Dealing with Death
Chapman and Hall (Verlag)
978-0-412-36410-5 (ISBN)
Aimed at health care professionals and their colleagues, ministers of religion and funeral directors, this comprehensive work of reference describes the complex procedures required when someone dies. The information should be of value to all those who are concerned with the correct handling of situations as diverse as fatal mass disasters and the rites that are associated with those who hold unfamiliar religious beliefs. The guide is in three parts: legal and technical aspects; considerations for the living, care of the dying, and death with dignity; and religious, ethnic and cultural aspects of dying and death. The author combines medico-legal facts and practical, sensitive advice.
Part 1 Legal and technical aspects: customs and laws; medical certification of cause of death; registration of death; coroners and coroner's inquiries; stillbirth and death in infancy - certification and registration; the autopsy and mortuary practice; funeral direction and disposal by burial; disposal by cremation; organ and tissue donation and transplantation; the law and practice of exhumation; fatal mass disasters. Part 2 Considerations for the living, care of the dying, and death with dignity: palliative care; last offices; bereavement; the control of infection in life and in death. Part 3 Religious, ethnic and cultural aspects of dying and death: Christianity and the Sacraments; the Anglican Church (the Church in Wales, the Church in Ireland, the Episcopalian Church in Scotland); the Roman Catholic Church; free Churches and other Churches; Jehovah's witnesses; the Mormon Church; Christian Science; the Afro-Caribbean community; Rastafarianism; the Jewish faith; Buddhism; the Baha'i faith; Islam; Hinduism; Sikhism; Zoroastrians (Parsees); AIDS. Appendices: Organizations which may be able to offer help with various aspects of death; U.K. departments of forensic medicine.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.1.1991 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XIX, 274 p. |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| Schlagworte | Death • Medicine • Public Health |
| ISBN-10 | 0-412-36410-7 / 0412364107 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-412-36410-5 / 9780412364105 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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