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Pet Death
Sandra Helene Straub
In Pet Death, the author addresses issues and feelings commonly encountered after the death of a pet. Practical guidelines are provided for coping with feelings of loss and sorrow. Many questions arise from the difficult topic of euthanasia, and in this book, the medical aspect of this procedure is explained in plain language. "Are your other pets grieving?" and "Should I get another pet right away?" are other questions addressed. Dr. Straub and others openly share their personal accounts of pet loss.
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Re-membering Lives: Conversations with the Dying and the Bereaved
Lorraine Hedtke and John Winslade
The book demonstrates and illustrates the practical implications of recent and radically divergent thinking in the field of death and grief. It is a book that has the potential to startle and at the same time to bring fresh hope and comfort to many who walk in the valley of the shadow of death.
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Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication Volume II: Strategies for Professional Status
Edited by Teresa Kynell-Hunt and Gerald J. Savage
In Strategies for Professional Status, Volume II of Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication, the contributors—well-known academics and practitioners in technical communications—set out to redefine and reconceive the role of the technical communicator.
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Suicide by Cop: Committing
Suicide by Provoking Police to Shoot You
Mark S. Lindsay and David Lester
The phenomenon of suicide by cop has increased in
frequency in recent years, creating great concern in the law
enforcement community. This book examines what we know about
the phenomenon of suicide by cop and places this behavior in
a broader context.
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Death and Bereavement Around the World, Volume 3: Death and Bereavement in Europe
Edited by John D. Morgan and Pittu Laungani
Deals with attitudes toward death and bereavement, funeral practices, and end of lifecare in Europe.
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Responding to Loss: A Resource for Caregivers
Adolf M. Hansen
Everyone experiences loss, and learning how to respond to loss is crucial. That’s what this book is about. It analyzes attachments, breaks in attachments, and responses to the change. It makes sense of the processes people go through when confronted with loss.
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Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being: Controversies and Developments
Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner
The field of social inequalities in health continues its vigorous growth in the early years of the 21st century. This volume is a compilation of recent contributions to the areas of social epidemiology, health disparities, health economics, and health services research.
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Sorrow & Solace: The Social World of the Cemetery
Philip Bachelor
With this book, Philip Bachelor makes an important contribution to contemporary knowledge of bereavement, mourning, and commemoration. The text focuses on the importance of cemeteries in the lives of everyday mourners, and ways in which our bereaved give meaning to and draw value from their commemorative activities.
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The Political and Social Contexts of Health
Vicente Navarro
This analysis of the political and social forces that shape the well-being and quality of life of populations in developed capitalist countries is written by scholars based in several different countries.
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