Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Cabrillo College, Albert Lee Strickland.
Tenth edition.
New York, NY :
McGraw-Hill Education,
[2015]
xxviii, 699 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Attitudes toward death: a climate of change -- Learning about death: socialization -- Perspectives on death: historical and cultural -- Death systems: mortality and society -- Health care: patients, staff, and institutions -- End-of-life issues and decisions -- Facing death: living with life-threatening illness -- Last rites: funerals and body disposition -- Survivors: understanding the experience of loss -- Death in the lives of children and adolescents -- Death in the lives of adults -- Suicide -- Risks, perils, and traumatic death -- Beyond death / after life -- The path ahead: personal and social choices.
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"The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying provides a comprehensive, up to date, and readable introduction to the study of death and dying. It directs attention to the evolving understanding of death and dying in today's culturally diverse environment. In a straightforward, conversational style, with an extensively illustrated format, The Last Dance provides a solid grounding in theory and research as well as in methods for applying what is learned to readers' own circumstances, both personal and professional. No other textbook so successfully combines the research and theories of such diverse disciplines as anthropology, art, ethics, health science, literature, philosophy, psychology, public policy, religion, and sociology. The tenth edition of The Last Dance includes new coverage of key topics yet retains the focus, writing, and pedagogy instructors have come to expect from the best-selling text in death studies"--Amazon.com.