Death and Dying Understanding and Care

Name: Death and Dying Understanding and Care
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ISBN: 9780827349544

ISBN-10: 0827349548

ISBN-13: 9780827349544

Edition: 2nd 1994 (Revised)

Authors: Barbara A. Backer, Natalie R. Hannon, Noreen A. Russell

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It is important to recognize and accept the uniqueness of each individual's response to loss, dying and death. This excellent second edition conveys the message that understanding and care should be valued as highly as efficiency and cost-effectiveness in today's high-tech medical system. Death and Dying: Understanding and Care identifies patterns of response to dying and death in American society, it discusses problems associated with the cessation of life, and it examines the structure and process of interaction among the terminally ill, their families and helping professionals. THIS TITLE IS DESIGNATED AS A KIP (KEEP IN PRINT) EDITION AS OF 1/6/00 AND WILL BE REPRINTED BASED ON CUSTOMER…

Book details

List price: $308.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Publication date: 6/3/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface



Death in American Society



Death and The Process of Dying



The Helping Professions and the Terminally Ill



Hospitals and Dying Patients



Hospice Care



Children and Death



Living with AIDS




Ethical Issues



Suicide



Grief and Bereavement



Funerals



Death from a Cross-Cultural Perspective



Index