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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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Dying children need to share their knowledge that they are dying, but they also need to have their parents with them. The author advocates a policy that allows the dying children to maintain open awareness with those who can handle it, and at the same time to maintina mutual pretense with those who want to practice it.

#SBIB:39A9 --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Terminally ill children --- Socialization. --- Leukemia in children --- Terminally Ill --- Leukemia --- 189 Kinderrechten en gezondheidszorg --- Terminal Care. --- Attitude to Death. --- Death. --- Child. --- Infant. --- Infants --- Children --- Minors --- Cardiac Death --- Determination of Death --- Near-Death Experience --- Death, Cardiac --- Thanatology --- Fatal Outcome --- Attitudes to Death --- Death, Attitude to --- Death, Attitudes to --- Death --- End of Life Care --- Care End, Life --- Care Ends, Life --- Care, Terminal --- Life Care End --- Life Care Ends --- Advance Care Planning --- Socializations --- Social Learning --- Personality Development --- Cancer in children --- Pediatric hematology --- Child socialization --- Enculturation --- Social education --- Education --- Sociology --- Child psychology --- Psychology. --- Psychological aspects. --- psychology. --- Socialization --- Leukemia. --- Leucémie chez l'enfant --- Enfants malades en phase terminale --- Enfants malades --- Anthropologie --- Psychologie --- Socialisation --- Anthropologie. --- Psychologie. --- End Of Life --- End-Of-Life --- End-Of-Life Care --- Care, End-Of-Life --- End-Of-Life Cares --- Terminal Care --- Attitude to Death --- Child --- Infant --- Psychology --- Psychological aspects --- psychology --- Leucémie chez l'enfant

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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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"Publishes open access peer-reviewed articles covering medical, psychosocial, policy, and legal issues in serious illness and end-of-life 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