Death, Dying and Bereavement by Donna L Dickenson

Death, Dying and Bereavement by Donna L Dickenson

Provides for a neglected area in the training of more than one million care workers in Britain - working with dying and bereaved people. Themes running through the book are cross-cultural and historical comparisons; ethical issues; the management of loss, control and uncertainty.

`The book does give a broad overview of many of the issues around death, dying and bereavementIt raises the reader′s awareness and encourages deeper investigation at every level. It is easy to read and therefore accessible to a wide audience. In all it is a very useful addition to the literature′ - Changes

`A fine course reader for the Open University course on Death and Dying. It is a collection of articles from every perspective′ - Social Innovations

`Provides a richly woven tapestry of personal, professional and literary accounts of death, dying and bereavement′ - Health Psychology Update

`Easy to read and refer to; it can be read in sections and made me think of issues about bereavement that I hadn′t considered. It has poems and personal accounts of grief which reminded me that bereavement is not just a topic to be learned about but a personal life event that touches us all′ - Nursing Standard

`Offers a unique collection of factual information, research, stories, poems and personal reflections. It is unusual to experience such a diversity of writings in one book and, if they were not so expertly arranged, they might prove bewildering to the reader′ - Nursing Times

`This book is clearly written for a multi-disciplinary studentship. It brings together the knowledge and skills from a multi-occupational group and thereby offers an opportunity, to whoever reads it, to enable better experiences for those who are dying and bereaved′ - Journal of Interprofessional Care

`Neither a clinical guide nor an academic critique, this unusual book is a scholarly compilation of 65 separate writings expressing diverse viewpoints on the complex human issues surrounding death.... The layout of the parts, along with the introduction and index, not only makes casual exploration easy but also lends the collection a sense of coherence, even completeness, for which the authors should be commended.... In summary, by approaching their subject through many perspectives - historical, medical, sociological, legal, theological and personal - Dickenson and Johnson have created a thoroughly readable, informative and enjoyable book which, at an affordable price, will hopefully open up new avenues of inquiry for a very wide readership. For those trying to help the dying and bereaved, this volume will inspire and move you as much as it will inform and guide your work′ - Bereavement Care

`Provides a unique overview, and in many areas, penetrating insights into various aspects of death, dying and bereavement. Aimed primarily at Open University students the book will undoubtedly find its way onto other academic courses and become a valuable reference text for professionals and laypersons caring for the dying and the bereaved. One of its major strengths is that it brings together a wide and varied discourse on death across cultures and through time.... The juxtaposition and brevity of the articles gives the reader freedom to concentrate on whole sections or merely to ′dip in and out′ of areas of interest to them′ - British Journal of Sociology

`I found I was immediately tantalised by its content and also wondered about the students and the range of experience they would bring to their study of this subject....The book does give a broad overview of many of the issues around death, dying and bereavement. It raises the reader′s awareness and encourages deeper investigation at every level. It is easy to read and therefore accessible to a wide audience. In all it is a very useful addition to the literature′ - Changes

Dickenson, Donna L.: - Donna Dickenson (b.1946) was previously Leverhulme Reader in Medical Ethics and Law at Imperial College London; she has also held positions at the Open University and Yale University. She has written, co-written or edited seven books in medical ethics, including The Cambridge Workbook in Medical Ethics (2001, with Dr Michael Parker), and has been principal investigator on several European Commission, Wellcome Trust and Department of Health projects, primarily concerned with widening ethics education for medical practitioners. Her journal of publications, about forty in all, include articles in the British Medical Journal, Journal of Medical Ethics, Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, and other leading refereed journals. She was Secretary of the fifth International Association of Bioethics conference in London and also heavily involved in organising the simultaneous Feminist Approaches to Bioethics conference. Her 1997 book, Property, Women and Politics, developed a feminist reconstruction of philosophical concepts concerning property and applied them to property in the body, particularly such issues in reproductive ethics as abortion, ownership of fetal and ovarian tissue, and contract motherhood.

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ISBN 13	9780803987975
ISBN 10	0803987978
Title	Death, Dying and Bereavement
Author	Donna L Dickenson
Series	Published In Association With The Open University
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	1993-01-28
Number of pages	336
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.