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Abel, Emily K.  Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin.  1850-1940.  2000.  R727.47 A24 2000.

Alexander, Charlene M, J. et. al., eds.  Handbook of Multicultural Counseling
   2001.

Ashenburg, Katherine.  The Mourner's Dance:  What We Do When People Die.  North Point Press, 2002. GT3340 .A84 2003

Bagneris, Vernel.  Rejoice When You Die: The New Orleans Jazz Funerals.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1998. GT3211.N4 T68 1998

Becvar, D. S. In the Presence of Grief: Helping Family Members Resolve Death.  New York: Guilford Press: 2002.

Brannigan, M. and J. Boss.  Health Care Ethics in a Diverse Society.  2001.  R724 .B72 2001

Barley, Nigel.  Grave Matters: A Lively History of Death Around the World.  NY: Henry Holt, 1997. GT3150 .B34 1997

Beckwith, Carol and Angela Fisher.  African Ceremonies.  1999.  GN645 .B4 1999 (Oversize Books)

Campbell, Jean, et al. eds., Art Therapy, Race and Culture.  1999.  RC489.A7 A783 1999.

Carrese, J. A. and L. A. Rhodes.  "Western Bioethics on a Navajo Reservation:  Benefit or harm?"  Journal of American Medical Association.  274 (2004): 826-829.

Carmichael, Elizabeth and Chloe Sayer.  The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico.  Bath Press, 1992.  GT4995.A4 C37 1992

Clark, David, ed.  The Sociology of Death: Theory, Culture, Practice.  Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell, 1993.

Cohen, C. B., J. C. Heller, B. Jennings, E. F. M. Morgan, D. A. Scott, T. F. Sedgwick, and D. H. Smith.  Faithful Living, Faithful Dying.  Anglican Reflections on End of Life Care.  2000.

Counts, David R. and Dorthy A. Counts, eds.  Coping with the Final Tragedy: Cultural Variation in Dying and Grieving: Perspectives on Death and Dying Series.  Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood, 1991.   HQ1073 .C68 1991 On Reserve

Crissman, J. K.  Death and Dying in Central Appalachia.  Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Doka, Kenneth J., Bruce Jennings and Charles A. Corr, eds..  Living with Grief:  Ethical Dilemmas at the End of Life.  2004

Doka, Kenneth J. ed. and Joyce Davidson, eds.  Living with Grief: Who We Are; How We Grieve, 1998.  BF575 .G7 L592 1998

Dorff, E. Matters of Life and Death:  A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics.  1998.

Ebrahim, A. Organ Transplantation, Euthanasia, Cloning and Animal Experimentation: An Islamic View.  2001.

Fadiman, Anne.  The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down:  A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures.  1997.

Filene, Peter G.  In the Arms of Others:  A Cultural History of the Right-to-Die in America.  Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998. R726 .F45 1998

Galanti, Geri-Ann.  Caring for Patients from Different Cultures.  2004.  RT86.54 .G53 2004.

Gillman, Neil.  The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought.  Woodstock, Vt.: Jewish Lights, 1997. BM635.4 .G55 2000

Gonzalez-Crussui, F.  The Day of the Dead and Other Mortal Reflections.  NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1993.

Greenleigh, John and Rosalind Rosoff Beimler.  The Days of the Dead: Mexico's Festival of Communion with the Departed.  San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991.

Grollman, E. Living with Loss, Healing with Hope: A Jewish Perspective. 2000.

Harakas, S. Health and Medicine in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition.  1990

Hays, Pamela.  Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: A Framework for Clinicians and Counselors.  2001.

Hughes, Tonda L., Carrol Smith and Alice Dan, eds.  Mental Health Issues for Sexual Minority Women.  Redefining Women's Mental Health.  2003.  Also published as Journal of Lesbian Studies 7:1 (2003).

Hultkrantz, Ake.  Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama: Health and Medicine in Native North American Religious Tradition.  NY: Crossroad, 1992.

Irish, Donald P., Kathleen F. Lundquist, and Vivian Jenkins Nelsen, eds.  Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death, and Grief: Diversity in Universality.  1993.   R726.8 .I75 1993

Kalish, Richard A. and David K. Reynolds:  Death and Ethnicity:  A Psychocultural Study.  Perspectives on Death and Dying Series.  4.  1976. BF789 .D4 K34 1981

Kolb, Patricia J.  Caring for Our Elders: Multicultural Experiences with Nursing Home Placement.  2003. RC954.3 .K65 2003.

