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Cambridge University Press The Meanings of Death Canto original series
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Cambridge University Press Death in Banaras
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Cambridge University Press Facing the King of Terrors
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Cambridge University Press The Place of the Dead
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Cambridge University Press The Place of the Dead
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Cambridge University Press The Labour of Loss Mourning Memory And Wartime Bereavement In Australia 7 Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Series Number 7
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Cambridge University Press New Religious Movements and Science
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Cambridge University Press The Athenian Funeral Oration
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Dead Beat
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Modern Loss
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University of Chicago Press Digging Up the Dead A History of Notable
Book SynopsisReveals a gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grave sites, this title explores how complicated interactions of regional pride, shifting reputations, and evolving burial practices led to public and often emotional battles over the final resting places of famous figures.Trade Review"Kammen has a good sense of the details that make historical stories memorable. His occasional flashes of humor add a winsome, professionally geeky element to the telling." (Dallas Morning News) "The entertaining, if not macabre premise of Michael Kammen's new book is to explore how fluid final resting places may be.... As his drily witty book proves, fluctuating reputations and warring families have all played their part in ensuring that for the famous and infamous alike, there's no such thing as resting in peace." (Daily Telegraph) "This slender page-turner is a work of fact, a comprehensively researched work on a ghoulish and wonderfully weird subject: exhumation." (San Francisco Chronicle) "Kammen effectively captures the eternal dual fascination with greatness and with the dead, and the power of their conjunction in the burial of heroes." (Publishers Weekly)"
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The University of Chicago Press Suicidal
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MIT Press Ltd The Craft of Dying The Modern Face of Death 40th
Book SynopsisThe fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying.Much of today's literature on end-of-life issues overlooks the importance of 1970s social movements in shaping our understanding of death, dying, and the dead body. This anniversary edition of Lyn Lofland's The Craft of Dying begins to repair this omission. Lofland identifies, critiques, and theorizes 1970s death movements, including the Death Acceptance Movement, the Death with Dignity Movement, and the Natural Death movement. All these groups attempted to transform death into a “positive experience,” anticipating much of today's death and dying activism. Lofland turns a sociologist's eye on the era's increased interest in death, considering, among other things, the components of the modern “face of death” and the “craft of dying,” the construction of a dying role or identity by those who are dying, and the constraints on their freedom to do t
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University of Washington Press Facing Death
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrologue: Death as Atrocity / Sarah K. Pinnock Section One | Engagement with Holocaust Testimony 1. Holocaust Victims Speak; Do We Listen? / Leonard Grob 2. Dying in the Death Camps as Acts of Defiance / H. Martin Rumscheidt 3. At What Cost Survival? The Problem of the Prisoner-Functionary / Lissa Skitolsky 4. Witnessing Unrelenting Grief / Myrna Goldenberg Section Two | Self-Consciousness of Mortality 5. Living For: Holocaust Survivors and Their Adult Children Encounter Death and Mortality / Michael Dobkowski 6. Bearing Witness to a Grotesque Land / Amy H. Shapiro 7. Melding Generations: A Meditation on Memory and Mortality / Rochelle L. Millen Section Three | Ethical and Religious Reflection 8. Experiences of Death: Our Mortality and the Holocaust / Sarah K. Pinnock 9. A Jewish Reflection on the Nazis’ Assault on Death / David Patterson 10. Auschwitz and Hiroshima as Challenges to a Belief in the Afterlife: A Catholic Perspective / Didier Pollefeyt 11. Facing Death: What Happens to the Holocaust If Death Is the Last Word? / John K. Roth Epilogue | Witnessing Mortality Selected Bibliography Editors and Contributors Index
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Back Bay Books What Made Maddy Run
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Little Brown and Company You Only Die Once
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Random House USA Inc Night Falls Fast Understanding Suicide
