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'This second edition, which has also been edited by Samson Katz, utilizes around half of the original text, of which a significant portions has been revised and updated. The remainder comprises new material reflecting both the changes in attitudes generally towards death and dying, and also designed to meet the needs of students undertaking the revised curriculum of the K260. This book will stimulate thinking and challenge the personal views of both academics and those in practice. ...[A] valuable tool for both those new to the area of palliative and cancer care and those experienced professionals searching for a new angle on several key topics in relation to ethical issues occurring in this speciality... [A]n excellent balance of theoretical contents and moving prose... [T]his book is directed towards all professionals working in health and social care. ...This book is a must for pre-registration students wishing to gain greater understanding of the psychosocial issues faced by those with a terminal illness and their significant others' - Nurse Education Today
The fully revised and updated edition of this bestselling collection combines academic research with professional and personal reflections. Death, Dying and Bereavement addresses both the practical and the more metaphysical aspects of death. Topics such as new methods of pain relief, guidelines for breaking bad news, and current attitudes to euthanasia are considered, while the mystery of death
and its wider implications are also explored.
A highly distinctive interdisciplinary approach is adopted, including perspectives from literature, theology, sociology and psychology. There are wide-ranging contributions from those who come into professional contact with death and bereavement - doctors, nurses, social workers and councellors. In addition there are more intimate personal accounts from carers and from bereaved people.
Death, Dying and Bereavement is the Course Reader for The Open University course Death and Dying, which is offered as part of The Open University Dilpoma in Health and Social Welfare.
Praise for the First Edition:
'The book does give a broad overview of many of the issues around death, dying and bereavement. It raises the reader's awareness and encourages deeper investigation at every level. It is easy to reda and therefore accessible to a wide audience' - Changes
'Provides a richly woven tapestry of personal, professional and literary accounts of death, dying and bereavement' - Health Psychology Update
'Offers a unique collection of fascinating information, research, stories, poems and personal reflections. It is unusual to experience such a diversity of writings in one book' - Nursing Times
'It brings together the knowledge and skills from a multi-occupational group and thereby offers and opportunity, to whoever reads it, to enable better experiences for those who are dying and bereaved' - Journal of Interprofessional Care
'For those trying to help the dying and bereaved, this volume will inspire and move you as much as it will inform and guide your work' - Bereavement Care
'Provides a unique overview, and in many areas, penetrating insights into various aspects of death, dying and bereavement. One of it's major strengths is that it brings together a wide and varied discourse on death across cultures and through time' - British Journal of Sociology
Table of Contents
Part 1 Life and Death |
Introduction |
Death in StaithesDavid Clark |
Death DeniedPhilippe Ari[gr]es |
Not Going GentlyDavid Widgery |
Death in IrelandRosemary Power |
Death, Wakes and Funerals in Contemporary Irish Society |
Approaches to Death in Hindu and Sikh Communities in BritainShirley Firth |
Modern DeathTony Walter |
Taboo or Not Taboo? |
Demographic Change and the Care of the Dying, 1969-1987Clive Seale |
Health Policy and Services for Dying People and their CarersChristina R Victor |
Sudden Death from SuicideStella Ridley |
Contemporary Representations of 'Good' and 'Bad' DeathMary Bradbury |
Little Henry; Or, God Will Take Care of MeH M Benson |
The Dream - TRS |
Death Be Not ProudJohn Donne |
AubadePhilip Larkin |
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good NightDylan Thomas |
The ProphetKahlil Gibran |
Doctor's Mask on PainJane Martin |
The First DayMary Benjamin |
Death and the Meaning of LifeLeo Tolstoy |
Part 2 Preparing for Death |
Introduction |
My Husband the StrangerElizabeth Forsythe |
Tell Me a RiddleTillie Olsen |
Learning the Hard WayClare Williams |
Professionalism and PaternalismDennis F Thompson |
Paternalism and Moral DeficiencyR S Downie and K C Calman |
The Nurse's DilemmaBasiro Davey |
Truth-Telling or Big White Lies? |
Professional LiarsAlan Ryan |
Organ TransplantsDavid Lamb |
Dying to HelpMartyn Evans |
Moral Questions in Organ Procurement |
The Living Will in Clinical PracticeUrsula Gallagher |
Euthanasia in the NetherlandsHenk ten Have |
Assisted Death - Institute of Medical Ethics Working Party on the Ethics of Prolonging Life and Assisting Death |
Assisted DeathRobert G Twycross |
A Reply |
A Student's Story - Anonymous |
Why Do Doctors and Nurses Disagree?Gwen Adshead and Donna Dickenson |
Part 3 Caring dor Dying People |
Introduction |
Breaking Bad NewsRobert Buckman |
Why Is It Still So Difficult? |
Communicating with Cancer PatientsPeter Maguire and Ann Faulkner |
1 Handling Bad News and Difficult Questions |
Communicating with Cancer PatientsPeter Maguire and Ann Faulkner |
2 Handling Uncertainty, Collusion and Denial |
Communicating with Dying ChildrenDorothy Judd |
Jewish Perspectives on Dying, Death and BereavementJeanne Samson Katz |
Complementary Medicine - Its Place in the Care of Dying PeoplePatrick C Pietroni |
Dying Trajectories, The Organization of Work and the Expectations of DyingAnselm Strauss |
Spiritual Care of Dying PeopleAlyson Peberdy |
Sitting It OutElizabeth Dean |
A Very Easy DeathSimone de Beauvoir |
A Way to DieRosemary and Victor Zorza |
Caring for MotherSue Leifer |
Part 4 Bereavement: Private Grief, Collective Responsibility |
Introduction |
Bereavement as a Psychosocial TransitionColin Murray Parkes |
Processes of Adaptation to Change |
The Social Distribution of SentimentsLindsay Prior |
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on BereavementShirley Firth |
Psychological Defence Mechanisms and Coping StrategiesStella Ridley |
When Life Moves OnGeorge Castledine |
I Desperately Needed to See My SonSheila Awooner-Renner |
A Single Parent Confronting the Loss of an Only ChildEvelyn Gillis |
Epitaph of Libby Dickinson, 1798-1818 - Anonymous |
Care of the Suddenly BereavedD W Yates and G Ellison and S McGuinness |
The Loss of a BabyNancy Kohner |
Parents' Needs and Professional Practice After Early Loss |
When a Baby Dies - A Father's ViewGavin Fairbairn |
Gay and Lesbian BereavementDudley Cave |
The Grief that Does Not SpeakMaureen Oswin |
Personal and Medical Memories from HillsboroughTom Heller |
RuthLesley Moreland |
Death by Murder |
Essays Upon EpitaphsWilliam Wordsworth |
For Rose Albert (26 June 1895-19 May 1988)Ellen Jaffe Bitz |
How to Live with GhostsEllen Jaffe Bitz |
DecemberDouglas Dunn |