Faced with what many were calling a dying medium, US network television producers became much more aggressive in seeking out alternative business and artistic models in the beginning of this century.
"No one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied."As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In
"How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home," says Darl Bundren in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. How much Faulkner himself is speaking may be suggested by this moving
The Attraction of Things concerns the entirety of beauty and the possibility of grace, relayed via obsessions with rare early gramophone records, the theater, translation, dying parents: all these ele
Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the mot
This book explores current human rights controversies arising in UK law, in the light of the way such matters have been dealt with in Canada.Canada’s Charter of Rights predates the United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act by some 20 years, and in the 40 years of the Charter’s existence, Canada’s Supreme Court has produced an increasingly sophisticated body of public law jurisprudence. In its judgments, it has addressed broad questions of constitutional principle relating to such matters as the meaning of proportionality, the ‘horizontal’ impact of human rights norms, and the proper role of judicial ‘dereference’ to legislative decision-making. The court has also considered, more narrowly, specific issues of political controversy such as assisted dying, voting rights for prisoners, the wearing of religious symbols, parental control of their children’s upbringing, the law regulating libel actions brought by politicians, pornography and labour rights. All of these issues are discussed in th
In the late 1910s Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, a prominent Chicago surgeon, electrified the nation by allowing the deaths of at least six infants he diagnosed as "defectives". He displayed the dying infant
While progress in Africa can be seen across the board, every day-migrants are dying in the Mediterranean. The continent is in fact a powder keg. The powder is demographics. And the detonator is unempl
Individuals with serious and incurable illnesses often require care that goes beyond the body. As they face the challenges of living with and eventually dying from their conditions, they may need to a
What is death? Do people survive death? What do we mean when we say that someone is "dying"? Presenting a clear and engaging discussion of the classic philosophical questions surrounding death, thi
This is a book about falling as a means of reconfiguring our relationship with living and dying. Dancer, choreographer, educator and therapist, Emilyn Claid, draws inspiration from her personal and pr
A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms
This major new work updates and significantly expands The Hastings Center's 1987 Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care of the Dying. Like its predecessor, this second edi
The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners. Yet we constantly live with the awareness of our vulnerability as mortals. Drawing on a range of genres, ba
Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing is the first text devoted to advanced practice nursing care of the seriously ill and dying. This comprehensive work addresses all aspects of palliative care includ
在這部頗具開創性的新作中，戴維·凱斯勒――與伊麗莎白·庫伯勒·羅斯（Elisabeth Kübler-Ross）合著了代表性的《當綠葉緩緩落下》（On Grief and Grieving）研究悲傷的專家――超越了經典的五個階段，探索第六階段：意義。1969年，伊麗莎白·庫伯勒·羅斯在她頗富變革性的作品《論死亡與臨終》（On Death and Dying）中首次定義了死亡所經歷的階段。數十年後，她和戴維·凱斯勒共同創作了被奉為經典的《當綠葉緩緩落下》（On Grief and Grieving），這部作品以同樣具有變革意義的實用性和憐憫之心詳析了悲傷的各個階段。現在，在來之不易的個人經歷和通過數十年研究悲傷所獲得了知識和智慧的基礎上，凱斯勒帶來了關鍵的第六階段。許多人在失敗後訴諸於“解脫”。凱斯勒則認為，我們大多數人都對超越悲傷階段之外的意義很熟悉――否認、憤怒、討價還價、抑鬱、接受――如此才能把悲傷轉變成一種更平和、更有希望的經歷。在這部作品中，凱斯勒給讀者提供了一個路線圖，幫他們記住那些被更多的愛而非痛苦伴隨著離世的人；他向我們展示如何以一種給我們所愛之人以榮耀的方式繼續生活。凱斯勒的洞察既專業獨到又充滿了個人色彩。他與悲傷相伴的旅程始于年幼時，在目睹了一場大規模槍殺事件的同時其母親也相繼離世。凱斯勒一生的大部分時間都在向醫生、護士、諮詢師、警察和急救人員教授有關生命終結、創傷和悲傷的內容，並幫助那些正經歷著悲痛的人敞開心扉和進行治療。儘管深諳悲傷的意義，但他的生活還是被21歲兒子的突然離世徹底顛覆了。這位悲傷專家是如何處理面對永失所愛的悲痛呢？他知道必須找到一種方式度過這樣意想不到、災難性的痛失，一種能給兒子以榮耀的方式。而這最終形成了悲傷的第六階段――意義。在追尋意義的道路上，凱斯勒與我們分享了能幫助正經歷悲痛的人們的深入洞見、凝練的智慧以及有效的工具。本書是對悲痛心理研究的最新研究結果，能幫助人們從極度悲痛中痊癒。這是一部對想要遠離痛苦、度過悲痛並追尋意義的人們而言鼓舞人心、充滿智慧的必讀讀物。
Rarely heard about in our society are caregivers' thoughts and feelings about life, death, and dying and how they act on those feelings. "For the Living: Coping, Caring and Communicating with the Term
"Meeting the Needs of Our Clients Creatively: The Impact of Art and Culture on Caregiving" is an important new work which integrates traditional understandings of care of the dying and bereaved with t
Wrestling with the Angel addresses the human struggle to cope with death, dying, grief, and bereavement. The book includes essays, a one-act play, a short story, and poetry, including shape poems, rhy