Book SynopsisCritical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand the tragic epidemic of suicide—”a powerful book [that] will change people's lives—and, doubtless, save a few (Newsday). The first major book in a quarter century on suicide—and its terrible pull on the young in particular—Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five. From the author of the best-selling memoir, An Unquiet Mind—and an internationally acknowledged authority on depression—Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to kill herself. Weaving together a historical and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays on individual suicides, she brings not only her remarkable compassion and literary skill but also all of her knowledg
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WW Norton & Co From Here to Eternity
Book SynopsisA New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity."Trade Review"Doughty is a relentlessly curious and chipper tour guide to the underworld, and the weirder things get, the happier she seems. … [H]er dispatches from the dark side [are] doing us all a kindness—offering a picture of what we’re in for, even if we’d rather not know." -- Libby Copeland - New York Times Book Review"Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief." -- Jill Lepore - The New Yorker"Doughty writes bluntly about open-air cremations, natural burials and body composting, bringing a little more clarity and a little less mystery to the question: 'What happens to us after we die?'" -- NPR (Our Guide to 2017's Great Reads)"[T]he macabre travelogue is a thoughtful reflection and a smart critique of the American funeral industry, with plenty of gallows humor thrown in." -- Smithsonian (The Ten Best Travel Books of 2017)"Doughty finds the humanity in others cultures' relationship with death that seems to be lacking in ours." -- Justin Caffier - Vice"This slim volume, full of captivating, enlightening, and humorous tidbits, is a—dare I say—uplifting exploration of what people the world over do to withstand loss and the bite of impermanence. This is death as viewed by a mortician: profound, unavoidable, natural, and a bit funny." -- KQED"This humane book gently provokes you to wonder: what exactly is your ideal funeral?" -- The Times"From Here To Eternity is fascinating, thought-provoking and – who would have guessed? – sometimes funny. Put it on your bucket list." -- The Mail"Caitlin Doughty is razor sharp, and writes about death with exceptional clarity and style. From Here to Eternity manages to be both an extremely funny travelogue and a deeply moving book about what death means to us all." -- Dylan Thuras, co-founder of Atlas Obscura"[Doughty’s] fascinating tour of rituals contains liturgies that readers will surely observe as rare, macabre, unbelievable, ancient, and precious—sometimes simultaneously." -- Kirkus"She is the ideal guide on this journey, curious and respectful...Recommended for fans of the author and those with an interest in anthropology and ritual." -- Library Journal"A thought-provoking book about the complicated, fascinating world of funerary practices. Unless you and your friends are immortal, this book pertains to you." -- A. J. Jacobs"In her jocular but reverential tone… Doughty doesn’t offer a simple morbid travelogue; instead, she digs into diverse death experiences with deep veneration and examines ties to socioeconomic, status, female identity, and religion." -- Booklist
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WW Norton & Co The Depositions New and Selected Essays on Being
Book SynopsisForeword by Alan Ball “Elegant, respectful and refreshingly funny.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ ChoiceTrade Review"[Thomas Lynch’s] finest, wryest and most stylish essays about the human enterprise of mortality appear together in this collection.… You will be grateful for these graceful essays." -- Scott Simon - New York Times Book Review"[Lynch] writes with grace and moral clarity about the quandaries and perplexities of life, and life’s end.… ‘It is nearly impossible to overestimate the balm that language can be,’ he writes at one point. If we’re talking the language of Thomas Lynch, balm is the right word." -- Joanne Kaufman - Wall Street Journal"A wry, poignant collection of [Lynch’s] best and newest essays. [The Depositions is] packed with penetrating observations about faith, family, work, art and, yes, death." -- Kevin Canfield - Star Tribune"[Thomas Lynch’s prose is] blunt, spare and to the point, humorous, satirical, at times rising to lyrical heights.… Lynch has a sense of humor that takes no prisoners.… He has a genius for unexpected and sometimes shocking shifts in tone and subject, from frankly silly to tender to unbearably horrifying.… Few essayists have dug into these stony fields and come up with more treasures than this remarkable writer." -- Richard Tillinghast - Hudson Review"[Lynch’s] crowning collection. If you are familiar with Lynch’s essays already, you will enjoy rereading those unforgettable first lines from The Undertaking.… This is memento mori and more." -- Jon M. Sweeney - America"These candid, eloquent, and often humorous essays examine the funeral industry and signify in fresh ways the connection between the living and dying.… Lynch reminds us to accept the frailties of life and the mystery of death." -- Booklist"This is vintage Lynch.