著者:Tom Jokinen
出版社: Random House of Canada
発売日: 2010年03月09日
**If Bill Bryson were to join a Winnipeg funeral home as an apprentice, and if he searched for the meaning of life and death while he was at it, you'd have Curtains - enlightening, full of life in t……続きを見る
著者:Edward Myers
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2000年01月01日
The topics range from the psychological responses to a parent's death such as shock, depression, and guilt, to the practical consequences such as dealing with estates and funerals.
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Genocide represents one of the deadliest scourges of the human experience. Communication practices provide the key missing ingredient toward preventing and ending this intensely symbolic activity. T……続きを見る
Murder Stories engages with the current theoretical debate in death penalty research on the role of cultural commitments to ‘American’ ideologies in the retention of capital punishment. The central ……続きを見る
Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that bl……続きを見る
Why would someone want to hang out with dead bodies?
With curious anecdotes and unbelievable truth, funeral director Robert Webster reveals that answer and more, offering readers entertaining and qu……続きを見る
Das Wachkoma ist eines der größten Rätsel der modernen Medizin. Entscheidungen, die Patienten im Wachkoma betreffen, erfordern eine umfassende Betrachtung, die die Perspektiven aller Akteure berücks……続きを見る
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the tombs of Pompeii and its immediate environs, examining the funerary culture of the population, delving into the importance of social class and self-r……続きを見る
This biography of Joseph Severn (1793-1879), the best known but most controversial of Keats's friends, is based on a mass of newly discovered information, much of it still in private hands. Severn a……続きを見る
Society has become increasingly diverse; multi-cultural, multi-faith and wide ranging in family structures. The wealthier are healthier and social inequalities are more pronounced. Respecting and wo……続きを見る
Die psychologische Behandlung und Begleitung von Patienten und deren Angehörigen ist essenzieller Bestandteil von Palliative Care, um eine möglichst hohe Lebensqualität zu erhalten sowie um psychoso……続きを見る
“Read it. You will be uplifted.”ーRuth Ozeki, Zen priest, author of A Tale for the Time Being
Marie Mutsuki Mockett's family owns a Buddhist temple 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ……続きを見る
Nach langer Diskussion hat der Bundestag 2009 ein Gesetz zur Patientenverfügung verabschiedet. Die Erwartungen an das Gesetz waren hoch: Es sollte Rechtssicherheit für Ersteller und Anwender einer P……続きを見る
Viele Konzepte für die ersten Jahre der Demenz greifen bei fortschreitender Erkrankung nicht mehr. Sterbende Demenzkranke brauchen achtsame und wertschätzende Begleitung und Sorge um passende Angebo……続きを見る
著者:Thomas Lynch
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2012年02月13日
**A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
Masterful essays that illuminate not only how we die but also how we live.**
Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Un……続きを見る
著者:Thomas Lynch
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2010年03月01日
“[Lynch] brings the lessons of death to life, and turns life and death into art.” ーTime Out New York
Here is the voice of both witness and functionary. Lynch stands between “the living and the livi……続きを見る
著者:Emily K. Abel
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2013年05月01日
Changes in health care have dramatically altered the experience of dying in America.
At the turn of the twentieth century, medicine’s imperative to cure disease increasingly took priority over the d……続きを見る
Mit Beiträgen von U. Baier-Schröder, G.D. Borasio, C. Burkhard, A. Duroux, W. Eisenmenger, A. Enders, A. Faschinger, G. Fröhlich, M. Führer, M. Griese, R.J. Jox, S. Müller, T. Nicolai, D. Niethammer……続きを見る
著者:Mary Anne Sanders
出版社: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
発売日: 2007年04月15日
Dying is a complex experience for the dying person and their family, friends, and carers, that involves all aspects of what it means to be human: physical, mental, and spiritual. The author describe……続きを見る
Das Curriculum für den Qualifizierungskurs "Palliative Care für Seelsorgende", erwachsen aus der Praxis eines ökumenisch geleiteten Kurses und geprägt durch einen spezifischen, überkonfessionellen Z……続きを見る
Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin's own deliberate ordering of his poems, presen……続きを見る
著者:Alan Clarke
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年09月13日
The Sociology of Healthcare, Second Edition explores the impact of current social changes on health, illness and healthcare, and provides an overview of the fundamental concerns in these areas. This……続きを見る
Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, an……続きを見る
Sociological and psychiatric studies on suicide based on Western ideas about human nature see suicide as social or individual disorder. Suicide in China, however, should be understood differently.
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"I found this book to be a well-written, sensitively presented, and important resource for those engaged in this critical area of work. Thank you, Dr. Werth, for making such a substantial contributi……続きを見る
Slavery, lynching and capital punishment were interwoven in the United States and by the mid-twentieth century these connections gave rise to a small but well-focused reform movement. Biased and per……続きを見る
著者:Paul Fairfield
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年09月19日
From Nietzsche's pronouncement that "God is dead" to Camus' argument that suicide is the fundamental question of philosophy, the concept of death plays an important role in existential phenomenology……続きを見る
Durkeim's book on suicide, first published in 1897, is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheim's thought and sociological method. This book examines t……続きを見る
Seit 1990 hat sich die Kinderhospizarbeit zu einem wichtigen Pfeiler im Unterstützungssystem für lebensverkürzend erkrankte Kinder/Jugendliche und ihre Familien entwickelt. Nach englischem Vorbild b……続きを見る