Research Catalog

Title

Dying, assisted death and mourning / edited by Asa Kasher.

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.

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Additional Authors

Kasher, Asa.

Description

xi, 170 pages : illustrations, music; 23 cm.

Series Statement

• At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 58
• At the interface/probing the boundaries. Making sense of dying and death

Uniform Title

• At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 58
• At the interface/probing the boundaries. Making sense of dying and death.

Subject

• Bereavement > Psychological aspects
• Bereavement > Psychological aspects
• Death > Psychological aspects
• Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects
• Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Dying. Hospice and the intangible wonders of being / Mary Joseph Mahoney. -- 'So that's a completely different story': competing narratives in the lives of relatives caring for dying patients / Jeremy Weinstein. -- Death and the sense of self / Chris J. Onof. -- Political murder on the German opera stage: Masagniello Furioso, Günther von Schwarzburg and Rienzi / Karl Traugott Goldbach. -- 2. Euthanasia. Nurse involvement in the care of patients requesting euthanasia / Nele De Bal [and others]. -- Are we barking up the wrong tree? Questioning the appropriateness of the human models for understanding bereavement as applied to the experience of companion animal loss through euthanasia / Susan Dawson and Bill Campbell. -- 3. Mourning. The sayig hallo metaphor as alternative approach to death-related counselling / Werner Nell. -- Remembering the dead: roadside memorials in Ireland / Una MacConville and Regina McQuillan. -- "Untitled" (Queer mourning and the art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres) / Emily Boone Hagenmaier.

ISBN

• 9042025891
• 9789042025899 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library