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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Aiken, Lewis R., 1931- Dying, death, and bereavement. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001 (OCoLC)606421989 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lewis R Aiken |
| ISBN: | 0805835032 9780805835038 0805835040 9780805835045 |
| OCLC Number: | 43569412 |
| Description: | x, 398 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Mortality and thanatology -- Causes and circumstances of death -- Aging, disease, and starvation -- Accidental death and suicide -- Homicide and war -- Cultural beliefs and customs -- Funerary rituals and religion -- The arts and philosophy -- Legal practices and issues -- Human development and death -- Children and death -- Death attitudes, fears, and beliefs of adults -- Dying and surviving -- The process of dying -- Bereavement and widowhood -- Appendix A. Representative list of names and addresses of periodicals concerned with death and dying. Appendix B. Representative list of names and addresses of organizations concerned with death and dying -- Appendix D. Questionnaires, inventories, and scales for assessing fears, anxiety, and attitudes toward death -- Appendix E. Test on facts about dying, death, and bereavement. |
| Responsibility: | Lewis R. Aiken. |
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Abstract:
A survey of research, writings and professional practices concerned with death and dying. The focus is interdisciplinary and eclectic - medical, psychological, religious, philosophical, artistic, and demographic matters concerned with dying, death, bereavement and widowhood - are all considered.
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