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Death, Dying and Bereavement
Second Edition
Edited by:
- Donna Dickenson - Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
- Malcolm Johnson - University of Bristol, UK
- Jeanne Samson Katz - The Open University
December 2000 | 400 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
The fully revised and updated edition of this best-selling 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 counselors. 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 Diploma in Health and Social Welfare.
Jeanne Katz
Introduction to Second Edition
PART ONE: LIFE AND DEATH
Jeanne Katz
Introduction
David Clark
Death in Staithes
Philippe Ari[ac]es
Death Denied
Tony Walter, Jane Littlewood and Michael Pickering
Death in the News
Shirley Firth
Approaches to Death in Hindu and Sikh Communities in Britain
Clive Seale
Demographic Change and the Experience of Dying
Christina R Victor
Health Policy and Services for Dying People and Their Careers
Stella Ridley
Sudden Death from Suicide
T R S
The Dream
Mary Bradbury
The Good Death?
H M Benson
Little Henry; or, God Will Take Care of Me
John Donne
Death Be Not Proud
Philip Larkin
Aubade
Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Kahil Gibran
The Prophet
Jane Martin
Doctor's Mask on Pain
Alyson Peberdy
Spiritual Care of Dying People
Leo Tolstoy
Death and the Meaning of Life
PART TWO: CARING FOR DYING PEOPLE
Jeanne Katz
Introduction
David Field and Julia Addington-Hall
Extending Specialist Palliative Care to All?
Moyral Sidell, Jeanne Katz and Carol Komaromy
The Case for Palliative Care in Residential and Nursing Homes
Patrick C Pietroni
Complementary Medicine
Sarah Palmer
Speaking Out
Susan Leifer
Caring for Mother
Richard Were
Living with MS
John Diamond
Saturday Times Column 3.10.98
Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Alphabet
Robert Buckman
Communication in Palliative Care
John Diamond
Saturday Times Column 23.1.99
Dorothy Judd
Communicating with Dying Children
Jeanne Samson Katz
Jewish Perspectives on Death, Dying and Bereavement
Mitch Albom
The Syllabus
Anselm Strauss
Dying Trajectories, the Organization of Work and Expectations of Dying
Elizabeth Dean
Sitting It Out
Simone de Beauvoir
A Very Easy Death
Clare Vaughan
Teach Me to Hear Mermaids Singing
PART THREE: DILEMMAS AND DECISIONS AT THE END OF LIFE
Jeanne Katz
Introduction
Clare Williams
Learning the Hard Way
Anthony Masters
Somebody Loves Me
Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Judy Gilley
Intimacy and Terminal Care
Kevin Teasdale and Gerry Kent
The Use of Deception in Nursing
Johannes J M van Delden
Do-Not-Resusciate Decisions
Basiro Davey
The 'Blue-Spotted' Patient
Fiona Randall and R S Downie
The Main Tradition
William Grey
Right to Die or Duty to Live?
Luke Gormally
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Anonymous
A Student's Story
Christopher James Ryan
Betting Your Life
Stephen Wilkinson
Palliative Care and the Doctrine of Double Effect
Eve Gerrard
Palliative Care and the Ethics of Resource Allocation
Gillian M Craig
On Withholding Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill
R J Dunlop, J E Ellershaw, M J Baines, N Sykes and C M Saunders
On Withholding Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill
PART FOUR: BEREAVEMENT: PRIVATE GRIEF, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Jeanne Katz
Introduction
Colin Murray Parkes
Bereavement as a Psychosocial Transition
Lindsay Prior
The Social Distribution of Sentiments
Shirley Firth
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Bereavement
Sheila Awooner-Renner
I Desperately Needed to See My Son
Evelyn Gillis
A Single Parent Confronting the Loss of an Only Child
Anonymous
Epitaph of Libby Dickenson, 1798-1818
D W Yates, G Ellison and S McGuiness
Care of the Suddenly Bereaved
Nancy Kohner
Pregnancy Loss and the Death of a Baby
Gavin Fairbairn
When a Baby Dies
Dudley Cave
Gay and Lesbian Bereavement
Maureen Oswin
The Grief That Does Not Speak
Tom Heller
Personal and Medical Memories from Hillsborough
Lesley Moreland
Ruth
William Wordsworth
Essays upon Epitaphs
Douglas Dunn
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Nursing, De Montfort University
September 19, 2024
this is a highly recommended book for the 'Communication' module. The book offers practical advice and useful scenarios and includes a number of reflections, stories and literature. A fascinating read, which makes sense of this topic in a variety of ways.
Faculty of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University
November 12, 2013
This is an excellent book and considers death and dying in a variety of ways. Especially relevant are the issues relating to communication for this module. The topics are discussed with a great sensitivity and these are supplemented with a range of reflections, stories and literature. This is a very 'readable' book and very appropriate for health care professionals.
Faculty of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University
November 12, 2013
very interesting read, not ideal for the novice student nurse, benefical for post registration nurses undertaking a care of the dying or pallative care degree module.
Nursing & Midwifery, Bangor University
July 8, 2013
Included some useful reading for course content
Faculty of Health, Social Work & Educ, Northumbria University
September 6, 2012
I have recommended that students look over this as a resource for the death and dying course. A comprehensive book covering essential material and less common topics. Gives students food for thought.
School of Social and Health Sciences, University of Abertay, Dundee
September 15, 2011