Kramer, Kenneth.  The Sacred Art of Dying:  How World Religions Understand Death.  NY: Paulist Press, 1988.   BL504 .K73 1988

Krishnamurti, J.  On Living and Dying.  SanFrancisco: HarperCollins, 1992.

Larson, Edward J. and Darrel W Amundsen.  Different Death: Euthanasia and the Christian Tradition.  1998.  R726 .L369 1998.

Mackler, A., ed.  Life and Death Responsibilities in Jewish Biomedical Ethics. 2000.

MacKingley, E., J. Ellor and S. Pickard, eds.  Aging, Spirituality and Pastoral Care:  A Multi-national Perspective.  2001.

Ma'sumian, Farnaz.  Life After Death:  A Study of the Afterlife in World Religions.  Oxford: Oneworld, 1995. BL535 .M37 2002

Matlins, Stuart M. and Arthur J. Magida.  How To Be a Perfect Stranger.  The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook.  3rd ed. 2003.

Medding, Peter. Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century. 1998. DS.25 .S75 No. 14 1998

Moller, David Wendell.  Dancing with Broken Bones:  Portraits of Death and Dying among Inner-City Poor.  2004.

Morgan, John D. and Pittu Laungani, eds.  Death and Bereavement Around the World.  Vol. 1:  Major Religious Traditions.  Baywood, 2002.  BL504 .D335 2002

Morgan, John D. and Pittu Laungani, eds.  Death and Bereavement Around the World.  Vol. 2:  Death and Bereavement in the Americas.  Baywood, 2003.

Morgan, John D. and Pittu Laungani, eds.  Death and Bereavement Around the World.  Vol. 3:  Death and Bereavement in Europe.  Baywood, 2004.

Morgan, John D. and Pittu Laungani, eds.  Death and Bereavement Around the World.  Vol. 4:  Death and Bereavement in Asia, Australia and New Zealand.  Baywood, 2004.

Mui, Ada C., Namkee G. Choi and Abraham Monk.  Long-Term Care and Ethnicity.  1998.  HV1465 M84 1998.

Neuhaus, Richard John, ed.  The Eternal Pity:  Reflections on Dying.  Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000.

O'Nell, Theresa DeLeane.  Disciplined Hearts: History, Identity, and Depression in an American Indian Community.  1996.  E99.S2 054 1996.

Parkes, Colin Murray, Pittu Launani,and Bill Young, eds.  Death and Bereavement Across Cultures.  NY: Routledge.   1997. BF789.D4 D343 1997

Pearson, Jane L. and Yeates Conwell, eds.  Suicide and Aging: International Perspectives.  1996.  HV6545.2 .S84 1996

Riemer, Jack, ed.  Wrestling with an Angel: Jewish Insights on Death and Mourning.  NY: Schocken, 1995.

Rispler-Chaim, V.  Islamic Medical Ethics in the Twentieth Century.  1993.

Robben, Antonius.  Death Mourning and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader. 2005

Rosenblatt, Paul C. and Beverly R. Wallace.  African American Grief.  Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement.  2005.

Ruiz, Dorothy Smith.  Amazing Grace:  African American Grandmothers as Caregivers and Conveyers of Traiditional Values.  2004  HG759.9 .R85 2004

Seale, Clive F.  Constructing Death: The Sociology of Dying and Bereavement.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. HQ1873 .S4 1998

Smith, Jane Idleman and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad.  The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection.   Oxford UP, 2002. BP166.8 .S55 2002

Stockdell, Brett.  Activism Against AIDS:  At the Intersection of Sexuality, Race, Gender, and Class.  2003.  RA643.8 .S765 2003

Sue, Derald Wing.  Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice. 4th ed. 2002.

Trotman, Frances K.  and Claire M. Brody.  Psychotherapy and Counseling with Older Women: Cross-cultural, Family, and End-of-Life Issues.  2001. RC451 .4 .A5 T76 2002

Valle, Ramon.  Caregiving Across Cultures: Working with Dementing Illness and Ethnically Diverse Populations.  1998.  RC521 .V34 1998.