Handbook of Death and Dying
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Handbook of Death and Dying

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Handbook of Death and Dying

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"This is a singular reference tool . . . essential for academic libraries."
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"Students, professionals, and scholars in the social sciences and health professions are fortunate to have the ?unwieldy corpus of knowledge and literature? on death studies organized and integrated. Highly recommended for all collections."
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"Excellent and highly recommended."
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"Well researched with lengthy bibliographies . . . The index is rich with See and See Also references . . . Its multidisciplinary nature makes it an excellent addition to academic collections."
--LIBRARY JOURNAL

"Researchers and students in many social sciences and humanities disciplines, the health and legal professions, and mortuary science will find the Handbook of Death and Dying valuable. Lay readers will also appreciate the Handbook?s wide-ranging coverage of death-related topics. Recommended for academic, health sciences, and large public libraries."
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Dying is a social as well as physiological phenomenon. Each society characterizes and, consequently, treats death and dying in its own individual ways—ways that differ markedly. These particular patterns of death and dying engender modal cultural responses, and such institutionalized behavior has familiar, economical, educational, religious, and political implications.

The Handbook of Death and Dying takes stock of the vast literature in the field of thanatology, arranging and synthesizing what has been an unwieldy body of knowledge into a concise, yet comprehensive reference work. This two-volume handbook will provide direction and momentum to the study of death-related behavior for many years to come.

Key Features

  • More than 100 contributors representing authoritative expertise in a diverse array of disciplines
    • Anthropology
    • Family Studies
    • History
    • Law
    • Medicine
    • Mortuary Science
    • Philosophy
    • Psychology
    • Social work
    • Sociology
    • Theology
  • A distinguished editorial board of leading scholars and researchers in the field
  • More than 100 definitive essays covering almost every dimension of death-related behavior
  • Comprehensive and inclusive, exploring concepts and social patterns within the larger topical concern
  • Journal article length essays that address topics with appropriate detail
  • Multidisciplinary and cross-cultural coverage

 

