The A-Z of death and dying : social, medical, and cultural aspects / Michael Brennan, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brennan, Michael, 1973 April 17-

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thanatology--Encyclopedias.

Thanatology.

Death--Encyclopedias.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 442 pages) : illustrations

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This engaging and informative resource provides readers with an understanding of the social, cultural, and historical influences that shape our encounters with death, dying, and bereavement-a universal experience across humanity.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Contributors; Entries A-Z; Abortion; Accidental Death; Active Dying; ADEC (Association for Death Education and Counseling); Adolescents; Advance Directives; African Americans; Afterlife Beliefs; Aging; Alcohol; Alzheimer's Disease; American Indians; Ancestor Worship; Angels; Animism; Anthropology; Apocalypse; Archaeology; Ariès, Philippe; Ars Moriendi; Art and Literature; Assassination; Autoerotic Asphyxia; Autopsy; Awareness Contexts; Banshees; Bereavement; Bioethics; Body Disposal; Body Worlds Exhibition; Buddhism; Burial; Cadavers; Cancer

CannibalismCapital Punishment; Cardiovascular Disease; Catholicism; Cause of Death; Cemeteries; Charnel Houses; Children; Christianity; Cloning; Condolence (and Condolence Books); Confucianism; Continuing Bonds; Coroner/Medical Examiner; Cremains; Cremation; Cryonics; Cults; Curses; Cyberspace; Dance of Death; Dark Tourism; Databases; Day of the Dead; Death Anxiety; Death Awareness Movement; Death Certification; Death Denial; Death Education; Death Mask; Death Notification; Death Obsession; Deathbed Scene; Definitions of Death; Devil; Dignitas; Disasters; Disease; Domestic Violence; Drugs

Dying TrajectoryEating Disorders; Elegy; Embalming; Epidemics and Plagues; Epidemiology; Epitaphs; Estates; Eulogy; Euphemisms; Euthanasia; Exhumation; Existentialism; Facebook; Familicide; Famine; Forensic Science; Freud, Sigmund; Funeral Director; Funeral Industry; Funerals; Gender; Genocide; Ghosts; Good Death; Grave Robbing; Green Burials; Grief; Grief Counseling; Health Promotion; Hearse; Heaven; Hell; Hinduism; HIV/AIDS; Holocaust; Homicide; Honor Killings; Hospice Movement; Humor; Images of Death; Immortality; Infant Mortality; Infanticide; Informed Consent; Islam; Jihad; Judaism

Kevorkian, JackKübler-Ross, Elisabeth; Life Expectancy; Life Support Therapies; Make-A-Wish Foundation; Martyrs; Media and Death; Medicalization; Megadeath; Memento Mori; Memorial Day; Memorial Tattoos; Memorials and Memorialization; Monuments; Mortality Rates; Mortuary Science; Mourning; Near-Death Experiences; Near-to-Death Experiences; Necrophilia; Obituary; Organ Donation/Transplantation; Oscar the Cat; Palliative Care; Perinatal Death; Pets; Philosophy; Photography; Physician-Assisted Suicide; Popular Culture; Protestantism; Psychology; Public Dying; Public Mourning; Purgatory

ReincarnationReligion; Right-to-Die Movement; Rigor Mortis; School Shootings; Sex and Death; Social Class; Social Death; Sociology; Spirituality; Spontaneous Shrines/Roadside Memorials; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; Suicide; Suicide Prevention and Postvention; Superstitions; Taboo; Taxidermy; Terminal Illness and Care; Terror Management Theory; Terrorism; Thanatology; Tobacco; Tombs/Mausoleums; Totemism; Valhalla; Vampires; Video Games; Wakes/Visitation; War; Zombies; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; About the Editor

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400605994

9798216041368

9781785398902

1785398903

9781440803437

1440803439

OCLC:

880236388