… Witty and wise, wry and humorous.… Thoughtfully crafted musings about life and death." -- Kirkus Reviews"[Lynch’s] powerful and meditative writings question our shared mortality, celebrate our finite lives and draw wonder at the possibilities beyond the world we know.… A contemplative and emotional portrait of life and death." -- Jenni Herrick - Shepherd Express"When asked if writing about the dead affected her view of life, an obituary writer said, ‘Yes, I divide everyone into two groups: the dead and the pre-dead.’ We of the latter group should be grateful to Thomas Lynch for writing about both with equal facility. His essays gathered here offer the pleasure of observing his curious mind dancing to the tune of his lively prose." -- Billy Collins"Thomas Lynch is one of my favorite living essayists. His mordant humor and openness to grace and mystery are a tonic. I can think of nothing better than to have in one book this collection of his dazzling former essays, plus the dynamite new ones." -- Phillip Lopate
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Charles C. Thomas Publisher Police Suicide Epidemic in Blue
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Random House USA Inc Between Two Kingdoms
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The University of Michigan Press Companions for the Passage
Book SynopsisAn unforgettable book on a rarely visited subject: the personal accounts of those who have witnessed the death of a loved one. Some of the interviews are religious, some are not, some encouraged their loved ones to accept death, others to fight it.
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Johns Hopkins University Press History of Suicide
Book SynopsisMinois concludes with comments on the most recent turn in this long and complex history-the emotional debate over euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the right to die.Trade ReviewThis book, lucidly translated, makes compulsive reading. -- Roy Porter The Times of London Minois's book follows the religious, philosophical, literary, and judicial debate for and against self-murder from antiquity to the end of the Enlightenment, demonstrating the close connection between political power, religious authority, social status, and the freedom to die... Minois's study is detailed and thorough... Gory anecdotes and effective reference to overarching intellectual trends make the book edifying and morbidly enjoyable. Kirkus Reviews Minois... has provided a timely chronicle tracing the evolution of societal attitudes toward suicide... Minois writes in an unadorned, concise prose that aids him in treating a serious subject in a serious manner. Although his own convictions on the issue are clear, Minois treats both sides of our current debate with objectivity, understanding, and compassion. Booklist The History of suicide has come of age. After a century of sociological inquiry, historians over the last decade have now embraced this all-too-human act and have produced remarkable results. -- D. J. A. Matthew American Historical Review Minois has succeeded in pulling together a wide range of materials, and in reminding us how elite attitudes to suicide shifted, and that those shifts may well serve as pointers to some more general developments in the intellectual history of Europe. -- J. A. Sharpe Journal of Early Modern History A broad and thought-provoking discussion of the complexities of suicide. Continually reminding us that the legalities and theoretical discussions of suicide often do not coincide with the reality of suicide, Minois focuses his discussion around Hamlet's famous question, 'to be or not to be,' and this proves to be an effective way to organize and present the large and dense amount of material... This book provides a useful and impressive collection of data and an absorbing discussion of attitudes toward voluntary death. -- Elise P. Garrison Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Tradition: A Repressed Question Chapter 1: Suicide in the Middle Ages: Nuances Chapter 2: The Legacy of the Middle Ages: Between Madness and Despair Chapter 3: The Classical Heritage: Perfecting the Timely Exit Part II: The Renaissance: A Question Raised, Then Stifled Chapter 4: The Early Renaissance: Rediscovery of the Enigma of Suicide Chapter 5: To Be or Not To Be: The First Crisis of Conscience in Europe Chapter 6: The Seventeenth Century: Reaction and Repression Chapter 7: Substitutes for Suicide in the Seventeenth Century Part III: The Enlightenment: Suicide Updated and Guilt-Free Chapter 8: The Birth of the English Malady, 1680-1720 Chapter 9: The Debate on Suicide in the Enlightenment: From Morality to Medicine Chapter 10: The Elite: From Philosophical Suicide to Romantic Suicide Chapter 11: The Common People: The Persistence of Ordinary Suicide Epilogue: From the French Revolution to the Twentieth Century, or, From Free Debate to Silence
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Southern Illinois University Press The Black Heavens
Book SynopsisOffers the first in-depth account of how Abraham Lincoln responded to the riddles of mortality, undertook personal mourning, and coped with the extraordinary burden of sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers to be killed on battlefields.
