Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Preface
List of Contributors
Part 1: Viewpoints and Dimensions
Chapter 1: The Medical Point of View: Is the Care for the Dying a Part of our Profession?, pp. 1-12
(Michaela Berkovich)
Chapter 2: The Medical Needs of the Dying, pp. 13-22
(Arie Ostrowsky, Simon Scherf and Frida Barak)
Chapter 3: The Nursing Point of View: With Caring, Compassion, and Competence – Nurses Confront Dying and Death, pp. 23-46
(Susan Brajtman)
Chapter 4: The Psychiatric Point of View: Psychiatric Aspects of the Terminally Ill Patient, pp. 47-88
(Pierre R. Gagnon, Marie Claude Blais, and Annie Tremblay)
Chapter 5: The Psychological Point of View: The Individual Facing Death and Dying. pp. 89-102
(Shulamith Kreitler)
Chapter 6: The Social Work Point of View: Dying, Bereavement, and Coping, pp. 103-126
(Ora Gilbar)
Chapter 7: The Biological and Evolutionary Point of View:
Individual Death – A Scourge of Living Beings or a Condition for our
Existence?, pp. 127-148
(Karl Edlinger)
Chapter 8: The Philosophical Point of View: About Mortality, pp. 149-160
(Manfred Frauenlob)
Chapter 9: The Cultural Point of View: Death in Change of Times, pp. 161-174
(Elfriede Bonnet)
Chapter 10: The Religious Point of View: Death in Some Major Religious Traditions, pp. 175-190
(John D. Morgan)
Chapter 11: The Spiritual Point of View: Spiritual Care of the Dying, pp. 191-202
(Brigitte Kashtan)
Chapter 12: The Point of View of the Media:
The Commemoration of Deceased Children on the Internet, pp. 203-212
(Marga Altena, Janneke Peelen, Catrien Notermans and Eric Venbrux)
Chapter 13: The Experiential Point of View: Near-Death Experiences, pp. 213-228
(Peter Mulacz)
Part 2: Issues and Techniques
Chapter 14: Quality of Death: The Death of Sick Children, pp. 229-234
(Chaim Kaplinsky)
Chapter 15: Living and Dying with Respiratory Failure, pp. 235-246
(Ditza Gross)
Chapter 16: Death in Cancer Patients: Meanings, Attitudes and Feelings, pp. 247-258
(Shulamith Kreitler)
Chapter 17: Psychological Aspects of Suicide, pp. 259-292
(Israel Orbach)
Chapter 18: Suggestive Communication with Critically Ill Patients in the Context of Death and Dying, pp. 293-314
(Kathalin Varga)
Chapter 19: The Changing Role of the Oncologist: Meeting the Existential Needs of our Clients, pp. 315-322
(Benjamin Corn and Isaiah Wexler)
Chapter 20: How do Providers of Aid Deal with Their Own Emotions, pp. 323-330
(Gernot Sonneck and Renate Wagner)
Chapter 21: Posttraumatic Growth Following Secondary Exposure to Deadly Political Violence, pp. 331-338
(Isaiah Wexler and Shimon Shiri)
Chapter 22: Parental Bereavement, pp. 339-352
(Henya Shanun-Klein)
Chapter 23: Coping with Loss and Bereavement, pp. 353-366
(Krystyna de Walden-Galuszko)
Index, pp. 367