Last Dance : Encountering Death and Dying - 9th edition

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Attitudes Toward Death: A Climate of Change
Chapter 2 - Learning About Death: The Influence of Sociocultural Forces
Chapter 3 - Perspectives on Death: Cultural and Historical
Chapter 4 - Death Systems: Mortality and Society
Chapter 5 - Health Care: Patients, Staff, and Institutions
Chapter 6 - End-of-Life Issues and Decisions
Chapter 7 - Facing Death: Living with Life-Threatening Illness
Chapter 8 - Last Rites: Funerals and Body Disposition
Chapter 9 - Survivors: Understanding the Experience of Loss
Chapter 10 - Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents
Chapter 11 - Death in the Lives of Adults
Chapter 12 - Suicide
Chapter 13 - Risks, Perils,and Traumatic Death
Chapter 14 - Beyond Death / After Life
Chapter 15 - The Path Ahead: Personal and Social Choices

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