Handbook of Death & Dying

Author Clifton D. Bryant [Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Blacksburg)]

Publisher SAGE

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Author

Clifton D. Bryant [Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Blacksburg)]

Publisher

SAGE

Volume

Copyright

2003

ISBN13

9781412914291

Release

Format

eBook

Grade Level

College Freshman - College Senior

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TBD
Overview

Dying is a social as well as physiological phenomenon. Each society characterizes and, consequently, treats death and dying in its own individual ways -- ways that differ markedly. These particular patterns of death and dying engender modal cultural responses, and such institutionalized behavior has familiar, economical, educational, religious, and political implications.
The Handbook of Death and Dying takes stock of the vast literature in the field of thanatology, arranging and synthesizing what has been an unwieldy body of knowledge into a concise, yet comprehensive reference work. This two-volume handbook will provide direction and momentum to the study of death-related behavior for many years to come.
Features and benefits include:
More than 100 contributors representing authoritative expertise in a diverse array of disciplines including - Anthropology, Family Studies, History, Law, Medicine, Mortuary Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Social work, Sociology, and Theology
A distinguished editorial board of leading scholars and researchers in the field
More than 100 definitive essays covering almost every dimension of death-related behavior
Comprehensive and inclusive, exploring concepts and social patterns within the larger topical concern
Journal article length essays that address topics with appropriate detail
Originally published in print format in 2003, this title is now available in eBook format through Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Cover.
Half Title Page.
Editorial Board.
Title Page.
Copyright page.
Contents.
Preface: A Thanatological Odyssey.
Introduction.
About the Editors.
About the Contributors.
1: Part I: Death in Cultural Context.
2: Confronting Death.
3: The Universal Fear of Death and the Cultural Response.
4: Historical Changes in the Meaning of Death in the Western Tradition.
5: Dealing With Death: Western Philosophical Perspectives.
6: Death Denial: Hiding and Camouflaging Death.
7: Death, Dying, and the Dead in Popular Culture.
8: The Death Awareness Movement: Description, History, and Analysis.
9: Keeping the Dead Alive.
10: The Spiritualist Movement: Bringing the Dead Back.
11: Reincarnation: The Technology of Death.
12: Hosts and Ghosts: The Dead as Visitors in Cross-Cultural Perspective.
13: Ghosts: The Dead Among Us.
14: The Malevolent "Undead": Cross-Cultural Perspectives.
15: Transcending Death: Religious After-Death Beliefs.
16: Spirituality.
17: Religion and the Mediation of Death Fear.
18: Christian Beliefs Concerning Death and Life After Death.
19: Near-Death Experiences as Secular Eschatology.
20: Death and Social Exchange.
21: Life Insurance as Social Exchange Mechanism.
22: "Full Military Honors": Ceremonial Interment as Sacred Compact.
23: Symbolic Immortality and Social Theory: The Relevance of an Underutilized Concept.
24: Part II: Death in Social Context Variants in Morality and Meaning.
25: The Social Modes of Death: The Import of Context and Circumstance.
26: Historical and Epidemiological Trends in Mortality in the United States.
27: Global Mortality Rates: Variations and Their Consequences for the Experience of Dying.
28: To Die, by Mistake: Accidental Deaths.
29: Megadeaths: Individual Reactions and Social Responses to Massive Loss of Life.
30: On the Role and Meaning of Death in Terrorism.
31: Death Attributed to Medical Error.
32: Homicidal Death.
33: Pre-Personality Deaths.
34: Pre-Pers
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