Death Dying category: 510 books
Consoling Ghosts
Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In conversation with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, Jean M. Langford repeatedly met with spirits: the wandering souls of the seriously ill, dangerous ghosts of those who died by violence, restless ancestors displaced from their homes. For these emigrants, the dead not only appear in memories, safely...
Death
The Scientific Facts to Help Us Understand It Better
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Our love of life makes the inevitability of death very difficult to accept. Death is a comprehensive examination of that inevitable and universal human experience. To better our understanding of death--and so perhaps fear it less--the book explains the biological processes and the different causes...
Speaking of Dying
A Practical Guide to Using Counselling Skills in Palliative Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most. Compassionate and tactful communication skills can make the difference between an awkward encounter with a dying patient, and an engaging, empathic bond between two people.
Louis Heyse-Moore draws on his wealth...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A thought-provoking examination of death, dying, and the afterlife
Prominent scholars present their most recent work about mortuary rituals, grief and mourning, genocide, cyclical processes of life and death, biomedical developments, and the materiality of human corpses in this unique and illuminating...
by Philippe Aries
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
This remarkable book—the fruit of almost two decades of study—traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary...
by The Abbotts
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
This unique book is the definitive guide on Death, covering such important subjects as, death of a lover, death of a child, death of a parent, death of a friend and also death of a loved pet. Controversial topics such as Death relating to murder, suicide, war, executions, terrorism, NDE's, reincarnation,...
by Robert Orfali
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The book every mortal should read. Orfali approaches this agonizing subject with common sense informed by extensive research and an acute sensitivity to the dilemmas faced by dying patients and their families and doctors. The result is a thought-provoking contribution to the debate over this explosive...
by John Barber
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
As Shakespeare once said: ‘We all have our exits and our entrances.’
This is a collection of news stories from the 1980’s. They are real news items from around the world. The one common factor is that they all have a reference to death. Not just deaths of people and animals and the strange...
The Power of Death
Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power...
A Traveler's Guide to the Afterlife
Traditions and Beliefs on Death, Dying, and What Lies Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
A grand survey of the world’s death and afterlife traditions throughout history
• Examines beliefs from many different cultures on the soul, heaven, hell, and reincarnation; instructions for accessing the different worlds of the afterlife; how one may become a god; and how ethics and the...
by David Balk, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
"Capturing from the start that 'Childhood is, and always has been, a vulnerable time,' we have a rich in gathering of contributed pieces that bring us into the raw, fragile arena of children traumatized by life events and behaviors..." --Illness, Crisis, and Loss
"Balk and Corr again have edited...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
From the ritual object which functions as a substitute for the dead - thus acting as a medium for communicating with the ’other world’ - to the representation of death, violence and suffering in media, or the use of online social networks as spaces of commemoration, media of various kinds are...
The End
The Human Experience Of Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A fascinating exploration of the universal human experience of death. We sat around and on the bed, laughing and joking as if this was a typical family gathering. The shrunken form of our dying grandmother lay on the bed, breathing fast and shallow, her once-bright eyes half closed and sunken in their...
by Alex Broom
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
An inevitable and universal experience, dying is experienced by individuals in different ways, often related to the character of our relationships, family structures, gender identities, cultural backgrounds, and economic means. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork with patients, carers and health...