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Using a social-psychological approach, this edition remains solidly grounded in theory and research but places greater emphasis on the individual and copying with death and dying. These two well-known authors and researchers integrate stimulating personal accounts throughout the text, and apply concepts to specific examples that deal with cross-cultural perspectives and the practical matters of death and dying.
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This update of the 1998 edition reflects the coming "out of the closet" of discussions of these topics since the original 1985 edition. Sociologists Leming (St. Olaf College, MN) and Dickinson (College of Charleston, SC) have added chapters on living with dying, dying in the American healthcare system, the business of dying, legal aspects of death, and grieving throughout the life cycle. Other chapters on standard topics have been updated. Includes boxed inserts on practical matters, voices of those experiencing these states, other words of wisdom, and death across cultures; discussion questions; glossaries; suggested readings; and cartoons. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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