Encyclopedia of death and dying

"In recent years there has been a massive upsurge in academic, professional and lay interest in mortality, an interest reflected in the burgeoning academic and professional literature, in the popular media, and in the proliferation of professional roles and training courses associated with aspects of death and dying." "Despite its all-prevading significance, however, the majority of reference material on death and dying has been designed for particular disciplinary audiences and has addressed only specific academic or professional concerns. There has been an urgent need for an authoritative but accessible reference work reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the field." "Consolidating and contextualizing the disparate research that has been carried out to date, the Encyclopedia of Death and Dying explores and explains the phenomena of death and dying and related concepts from the varied approaches of disciplines and related professions in the arts, social sciences, humanities, medicine and the sciences." "In addition to scholars and students in the field, the Encyclopedia will be of interest to professionals and practitioners whose work brings them into contact with dying, dead and bereaved people. The definitive death and dying reference source, it is an essential tool for teaching, research and independent study."--Jacket.

Abortion, Absurdity, Acceptance, Accidents, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome AIDS, Adolescence, Advance directives, Afterlife, Age and aging, Ahimsa, All Saints' Day, All Souls' Day, Anatomy, Ancestors, Angels, Animals. Animism. Anniversary, Announcements, Anorexia, Anthropology, Anxiety, Apocalypse, Apparition, Archaeology, Architecture, Ariès, Philippe, Ars moriendi, Art, death of, Art history, Ashes, Assassination, Assisted suicide, Association for Death Education and Counseling, Atheism, Attachment and detachment, Australia, Australian Aboriginal peoples, Autopsy. Banshee; Bells; Bentham, Jeremy; Bereavement; Bereavement, historical perspectives; Bioethics; Black Death; Blood; Body, two bodies theory; Body and the law; Bodysnackers; Bones; Bowlby, John; Brain death; Breathlessness, Buddhism; Burial rites; Burials, woodland.

Cadavers; Camps; Canada; Cancer; Candles; Capital punishment; Care; Care of the dying child; Casket; Caste; Catholicism; Causation and death; Causes of death; Cemeteries; Ceremonies; Chantries; Chaplaincy; Charnel house, Chemotherapy, Children, China, Choice, Christianity, Churchyards, Cinema, Clairvoyance, Clinical assessment, Clothes, Coffins, Coma, C…