Personal Care in an Impersonal World A Multidimensional Look at Bereavement

The purpose of this volume is to ask and propose a positive answer to the question: "Can we attend to the personhood of individuals within systems and cultures which are mass oriented?" One of the most interesting changes in contemporary thinking has been the emphasis on the unique person. While the distinction between a person (a unique rational being) and individual (one of several similar things) has long existed, it is in the twentieth century that we seem to have become fully conscious of this distinction. There is good reason for such as emphasis today. Repeatedly in this century the case of the person was deemed less important than some policy. Innocent persons slaughtered in the name of some "ism," political bombings and kidnappings, and mass unemployment to name but a few. The cause of our dehumanization seems to be the reduction of the individual person to a part of the political, economic or religious system.

Introduction John D. Morgan PART I: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONSPersonal Care in an Impersonal World Jeanne Quint Benoliel The Person: Dying and Bereaved John D. Morgan An Expanded Meaning of Caring in Palliative Care Mary Ann Morgan The Right to Die and the Need to Grieve E. W. Keyserlingk Grieving: The Pain and the Promise Deanna Edwards Pathways through Grief: A Model of the Process Karen Martin and Sandra Elder The 1990's Loss Process and Vulnerable Personalities Nan Giblin and Sr. Frances Ryan Sexual Responses to the Stimulus of Death Patricia MacElveen-Hoehn PART II: THE NEEDS OF PARTICULAR GROUPSThe Six C's of Christmas and Grief Richard J. Paul, Joan Burnett, David Hart, and Susan Brushey "It's Not Over When It's Over"—The Aftermath of Suicide Rabbi Daniel A. Roberts Role of Organ Donation in Helping Family Members Cope with Grief Maryse Pelletier SIDS: Parents' Responses Linda Ernst and John DeFrain Growing Beyond Survival: Grief Experiences of Children from Dysfunctional Families Judy Oaks PART III: LESSONS FROM TRADITIONSNative American Burial Practices Gerry R. Cox and Ronald J. Fundis Suicide Prevention Consultation in Canada's Northwest Territories: A Personal Account Ross E. Gray Psychocultural Influences on African-American Attitudes towards Death, Dying and Funeral Rites Ronald K. Barrett Funeral Customs in Thailand Michael R. Leming and Sommai Premchit Death and Bereavement among the Chinese in Asia Jiakang Wu PART IV: SPECIAL QUESTIONSHospice Future Dame Cicely Saunders Contributors Index

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