Negotiating Death in Contemporary Health and Social Care

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ISBN: 9781847420152 | 184742015X
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Copyright: 11/14/2007

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(The Policy Press) Univ. of Hull, UK. Examines the ways death is handled in contemporary society, and the sensitive ethical and practical dilemmas facing nurses, social workers, doctors, and chaplains. Focuses on patterns of dying, global images of death, shifting boundaries between the public and private. For medical sociologists and humanists. Hardcover, softcover available.

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Acknowledgements
Death in late modernity	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Causes and patterns of death	p. 4
Death in the UK	p. 5
Globalisation of death	p. 13
Shifting boundaries between the public and the private	p. 15
Cultural pluralism	p. 18
Conclusion	p. 20
Contemporary health and social care	p. 21
Introduction	p. 21
History of care of the dying	p. 22
Care management	p. 24
The health and social care interface	p. 25
Initiatives in palliative care	p. 28
Conclusion	p. 34
Understanding death and dying	p. 37
Introduction	p. 37
Beliefs, ritual and symbolism	p. 38
Modern death	p. 42
The revival of death	p. 46
Attitudes and beliefs about death	p. 49
Dying	p. 57
Conclusion	p. 62
Understanding bereavement and grief	p. 65
Introduction	p. 65
Attachment and loss	p. 67
Stage theories	p. 69
Dual process	p. 74
Continuing bonds	p. 75
Complicated grief	p. 76
Meaning-making	p. 80
Special deaths	p. 83
Grief across cultures	p. 87
Conclusion	p. 90
Dying in the twenty-first century	p. 93
Introduction	p. 93
Philosophies and ethos of care	p. 94
Euthanasia and assisted dying	p. 106
Conclusion	p. 115
Dying and bereavement in old age	p. 119
Introduction	p. 119
Death in old age in the UK	p. 120
The 'dying phase' of life	p. 122
Care at the end of life	p. 125
Bereavement and grief in old age	p. 136
Conclusion	p. 143
The aftermath of death	p. 145
Introduction	p. 145
Funerals	p. 146
Burial and cremation	p. 154
Memorials	p. 160
Conclusion	p. 162
Integrating theories and practices	p. 165
Introduction	p. 165
The context of late modernity	p. 166
Applying theory to practice	p. 170
Holistic approaches	p. 177
In conclusion - negotiating death	p. 181
References	p. 183
Index	p. 209
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