EDITORIAL BOARD  

Clifton D. Bryant, Editor-in-Chief  

Patty M. Bryant, Managing Editor 

Charles K. Edgley, Associate Editor 

Michael R. Leming, Associate Editor 

Dennis L. Peck, Associate Editor

Kent L. Sandstrom, Associate Editor 

Watson F. Rogers, II, Assistant Editor

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Information

Publisher
SAGE Publications, Inc
Year
2003
Print ISBN
9780761925149
eBook ISBN
9781452265155
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gerontology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface: A Thanatological Odyssey
  4. Introduction
  5. About the Editors
  6. About the Contributors
  7. VOLUME ONE: THE PRESENCE OF DEATH
  8. Part I - DEATH IN CULTURAL CONTEXT
  9. CONFRONTING DEATH
  10. Chapter 1 - The Universal Fear of Death and the Cultural Response
  11. Chapter 2 - Historical Changes in the Meaning of Death in the Western Tradition
  12. Chapter 3 - Dealing With Death: Western Philosophical Strategies
  13. Chapter 4 - Death Denial: Hiding and Camouflaging Death
  14. Chapter 5 - Death, Dying, and the Dead in Popular Culture
  15. Chapter 6 - The Death Awareness Movement: Description, History, and Analysis
  16. KEEPING THE DEAD ALIVE
  17. Chapter 7 - The Spiritualist Movement: Bringing the Dead Back
  18. Chapter 8 - Reincarnation: The Technology of Death
  19. Chapter 9 - Hosts and Ghosts: The Dead as Visitors in Cross-Cultural Perspective
  20. Chapter 10 - Ghosts: The Dead Among Us
  21. Chapter 11 - The Malevolent "Undead": Cross-Cultural Perspectives
  22. TRANSCENDING DEATH: RELIGIOUS AFTER-DEATH BELIEFS
  23. Chapter 12 - Spirituality
  24. Chapter 13 - Religion and the Mediation of Death Fear
  25. Chapter 14 - Christian Beliefs Concerning Death and Life After Death
  26. Chapter 15 - Near-Death Experiences as Secular Eschatology
  27. DEATH AND SOCIAL EXCHANGE
  28. Chapter 16 - Life Insurance as Social Exchange Mechanism
  29. Chapter 17 - "Full Military Honors": Ceremonial Interment as Sacred Compact
  30. Chapter 18 - Symbolic Immortality and Social Theory: The Relevance of an Underutilized Concept
  31. Part II - DEATH IN SOCIAL CONTEXT: VARIANTS IN MORALITY AND MEANING
  32. THE SOCIAL MODES OF DEATH: THE IMPORT OF CONTEXT AND CIRCUMSTANCE
  33. Chapter 19 - Historical and Epidemiological Trends in Mortality in the United States
  34. Chapter 20 - Global Mortality Rates: Variations and Their Consequences for the Experience of Dying
  35. Chapter 21 - To Die, by Mistake: Accidental Deaths
  36. Chapter 22 - Megadeaths: Individual Reactions and Social Responses to Massive Loss of Life
  37. Chapter 23 - On the Role and Meaning of Death in Terrorism
  38. Chapter 24 - Death Attributed to Medical Error
  39. Chapter 25 - Homicidal Death
  40. PRE-PERSONALITY DEATHS
  41. Chapter 26 - Pre-Personality Pregnancy Losses: Miscarriages, Stillbirths, and Abortions
  42. Chapter 27 - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
  43. DEATH AS SOCIAL ENTITY: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DEATH
  44. Chapter 28 - The Evolution of the Legal Definition of Death
  45. Chapter 29 - Death Education
  46. DEATH AS INTERMISSION: THE CONTINUATION OF IDENTITY
  47. Chapter 30 - The Postself in Social Context
  48. Part III - DEATH AND SOCIAL CONTROVERSY
  49. SUICIDE
  50. Chapter 31 - Historical Suicide
  51. Chapter 32 - Suicide and Suicide Trends in the United States, 1900-1999
  52. Chapter 33 - Suicide Survivors: The Aftermath of Suicide and Suicidal Behavior
  53. Chapter 34 - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Suicide
  54. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
  55. Chapter 35 - A History of Execution Methods in the United States
  56. Chapter 36 - Capital Punishment in the United States
  57. Chapter 37 - Military Executions
  58. ABORTION
  59. Chapter 38 - The Abortion Issue in the United States
  60. THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC
  61. Chapter 39 - Dying of AIDS and Social Stigmatization
  62. EUTHANASIA
  63. Chapter 40 - Medical Euthanasia
  64. Chapter 41 - Physician-Assisted Death
  65. Part IV - PASSING AWAY: DYING AS SOCIAL PROCESS
  66. DEATH AS SOCIAL PROCESS: THE APPROACH OE DEATH
  67. Chapter 42 - Death Awareness and Adjustment Across the Life Span
  68. Chapter 43 - Dying as Deviance: An Update on the Relationship Between Terminal Patients and Medicine
  69. DEATH AS SOCIAL PROCESS: DYING
  70. Chapter 44 - The Dying Process
  71. Chapter 45 - On Coming to Terms With Death and Dying: Neglected Dimensions of Identity Work
  72. THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF DEATH
  73. Chapter 46 - Death in Two Settings: The Acute Care Facility and Hospice
  74. Chapter 47 - The History of the Hospice Approach
  75. Chapter 48 - Dying in a Total Institution: The Case of Death in Prison
  76. Chapter 49 - Formal and Informal Caregiving at the End of Life
  77. Cover
  78. Contents
