The Law and Ethics of Medicine: Essays on the Inviolability of Human Life explains the principle of the inviolability of human life and its continuing relevance to English law governing aspects of m……続きを見る
著者:Sam Oliver
出版社: Fideli Publishing, Inc.
発売日: 2015年05月09日
This book outlines the process of entering into a relationship with those who are dying. Although the focus of attention is on Hospice Volunteering, it can be read and used by anyone caring for some……続きを見る
Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance. This innovative volume explores the major concepts, practice examples, and practice guidel……続きを見る
著者:Ann Hood
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2009年05月04日
“Rarely do memoirs of grief combine anguish, love, and fury with such elegance.” ー Entertainment Weekly
In 2002, Ann Hood’s five-year-old daughter Grace died suddenly from a virulent form of strep ……続きを見る
著者:Jill Krementz
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年05月23日
INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS • For any child grieving a parentーeighteen children from ages 7-17 share their experiences and feelings about losing a parent.
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著者:G. K. Nelson
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2013年10月18日
First published in 1969, this title explores the origins of Spiritualism as a religious movement. The first part is a history of Spiritualism, with a focus on its origins within America and the deve……続きを見る
著者:Noreen Tehrani
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2004年06月02日
How can organisations defend their employees against psychological trauma?
Post-traumatic stress is a topical subject of increasing importance. Yet much of the writing on this subject so far has con……続きを見る
著者:Dr. David Kuhl
出版社: Doubleday Canada
発売日: 2011年07月27日
An internationally renowned palliative care physician offers guidance on living with a terminal illness. Based on research funded by the Soros Foundation and extensive interviews with dying people. ……続きを見る
著者:Larry King
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2004年03月23日
“Show me Heaven! I have seen hell.” ーPatricia Neal
Larry King, world-famous radio and television personality, has asked the talented, the beautiful, the wise, and the rich a question all of us have……続きを見る
著者:Sheri Booker
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年05月30日
A dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming of age in a black funeral home in Baltimore
Sheri Booker was only fifteen when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no……続きを見る
Practical supportive advice for bereaved parents and the professionals who work with them, based on the experiences of psychiatric and religious counselors.
FROM THE INTRODUCTION:
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Three satiric plays by Oscar-winning screenwriter Ethan Coen
Raising Arizona, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading–the Coen brothers’ films are some of the most critically acclaimed and ……続きを見る
**So how should we spend our time on Earth? Don Piper, the Minister of Hope who spent 90 minutes in Heaven, brings us God's message.
Hope for the here and now from the multimillion-selling author of……続きを見る
Mandatory sterilization laws enacted in dozens of states coast-to-coast and approved by the U.S. Supreme Court formed the initial pillar for what became the Final Solution. Following WWII, there was……続きを見る
著者:Marilyn Webb
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年07月27日
The Good Death is the first full-scale examination of one of today's most complex issues: the profound change in the way Americans think about and confront death. Drawing on more than six years of f……続きを見る
著者:Dick Teresi
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年03月13日
Important and provocative, The Undead examines why even with the tools of advanced technology, what we think of as life and death, consciousness and nonconsciousness, is not exactly clear and how th……続きを見る
The Law and Ethics of Medicine: Essays on the Inviolability of Human Life explains the principle of the inviolability of human life and its continuing relevance to English law governing aspects of m……続きを見る
“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.” ーEpictetus
“Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow.” ーMatthew 24:28
Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly wri……続きを見る
著者:Cheryl A. Kuba
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2013年05月13日
Navigating the Journey of Aging Parents proposes an entirely unique approach to the field of gerontology, giving dependent care receivers a voice.
Caregivers will be made aware of what care receiver……続きを見る
'To Morrie, life was a process of opening oneself lovingly - to other people, to the world, ultimately to something larger than ourselves. To the last instant, Morrie was full of wonder and joy. The……続きを見る
著者:Robert Orfali
出版社: Mill City Press
発売日: 2012年03月01日
The book every mortal should read. Orfali approaches this agonizing subject with common sense informed by extensive research and an acute sensitivity to the dilemmas faced by dying patients and thei……続きを見る
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2012年07月05日
Mortal Remains introduces new methods of analyzing death and its crucial meanings over a 240-year period, from 1620 to 1860, untangling its influence on other forms of cultural expression, from reli……続きを見る
"It's shocking and sinful, and I couldn't put it down!" -Joan Rivers
The strange, startling, and utterly fascinating stories behind the world's most notorious celebrity deaths.
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著者:Ira Byock
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年03月15日
A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life……続きを見る
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年06月16日
The best classic and contemporary writing on mortalityーfrom Montaigne to Monty Pythonーto produce an essential resource for the heart and mind.
The fear of death, the pain of bereavement, the art o……続きを見る
Existential and Spiritual Issues in Death Attitudes provides: an in-depth examination of death attitudes, existentialism, and spirituality and their relationships; a review of the major theoretical ……続きを見る
著者:Donald G. Kyle
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors w……続きを見る
Diagnosed with dementia in 1997, my husband, Jim, lived at home during his illness and died there in January 2006. I wish this story were fiction, but it is not. Dignifying Dementia is both a love s……続きを見る
The strength of the right-to-die movement was underscored as early as 1991, when Derek Humphry published Final Exit, the movement's call to arms that inspired literally hundreds of thousands of Amer……続きを見る
著者:David Shenk
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2003年05月20日
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A powerfully engaging, scrupulously researched, and deeply empathetic narrative of the history of Alzheimer’s disease, how it affects us, and the search for a cure.**
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