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New edition of a basic text surveying attitudes, cross-cultural and historical perspectives, socialization, health care systems, living with life-threatening illness, funerals and body disposition, the experience of loss, death in children's lives, medical ethics, the law, suicide, and concepts of immortality. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Widely recognized as the best-selling textbook in the field, The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying, seventh edition, has been thoroughly revised to provide comprehensive, multidisciplinary, state-of-the-art coverage of topics in death, dying, and bereavement. Integrating the experiential and the scholarly, as well as the emotional and intellectual dimensions of death studies, this highly regarded textbook combines a solid grounding in theory and research with practical application to students' lives.
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