Death, Society, and Human Experience

The thirteenth edition of Death, Society, and Human Experience provides a panoramic overview of the ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as individuals and as members of society.

List of contents

1. As We Think About Death 2. What is Death? What Does Death Mean? 3. Denial or Adaptation: The Death System 4. Dying: Transition from Life 5. Hospice and Palliative Care 6. End-of-Life Issues and Decisions 7. Suicide 8. Violent Death: Murder, Terrorism, Genocide, Disaster, and Accident 9. Euthanasia, Assisted Death, Abortion, and the Right to Die 10. Death in the World of Childhood 11. Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning 12. The Funeral Process 13. Do We Survive Death? 14. How Can We Help? Caregiving and Death Education 15.Good Life, Good Death? Trying to Make Sense of It All

About the author

Robert Kastenbaum (1932-2013) was Professor of Communications at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. His other books include The Psychology of Death (1972, 1990, 2000), Dorian, Graying: Is Youth the Only Thing Worth Having? (1995), and On Our Way: The Final Passage through Life and Death (2004).
Christopher M. Moreman is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at California State University East Bay, Hayward, California. He has written and edited influential books on topics related to death and dying. He is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying (2017), the author of Beyond the Threshold: Afterlife Beliefs and Experiences in World Religions (2017), Dharma of the Dead: Zombies, Mortality, and Buddhist Philosophy (2018), and the editor of the three-volume series titled The Spiritualist Movement (2013).

Summary

The thirteenth edition of Death, Society, and Human Experience provides a panoramic overview of the ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as individuals and as members of society.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Kastenbaum, Robert Moreman Kastenbaum, Kastenbaum Robert, Christopher M. Moreman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2024
• EAN: 9781032021522
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3202152-2
• No. of pages: 622
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Social groups, Personal & public health, Psychotherapy, Social Work, Sociology: death and dying, Personal and public health / health education, Sociology: Death & Dying, Social groups, communities and identities