Death and Dying in America

By: Andrea Fontana (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Jennifer Reid Keene (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Reviews

'This volume offers a vital new statement on the study of death and dying. Professors Fontana and Keene have written an accessible, interesting text that will serve multiple disciplines and will be appreciated by students and teachers alike. Well done!'
Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University

'The authors are to be commended for their unusually engaging and very current treatment of the issues that should be at the core of any course on death and dying. This book is particularly well suited for the rapidly increasing number of sociological courses on death and dying, but it will also work very well in many interdisciplinary courses taught in a variety of other departments. Instructors will be able to use this book as a stand alone text or to use it as a set of core readings to be supplemented by selected readings on topics of special relevance to his or her students. Of particular note is their excellent treatment of such topics as the hospice movement, grief, assisted suicide, and various forms of euthanasia.'
John Williamson, Boston College

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Part 1 Death and Culture
1. An American View of Death
2. Changing Demographic and Cultural Aspects of Death

Part 2 Death and Its Aftermath
3. Where Dying Takes Place
4. Dying
5. Funeral Rituals

Part 3 Individual and Collective Death
6. Children and Death
7. Death and Destruction

Part 4 Coping with Death
8. Giving Bad News
9. The Grieving Process
10. Life After Death

Conclusion

References

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Author Information

Andrea Fontana, Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Jennifer Reid Keene, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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