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Scholars contributing to this special issue on “Family Communication at the End of Life” have provided evidence that communication is vital for terminally ill individuals, family members, and healthcare/palliative care specialists. Overall, the fifteen articles in this special issue focus on five questions: First, what are the trends regarding different approaches for beginning the conversation about death and dying earlier rather than later? Second, who is making the end of life decisions and how are they made? Third, how does age and disease impact the way that families communicate at the end of life? Fourth, how does good communication (i.e., satisfying for all participants, effective for addressing needs, fulfilling goals) impact the myriad of complex issues at the end of life? Fifth, what is the significance of exploring and valuing the perspective of the family members’ experiences and recollections of their communication at the end of life with their terminally ill family member as well as with the healthcare providers? Overall, the scholars emphasize that focusing on family communication at the end of life is crucial for improving medical, psychological, and relational outcomes for those dealing with the death and dying process.
end of life --- communication --- family --- death and dying --- palliative care --- healthcare
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Laughter, contemporary theory suggests, is often aggressive in some manner and may be prompted by a sudden perception of incongruity combined with memories of past emotional experience. Given this importance of the past to our recognition of the comic, it follows that some ""traditions"" dispose us to ludic responses. The studies in Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture examine specific interactions of text (jokes, poetry, epitaphs, iconography, film drama) and social context (wakes, festivals, disasters) that shape and generate laughter. Uniquely, however,
Death. --- Death --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Folklore --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Philosophy
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Healthcare ethics cannot be limited in scope to apply only to the patient but needs to apply to the healthcare practitioner as well. The relationship between the patient and the healthcare practitioner has shifted from a power relationship to a complementary relationship. Leadership, mentorship and coaching play important roles in facilitating this shift. Several themes informed this book on healthcare ethics: Vulnerability in healthcare ethics, Decisions between right and wrong, Quality of healthcare, Life-ending decisions, Community-based research, Ethical decision-making, Spritiuality in healthcare
Medical ethics & professional conduct --- healthcare ethics --- introduction --- vulnerability --- right and wrong --- quality --- approach --- influence --- culture --- values --- faith --- end-of-life --- decisions --- human rights --- euthanasia --- community --- participatory --- research --- ethical issues --- impact --- healthcare practitioners --- decision-making --- processes --- spirituality.
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The human body is the locus of meaning, personhood, and our sense of the possibility of sanctity. The desecration of the human corpse is a matter of universal revulsion, taboo in virtually all human cultures. Not least for this reason, the unburied corpse quickly becomes a focal point of political salience, on the one hand seeming to express the contempt of state power toward the basic claims of human dignity--while on the other hand simultaneously bringing into question the very legitimacy of that power. In Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead, James Martel surveys the power of the body left unburied to motivate resistance, to bring forth a radically new form of agency, and to undercut the authority claims made by state power. Ranging across time and space from the battlefields of ancient Thebes to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, and taking in perspectives from such writers as Sophocles, Machiavelli, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Judith Butler, Thomas Lacqueur, and Bonnie Honig, Martel asks why the presence of the abandoned corpse can be seen by both authorities and protesters as a source of power, and how those who have been abandoned or marginalized by structures of authority can find in a lifeless body fellow accomplices in their aspirations for dignity and humanity.
Society & culture: general --- Dead --- Death --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Philosophy
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Modern biomedical technologies managed to revolutionise the End-of-Life Care (EoLC) in many aspects. The dying process can now be “engineered” by managing the accompanying physical symptoms or by “prolonging/hastening” death itself. Such interventions questioned and problematised long-established understandings of key moral concepts, such as good life, quality of life, pain, suffering, good death, appropriate death, dying well, etc. This volume examines how multifaceted EoLC moral questions can be addressed from interdisciplinary perspectives within the Islamic tradition. Contributors Amir Abbas Alizamani, Beate Anam, Hamed Arezaei, Asma Asadi, Pieter Coppens, Hans Daiber, Khalid Elzamzamy, Mohammed Ghaly, Hadil Lababidi, Shahaboddin Mahdavi, Aasim Padela, Rafaqat Rashid and Ayman Shabana. تمكنت التكنولوجيا الحديثة في المجالات الطبية والحيوية من إحداث ثورة في مجال الرعاية الصحية عندما يكون المريض على مشارف نهاية العُمْر. فأصبح من الممكن الآن «هندسة» بعض جوانب مرحلة الاحتضار، وذلك بإدارة الأعراض الجسدية المصاحبة ومحاولة تأخير أو تعجيل حدث الوفاة. وقد أثار هذا النوع من التدخلات الطبية أسئلة وإشكالات معقدة حول عدد من المفاهيم الأخلاقية ضاربة الجذور في التراث الإسلامي خاصة، وفي الإرث الإنساني عامة، كمفاهيم: الحياة الطيبة وجودة الحياة والألم والمعاناة والميتة الصالحة. تقدم البحوث المنشورة في هذا الكتاب نماذج لكيفية معالجة هذه الأسئلة والإشكالات المتعددة الجوانب من خلال النظر في عدد من العلوم الإسلامية والمجالات المعرفية ذات الصلة. المساهمون حامد آرضائي، وأسماء أسدي، وبياته أنعم، وعاصم پادلا، وهانس دايبر، ورفقات رشيد، وخالد الزمزمي، وأمير عباس علي زماني، وأيمن شبانة، ومحمد غالي، وپيتر كوپنس، وهديل لبابيدي، وشهاب الدين مهدوي.
