Our Changing Journey to the End : Reshaping Death, Dying, and Grief in America

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Staudt, Christina.

Contributor:

Ellens, J. Harold.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects--United States.

Grief--Social aspects--United States.

Right to die--United States.

Terminal care--United States.

Terminal care--Social aspects--United States.

Terminal care.

Right to die--Social aspects--United States.

Right to die.

Death--United States.

Death.

Grief--United States.

Grief.

Local Subjects:

Death--Social aspects--United States.

Grief--Social aspects--United States.

Right to die--United States.

Terminal care--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (698 p.)

Other Title:

Our Changing Journey to the End [2 Volumes]

Our changing journey to the end

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This novel, cross-disciplinary collection explains how dying, death, and grieving have changed in America, for better or worse, since the turn of the millennium.

Contents:

Cover; Volume 1; Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: A Bird's Eye View of the Territory; SECTION I: THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE; 2. From Death Denial to Death Control: The New Baby-Boomer Approach; 3. Dying while Living: The Problem of Social Death; 4. The Biology of Decision: Implications of Neuroscientific Research for End-of-Life Care; 5. Prognosis, Costs, and End-of-Life Care; SECTION II: SPEAKING IN A NEW LANGUAGE; 6. Stories of the End: A Narrative Medicine Curriculum to Reframe Death and Dying

7. What Rational Philosophy Cannot Tell Us about Death in the 21st Century8. Grim Discoveries: Agnès Varda's Vagabond (1985) and Karen Moncrieff's The Dead Girl (2006); 9. Unveiling the Corpse in the 21st Century; SECTION III: TRANSFORMING THE AFTERMATH; 10. Expansion of New Rituals for the Dying and Bereaved; 11. Virtual Memorials: Bereavement and the Internet; 12. Strange Eternity: Virtual Memorials, Grief, and Entertainment; 13. Roadside Memorials: A 21st-Century Development; 14. Reconfiguring Urban Spaces of Disposal, Sanctuary, and Remembrance; Conclusion: Additional Vistas; Bibliography

About the EditorsAbout the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Volume 2; Contents; 1. Introduction: The Need for Accommodation; SECTION 1: ESCAPING THE QUAGMIRE; 2. The Future of Death and Two Challenges That Will Shape It; 3. Assisted Suicide in the Age of AIDS and Alzheimer's; 4. Dying Persons and Their Families; 5. Decision Making at the End of Life: From Informed Consent to Family Consent; 6. A Changing Landscape: Evolving Ethical Duties and Obligation of Patients, Families, and Providers

7. The Hippocratic and the Veterinary Oaths: Medical Ethics at the End of LifeSECTION II: IMPROVING THE VEHICLES OF CARE; 8. Palliative Care and Hospice: Caring for Patients with Serious Illness; 9. The Health Advocate in End-of-Life Care; 10. Culturally Competent Care in an Increasingly Diverse Society; 11. Attending to the Pain of the Dying: The Nursing Home Care Paradox; 12. The Evolving Role of Hospital Chaplains at the End of Life; 13. Before Their Time: The Need for Communication When They Die Young; SECTION III: REDRAWING THE MAP

14. Advance Directives and Hospice Care: Cost Savers at the End15. Conspicuous Metabolism: Life Support and Life Extension as Luxury Goods; 16. Solidarity, Mortality: The Tolling Bell of Civic Palliative Care; Conclusion: A Letter from a Fellow Traveler; Afterword; Bibliography; About the Editors; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-12605-8

1-4408-2845-8

OCLC:

880058030