We have learned a great deal in recent years about keeping death at bay through medical technology. We are less well informed, however, about how to face death and how to understand or articulate the emotional and spiritual needs of the dying. This profound and eloquent book brings together medical experts and distinguished authorities in the humanities to reflect on medical, cultural, and religious responses to death. The book helps both medical personnel and patients to view death less as an adversary and more as a ...
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We have learned a great deal in recent years about keeping death at bay through medical technology. We are less well informed, however, about how to face death and how to understand or articulate the emotional and spiritual needs of the dying. This profound and eloquent book brings together medical experts and distinguished authorities in the humanities to reflect on medical, cultural, and religious responses to death. The book helps both medical personnel and patients to view death less as an adversary and more as a defining part of life. In the first half of the book, physicians and the founder of Connecticut Hospice discuss the current 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 the AIDS epidemic has made in our attitudes toward dying. In the second half of the book, theologians, historians of religion, anthropologists, literary scholars, and pastors describe Christian, Judaic, Islamic, Hindu, and Chinese perceptions of death and rituals of mourning. An epilogue considers the resonances between medicine and the humanities, as well as the essential differences in their approaches to death. Prepared under the auspices of The Program for Humanities in Medicine, Yale University School of Med
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. xxii, 212 p. : ill.; 24 cm. LCCN 96002487 Type of material Book Main title Facing death: where culture, religion, and medicine meet / edited by Howard M. Spiro, Mary G. McCrea Curnen, and Lee Palmer Wandel. Published/Created New Haven: Yale University Press, c1996. Description xxii, 212 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 0300063490 (cloth: alk. paper) LC classification R726.8. F33 1996 Related names Spiro, Howard M. (Howard Marget), 1924-Curnen, Mary G. McCrea. Wandel, Lee Palmer. Yale University. Program for Humanities in Medicine. Goethe-Institut (Boston, Mass. ) LC Subjects Terminally ill. Death--Psychological aspects. Death--Religious aspects. Death--Moral and ethical aspects. Notes "Prepared under the auspices of the Program for Humanities in Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and the Goethe-Institut, Boston." Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 155.9/37
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