Research Catalog

Title

Death, dying, and social differences / edited by David Oliviere and Barbara Monroe.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Monroe, Barbara.
• Oliviere, David.

Description

xiv, 205 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Death, Dying, and Social Differences addresses the social context of the care of dying people. It focuses on the much neglected area of the social aspects of death and dying and highlights the key ways that health and social care professionals who provide and of the care can respond most appropriately to those from a variety of social circumstances and communities it speaks about best professional practice that can balance the inequalities in society's structures and their consequences for the dying and their carers."--Jacket.

Subject

• Attitude to Death
• Cultural Diversity
• Discrimination in medical care
• Palliative Care > psychology
• Palliative treatment > Social aspects
• Social Support
• Sociale ongelijkheid
• Socioeconomic Factors
• Sterven
• Terminally Ill > psychology
• United Kingdom
• United Kingdom

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / David Clark -- Introduction: Working with death, and dying, and difference / David Oliviere, Barbara Monroe -- Social class, poverty, and social exclusion / Malcolm Payne -- Minority ethnic communities and religious groups / Shirley Firth -- Sexual identity : gender and sexual orientation / Katherine Cox -- Older people / Ann McMurray -- Mental health needs / Max Henderson -- Disability / Linda McEnhill -- Abuse / Maggie Draper, Chris Wood -- Offenders / Maggie Bolger -- Refugees / Mary Blanche, Chris Endersby -- Finances / Donal Gallagher -- Carers and caregivers / Sheila Payne.

ISBN

0198527756 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005295464

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library