When we compiled this list, this book was on its 5th Edition and is another wonderful textbook from Philip A. Pecorino, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy at Queensborough Community College. The book covers many topics that we humans often try to avoid such as grief, the definition of death, transplantation and other used for dead bodies, and end of life decisions.
The materials identified in the table of contents include a mix of literature, the writings of other scholars and Pecorino. Some of the chapters take the reader to other websites.
Table of Contents for Perspectives on Death and Dying
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Literature and Death: A Case Study
- The Death of Ivan Illych – – Leo Tolstoy
- Chapter 3: Learning from the Dying
- Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life (1997) – Institute of Medicine
- On Death and Dying: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Stanford Wessler and Louis Avioli
- Care of the Dying Patient — Merck Manual of Geriatrics
- Personality, Lifestyle, and Death–Richard S. Perrotto
- Chapter 4: Caring for the Dying
- The Hospice Concept in Health Care – Kathleen Ann Allen
- Psychotherapy with the Dying Person – Joseph Culkin
- Psychotherapy and the Patient with a Limited Life Span – Lawrence LeShan & Eda LeShan
- Chapter 5: Anticipatory Grief and the Family
- Anticipatory Grief, Death, and Bereavement: A Continuum–Austin H. Kutscher
- Chapter 6: Grief
- Living with an Empty Chair – Roberta Temes
- Three Stages of Grief – Nancy Weitzman
- Chapter 7: Anthropology and Death: Different Cultures
- Death Ritual: Anthropological Perspectives – Milton Cohen
- Chapter 8: The Definition of Death
- Defining Death in Theory and Practice – James L. Bernat, Charles M. Culver, Bernard Gert
- Definition of Death – Nancy Weitzman
- Legal Definitions of Death
- Chapter 9: Transplantation and Other Uses for Dead Bodies
- Transplants, Autopsies, and Neo-Morts – Phillip A. Pecorino
- Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
- Chapter 10: End of Life Decisions
- Prolonging Life: Some Legal Considerations – George P. Fletcher
- An Irrelevant Consideration: Killing versus Letting Die – Michael Tooley
- Active and Passive Euthanasia – James Rachels
- A Living Will
- Sample Living Will
- Right to Die Laws
- Chapter 11: Infanticide
- Denying the Rights of the Retarded: The Phillip Becker Case – George J. Annas
- A Wonderful Case and an Irrational Tragedy: The Phillip Becker Case Continues – George J. Annas
- On Letting Some Babies Die – David H. Smith
- Chapter 12: Deciding Who Lives and Who Dies
- Understanding Triage: Three Sorts and Cases – Frank Braio
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