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• Title:The last dance : encountering death and dying / Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland.
  
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• Author/Creator:DeSpelder, Lynne Ann, 1944-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Strickland, Albert Lee.
  
• Published/Created:Boston : McGraw Hill Higher Education, ©2002.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: BF789.D4 D53 2002
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Death--Psychological aspects.
  Death--Social aspects.
  
• Edition:6th ed.
  
• Description:xviii, 652 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-630) and indexes.
  
• ISBN:0767421620
  
• Contents:Prologue / David Gordon
  Ch. 1. Attitudes toward death : a climate of change
  Ch. 2. Learning about death : the influence of sociocultural forces
  Ch. 3. Perspectives on death : cross-cultural and historical
  Ch. 4. Health care systems : patients, staff, and institutions
  Ch. 5. Death systems : matters of public policy
  Ch. 6. Facing death : living with life-threatening illness
  Ch. 7. End-of-life issues and decisions
  Ch. 8. Survivors : understanding the experience of loss
  Ch. 9. Last rites : funerals and body disposition
  Ch. 10. Death in the lives of children and adolescents
  Ch. 11. Death in the lives of adults
  Ch. 12. Suicide
  Ch. 13. Risks of death in the modern world
  Ch. 14. Beyond death / after life
  Ch. 15. path ahead : personal and social choices
  Epilogue / David Gordon.