Our changing journey to the end :  reshaping death, dying, and grief in America / 
Christina Staudt, PhD and J. Harold Ellens, PhD, editors. 
 - Santa Barbara, California :  Praeger,  (c)2014. 
 - 2 volumes ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>VOLUME 1. New paths of engagement. A bird's eye view of the territory /  From death denial to death control : the new baby-boomer approach /  Dying while living : the problem of social death /  The biology of decision : implications of neuroscientific research for end-of-life care /  Prognosis, costs, and end-of-life care /  Stories in the end : a narrative medicine curriculum to reframe death and dying /  What rational philosophy cannot tell us about death in the 21st century /  Grim discoveries : Agnes Varda's Vagabond (1985) and Karen Moncrieff's The Dead Girl (2006) /  Unveiling the corpse in the 21st century /  Expansion of new rituals for the dying and bereaved /  Virtual memorials : bereavement and the internet /  Strange eternity : virtual memorials, grief, and entertainment /  Roadside memorials : a 21st-century development /  Reconfiguring urban spaces of disposal, sanctuary, and remembrance /  Christina Staudt --  J. Harold Ellens --  Donald Joralemon --  Daniel Liechty and Bruce Hiebert --  Daniel Callahan --  Marsha Hurst and Craig Irvine --  Jerry S. Piven --  Marcelline Block --  Kathryn Beattie --  Sherry R. Schachter and Kristen M. Finneran --  Candi K. Cann --  Angela Riechers --  George E. Dickinson and Heath C. Hoffman --  Karla Maria Rothstein. VOLUME 2. New venues in the search for dignity and grace. The need for accommodation /  The future of death and two challenges that will shape it /  Assisted suicide in the age of AIDS and Alzheimer's /  Dying persons and their families /  Decision making at the end of life : from informed consent to family consent /  A changing landscape : evolving ethical duties and obligation of patients, families, and providers /  The Hippocratic and the Veterinary Oaths : medical ethics at the end of life /  Palliative care and hospice : caring for patients with serious illness /  The health advocate in end-of-life care /  Culturally competent care in an increasingly diverse society /  Attending to the pain of the dying : the nursing home care paradox /  The evolving role of hospital chaplains at the end of life /  Before their time : the need for communication when they die young /  Advance directives and hospice care : cost savers at the end /  Conspicuous metabolism : life support and life extension as luxury goods /  Solidarity, mortality : the tolling bell of civic palliative care /  Christina Staudt --  James W. Green --  Michael Teitelman --  Margaret Souza --  Lawrence A. Frolik --  Miriam Piven Cotler --  Sara Waller --  Kerrianne P. Page and Maura L. Del Bene --  Linda Koebner --  Karen Bullock and Jasmin Volkel --  Anthony J. Lechich --  Martha R. Jacobs and Linda S. Golding --  Nathan Ionascu --  Edward J. Lusk, Nellie Selander, and Michael Halperin --  Kevin T. Keith --  Bruce Jennings. 
<br/><br/> In this collection, scholars from across the nation illuminate the changes that have taken place in recent years, are now underway, and loom on the horizon as they lead readers on an exploration of the ways Americans think about and handle dying and death. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781440828454 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013024633 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101624946  DNLM 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Death--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Death.<br/>Grief--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Grief.<br/>Right to die--United States.<br/>Right to die.<br/>Terminal care--United States.<br/>Terminal Care<br/>Death<br/>Right to Die
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Grief & Bereavement. 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Sociology of Death .<br/>Social Sciences .
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>R726  / .O973 2014