The A–Z of Death and Dying

Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects

Buch | Hardcover

464 Seiten

2014
Greenwood Press (Verlag)
978-1-4408-0343-7 (ISBN)

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This engaging and informative resource provides readers with an understanding of the social, cultural, and historical influences that shape our encounters with death, dying, and bereavement—a universal experience across humanity.
Written in an engaging and accessible style by leading international scholars and practitioners from within the field of death and bereavement studies, this book will have broad appeal, providing in a single volume insights from some of the key thinkers within the interdisciplinary field of death, dying, and bereavement. Its approximately 200 entries will serve as useful starting points for those new to the topic and will be informative to those already acquainted with some of the core concepts and ideas within this burgeoning field of inquiry.

This encyclopedia will serve as an essential resource for high school and undergraduate students, those engaged in independent research, and professionals whose work involves caring for the dead, dying, and bereaved. It will also be of great interest to general readers intrigued by the social, medical, and cultural dimensions to human mortality. Underscored by the inescapable biological certainties that affect us all, The A–Z of Death and Dying offers a highly relevant examination of the social and historical variation in the rituals, practices, and beliefs surrounding the end of life.

Michael Brennan, PhD, is associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Death Education and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Contributors
Entries A–Z
Abortion
Accidental Death
Active Dying
ADEC (Association for Death Education and Counseling)
Adolescents
Advance Directives
African Americans
Afterlife Beliefs
Aging
Alcohol
Alzheimer's Disease
American Indians
Ancestor Worship
Angels
Animism
Anthropology
Apocalypse
Archaeology
Ariès, Philippe
Ars Moriendi
Art and Literature
Assassination
Autoerotic Asphyxia
Autopsy
Awareness Contexts
Banshees
Bereavement
Bioethics
Body Disposal
Body Worlds Exhibition
Buddhism
Burial
Cadavers
Cancer
Cannibalism
Capital Punishment
Cardiovascular Disease
Catholicism
Cause of Death
Cemeteries
Charnel Houses
Children
Christianity
Cloning
Condolence (and Condolence Books)
Confucianism
Continuing Bonds
Coroner/Medical Examiner
Cremains
Cremation
Cryonics
Cults
Curses
Cyberspace
Dance of Death
Dark Tourism
Databases
Day of the Dead
Death Anxiety
Death Awareness Movement
Death Certification
Death Denial
Death Education
Death Mask
Death Notification
Death Obsession
Deathbed Scene
Definitions of Death
Devil
Dignitas
Disasters
Disease
Domestic Violence
Drugs
Dying Trajectory
Eating Disorders
Elegy
Embalming
Epidemics and Plagues
Epidemiology
Epitaphs
Estates
Eulogy
Euphemisms
Euthanasia
Exhumation
Existentialism
Facebook
Familicide
Famine
Forensic Science
Freud, Sigmund
Funeral Director
Funeral Industry
Funerals
Gender
Genocide
Ghosts
Good Death
Grave Robbing
Green Burials
Grief
Grief Counseling
Health Promotion
Hearse
Heaven
Hell
Hinduism
HIV/AIDS
Holocaust
Homicide
Honor Killings
Hospice Movement
Humor
Images of Death
Immortality
Infant Mortality
Infanticide
Informed Consent
Islam
Jihad
Judaism
Kevorkian, Jack
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
Life Expectancy
Life Support Therapies
Make-A-Wish Foundation
Martyrs
Media and Death
Medicalization
Megadeath
Memento Mori
Memorial Day
Memorial Tattoos
Memorials and Memorialization
Monuments
Mortality Rates
Mortuary Science
Mourning
Near-Death Experiences
Near-to-Death Experiences
Necrophilia
Obituary
Organ Donation/Transplantation
Oscar the Cat
Palliative Care
Perinatal Death
Pets
Philosophy
Photography
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Popular Culture
Protestantism
Psychology
Public Dying
Public Mourning
Purgatory
Reincarnation
Religion
Right-to-Die Movement
Rigor Mortis
School Shootings
Sex and Death
Social Class
Social Death
Sociology
Spirituality
Spontaneous Shrines/Roadside Memorials
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Suicide
Suicide Prevention and Postvention
Superstitions
Taboo
Taxidermy
Terminal Illness and Care
Terror Management Theory
Terrorism
Thanatology
Tobacco
Tombs/Mausoleums
Totemism
Valhalla
Vampires
Video Games
Wakes/Visitation
War
Zombies
Index
About the Editor

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.2.2014
Zusatzinfo	50 bw illus
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1191 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4408-0343-9 / 1440803439
ISBN-13	978-1-4408-0343-7 / 9781440803437
Zustand	Neuware