End-Of-Life Stories Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries |
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| Editor:
| Gelfand, Donald E.
Raspa, Richard
Briller, Sherylyn H.
Myers Schim, Stephanie |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8261-2676-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2005 |
| Publisher: | Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $60.00 |
Book Description:
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End-of-life experiences are often viewed in terms of only one perspective such as medicine. In this volume, a variety of end-of life experiences are presented and each case is analyzed from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. These range across a broad array of the helping professions, and disciplines such as information, law and the social sciences.
The book provides a variety of narratives about end-of-life experiences contributed by members of the Wayne State...
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End-of-life experiences are often viewed in terms of only one perspective such as medicine. In this volume, a variety of end-of life experiences are presented and each case is analyzed from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. These range across a broad array of the helping professions, and disciplines such as information, law and the social sciences.
The book provides a variety of narratives about end-of-life experiences contributed by members of the Wayne State University End-of-Life Interdisciplinary Project. Each of the narratives is then analyzed from several different disciplinary perspectives. These analyzes illustrate how specific end-of-life narratives can be viewed from different dimensions and helps students, researchers and practitioners see the important and varied meanings that end-of-life experiences have at the level of the individual, the family, and the community. The narratives include end-of-life experiences of individuals from a number of diverse backgrounds.