Death, Dying and Bereavement

Abstract

Introduction to Second Edition - Jeanne Katz PART ONE: LIFE AND DEATH Introduction - Jeanne Katz Death in Staithes - David Clark Death Denied - Philippe Ari[ac]es Death in the News - Tony Walter, Jane Littlewood and Michael Pickering The Public Invigilation of Private Emotion Approaches to Death in Hindu and Sikh Communities in Britain - Shirley Firth Demographic Change and the Experience of Dying - Clive Seale Health Policy and Services for Dying People and Their Careers - Christina R Victor Sudden Death from Suicide - Stella Ridley The Dream - T R S The Good Death? - Mary Bradbury Little Henry or, God Will Take Care of Me - H M Benson Death Be Not Proud - John Donne Aubade - Philip Larkin Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas The Prophet - Kahil Gibran Doctor's Mask on Pain - Jane Martin Spiritual Care of Dying People - Alyson Peberdy Death and the Meaning of Life - Leo Tolstoy PART TWO: CARING FOR DYING PEOPLE Introduction - Jeanne Katz Extending Specialist Palliative Care to All? - David Field and Julia Addington-Hall The Case for Palliative Care in Residential and Nursing Homes - Moyral Sidell, Jeanne Katz and Carol Komaromy Complementary Medicine - Patrick C Pietroni Its Place in the Care of Dying People Speaking Out - Sarah Palmer Caring for Mother - Susan Leifer Plus Postscript Living with MS - Richard Were Saturday Times Column 3.10.98 - John Diamond The Alphabet - Jean-Dominique Bauby Communication in Palliative Care - Robert Buckman A Practical Guide Saturday Times Column 23.1.99 - John Diamond Communicating with Dying Children - Dorothy Judd Jewish Perspectives on Death, Dying and Bereavement - Jeanne Samson Katz The Syllabus - Mitch Albom Dying Trajectories, the Organization of Work and Expectations of Dying - Anselm Strauss Sitting It Out - Elizabeth Dean A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir Teach Me to Hear Mermaids Singing - Clare Vaughan PART THREE: DILEMMAS AND DECISIONS AT THE END OF LIFE Introduction - Jeanne Katz Learning the Hard Way - Clare Williams Somebody Loves Me - Anthony Masters The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy Intimacy and Terminal Care - Judy Gilley The Use of Deception in Nursing - Kevin Teasdale and Gerry Kent Do-Not-Resusciate Decisions - Johannes J M van Delden The 'Blue-Spotted' Patient - Basiro Davey Do-not-resuscitate decisions in the acute surgical wards of a district general hospital. The Main Tradition - Fiona Randall and R S Downie Right to Die or Duty to Live? - William Grey The Problem of Euthanasia Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide - Luke Gormally Seven Reasons Why They Should Not be Legalized A Student's Story - Anonymous Betting Your Life - Christopher James Ryan An Argument against Certain Advance Directives Palliative Care and the Doctrine of Double Effect - Stephen Wilkinson Palliative Care and the Ethics of Resource Allocation - Eve Gerrard On Withholding Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill - Gillian M Craig Has Palliative Care Medicine Gone Too Far? On Withholding Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill - R J Dunlop, J E Ellershaw, M J Baines, N Sykes and C M Saunders Has Palliative Medicine Gone Too Far? A Reply PART FOUR: BEREAVEMENT: PRIVATE GRIEF, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY Introduction - Jeanne Katz Bereavement as a Psychosocial Transition - Colin Murray Parkes Processes of Adaptation to Change The Social Distribution of Sentiments - Lindsay Prior Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Bereavement - Shirley Firth I Desperately Needed to See My Son - Sheila Awooner-Renner A Single Parent Confronting the Loss of an Only Child - Evelyn Gillis Epitaph of Libby Dickenson, 1798-1818 - Anonymous Care of the Suddenly Bereaved - D W Yates, G Ellison and S McGuiness Pregnancy Loss and the Death of a Baby - Nancy Kohner Parents' Choices When a Baby Dies - Gavin Fairbairn A Father's View Gay and Lesbian Bereavement - Dudley Cave The Grief That Does Not Speak - Maureen Oswin Personal and Medical Memories from Hillsborough - Tom Heller Ruth - Lesley Moreland Death by Murder Essays upon Epitaphs - William Wordsworth December - Douglas Dunn