Death --- Terminal care --- Islamic ethics. --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Muslim ethics --- Religious ethics --- End-of-life care --- Terminally ill --- Care of the sick --- Critical care medicine --- Death (Islam) --- Care and treatment --- Medical care
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When, why and how was it first believed that the corpse could reveal ‘signs’ useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine , edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, shows how in the late Middle Ages the dead body, which had previously rarely been questioned, became a specific object of investigation by doctors, philosophers, theologians and jurists. The volume sheds new light on the elements of continuity, but also on the effort made to liberate the semantization of the corpse from what were, broadly speaking, necromantic practices, which would eventually merge into forensic medicine.
Autopsy --- Dead --- Death --- Forensic pathology --- Human anatomy --- History. --- Identification. --- Proof and certification --- Study and teaching --- Anatomy, Human --- Anatomy --- Human biology --- Medical sciences --- Human body --- Pathology, Forensic --- Medical jurisprudence --- Pathology --- Coroners --- Medical examiners (Law) --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Identification of the dead --- Necropsy --- Necroscopy --- Post-mortem examinations --- Postmortem examinations --- Postmortems --- Anatomy, Pathological --- Dead bodies (Law) --- Human dissection --- Philosophy --- Causes --- European history
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The Japanese have ambivalent attitudes toward death, deeply rooted in pre-Buddhist traditions. In this scholarly but accessible work, authors Iwasaka and Toelken show that everyday beliefs and customs--particularly death traditions--offer special insight into the living culture of Japan. The Japanese have ambivalent attitudes toward death, deeply rooted in pre-Buddhist traditions. In this scholarly but accessible work, authors Iwasaka and Toelken show that everyday beliefs and customs--particularly death traditions--offer special insight into the living culture of Japan.
Death -- Japan -- Folklore. --- Death -- Social aspects -- Japan. --- Folklore -- Japan. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Japan. --- Japan -- Social life and customs. --- Legends -- Japan -- History and criticism. --- Legends -- Japan. --- Folklore --- Death --- Legends --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- J4157 --- J4120 --- J1715.50 --- J1740 --- J1723.80 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture -- treatment of the dead and funerals --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social psychology and social-cultural phemomena --- Japan: Religion in general -- theology -- mortality, immortality, transmigration --- Japan: Religion in general -- occultism --- Japan: Religion in general -- demonology --- History and criticism. --- Japan --- Social life and customs. --- Dying --- End of life --- Folk-lore, Japanese --- Folk tales --- Traditions --- Urban legends --- Philosophy --- Folklore. --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social psychology and social-cultural phenomena
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This work is a study of roadside crosses in which the author presents the history of these unique commemoratives and their relationship to contemporary memorial culture.
Crosses. --- Death. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Roadside architecture. --- Crosses --- Roadside architecture --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death --- Archaeology --- History & Archaeology --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Austin (Tex.) --- Social life and customs. --- Dying --- End of life --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Roadside buildings --- Roadside commercial buildings --- Calvaries --- Crucifixes --- Roods --- Philosophy --- Ostin (Tex.) --- City of Austin (Tex.) --- Горад Осцін (Tex.) --- Horad Ostsin (Tex.) --- Осцін (Tex.) --- Ostsin (Tex.) --- Остин (Tex.) --- Ωστιν (Tex.) --- Aŭstino (Tex.) --- 오스틴 (Tex.) --- Osŭt'in (Tex.) --- אוסטין (Tex.) --- Austinopolis (Tex.) --- Ostina (Tex.) --- Ostinas (Tex.) --- オースティン (Tex.) --- Остін (Tex.) --- Ostins (Tex.) --- 奧斯汀 (Tex.) --- Aositing (Tex.) --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Commercial buildings --- Signs and symbols --- Crucifixion --- Waterloo (Tex.) --- Cryomation
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This Special Issue of the journal Children constitutes an opportune moment to reflect on the psychosocial needs of children living with rare diseases and of their families. As medical advances, treatments, and developments have enabled many of these children to survive infancy and to live into adulthood, progress brings with it concerns and opportunities to enhance the psychosocial quality of life of children living with rare diseases, and of their families. This Special Issue reflects the current state of psychosocial research, which is primarily qualitative in nature. There are no scientifically rigorous randomized clinical trials to create an evidence base of effective psychosocial interventions for the provision of care to children with rare diseases and to their families; nevertheless, the papers within this Special Issue provide a reflection on the state of the science, including ideas about future research and practice. In this next section we share observations about the contributions made by each of the 13 articles, which cover a diverse range of topics.
Psychology --- cancer --- childhood cancer --- adaptation --- psychological --- neoplasm --- oncology --- sibling --- social support --- social adjustment --- palliative care --- end-of-life care --- equity --- public health approach --- compassionate communities --- caregiving --- parents --- psychosocial support --- rare disease --- advance care planning --- decision-making --- family caregiver --- psychosocial care --- communication --- pediatric --- adolescents and young adults --- healthcare needs --- chronic illness --- AYA transition --- Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome --- emotional-behavioral problems --- psychosocial difficulties --- psychomotor development --- preschool-age children --- pediatric chronic illness --- rare diseases --- family caregivers --- gender differences --- genetic or rare diseases --- health outcomes --- illness perception --- parenting stress --- siblings --- bereavement --- emotions --- psychosocial distress --- pediatrics --- complex chronic conditions --- pediatric to adult transition --- special needs --- interventions --- care coordination --- transition readiness --- family burden --- parental need --- urea cycle disorders --- E-IMD --- inherited metabolic diseases --- medullary thyroid carcinoma --- psychosocial --- young adults --- life-limiting conditions --- adolescents --- age-appropriate --- development --- cognitive functions --- children --- families --- medical complexity --- policy --- advocacy --- n/a --- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
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