And death shall have Dominion : interdisciplinary perspectives on dying, caregivers, death, mourning and bereaved / edited by Katarzyna Małecka and Rossanna Gibbs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Małecka, Katarzyna, editor.

Gibbs, Rossanna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Diciplinary Press, [2015]

Summary:

This collection of essays presents a variety of perspectives on death and dying by scholars from different countries. The areas covered in the volume include: Conceptual, Cultural, and Gender Approaches to Death and the Deceased; Children and Death; Legal Aspects of Euthanasia and Discussion on Choices at End of Life; Palliative Care and Responsibilities and Challenges of Medical and Family Caregivers; the Aesthetic Experience of Life’s End; and Modern Ways of Grieving and Commemorating the Dead.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Katarzyna Małecka and Rossanna Gibbs

Culture and the Social Reality of Death: The Afghan Experience / Panagiotis Pentaris

Paediatric Terminal Illness and the Role of Narrative: An Examination of Hauerwas’s Theology of Suffering and Childhood Palliative Care / Jonathan Knoche

Adventures in Normalizing New: Death with Dignity in Montana and Vermont / Arthur G. Svenson

Philosophical Analysis of Modern Brain Death Controversies / Yuichi Minemura

The New Pulse of Palliative Care: How Emergent Trends in Caring for the Dying Are Transforming Healthcare / Nate Hinerman

A Valence Issue or a Transformational Definition: Is Palliative Care No More, No Less than High-Quality Care? / Pablo Hernández-Marrero and Sandra Martins Pereira

Professional Caregivers’ Emotional Well-Being, Empowerment and Burnout Prevention: Lessons to Be Learned from Palliative Care / Pablo Hernández-Marrero and Sandra Martins Pereira

The Complex Role of Relatives in Patients’ Last Stage of Life / Ellen Kristvik

Disparities in the Care of the Dying With Life-Limiting Illness Within the National Health Service (UK) / Rossanna Gibbs and Adam Ryder

The Aesthetic Experience of Death / Yanxia Song

Moving Stories: The Embodiment of Personal Narrative at Life’s End / Colin Funk and J. Brian Woodward

Death Ritual in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea / Tianzhong Deng

Psychoanalytical Perspectives on Death and Dying: Ideas for Theory and Practice / Barış Özgen Şensoy

Memorialising the Dead Child: Confronting Lost Childhoods / Brian Simpson

Symbol-Making in Bereavement: The Temples at Burning Man / Kimberly Bateman

Memorial Tattoos: Grief Inked into Your Skin / Jaanika Hunt

The W Word: Modern Ways of Grieving in The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and A Widow’s Story by Joyce Carol Oates / Katarzyna Małecka.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-418-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848884182 DOI