{"product_id":"dying-and-death-9789042022454","title":"Dying and Death","description":"Death is a topic people are reluctant to ponder. Neither is dying a process that is usually being openly discussed. However, on a variety of occasions, dying and death are on a person’s minds, under some sensitive circumstances, he or she are eager to discuss with a close person, a friend, a professional.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe present volume, the second in the Series on Dying and Death, is meant to enrich personal experience of dying or death by providing its reader with knowledge and understanding of some aspects of dying or death. \u003cbr\u003e\nSection 1 describes practices of mourning, in different times and places: USA during the Civil War (\u003ci\u003eAshley Byock\u003c\/i\u003e), the Island of Viz, between Croatia and Italy (\u003ci\u003eKathleen Young\u003c\/i\u003e), present day Israel (\u003ci\u003eAsa Kasher\u003c\/i\u003e), medieval Serbia (\u003ci\u003eMira Crouch\u003c\/i\u003e) and post-Holocaust USA (\u003ci\u003ePaula David\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003eSection 2 consists of reflections on mourning. It includes philosophical discussions of Friendship (\u003ci\u003eGary Peters\u003c\/i\u003e), Grace (\u003ci\u003eDana Freibach-Heifetz\u003c\/i\u003e), and the Other (\u003ci\u003eHavi Carel\u003c\/i\u003e), all in the context of mourning, as well as Mourning itself as a skill (\u003ci\u003eMarguerite Peggy Flynn\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003eSection 3 brings papers on culture and suicide, in early modern Holland (\u003ci\u003eLaura Cruz\u003c\/i\u003e), in historical Japan (\u003ci\u003eLawrence Fouraker\u003c\/i\u003e), as well as in the Jazz age (\u003ci\u003eKathleen Jones\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003eSection 4 discusses different predicaments of medics facing death and dying: terminal diagnosis (\u003ci\u003eAngela Armstrong-Coster\u003c\/i\u003e), palliative patients (\u003ci\u003eAnna Taube\u003c\/i\u003e), and the hospice setting (\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Gill\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Asa Kasher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48273751736571,"sku":"9789042022454","price":92.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_6fb9ba76-b994-45ef-9fc3-67d3b573666c.jpg?v=1773727867","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/dying-and-death-9789042022454","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}