Death, Society, and Human Experience

13. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-02152-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 634 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1373 g

The 13th edition of Death, Society, and Human Experience provides a panoramic overview of the ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as individuals and as members of society. A landmark text in the field, the authors draw on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, including perspectives offered through history, philosophy, religion, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage and understanding of topics associated with the end of life and death and dying. By approaching the subject from multiple angles, the authors explain the various ways that individual, cultural, and societal attitudes influence both how and when we die and how we live and deal with the knowledge of death and loss.

Originally written by Robert Kastenbaum, a renowned scholar who developed one of the world’s first death education courses, Christopher M. Moreman, who has worked in the field of death studies for two decades, has updated this edition. In addition to infusing his close areas of focus, both in afterlife beliefs and experiences and how these might affect how people live their lives, he’s weaved in new coverage of current affairs, including:

- The impact of COVID-19 on experiences of death, bereavement, mourning, and more

- Expanded legalization of physician-assisted dying in the United States and several countries

- Changes in bereavement rituals and traditions stemming from technology use and social media

With additional content and classroom extensions available online, Death, Society, and Human Experience remains a thoughtful, exploratory, and impressively comprehensive overview for undergraduate and graduate courses in death, dying, and bereavement.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kastenbaum, Robert

Moreman, Christopher M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. As We Think About Death  2. What is Death? What Does Death Mean?  3. Denial or Adaptation: The Death System  4. Dying: Transition from Life  5. Hospice and Palliative Care  6. End-of-Life Issues and Decisions  7. Suicide  8. Violent Death: Murder, Terrorism, Genocide, Disaster, and Accident  9. Euthanasia, Assisted Death, Abortion, and the Right to Die  10. Death in the World of Childhood  11. Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning  12. The Funeral Process  13. Do We Survive Death?  14. How Can We Help? Caregiving and Death Education  15.Good Life, Good Death? Trying to Make Sense of It All

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Kastenbaum (1932–2013) was Professor of Communications at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. His other books include The Psychology of Death (1972, 1990, 2000), Dorian, Graying: Is Youth the Only Thing Worth Having? (1995), and On Our Way: The Final Passage through Life and Death (2004).

Christopher M. Moreman is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at California State University East Bay, Hayward, California. He has written and edited influential books on topics related to death and dying. He is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying (2017), the author of Beyond the Threshold: Afterlife Beliefs and Experiences in World Religions (2017), Dharma of the Dead: Zombies, Mortality, and Buddhist Philosophy (2018), and the editor of the three-volume series titled The Spiritualist Movement (2013).