Death and Dying

PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING DEATH Introduction - Carol Komaromy Motionless Body - Seymour Fisher The Sight and Sound of Death: The Management of Dead Bodies in Residential and Nursing Homes for Older People - Carol Komaromy Foucault and the Medicalization Critique - Deborah Lupton Death and the Maiden: End-of-Life Policy in the USA - Regis A Desilva The Dying Soul: Spiritual Care at the End of Life - Mark Cobb Death and Religion - David Webster Mortality: World Variations in Death and Dying - Cathy E Lloyd PART TWO: CARING AT THE END OF LIFE Introduction - Sarah Earle A Social History of Dying - Allan Kellehear Quality End-of-Life Care: A Global Perspective - Peter A Singer and Kerry W Bowman The State of Dying - Carol Komaromy The End-of-Life and Implications for Social Work Practice - Mercedes Bern-Klug, Charles Gessert and Sarah Forbes Understanding Reproductive Loss: The Moment of Death - Sarah Earle et al What Is the Best Way to Help Caregivers in Cancer and Palliative Care? - Richard Harding and Irene J Higginson Illness and the Creative Arts: A Critical Exploration - Jacqueline H Watts PART THREE: MORAL AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN PRACTICE Introduction - Mary Twomey What Is Ethics? - Eve Garrard The Role of the Family in Patient Care - Anne-Marie Slowther Should Children's Autonomy Be Respected by Telling Them of Their Imminent Death? - T Vince and A Petros Critical Moments: Death and Dying in Intensive Care - Jane E Seymour Brain Death: A Sociological View - Allan Kellehear Palliative Care and the Doctrine of Double Effect - Stephen Wilkinson PART FOUR: EXPLORING GRIEF AND RITUAL AFTER DEATH Introduction - Sarah Earle Theories of Grief: A Critical Review - Neil Small In the Shadow of the Traditional Grave - Leonie Kellaher, David Prendergast and Jenny Hockey A Voice Unheard: Grandparents' Grief over Children Who Died of Cancer - Miri Nehari, Dorit Grebler and Amos Toren The Ritual Work of UK Childhood Bereavement Services - Liz Rolls Facilitating Bereavement Recovery and Restoring Dignity to the Genocide Victims in Rwanda - Eugenie Mukanoheli The Making of Roadside Memorials - Jennifer Clark and Majella Franzman Online Memorialization - Kylie Veale PART FIVE: RESEARCHING DEATH AND DYING Introduction - Sarah Earle Key Challenges and Ways forward in Researching the 'Good Death' - Marilyn Kendall et al Keeping the Personal Costs down: Minimizing Distress When Researching Sensitive Issues - Margo J Milne and Cathy E Lloyd The Role of the Qualitative Researcher in Loss and Grief Research - Louise Rowling Growing up with HIV: The Experiences of Young People Living with HIV since Birth in the UK - Judith Dorrell et al The Absence of Death and Dying in Intellectual Disability Research - Stuart Todd Researching Reproductive Loss - Gayle Letherby Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice in Bereavement - Bridging Work Group