Overview

This engaging and informative resource provides readers with an understanding of the social, cultural, and historical influences that shape our encounters with death, dying, and bereavement—a universal experience across humanity. Written in an engaging and accessible style by leading international scholars and practitioners from within the field of death and bereavement studies, this book will have broad appeal, providing in a single volume insights from some of the key thinkers within the interdisciplinary field of death, dying, and bereavement. Its approximately 200 entries will serve as useful starting points for those new to the topic and will be informative to those already acquainted with some of the core concepts and ideas within this burgeoning field of inquiry. This encyclopedia will serve as an essential resource for high school and undergraduate students, those engaged in independent research, and professionals whose work involves caring for the dead, dying, and bereaved. It will also be of great interest to general readers intrigued by the social, medical, and cultural dimensions to human mortality. Underscored by the inescapable biological certainties that affect us all, The A–Z of Death and Dying offers a highly relevant examination of the social and historical variation in the rituals, practices, and beliefs surrounding the end of life.

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Author:   Michael John Brennan
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Greenwood Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.191kg
ISBN:  

9781440803437

ISBN 10:   1440803439
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   17 February 2014
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction The Contributors Entries A–Z Abortion Accidental Death Active Dying ADEC (Association for Death Education and Counseling) Adolescents Advance Directives African Americans Afterlife Beliefs Aging Alcohol Alzheimer's Disease American Indians Ancestor Worship Angels Animism Anthropology Apocalypse Archaeology Ariès, Philippe Ars Moriendi Art and Literature Assassination Autoerotic Asphyxia Autopsy Awareness Contexts Banshees Bereavement Bioethics Body Disposal Body Worlds Exhibition Buddhism Burial Cadavers Cancer Cannibalism Capital Punishment Cardiovascular Disease Catholicism Cause of Death Cemeteries Charnel Houses Children Christianity Cloning Condolence (and Condolence Books) Confucianism Continuing Bonds Coroner/Medical Examiner Cremains Cremation Cryonics Cults Curses Cyberspace Dance of Death Dark Tourism Databases Day of the Dead Death Anxiety Death Awareness Movement Death Certification Death Denial Death Education Death Mask Death Notification Death Obsession Deathbed Scene Definitions of Death Devil Dignitas Disasters Disease Domestic Violence Drugs Dying Trajectory Eating Disorders Elegy Embalming Epidemics and Plagues Epidemiology Epitaphs Estates Eulogy Euphemisms Euthanasia Exhumation Existentialism Facebook Familicide Famine Forensic Science Freud, Sigmund Funeral Director Funeral Industry Funerals Gender Genocide Ghosts Good Death Grave Robbing Green Burials Grief Grief Counseling Health Promotion Hearse Heaven Hell Hinduism HIV/AIDS Holocaust Homicide Honor Killings Hospice Movement Humor Images of Death Immortality Infant Mortality Infanticide Informed Consent Islam Jihad Judaism Kevorkian, Jack Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth Life Expectancy Life Support Therapies Make-A-Wish Foundation Martyrs Media and Death Medicalization Megadeath Memento Mori Memorial Day Memorial Tattoos Memorials and Memorialization Monuments Mortality Rates Mortuary Science Mourning Near-Death Experiences Near-to-Death Experiences Necrophilia Obituary Organ Donation/Transplantation Oscar the Cat Palliative Care Perinatal Death Pets Philosophy Photography Physician-Assisted Suicide Popular Culture Protestantism Psychology Public Dying Public Mourning Purgatory Reincarnation Religion Right-to-Die Movement Rigor Mortis School Shootings Sex and Death Social Class Social Death Sociology Spirituality Spontaneous Shrines/Roadside Memorials Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Suicide Suicide Prevention and Postvention Superstitions Taboo Taxidermy Terminal Illness and Care Terror Management Theory Terrorism Thanatology Tobacco Tombs/Mausoleums Totemism Valhalla Vampires Video Games Wakes/Visitation War Zombies Index About the Editor

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[T]he new and updated information and reasonable price of this work make it a worthwhile purchase for academic, public, and workplace libraries. - ARBA

[T]he new and updated information and reasonable price of this work make it a worthwhile purchase for academic, public, and workplace libraries. - ARBA This valuable publication could serve as an update to the comparable Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ... easy to read and understand... Professionals in the health care field may want to recommend this publication to patients who are looking for topical overviews. It will be a good purchase for academic and public libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers. - Choice

Author Information

Michael Brennan, PhD, is associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Death Education and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

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