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Facing death
— where culture, religion, and medicine meet | | Author(s) | Howard M Spiro, Mary G McCrea Curnen, Lee Palmer Wandel |
| Corporate Author | Program for Humanities in Medicine, Yale University; Goethe-Institut (Boston, Mass) |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, London, 1996 |
| Pages | 212 pp |
| Source | Yale University Press, 23 Pond Street, London NW3 2PN. |
| Keywords | Death ; Terminal care ; Dying ; Religion ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This book brings together US medical experts and distinguished authorities in the humanities to reflect on medical, cultural and religious responses to death. The first half of the book discusses the clinical setting for dying, with attempts to find the balance between alleviating suffering and providing life support, the problem of finding a peaceful death, and the differences AIDS has made in our attitudes toward dying. In the second half of the book, theologians, historians of religion, anthropologists and literary scholars describe Christian, Judaic, Islamic, Hindu and Chinese perceptions of death and rituals of mourning. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970206210 B |
| Classmark | CW: LV: CX: TR: 7T |
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