Facing death
Subtitle: [where culture, religion, and medicine meet]
By: edited by Howard M. Spiro, Mary G. McCrea Curnen, and Lee Palmer Wandel.
Contributors: Spiro, Howard M. 1924-; Curnen, Mary G. McCrea.; Wandel, Lee Palmer.; Yale University. Program for Humanities in Medicine.; Goethe-Institut (Boston, Mass.).
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: [New Haven, CT.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Terminally ill; Death -- Psychological aspects; Death -- Religious aspects; Death -- Moral and ethical aspects
Genres: Psychological aspects; Religious aspects; Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Subtitle from title page.

Prepared under the auspices of the Program for Humanities in Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and the Goethe-Institut, Boston.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Attending to dying: limitations of medical technology (a resident's perspective) / Eric L. Krakauer; title: Before their time: a clinician's reflections on death and AIDS / Peter A. Selwyn; title: The Doctor's role in death / Sherwin B. Nuland; title: Thoughts on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Alan B. Astrow; title: Learning to care for the dying / Alan C. Mermann; title: Thoughts on witnessing death / James D. Kenney; title: The Changing face of death in children / Diane M. Komp; title: When children mourn a loved one / Morris A. Wessel; title: The Emergence of hospice care in the United States / Florence S. Wald; title: Caring for those who die in old age / Joanne Lynn; title: Living in the maelstrom / Alvin Novick; title: An ars moriendi for our time: to live a fulfilled life; to die a peaceful death / Arthur E. Imhof; title: The Art of dying in Hindu India / Sylvia Vatuk; title: Reflections on mortality from a Jewish perspective / James E. Ponet; title: Catholic theology's main thoughts on death / Harald Wagner; title: The Law of the spirits: Chinese popular beliefs / Valerie Hansen; title: The Meaning of death in Islam / Ira M. Lapidus; title: From this world to the next: notes on death and dying in early America / John Demos; title: Ars memoriandi: the NAMES project AIDS quilt / Peter S. Hawkins; title: Bearing the spirit home / Frederick J. Streets; title: Witnessing death versus framing death / William B. McCullough; title: Conclusion: retrospect and prospect / William J. Bouwsma.