Fear of the Unknown - Enlightened Aid-in-Dying

List of contents

Introduction
Views of Death: General and Medical Implications
Views of Death
Personal Continuance View: Impact on the Dying Patient, Physician, Nurse, and Chaplain
Investigations and Pre-Death Phenomena
A Century of Investigation
Extrasensory Perception
Out-of-Body Experience
The Near-Death Experience
Deathbed Visions
At Death Phenomena
At Death
Post-Death Phenomena
Mental Mediumship
Reincarnation
Hauntings, Ghosts, and Apparitions
Appraisal and Judgment
Critical Appraisal
Evaluation, Persuasion, and Aid-in-Dying

About the author

ARTHUR S. BERGER is the director of the International Institute for the Study of Death and an active member of the bioethics committee of a large metropolitan hospital. He is an attorney, educator, the author of six books, including Fear of the Unknown (Praeger, 1995), Dying and Death in Law and Medicine (Praeger, 1992), and the editor of three books including To Die or Not to Die? (Praeger, 1990), and Perspectives on Death and Dying (1989).

Product details

• Authors: Arthur S. Berger, Berger Arthur S., Berger Joyce
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.1995
• EAN: 9780275946838
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94683-8
• Subjects: Guides; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Terminal Care, Pain & pain management, Pain and pain management, Terminal care nursing, Health systems & services, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, Health systems and services, MEDICAL / Pain Management, MEDICAL / Nursing / Care Plans, Health and Wellness