Death, Society, and Human Experience, 10/E
ISBN-10: 0205610536
ISBN-13: 9780205610532
Publisher: Pearson
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 560 pp
Published: 12/16/2008
Status: Instock

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Description
This landmark text on the sociology of death and dying draws on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, such as history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage of understanding death and the dying process.
The text focuses on both individual and societal attitudes and how they influence both how and when we die and how we live and deal with the knowledge of death and loss. Robert Kastenbaum is a renowned scholar in the field who developed one of the world's first death education courses and introduced the first text for this market.
Features
New To This Edition
This text enables the reader to have an understanding of the relationship with death, both as an individual and as a member of society.
Some of the new topics covered in the 10th edition include:
- How our thoughts and feelings about death develop from childhood’s hour and how we struggle with anxiety and denial but move toward a mature and effective view of death.
- How Baby Boomers are experiencing the later years of their life course and coming to terms with mortality as expressed through aging and death anxiety, suicide, and faith in an afterlife.
- What very different ideas and meanings have been associated with death throughout the centuries.
- How and why The Undead have survived into our own times.
- How and why the ideas of “death” and “dead” have become unsettled in our own time.
- How social forces and events affect the length of our lives, how we grieve, and how we die: in nations ravaged by disease, poverty, and violence, as well as our own.
- How dying people are perceived and treated in our society and what can be done to provide the best possible care.
- The “Good Death” as a difficult but valuable ideal
- Continuing developments and challenges to hospice (palliative care)
- What choices and decisions we have about the way we are treated at the end of our lives.
- What stresses and risks are experienced by many caregivers to terminally ill people and their families?
- How people respond to the sorrow and anxiety of grief and the challenge of moving on with their lives.
- Why the funeral and memorialization process is still with us today after so many centuries, and how it is changing.
- Who is most at risk for suicide and who is most likely to become either a killer or a victim of homicide?
- What is happening in the continuing controversy over euthanasia and physician-assisted death?
- What is becoming of faith and doubt about an afterlife?
- How we can help others cope with their death encounters.
Table of Contents
Found in This Section:
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Comprehensive Table of Contents
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface
Chapter 1: As We Think About Death
Chapter 2: What is Death?
Chapter 3: The Death System
Chapter 4: Dying
Chapter 5: Hospice and Palliative Care
Chapter 6: End of Life Issues and Decisions
Chapter 7: Suicide
Chapter 8: Violent Death: Murder, Terrorism, Genocide, Disaster, and Accident
Chapter 9: Euthanasia. Assisted Death, Abortion, and the Right to Die
Chapter 10: Death in the World of Childhood
Chapter 11: Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning
Chapter 12: The Funeral Process
Chapter 13: Do We Survive Death?
Chapter 14: How Can We Help?
Chapter 15: Good Life, Good Death?
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
*Every chapter ends with Summary, References, and Glossary
Chapter 1: AS WE THINK ABOUT DEATH
Chapter 2: WHAT IS DEATH?
Chapter 3: THE DEATH SYSTEM
Chapter 4: DYING
Chapter 5: Hospice and Palliative Care
Chapter 6: End-0f-Life Issues and Decisions
Chapter 7: Suicide
Chapter 8: Violent Death: Murder, Terrorism, Genocide, Disaster, and Accident
Chapter 9: Euthanasia, Assisted Death, Abortion, and the Right to Die
Chapter 10: Death in the World of Childhood
Chapter 11: Bereavement, Grief and Mourning
Chapter 12: The Funeral Process
Chapter 13: Do We Survive Death?
Chapter 14: How Can We Help?
Chapter 15: Good Life, Good Death?
Courses
Death and Dying
(Psychology)
Grief and Loss
(Social Work / Family Therapy / Human Services)
Sociology of Death and Dying
[TEXTS]
(Sociology)
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Author Bios
Bob Kastenbaum’s exploits as skating messenger apparently qualified him to become editor of two community newspapers, an eccentric career trajectory that somehow led to a graduate scholarship in philosophy and a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Southern California (1959). He was most interested in fields of psychological study that barely existed at the time: lifespan development and aging, time perspective, creativity, and death and dying. Kastenbaum became part of an emerging cadre that overcame the prevailing neglect and resistance to these issues. He worked in varied settings as clinician, researcher, activist, hospital administrator, educator, and author. The innovative programs he introduced into a geriatric hospital and his article, “The Reluctant Therapist” have been credited with preparing the way for increased attention to the needs and potentials of vulnerable elders and terminally ill people. With Dick Kalish, he founded Omega, the first peer-reviewed journal focused on death-related issues. Kastenbaum taught the first regularly-scheduled university course on death and dying and came up with the first textbook (Death, Society, & Human Experience, 1977). He also established the first university-based educational and research center on death and dying (Wayne State University, 1966). His other books include The Psychology of Death (1972, 1990, 2000); Dorian, Graying: Is Youth the Only Thing Worth Having? (1995), and On Our Way. The Final Passage Through Life and Death (2004). He has also served as editor of the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, (2003) and two previous encyclopedias. In the public sphere he has served as a co-founder of The National Caucus on Black Aging, consultant to the United States Senate Special Subcommittee on Aging, and participant in developing the Veterans Administration’s geriatric research and educational centers, and the landmark National Hospice Demonstration Project. Kastenbaum lives in Tempe, Arizona with Bunny (wife), Angel (The Incredible Leaping Dog), enhanced by Pumpkin and Snowflake in the cat department. Along with his continuing research interests, Kastenbaum has been writing book and verse for musicals and operas. He notes that nobody has died in the two most recently premiered operas (Closing Time; American Gothic, music by Kenneth LaFave), but cannot make any such promises about the next opera.
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