culture; the funeral - expression of contemporary American bereavement; the bereavement process.
