Dying and death : inter-disciplinary perspectives / / edited by Asa Kasher.

• Superior document: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 37
• TeilnehmendeR: Kasher, Asa.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Death is a topic people are reluctant to ponder. Neither is dying a process that is usually being openly discussed. However, on a variety of occasions, dying and death are on a person’s minds, under some sensitive circumstances, he or she are eager to discuss with a close person, a friend, a profess...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Embalming the American Body: Sentimental Mourning on the Cusp of the Civil War / Ashley Byock
• Collective Emotions and National Mourning / Asa Kasher
• Issues of Death and Dying for Adult Children of Holocaust Survivors / Paula David
• Death and Images of Womanhood and Manhood: The Case of Serbian Epic Poetry / Mira Crouch
• Extreme Makeovers and Reciprocal Relations Between the Living and the Dead / Kathleen Z. Young
• The Death of a Friend: Some Themes in Jacques Derrida’s The Work of Mourning / Gary Peters
• Death and the Other: The Ambivalence of Mourning / Havi Carel
• Grace Towards the Dead / Dana Freibach-Heifetz
• Death and Mourning: Logistics and Mystery / Marguerite Peggy Flynn
• For Fear of What the Neighbours Might Say: Social Networks and Suicide in Early Modern Holland / Laura Cruz
• When a Young Woman Dies: Gender, Youth, and the Meanings of Suicide in the Jazz Age / Kathleen W. Jones
• “Voluntary Death” in Japanese History and Culture / Lawrence Fouraker
• Medics Facing Terminal Diagnosis / Angela Armstrong-Coster
• Between Organizations, Family and Death: Caring Creatively within the Hospice Organization / Elizabeth Gill
• Reflections on the Needs of Palliative Patients after Being on the Receiving End of Care / Anna Wreath Taube
• Notes On Contributors.