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The University of Alabama Press Continuing Bonds with the Dead Parental Grief and
Book SynopsisExamines the profound transfiguration that the death of a child wrought on the literary work of nineteenth-century American writers. Taking as his subjects Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and W.E.B. Du Bois, Bush demonstrates how the death of a child became the defining “before-and-after moment” in their lives as adults and as artists.
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Spring Publications,U.S. Psyche and Death Deathdemons in Folklore Myths
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Changing Lives Press A Loss Misunderstood
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Higherlife Development Service Living and Dying
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St Martin's Press Dark Archives
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St Martin's Press And Finally
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh''s And Finally, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and neuroscience.As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating what might be his own death sentence. As he navigates the bewildering transition from doctor to patient, he is haunted by past failures and projects yet to be completed, and frustrated by the inconveniences of illness and old age. But he is also more entranced than ever by the mysteries of science and the brain, the beauty of the natural world and his love for his family. Elegiac, candid, luminous and poignant, And Finally is ultimately not so much a book about death, but a book about lif
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WW Norton & Co The Depositions New and Selected Essays on Being
Book SynopsisA wry and compassionate selection of essays reflecting on mortals and mortality, from the acclaimed author of The Undertaking.Trade Review"[Lynch's] finest, wryest and most stylish essays about the human enterprise of mortality appear together in this collection...You will be grateful for these graceful essays, which light up so many of the dark details that are part of what is, after all, the one demographic to which we will all belong." -- Scott Simon - New York Times Book Review"[Lynch] writes with grace and moral clarity about the quandaries and perplexities of life, and life's end...'It is nearly impossible to overestimate the balm that language can be,' he writes at one point. If we're talking the language of Thomas Lynch, balm is the right word." -- Joanne Kaufman - Wall Street Journal"[A] wry, poignant collection of [Lynch's] best and newest essays. [The Depositions is] packed with penetrating observations about faith, family, work, art, and, yes, death." -- Kevin Canfield - Minneapolis Star Tribune"When asked if writing about the dead affected her view of life, an obituary writer said ‘Yes, I divide everyone into two groups: the dead and the pre-dead.’ We of the latter group should be grateful to Thomas Lynch for writing about both with equal facility. His essays gathered here offer the pleasure of observing his curious mind dancing to the tune of his lively prose." -- Billy Collins"Thomas Lynch is one of my favorite living essayists. His mordant humor and openness to grace and mystery are a tonic. I can think of nothing better than to have in one book this collection of his dazzling former essays, plus the dynamite new ones." -- Phillip Lopate
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Philosophy of Death Reader
Book SynopsisThe Philosophy of Death Reader presents a collection of classic readings from across the centuries and the continents. Organised around central metaphysical questions from whether soul is immortal to what can experience death, it brings together pivotal readings from ancient, modern and contemporary philosophers. The twenty-four readings require no background in philosophy. Featuring writings from Vedanta, the ancient Greeks, the Buddhist tradition, Christian eschatology, and recent analytic philosophy, they flow thematically and cover:- Key metaphysical topics including immortality, rebirth and the after- Scientific perspectives on biology and the brain- Axiological questions surrounding old age, the soul and how to live with mortality Accompanied throughout by editor's notes, introductory material, and discussion questions, this cross-cultural reader draws themes together, encourages further study and introduces a broad range of philosophical thinking about death.Trade ReviewThis new multicultural collection covers all the major themes in the philosophy of death from classical antiquity to the contemporary period. The readings are wisely chosen, and the volume is intelligently laid out with clear and helpful contextual introductions to each section and selection. Highly recommended for individual readers and classroom assignment. * Levon