End-Of-Life Stories
Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
Seiten
2005
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-2675-7 (ISBN)
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-2675-7 (ISBN)
Presents a variety of end-of life experiences and each case is analyzed from many disciplinary perspectives. The analyses illustrate how specific end-of-life narratives can be viewed from different dimensions. This book helps students, researchers and practitioners see the meanings that end-of-life experiences have at the level of the family.
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 analyses 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.
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 analyses 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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.5.2005 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 340 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8261-2675-8 / 0826126758 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8261-2675-7 / 9780826126757 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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