TY - BOOK AU - DeSpelder,Lynne Ann AU - Strickland,Albert Lee TI - The last dance: encountering death and dying SN - 0072920963 AV - BF 789.D4 D53 2005 U1 - 155.9/37 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Death KW - Psychological aspects KW - Textbooks KW - Social aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 555-640) and index; Chapter 1. Attitudes toward death: a climate of change Chapter 2. Learning about death: the influence of sociocultural forces Chapter 3. Perspectives on death: cross-cultural and historical Chapter 4. Health care systems: patients, staff, and institutuons Chapter 5. Death systems: matters of public policy Chapter 6. Facing death: living with life-threatening illness Chapter 7. End-of-life issues and decisions Chapter 8. Survivors: understanding the experience of loss Chapter 9. Last rites: funerals and body disposition Chapter 10. Death in the lives of children and adolescents Chapter 11. Death in the lives of adults Chapter 12. Suicide Chapter 13. Risks of death in the modern world Chapter 14. Beyond death/after life Chapter 15. The path ahead: personal and social choices UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/mh051/2003067467.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2003067467-d.html ER -