Chorbajian, Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, USA *This is an excellent collection of primary source material on key topics in the philosophy of death, such as the nature of post-death existence and the (un)desirability of immortality. The selections, which represent ancient and contemporary thinkers from primarily Western and Indian philosophical traditions, are thoughtfully organized and given helpful and accessible introductions and annotations by the editor. This book is very well-suited for undergraduate courses in the philosophy of death, as it skillfully presents thought-provoking debates carried on across the centuries and invites students to join. * Mark Berkson, Professor of Religion, Hamline University, USA *A timely and wide-ranging collection that covers the classic discussions through to the contemporary on a theme that we might well like to ignore, but cannot: the facts of own mortality. The introductions to each section helpfully position the papers. A must-read for every student of death. * Beverley Clack, Professor in the Philosophy of Religion, Oxford Brookes University, UK *Table of ContentsPreface: What This Book Is (Not) About Acknowledgements General Introduction: What Is the Meaning of “Life”? For Discussion or Essays Further Readings on Brains, Death, and “Consciousness” Part I: Our Immortal Souls Introduction to Part One: Personal Survival and Immortality 1. The Soul Will Not Fade Away (from Phaedo, c. 360 BC) Plato 2. Letter to Menoeceus (third century BC) Epicurus 3. Ten Reasons for Believing in Immortality (1929) John Haynes Holmes 4. Next Stop Goofville (1929) Clarence Darrow 5. Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity (1994) Thomas W. Clark For Discussion or Essays Further Readings on Personal Survival and Immortality Part II: Rebirth Introduction to Part Two: Survival in a Different Body 6. The Katha Upanishad: Death as a Teacher (fifth cen. B.C.) Anonymous 7. The Questions of King Milinda (first cen. AD?) Anonymous 8. The World Outlook of the People (14th cen.) Madhava Acharya 9. Nirodha, the Cessation of Dukkha (1959) Walpola Rahula For Discussion or Essays Further Readings on Rebirth Part III: Resurrection and the Afterlife Introduction to Part Three: Resurrection and the Afterlife 10. Resurrection of the Same Body (13th century) Aquinas, Thomas 11. Of a Particular Providence and of a Future State (1739-40) David Hume 12. The Soul Survives and Functions after Death (1973) H.H. Price 13. Persons and the Metaphysics of Resurrection (2007) Lynne Rudder Baker For Discussion or Essays Further Readings on Resurrection and the Afterlife Part IV: Problems with Immortality Introduction to Part Four 14. On Mortality and the Soul (c. 50 B.C.) Lucretius 15. The Hunger of Immortality (1913) Miguel de Unamuno 16. The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality (1972) Bernard Williams 17. Immortality without Boredom (2009) Lisa Bortolotti and Yujin Nagasawa 18. Death and Eternal Recurrence (2013) Lars Bergström For Discussion or Essays Further Readings on Problems with Immortality and the Eternal Return Part V: Living with Mortality Introduction to Part Five: Living with Mortality 19. “Supreme Happiness” (Fourth cen. B.C.) Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) 20. Death (1986) Thomas Nagel 21. The Collective Afterlife (2013) Samuel Scheffler 22. The Significance of Doomsday (2013) Susan Wolf 23. Death, Failure, and Neoliberal Ideology (2016) Beverley Clack For Discussion or Essays Further Readings on Living with Mortality Readings that appear in this book Index
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Hay House One More Day
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Crisis of US Hospice Care
Book SynopsisExploring the failure of hospice in America to care for patients and families at the end of life. Hospice is the dominant form of end-of-life care in the United States. But while the US hospice system provides many forms of treatment that are beneficial to dying people and their families, it does not encompass what is commonly referred to as long-term care, which includes help with the activities of daily living: feeding, bathing, general safety, and routine hygienic maintenance. Frequently, such care is carried out by an informal network of unpaid caregivers, such as the person's family or loved ones, who are often ill-prepared to offer this type of support. In The Crisis of US Hospice Care, Harold Braswell argues that the stress of providing long-term care typically overwhelms family members and that overdependence on familial caregiving constitutes a crisis of US hospice care that limits the freedom of dying people. Arguing for the need to focus on the time just before death, BrasTrade ReviewThe Crisis of US Hospice Care is an honest look at the current problems with hospice care in the United States . . . [Braswell] has opened a door into the real challenges we face in achieving a society. For as Mahatma Gandhi cautioned us, a society's true measure can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.