  79. VOLUME TWO: THE RESPONSE TO DEATH
  80. Part V - FUNERALIZATION: THE SOCIAL CEREMONIES OF DEATH
  81. BEFORE THE FUNERAL
  82. Chapter 50 - The Death Notification Process: Recommendations for Practice, Training, and Research
  83. Chapter 51 - The Autopsy
  84. Chapter 52 - A Social History of Embalming
  85. THE ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSE TO DEATH
  86. Chapter 53 - Fallen Soldiers: Death and the U.S . Military
  87. Chapter 54 - Death-Related Work Systems Outside the Funeral Home
  88. FUNERAL1ZATION IN THE UNITED STATES
  89. Chapter 55 - The American Family and the Processing of Death Prior to the 20th Century
  90. Chapter 56 - The Evolution of the Funeral Home and the Occupation of Funeral Director
  91. Chapter 57 - The American Funeral
  92. Chapter 58 - Black Funeralization and Culturally Grounded Services
  93. Chapter 59 - On the Economics of Death in the United States
  94. FUNERALIZATION IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
  95. Chapter 60 - The Funeral and the Funeral Industry in the United Kingdom
  96. Chapter 61 - Practices Surrounding the Dead in French-Speaking Belgium: Rituals in Kitlike Form
  97. Chapter 62 - The Native American Way of Death
  98. Chapter 63 - The Hindu Way of Death
  99. Chapter 64 - The Muslim Way of Death
  100. Chapter 65 - The Japanese Way of Death
  101. Chapter 66 - The Taoist (Chinese) Way of Death
  102. Chapter 67 - The Jewish Way of Death
  103. POSTFUNERALIZATION ACTIVITIES
  104. Chapter 68 - Obituaries
  105. Chapter 69 - Gracing God's Acres : Some Notes on a Typology of Cemetery Visitation in Western Cultures
  106. Chapter 70 - Impromptu Memorials to the Dead
  107. Chapter 71 - Death and Community Responses: Comfort, Community, and Culture
  108. Chapter 72 - Monuments in Motion : Gravemarkers, Cemeteries, and Memorials as Material Form and Context
  109. Part VI - BODY DISPOSITION
  110. DISPOSING OF THE DEAD: ELYSIUM AS REAL ESTATE
  111. Chapter 73 - The History of the American Cemetery and Some Reflections on the Meaning of Death
  112. Chapter 74 - Pet Burial in the United States
  113. DISPOSING OF THE DEAD: OPTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES
  114. Chapter 75 - Cremation
  115. Chapter 76 - Body Recycling
  116. Chapter 77 - The Iceman Cometh: The Cryonics Movement and Frozen Immortality
  117. Chapter 78 - Disposing of the Dead: Minor Modes
  118. DISPOSING OF THE DEAD: OTHER TIMES, OTHER PLACES
  119. Chapter 79 - The Social History of the European Cemetery
  120. Chapter 80 - Body Disposition in Cross-Cultural Context: Prehistoric and Modern Non-Western Societies
  121. Chapter 81 - Mummification and Mummies in Ancient Egypt
  122. Part VII - THANATOLOGICAL AFTERMATH
  123. GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT
  124. Chapter 82 - The Evolution of Mourning and the Bereavement Role in the United States: Middle - and Upper-Class European Americans
  125. Chapter 83 - Social Dimension s of Grief
  126. Chapter 84 - The Experience of Grief and Bereavement
  127. Chapter 85 - Bereavement in Cross-Cultural Perspective
  128. THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF SURVIVORHOOD
  129. Chapter 86 - Widowhood and Its Social Implications
  130. Chapter 87 - Children and the Death of a Parent
  131. Chapter 88 - Parents and the Death of a Child
  132. Part VIII - THE LEGALITIES OF DEATH
  133. DEATH IN LEGAL CONTEXT
  134. Chapter 89 - Living Wills and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care
  135. Chapter 90 - The Death Certificate: Civil Registration, Medical Certification, and Social Issues
  136. Chapter 91 - Coroner and Medical Examiner
  137. DEATH, SUCCESSION, AND TESTAMENTORY INHERITANCE
  138. Chapter 92 - The Disposition of Property: Transfers Between the Dead and the Living
  139. Chapter 93 - The Last Will and Testament : A Neglected Document in Sociological Research
  140. THE LEGAL REGULATION OF DEATH-RELATED ACTIVITIES
  141. Chapter 94 - The Legal Regulation of Mortuary Science Education
  142. Chapter 95 - Cemetery Regulation in the United States
  143. DEATH AND LEGAL BLAME
  144. Chapter 96 - Death and Legal Blame: Wrongful Death
  145. Chapter 97 - Negligent Death and Manslaughter
  146. THE DEAD AS LEGAL ENTITY
  147. Chapter 98 - "Thanatological Crime": Some Conceptual Notes on Offenses Against the Dead as a Neglected Form of Deviant Behavior
  148. Part IX - THE CREATIVE IMAGINATION AND THE RESPONSE TO DEATH
  149. ART
  150. Chapter 99 - Death in Art
  151. LITERATURE
  152. Chapter 100 - Cultural Concern with Death in Literature
  153. MUSIC
  154. Chapter 101 - "Arise, Ye More Than Dead!" Culture, Music, and Death
  155. ORGANIC SCULPTURE
  156. Chapter 102 - Dead Zoo Chic: Some Conceptual Notes on Taxidermy in American Social Life
  157. Part X - THE FUTURE OF DEATH
  158. Chapter 103 - Death in the Future: Prospects and Prognosis
  159. Index