Understanding Dying, Death, and Bereavement

by Michael R. Leming, George E. Dickinson

Using a social-psychological approach, the new edition of this book remains solidly grounded in current research and theory as it offers you unrivaled insight into practices and customs from a variety of cultures. Drawing from their decades of experience as teachers and researchers, the authors integrate stimulating personal accounts with essential information to help you examine your own feelings about -- as well as cope with -- death and grieving. Numerous examples illustrate cross-cultural perspectives and the practical matters of death and dying. In addition, the new MindTap digital platform offers video resources, fieldwork style exercises and on-the-go study tools that help propel you toward course success.Important Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Sociology, Death

492 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Jessie · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you want to learn about the role of death dying and bereavement in society this book is for you. It is well-researched and straightforward. Anyone who has an interest in the funeral industry or the psychology of death I would suggest looking to this textbook.

[Valentine · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book made me sad.

[Emily Edmondson]

Just re-read this. As a CCLS, this is a great tool!

[Lesya]

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[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reading this book aquaints you with the entire concept of death, be it sudden or termial illness. I read this in a class I signed up for 2 weeks before learning my father was terminally ill. While the class was hard to stomach, I realized I picked up on a lot more than I thought from the reading later.

[Brenda · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I'm no professional on textbooks regarding death, I felt this was a text that both the professional and the layman could appreciate and offers research based ideas to spurn on further study and awareness for a culture that generally avoids the reality of death.

(For an updated 2016 edition the in-text photos were pretttyy bad, (this is not an academic note))

[Jeff · Rating 1 out of 5]

There's book education and applied education; this, unfortunately, was the former and not so much of the latter.

[Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was rather informative, but at time it could be a little repetitive.