Understanding Dying, Death, and Bereavement

by LEMING

• ISBN13: 9780155066182
• ISBN10: 0155066188
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-10
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Using a social-psychological approach, this edition remains solidly grounded in theory and research but places greater emphasis on the individual and copying with death and dying. These two well-known authors and researchers integrate stimulating personal accounts throughout the text, and apply concepts to specific examples that deal with cross-cultural perspectives and the practical matters of death and dying.

Author Biography

Michael R. Leming is professor of sociology at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. George E. Dickinson is professor of sociology at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.

Table of Contents

1. Studying Dying, Death, and Bereavement

2. The American Experience of Death

3. Growing Up with Death

4. Perspectives on Death and Life after Death

5. The Dying Process

6. Living with Dying

7. Dying in the American Health-Care System

8. Biomedical Issues and Euthanasia

9. Suicide

10. Diversity in Death Rituals

11. The Business of Dying

12. The Legal Aspects of Dying

13. Coping with Loss

14. Grieving Throughout the Life Cycle