(Ebook PDF) Understanding Dying Death and Bereavement 9th Edition by George Dickinson, Michael Leming ISBN 9798214355436 0357045084 full chapters

Chapter 1. Studying Dying, Death, and Bereavement

• Current Interest in Death and Dying
• Why the Increased Interest?
• Death Education
• Mortality Statistics
• Death Etiology and Life Expectancy
• Gender Differences in Mortality Rates
• Approaches to the Study of Dying and Death
• The Biological Approach
• The Psychological Approach
• The Philosophical Approach
• The Anthropological Approach
• The Sociological Approach
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Readings

Chapter 2. The American Experience of Death

• Defining Death
• International Definitions
• American Definitions
• The Meaning of Dying and Death
• Deriving Meaning from the Audience
• The American Experience of Death
• Living Death (1600–1830)
• The Dying of Death (1830–1945)
• The Resurrection of Death (1945–the Present)
• Contemporary Attitudes Toward Death
• Denial or Acceptance of Death?
• Fearing Death?
• Contemplating One’s Own Death
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Readings

Chapter 3. Growing Up with Death/Growing Old with Death

• Childhood
• How Do Children Learn About Death?
• Children’s Understanding of Death
• Explaining Death and Dying to Children
• Adolescence
• Identity Crisis and Death Anxiety
• Media Influences
• Learning Adult Rituals
• Communicating About Death
• Adulthood
• Young Adulthood
• Middle-Aged Adulthood
• Older Adulthood
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Readings

Chapter 4. Perspectives on Death and Life After Death

• The Need to Look Beyond Death
• Diversity in Perspectives
• Cross-Cultural Views
• Religious Interpretations of Death
• Judaism
• Christianity
• Islam
• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Temporal Interpretations of Death
• Symbolic Immortality
• Near-Death Experiences
• Defining a Near-Death Experience
• Explaining Near-Death Experiences
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Readings

Chapter 5. The Dying Process

• Death Meanings
• Time Meanings: Dealing with the Prognosis
• Space Meanings: Isolation and Confinement
• Norm and Role Meanings: Expected Dying Behavior
• Value Meanings: Reassessing the Value of Life and Death
• Object and Self-Meanings: Accepting the Self as Terminal
• Relating to the Dying Person
• Medical Personnel
• Family and Friends
• Dying with Dignity
• The Dying Child
• Relating to the Dying Child
• Helping the Child Cope with Dying
• Parents of the Dying Child
• Siblings of the Dying Child
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Readings

Chapter 6. Living with Dying

• Understanding and Coping with the Illness
• The Loss of Physical Functions
• The Loss of Mental Capacity
• Dying of Cancer and Heart Disease
• Treatment Options
• Evaluating Treatment Options and Symptoms
• Treating Drug Side Effects
• Pain and Symptom Management
• Organ Transplantations
• Palliative Care
• The Hospice Movement
• The Hospice Team
• The Patient–Family as the Unit of Care
• The Cost of Hospice Care
• Public Attitudes
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Readings

Chapter 7. Dying in the American Health Care System

• The Medical Model Approach to Dying
• Dying as Deviance in the Medical Setting
• Normalization of Dying in the Medical Setting
• Dying in a Technological Society
• The Environment of the Dying Person
• End-of-Life Education in Medical and Nursing Schools
• Gross Anatomy Lab in Medical Schools
• Developing a Sensitivity to Social and Psychological Needs
• Developing Communication Skills
• The Cost of Dying
• Conclusion
• Suggested Research Topics Related to End-of-Life Issues
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Readings

Chapter 8. Biomedical Issues and Euthanasia

• Ethical Behavior
• What Is Ethical Behavior?
• Bioethicists
• Use of the Body in Medical Research and Training
• Organ Transplantation
• Euthanasia
• Sanctity-of-Life Versus Quality-of-Life Debate
• Passive Euthanasia
• Active Euthanasia
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Readings

Chapter 9. Suicide and Other Sudden, Unnatural Traumatic Deaths

• Changing Attitudes Toward Suicide
• The Stigma of Suicide
• Defining Suicidal Acts
• Social Factors Involved in Suicide
• Age, Gender, Region, and Marital Status
• Socioeconomic and Cultural Factors
• Opioids and Suicide
• Theoretical Perspectives on Suicide
• Durkheim’s Theory
• Conflict Theory
• Dramaturgical Perspective
• Existentialist Perspective
• Psychological Perspective
• Critical Sociology
• Suicide Through the Life Cycle
• Childhood Suicide
• Adolescent Suicide
• College-Aged Students and Suicide
• Middle-Aged Suicide
• Older Adult Suicide
• Copycat Suicides and the Media
• Rational Suicide
• Other Sudden, Unnatural, Traumatic Deaths
• Homicide
• Accidental Deaths
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Readings

Chapter 10. Diversity in Death Rituals

• Understanding Death Rituals
• Death Rituals as a Rite of Passage
• Structural-Functional Explanations
• Mourning Behaviors
• Changes in Mourning Behaviors in the United States
• Customs at Death
• Norms Prior to Death
• Preparing the Corpse
• Final Disposition
• Influence of Social Position and Gender on Death-Related Behaviors and Rituals
• Death Rituals of Major Religious Groups
• Jewish Customs
• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Islam
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Readings

Chapter 11. The Business of Dying

• The Business of Preparing the Dead
• The Changing American Funeral
• The American Practice of Funeral Service
• Education and Licensure
• The Role of the Funeral Director
• Funeral Expenses
• Alternatives to the Funeral
• New Trends in Funeral Service
• Preneed Funerals: A “New” Trend in Planning Funerals
• Aftercare: The Future Business Is to Be Found in Today’s Customers
• Funeral Services on the Internet
• The Business of Burying the Dead
• The Changing American Cemetery
• Graveyard Symbols of Death
• Cemeteries Today
• The Government Cemetery
• The Not-for-Profit Cemetery
• The For-Profit Cemetery
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Readings

Chapter 12. The Legal Aspects of Dying

• Establishing the Cause of Death
• Death Certificate
• Autopsy
• Coroners and Medical Examiners
• Advance Directives
• Living Wills
• Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care
• Life Insurance
• Life Insurance as Protection
• Life Insurance as an Investment
• Long-Term Care Insurance
• Inheritance and Wills
• Intestate and Inheritance
• Wills
• Probate
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Readings

Chapter 13. Coping with Loss

• The Bereavement Role
• The Grieving Process
• Normal and Abnormal Grief
• Stages of Grief
• Disenfranchised Grief
• Assisting the Bereaved
• Coping with Sudden Death
• Accidents
• Disasters
• Murder
• War
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Discussion Questions
• Suggested Readings

Chapter 14. Grieving Throughout the Life Cycle

• Grieving Parents and the Loss of a Child
• The Loss of a Fetus or an Infant
• The Loss of a Child
• The Loss of an Adult Child
• Grieving Children and Adolescents
• Loss of a Parent
• Loss of a Sibling
• Loss of a Grandparent
• Grieving Adults
• Loss of a Spouse
• Loss of a Parent
• Loss of a Pet
• Dying, Death, and Bereavement in the 21st Century: A Challenge
• Conclusion
• Summary

Discussion Questions

Suggested Readings

References