The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying
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The best-selling textbook in its field, The Last Dance offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of death and dying. Integrating the experiential, scholarly, social, individual, emotional, and intellectual dimensions of death and dying, this acclaimed text provides solid grounding in theory and research, as well as practical application to students' lives. The ninth edition has been updated to offer cutting-edge and comprehensive coverage of death studies. Booknews New edition of a basic text surveying attitudes, cross-cultural and historical perspectives, socialization, health care systems, living with life-threatening illness, funerals and body disposition, the experience of loss, death in children's lives, medical ethics, the law, suicide, and concepts of immortality. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Prologue David Gordon Gordon, David 1Ch. 1 Attitudes Toward Death: A Climate of Change 5Ch. 2 Learning About Death: The Influence of Sociocultural Forces 47Ch. 3 Perspectives on Death: Cultural and Historical 85Ch. 4 Death Systems: Mortality and Society 127Ch. 5 Health Care: Patients, Staff, and Institutions 167Ch. 6 End-of-Life Issues and Decisions 199Ch. 7 Facing Death: Living with Life-Threatening Illness 239Ch. 8 Last Rites: Funerals and Body Disposition 273Ch. 9 Survivors: Understanding the Experience of Loss 311Ch. 10 Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents 351Ch. 11 Death in the Lives of Adults 385Ch. 12 Suicide 413Ch. 13 Threats of Horrendous Death 453Ch. 14 Beyond Death/After Life 491Ch. 15 The Path Ahead: Personal and Social Choices 525Epilogue David Gordon Gordon, David 551Notes 553Credits and Sources 627Name Index 631Subject Index 644