—Stephen R. Connor, PhD, The Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance, Omega: Journal of Death and DyingReading The Crisis of US Hospice Care was a joyful experience . . . Braswell's use of emotional stories gave his argument a soul that could not be ignored and brought me on an unforgettable emotional journey . . . I believe this book should be read by every American that knows someone who is dying and/or will eventually die themselves.—Brooke Heckel, The Journal of Religion, Spirituality, and AgingThis book is an impressive example of the interdisciplinary scope that works of bioethics can attain. Readers well versed in the topic will find much that is familiar—but often with a new twist that keeps them on their toes. There is also much in these pages that challenges the conventional wisdom on end-of-life care that has evolved over the last half century.—Bruce Jennings, Hastings Center ReportThis book is an incisive account of U.S. hospice policy and practice since its origins in the late 1960s. But it is much more than that. Drawing insightfully on diverse perspectives including bioethics, the health humanities, and disability studies, the book is also an impassioned call for a political movement around the experience of dying that would not only redress policy flaws but make U.S. society more hospitable to dying people and their families and ultimately 'create a new basis for how we understand freedom, our collective mythology, and our national identity.'—Jesse Ballenger, Bulletin of the History of MedicineBraswell's book is extremely accessible for audiences of any level while raising important questions . . . It would be a valuable reading for medical professionals, public health professionals, and anyone else interested in healthcare that is provided at a vulnerable time of peoples' lives.—Anthony Chui, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine[T]his very important book should be required reading for both hospice professionals and bioethicists.—Library JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. Beyond the Right to Die 2. Depending on the Family 3. Birth of a Crisis 4. What Happens to Dying People When Love Is Not Enough5. Caring across the American Political Divide 6. When the End of Life Begins ConclusionAfterword: How My Mother Died Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press A Monument to Dynasty and Death
Book SynopsisGo behind the scenes to discover why the Colosseum was the king of amphitheaters in the Roman worlda paragon of Roman engineering prowess. Early one morning in 80 CE, the Colosseum roared to life with the deafening cheers of tens of thousands of spectators as the emperor, Titus, inaugurated the new amphitheater with one hundred days of bloody spectacles. These games were much anticipated, for the new amphitheater had been under construction for a decade. Home to spectacles involving exotic beasts, elaborate executions of criminals, gladiatorial combats, and evenwhen floodedsmall-scale naval battles, the building itself was also a marvel. Rising to a height of approximately 15 stories and occupying an area of 6 acresmore than four times the size of a modern football fieldthe Colosseum was the largest of all amphitheaters in the Roman Empire. In A Monument to Dynasty and Death, Nathan T. Elkins tells the story of the Colosseum's construction under Vespasian, its dedication under Titus,Trade ReviewElkins' focus on the political and ideological importance of the Flavian amphitheater and the events it housed offers a valuable addition to the growing body of general audience resources on Rome's Colosseum.—Elisha Ann Dumser, University of Akron, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrologue. Opening Day at the Colosseum I. The Rise of a New Dynasty II. A Modern Amphitheater in Ancient RomeIII. An Amphitheater in the Heart of RomeIV. A Hundred Days of GamesV. The Colosseum and Its First Games in Flavian Art and LiteratureEpilogue. The End of the "Flavian" AmphitheaterAcknowledgmentsNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
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Time Warner Trade Publishing Natural Causes
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Arcadia Publishing Buried Beneath Cleveland Lost Cemeteries of
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Historic Cemeteries of Northern Virginia Images
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Arcadia Publishing New Mexico Death Rituals A History
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History Press Historic Cemeteries of Houston and Galveston
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History Press Lady Undertakers of Old Texas
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History Press San Franciscos Forgotten Cemeteries
