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`This second edition, which has also been edited by Samson Katz, utilizes around half of the original text, of which a significant portions has been revised and updated. The remainder comprises new material reflecting both the changes in attitudes generally towards death and dying, and also designed to meet the needs of students undertaking the revised curriculum of the K260. This book will stimulate thinking and challenge the personal views of both academics and those in practice. …[A] valuable tool for both those new to the area of palliative and cancer care and those experienced professionals searching for a new angle on several key topics in relation to ethical issues occurring in this speciality… [A]n excellent balance of theoretical contents and moving prose… [T]his book is directed towards all professionals working in health and social care. …This book is a must for pre-registration students wishing to gain greater understanding of the psychosocial issues faced by those with a terminal illness and their significant others' - Nurse Education Today
Praise for the First Edition:
`The book does give a broad overview of many of the issues around death, dying and bereavement. It raises the reader's awareness and encourages deeper investigation at every level. It is easy to reda and therefore accessible to a wide audience' - Changes
`Provides a richly woven tapestry of personal, professional and literary accounts of death, dying and bereavement' -
Health Psychology Update
`Offers a unique collection of fascinating information, research, stories, poems and personal reflections. It is unusual to experience such a diversity of writings in one book' - Nursing Times
`It brings together the knowledge and skills from a multi-occupational group and thereby offers and opportunity, to whoever reads it, to enable better experiences for those who are dying and bereaved' - Journal of Interprofessional Care
`For those trying to help the dying and bereaved, this volume will inspire and move you as much as it will inform and guide your work' - Bereavement Care
`Provides a unique overview, and in many areas, penetrating insights into various aspects of death, dying and bereavement. One of it's major strengths is that it brings together a wide and varied discourse on death across cultures and through time' - British Journal of Sociology
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The fully revised and updated edition of this bestselling collection combines academic research with professional and personal reflections. Death, Dying and Bereavement addresses both the practical and the more metaphysical aspects of death. Topics such as new methods of pain relief, guidelines for breaking bad news, and current attitudes to euthanasia are considered, while the mystery of death
and its wider implications are also explored.
A highly distinctive interdisciplinary approach is adopted, including perspectives from literature, theology, sociology and psychology. There are wide-ranging contributions from those who come into professional contact with death and bereavement - doctors, nurses, social workers and councellors. In addition there are more intimate personal accounts from carers and from bereaved people.
Death, Dying and Bereavement is the Course Reader for The Open University course Death and Dying, which is offered as part of The Open University Dilpoma in Health and Social Welfare.
Praise for the First Edition:
`The book does give a broad overview of many of the issues around death, dying and bereavement. It raises the reader's awareness and encourages deeper investigation at every level. It is easy to reda and therefore accessible to a wide audience' - Changes
`Provides a richly woven tapestry of personal, professional and literary accounts of death, dying and bereavement' - Health Psychology Update
`Offers a unique collection of fascinating information, research, stories, poems and personal reflections. It is unusual to experience such a diversity of writings in one book' - Nursing Times
`It brings together the knowledge and skills from a multi-occupational group and thereby offers and opportunity, to whoever reads it, to enable better experiences for those who are dying and bereaved' - Journal of Interprofessional Care
`For those trying to help the dying and bereaved, this volume will inspire and move you as much as it will inform and guide your work' - Bereavement Care
`Provides a unique overview, and in many areas, penetrating insights into various aspects of death, dying and bereavement. One of it's major strengths is that it brings together a wide and varied discourse on death across cultures and through time' - British Journal of Sociology
With the exception of accidental fatalities, death in Staithes in the early part of the century almost invariably took place in the home. Read the first page
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More than just an Open University course reader,
By revnick@cableinet.co.uk (South Shields, Tyne and Wear) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Death, Dying and Bereavement (Published in association with The Open University) (Paperback)
I would not have read this book if I had not been required to do so by the Open University course which I am studying. But you do not have to do the course to read this book. It is an anthology of short articles and extracts from other books on the themes in the book's title. The book can be 'dipped-into' at random. The book contains articles from people like the very courageous columnist John Diamond, about his diagnosis and consequent outlook on the little life he had left to live. Some of the articles contain information from factual or medical viewpoints, many of the articles are personal accounts and can be very moving to read. One such is the extract from 'Tuesday with Morrie' by Mitch Albom. Having read this I ordered the book straight away as I had to read the full story. This book will help the reader to understand death, dying and bereavement a little more through the experiences(often painful)of others. Anyone who is going to die, is dying or has experienced bereavement in their life should read this book. That just about includes everyone. I highly recommend it.
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A very good and unsombre resource.,
By S. Hebbron "S B H." - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Death, Dying and Bereavement (Published in association with The Open University) (Paperback)
I used this book as part of the course it was intended to be a componant of (an Open University course on bereavement).
However I would suggest it is infnitely more useful than that, while it does operate form a very a British perspective, it does cover aspects of bereavemnt that are doubtless universal. It is a great resource for helping those in need, it offers words, theories, thoughts and experiences of great wisdom and breadth. It could prove a source of comfort and healing and would be a great resoucre for caring, religious and voluntary professions. 0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Death Dying & Bereavement,
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This review is from: Death, Dying and Bereavement (Published in association with The Open University) (Paperback)
Looks at aspects of death/dying and bereavement from a variety of perspectives - e.g. experiential/theoretical/sociological an all round perspective.
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