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Dying and death : inter-disciplinary perspectives /

Annotation Death is a topic people are reluctant to ponder. Neither is dying a process that is usually being openly discussed. However, on a variety of occasions, dying and death are on a person?s minds, under some sensitive circumstances, he or she are eager to discuss with a close person, a friend...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kasher, Asa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007.
Colección:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 37.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Embalming the American body : sentimental mourning on the cusp of the Civil War / Ashley Byock
  • Collective emotions and national mourning / Asa Kasher
  • Issues of death and dying for adult children of Holocaust survivors / Paula David
  • Death and images of womanhood and manhood : the case of Serbian epic poetry / Mira Crouch
  • Extreme makeovers and reciprocal relations between the living and the dead / Kathleen Z. Young
  • Death of a friend : some themes in Jacques Derrida's The Work of Mourning / Gary Peters
  • Death and the other : the ambivalence of mourning / Havi Carel
  • Grace towards the dead / Dana Freibach-Heifetz
  • Death and mourning : logistics and mystery / Marguerite Peggy Flynn
  • For fear of what the neighbours might say : social networks and suicide in early modern Holland / Laura Cruz
  • When a young woman dies : gender, youth and the meaning of suicide in the jazz age / Kathleen Jones
  • "Voluntary death" in Japanese history and culture / Lawrence Fouraker
  • Medics facing terminal diagnosis? / Angela Armstrong-Coster
  • Between organizations, family and death : caring creatively within the hospice organization / Elizabeth Gill
  • Reflections on the needs of palliative patients and being on the receiving end of care / Anna Wreath Taube.