Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Howarth, Glennys; Leaman, Oliver

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years there has been a massive upsurge in academic, professional and lay interest in mortality. This is reflected in academic and professional literature, in the popular media and in the proliferation of professional roles and training courses associated with aspects of death and dying.
Until now the majority of reference material on death and dying has been designed for particular disciplinary audiences and has addressed only specific academic or professional concerns. There has been an urgent need for an authoritative but accessible reference work reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the field. This Encyclopedia answers that need.
The Encyclopedia of Death and Dying consolidates and contextualizes the disparate research that has been carried out to date. The phenomena of death and dying and its related concepts are explored and explained in depth, from the approaches of varied disciplines and related professions in the arts, social sciences, humanities, medicine and the sciences.
In addition to scholars and students in the field-from anthropologists and sociologists to art and social historians - the Encyclopedia will be of interest to other professionals and practitioners whose work brings them into contact with dying, dead and bereaved people. It will be welcomed as the definitive death and dying reference source, and an essential tool for teaching, research and independent study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136913600
• Artikelnr.: 40438618

Autorenporträt

Glennys Howarth, Oliver Leaman

Inhaltsangabe

adolescence
afterlife
ageing
All Saints Day
All Souls' Day
angels
bereavement
Black Death
brain death
Buddhism
burial rites
cancer
care of the dying child
Catholicism
cot death
cremation
death instinct
Death Row
depression
disasters
drugs
Egypt, ancient
embalming
euthanasia
epitaphs
evil
fate and fatalism
fear
film
funerals
gas chambers
ghosts
good death
graves
Greece, ancient
healing
Heaven
Hell
Hinduism
immortality
Islam
Journal of Death Studies
Judaism
kamikaze
laying out
life support
longevity
medicine
meditation
memorial
mourning
near-death experiences
nursing homes
obituaries
old age
organ donation
out-of-body experience
pathology
pilgrimage
post-mortem rituals
psychology
reincarnation
Requiem Mass
resurrection
resuscitation
spiritual healing
suicide
superstitions
Tibetan Book of the Dead
transplants
Tutenkhamen
vampires
wakes
war memorials
widowhood