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LEADER: 02266cam 2200277 a 4500
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008 950322s1996 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 95013446
020 $a0312127421 (cloth)
035 $a(CSdNU)u51103-01national_inst
035 $a(OCoLC)32275372
035 $a(Sirsi) 01-AAF-4722
040 $aDLC$cDLC
049 $aCNUM
050 00 $aHQ1073$b.C66 1996
245 00 $aContemporary issues in the sociology of death, dying, and disposal / $cedited by Glennys Howarth and Peter C. Jupp.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c1996.
300 $axix, 225 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-216) and index.
505 0 $a The view from the West: reading the anthropology of non-western death ritual / Jennifer Hockey -- The social facts of death / Douglas Davies -- Change and continuity in the funeral rituals of Sikhs in Britain / Sewa Singh Kalsi -- Vile bodies and mass media chantries / Jon Davies -- Dirt, death, decay and dissolution: American denial and British avoidance / Christie Davies -- Dead beauty: the preservation, memorialization, and destruction of beauty in death / Jacque Lynn Foltyn -- Representations of 'good' and 'bad' death among deathworkers and the bereaved / Mary Bradbury -- The good death: attitudes of British Hindus / Shirley Firth -- Terminal care education for doctors / David Field -- Nurses' perceptions of stress when working with dying patients on a cancer ward / Jeanne Samson Katz -- Police coping with death: assumptions and rhetoric / Margaret Mitchell -- Death and the disease: inside the culture of childhood cancer / Stephen Ball, Sarah Bignold, Alan Cribb -- Euthanasia and assisted suicide: are doctors' duties when following patients' orders a bitter pill to swallow? / Demetra M. Pappas -- The donation of organs for transplantation: the donor families / Margaret Robbins -- Facing death without tradition / Tony Walter.
650 0 $aDeath$xSocial aspects.
700 1 $aHowarth, Glennys.
700 1 $aJupp, Peter C.
948 $a10/13/1999$b10/13/1999
999 $aHQ 1073 C66 1996$wLC$c1$i31786100750097$d5/15/2009$e9/3/2003 $f5/18/2004$g1$lCIRCSTACKS$mNULS$n12$q1$rY$sY$tBOOK$u5/7/1996$o.STAFF. Pieces: 00001