Lynne Ann DeSpelder,
Cabrillo College Albert Lee Strickland
ISBN: 0072920963 Copyright year: 2005
Table of Contents
Prologue, by David Gordon
1. Attitudes Toward Death: A Cimate of Change
2. Learning About Death: The Influence of Sociocultural Forces
3. Perspectives on Death: Cross-Cultural and Historical
4. Health Care Systems: Patients, Staff, and Institutions
5. Death Systems: Matters of Public Policy
6. Facing Death: Living with Life-Threatening Illness
7. End-of-Life Issues and Decisions
8. Survivors: Understanding the Experience of Loss
9. Last Rites: Funerals and Body Disposition
10. Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescencts
11. Death in the Lives of Adults
12. Suicide
13. Risks of Death in the Modern World
14. Beyond Death / After Life
15. The Path Ahead: Personal and Social Choices
Epilogue, by David Gordon
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