Dying and death : inter-disciplinary perspectives / edited by Asa Kasher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kasher, Asa.

Series:

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 37.

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death.

Mourning customs.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Suicide--Psychological aspects.

Suicide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Death is a topic people are reluctant to ponder. Neither is dying a process that is usually being openly discussed. However, on a variety of occasions, dying and death are on a person’s minds, under some sensitive circumstances, he or she are eager to discuss with a close person, a friend, a professional. The present volume, the second in the Series on Dying and Death, is meant to enrich personal experience of dying or death by providing its reader with knowledge and understanding of some aspects of dying or death. Section 1 describes practices of mourning, in different times and places: USA during the Civil War ( Ashley Byock ), the Island of Viz, between Croatia and Italy ( Kathleen Young ), present day Israel ( Asa Kasher ), medieval Serbia ( Mira Crouch ) and post-Holocaust USA ( Paula David ). Section 2 consists of reflections on mourning. It includes philosophical discussions of Friendship ( Gary Peters ), Grace ( Dana Freibach-Heifetz ), and the Other ( Havi Carel ), all in the context of mourning, as well as Mourning itself as a skill ( Marguerite Peggy Flynn ). Section 3 brings papers on culture and suicide, in early modern Holland ( Laura Cruz ), in historical Japan ( Lawrence Fouraker ), as well as in the Jazz age ( Kathleen Jones ). Section 4 discusses different predicaments of medics facing death and dying: terminal diagnosis ( Angela Armstrong-Coster ), palliative patients ( Anna Taube ), and the hospice setting ( Elizabeth Gill ).

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Embalming the American Body: Sentimental Mourning on the Cusp of the Civil War / Ashley Byock

Collective Emotions and National Mourning / Asa Kasher

Issues of Death and Dying for Adult Children of Holocaust Survivors / Paula David

Death and Images of Womanhood and Manhood: The Case of Serbian Epic Poetry / Mira Crouch

Extreme Makeovers and Reciprocal Relations Between the Living and the Dead / Kathleen Z. Young

The Death of a Friend: Some Themes in Jacques Derrida’s The Work of Mourning / Gary Peters

Death and the Other: The Ambivalence of Mourning / Havi Carel

Grace Towards the Dead / Dana Freibach-Heifetz

Death and Mourning: Logistics and Mystery / Marguerite Peggy Flynn

For Fear of What the Neighbours Might Say: Social Networks and Suicide in Early Modern Holland / Laura Cruz

When a Young Woman Dies: Gender, Youth, and the Meanings of Suicide in the Jazz Age / Kathleen W. Jones

“Voluntary Death” in Japanese History and Culture / Lawrence Fouraker

Medics Facing Terminal Diagnosis / Angela Armstrong-Coster

Between Organizations, Family and Death: Caring Creatively within the Hospice Organization / Elizabeth Gill

Reflections on the Needs of Palliative Patients after Being on the Receiving End of Care / Anna Wreath Taube

Notes On Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-26547-4

9786612265471

90-420-2827-0

1-4356-1214-0

OCLC:

723943659

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042028272 DOI