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University of Massachusetts Press Shadows in the Valley: A Cultural History of Illness, Death, and Loss in New England, 1840-1916
Book SynopsisExplores the impact of changing medical practices on ordinary people in nineteenth-century America. How does the experience of sickness, death, and loss change over time? We know that the incidence and virulence of particular diseases have varied from one period to another, as has their medical treatment. But what was it like for the individuals who suffered and died from those illnesses, for the health practitioners and institutions that attended to them, and for the families who buried and mourned them? In ""Shadows in the Valley"", Alan Swedlund addresses these questions by closely examining the history of mortality in several small communities in western Massachusetts from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century - from just before the acceptance of the germ theory of disease through the early days of public health reform in the United States. This was a time when most Americans lived in rural areas or small towns rather than large cities. It was also a time when a wide range of healing practices was available to the American public, and when the modern form of Western medicine was striving for dominance and authority. As Swedlund shows, this juncture of competing practices and ideologies provides a rich opportunity for exploring the rise of modern medicine and its impact on the everyday lives of ordinary Americans. To indicate how individuals in different stages of their lives were exposed to varying assaults on their health, the book is structured in a way that superimposes what the author calls 'life-course time' onto chronological time. Thus the early chapters look at issues of infancy and childhood in the 1840s and 1850s and the last chapters at the problems of old age after 1900. The reader becomes familiar with specific individuals and families as they cope with the recurrent loss of children, struggle to understand the causes of new contagions, and seek to find meaning in untimely death. By using a broad time frame and a narrow geographical lens, Swedlund is able to engage with both the particularities and the generalities of evolving medical knowledge and changing practice, and to highlight the differences in personal as well as collective responses to illness and loss.Trade Review"Shadows in the Valley offers a sensitive, poignant look at suffering, disease, and death in the lives of residents of western Massachusetts, just as authorities were beginning to identify disease pathogens, improve water and food supplies, and prevent childhood epidemics.... It is both modest and sweeping in scope, because the stories are carefully woven into a social history of larger changes occurring in American medicine and society." - Lynn M. Morgan, author of Community Participation in Health: The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica"
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Shambhala Publications Inc Living in the Light of Death: On the Art of Being
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Hampton Roads Publishing Co Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily
Book SynopsisThe culmination of more than 20 years of research into the survival of consciousness after death. The author's fascination with spiritualism and mediumship led him to examine mediumistic communications in particular and psychic functioning in general.
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Station Hill Press,U.S. Icons in Ash: Human Portraits
Book SynopsisThe art of the human image arose millennia ago as a way beyond impermanence and, especially, to keep the dead among us. The pictorial object – the icon – often carried a charge as ritual or ceremonial artifact and, indeed, as a thing with a certain power. The artist Heide Hatry has extended this tradition by creating realistic portraits made out of the actual ashes of the departed person portrayed. Are the results reminiscent of ancient sacred and secular traditions and their complex, even mysterious function to, say, calm, enrich or transform our experience? Icons in Ash includes twenty of Hatry's portraits and twenty-seven contemporary writers who explore this phenomenon in original and engaging meditations on death, the dead body, art, relics, psychology, philosophy, religion, mourning, evolution, transformation, and immortality. Contributors include, among others, Hans Belting, Mark Dery, Eleanor Heartney, Siri Hustvedt, Jonas Mekas, Rick Moody, Mark Pachter, Steven Pinker, Wolf Singer, Luisa Valenzuela, and Peter Weibel. Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USJAX-NONE
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Large Print Press Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the
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WriteLife LLC Winning: A Story of Grief and Renewal
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