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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
An integrated approach to generic palliative care	Jenny Buckley	This evidence-based text brings together the theory and practice of palliative care. It examines at all aspects of palliative care i.e. psycho social, spiritual and physical in a highly practical way…	OL13758182W
Escape from Evil	Ernest Becker	An exploration of the natural history of evil.	OL154567W
Last rights	Stephen P. Kiernan	"Up to the 1970s, most Americans died swiftly: of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, or in accidents. But in the past three decades, medical advances have extended our lives and changed the way we die. …	OL15843716W
Choices for living	Thomas S. Langner	"Although many books are written about bereavement, and focus chiefly on terminal illness, very few are written about the fear of one's own death. In contrast, this book looks at the way in which the…	OL16969813W
The best care possible	Ira Byock	It is harder to be seriously ill - and much harder to die - than ever before. These days, we effectively treat diseases, but often overlook the priorities of the people who are ill. As a result, too …	OL17916473W
Knocking on heaven's door	Katy Butler	"An exquisitely written, expertly reported memoir and expose; of modern medicine that leads the way to more humane, less invasive end-of-life care based on the author's acclaimed New York Times Magaz…	OL18168823W
Ethical issues in death and dying	Robert F. Weir	The first edition of this book was published in 1977. At that time the field of thanatology, the study of death and dying, was still reasonably new and was dominated by research done by psychiatrists…	OL18220454W
Tuesdays with Morrie	Mitch Albom	Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir by American author Mitch Albom about a series of visits Albom made to his former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz gradually dies of ALS. The book topp…	OL1822313W
Handbook of death & dying	Clifton D. Bryant	"More than 100 scholars contributed to this carefully researched, well-organized, informative, and multi-disciplinary source on death studies. Volume 1, "The Presence of Death," examines the cultural…	OL18362832W
Existential and spiritual issues in death attitudes	Adrian Tomer,Grafton Eliason,Paul T. P. Wong	Existential and Spiritual Issues in Death Attitudes provides: an in-depth examination of death attitudes, existentialism, and spirituality and their relationships; a review of the major theoretical m…	OL18397916W
The study of dying	Allan Kellehear	"What is it really like to die? Though our understanding about the biology of dying is complex and incomplete, greater complexity and diversity can be found in the study of what human beings encounte…	OL18569657W
Reconstructing illness	Anne Hunsaker Hawkins	xxii, 289 pages ; 22 cm	OL1926550W
No new baby	Marilyn Gryte	After her unborn sibling dies, a young child tells how she feels about the baby's death and how her grandmother explains it.	OL1985758W
What's heaven?	Maria Shriver	After her great-grandmother's death, a young girl learns about heaven by asking her mother all kinds of questions.	OL1998033W
A parent's guide to raising grieving children	Phyllis R. Silverman	When children lose someone they love, they lose part of their very identity. Life, as they knew it, will never be quite the same. The world that once felt dependable and safe may suddenly seem a frig…	OL1998984W
Preparing for death, remembering the dead	Tarald Rasmussen,Jon Øygarden Flæten	Death and dying were not in the main focus of the denominational conflicts of the 16th century. However, pious literature covered these topics again and again, not only before the Reformation, but af…	OL20974394W
Est-ce que tout le monde meurt?	Lynne Pion	"Une histoire pour les enfants de 5 à 105 ans qui permettra, je le souhaite, de "détaboutiser" la mort et le deuil dans les foyers. Un livre écrit pour les enfants avec les vrais mots et les vraies é…	OL24263609W
La chaleur du coeur empêche nos corps de rouiller	Marie de Hennezel	Psychologue clinicienne, M. de Hennezel montre que la vieillesse n'est pas synonyme de solitude, de souffrance et de dépendance. Une invitation à suivre l'élan vital du désir pour faire face à cette …	OL24276066W
Talking about death	Earl A. Grollman	A read-along picture book explaining death to young children with an extensive guide for parents. Includes lists of pertinent organizations, books, tapes, and films.	OL2651048W
What is Death?	Tyler Volk	what is death?A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of LifeAnswering the question "What is death?" by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention to a narrow zone around the individual b…	OL2686842W