Lynne Ann DeSpelder,
Cabrillo College Albert Lee Strickland
ISBN: 0072920963 Copyright year: 2005
Feature Summary
Wealth of relevant examples. The wide array of anecdotes, songs, poems, and personal accounts included in the book ensure that the content is relevant and concrete to students.
Empathy and compassion. The text emphasizes the necessary values of compassion, listening, and tolerance for the views of others.
Multicultural perspective. The text examines socio-cultural influences on the understanding of death, including coverage of theoretical perspectives, the agents of socialization, and the role of ethnic and cultural traditions as related to death attitudes and customs in modern, pluralistic societies.
Interdisciplinary perspective. No other book in the field so successfully combines the research and theory of diverse disciplines such as art, history, anthropology, ethics, health science, literature, philosophy, psychology, public policy, religion, and sociology.
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