Facing death : where culture, religion, and medicine meet /

This is an important manual for those professionally involved with the dying, as well as a treatment & consolation for private readers. It brings together medical and humanities experts, to reflect on medical, cultural and religious responses to death.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Yale University. Program for Humanities in Medicine, Goethe-Institut Boston
Otros Autores: Spiro, Howard M. (Howard Marget), 1924-, Curnen, Mary G. McCrea, Wandel, Lee Palmer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1996.
Temas:
Terminally ill.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Death > Religious aspects.
Death > Moral and ethical aspects.
Death.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Professional ethics.
Terminal Care
Terminally Ill
Attitude to Death
Death
Religion and Medicine
Ethics, Professional
Malades en phase terminale.
Mort > Aspect psychologique.
Mort > Aspect religieux.
Mort > Aspect moral.
Soins en phase terminale.
Mort.
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
Déontologie professionnelle.
terminally ill.
deaths.
professional ethics.
SELF-HELP > Death, Grief, Bereavement.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Professional ethics
Medicine > Religious aspects
Death > Moral and ethical aspects
Death > Psychological aspects
Death > Religious aspects
Terminally ill
Sterven.
Sociologische aspecten.
Stervensbegeleiding.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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