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Death
and Dying, Life and Living . MMET 31401 Kay Fowler Fall
2005
Required Texts (Ordered through Ramapo
Bookstore)
(Note: In the case of
those with asterisks ** you must
use this edition.)
(YOU
MUST USE THIS EDITION) Referred to in the syllabus as
Dickinson/Leming 8th ed. ISBN:
0-07-310204-0
**Kastenbaum: Kastenbaum, Robert. Death, Society, and
Human Experience. 8th ed. 2004 8TH EDITION (YOU
MUST USE THIS EDITION) (Appears on
syllabus as Kastenbaum) ISBN 0205381936
Lorde. Lorde, Audre. Cancer Journals. ISBN 1879960265
Schmidt and
Pizzarello. Schmidt,
Laura and Joe Pizzarello.
A Good Death: A Couple's Journey.
2004 ISBN 0963103393
Tolstoy. Tolstoy, Leo.
The
Death
of Ivan Illych.
ISBN 0553210351
Optional to
purchase:
Rinpoche,
Sogyal. The
Tibetan Book of Living
and Dying.
(The required extracts from this text will be available on WebCT.
We will be reading
around
65 pages from it. The bookstore will also have some copies in
case
you wish to purchase it and it is readily available elsewhere as well.)
Optional to purchase:
deSpelder and Strickland. A
Journey Through the Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying . A WORKBOOK
Assigned
readings available on
WebCT (Alphabetically by author -- includes optional readings):
Aaron = Kaytura
Felix Aaron and Carolyn M. Clancy, "Improving
Quality and Reducing Disparities," Journal
of the
American Medical Association, 289:8 (2/26/2003), 1033.
Albom = excerpts from Mitch
Albom. "Tuesdays
with Morrie" An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson 1997.
Alexander
= Brian Alexander. "Jitterbug" from Caregiving and Loss: Family Needs,
Professional Responses ed. Kenneth J. Doka and Joyce Davidson,
eds. 2001. 79-108.
Aries =
Aries, Phillipe. "Death Inside Out." trans. by Bernard
Murchland, rpt Peter Steinfels and Robert M. Veatch, eds. Death Inside Out: The Hastings Center
Report. Institute of Society, Ethhics and the Life
Sciences. Harper and Row. 1975.
Atwater = Lee Atwater "Lee
Atwater's Last Campaign" Life
Magazine, December, 1990.
Bertman1 = Sandra
L. Bertman. "Bearing the Unbearable: From Loss, the
Gain." The Path Ahead: Readings in Death and Dying.
ed. Lynn
Despelder. McGraw-Hill, 1995. 348-354
Bertman2 =
Sandra L. Bertman
“The Healing Power of the Arts: A Developmental Resource for
Caregivers.” from Facing
Death: Images, Insights, and
Interventions: A Handbook for Educators, Health Care Professionals, and
Counselors. NY: Hemisphere/Taylor and Francis, 1991.
Bok = Sissela Bok.
"Lying and Lies to the Sick and Dying" From Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private
Life. New York: Pantheon, 1978. From chaps. 1, 2, 6,
14, and 15.
Byock, Ira.
"The Nature
of Suffering and the Nature of Opportunity at the End of Life."
Palliative Care Service, Missoula, Montana. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine.
12:2 (May 1996): 237-252.
Caregiver Info. and Resources = a variety of PDF files on
caregiving from 2004
National Alliance of Caregiving and AARP 2004 Report on Caregivers
Carroll = Bonnie
Carroll, Lisa Hudson, and Dianne Ruby.
“Complicated Grief in the Military” from Living With Grief After Sudden
Loss: Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, Stroke, ed. Ken
A.
Doka, Hospice Foundation of America 1996. 73-87
Cleage =
Pearl Cleage. "Hospice" (1989) from The
Woman That I Am: The
Literature and Culture of Contemporary Women of Color , ed.
Soyini Madison, St. Martin's Press, 1993. 310-330.
Cummock = Victoria Cummock
“Journey of a Young Widow: The Bombing of
Pan Am 103." from
Living
With Grief After Sudden Loss: Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart
Attack, Stroke, ed. Ken A. Doka, Hospice Foundation of America
1996. 1-9.
Doka = Kenneth Doka “Sudden
Loss: Experiences with Bereavement” from Living
With Grief After Sudden Loss: Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart
Attack, Stroke, ed. Ken A. Doka, Hospice Foundation of America
1996.
11-15
Donate Life =
"You Have the Power to Donate Life" flyer on organ
and tissue donation. More information is available at
http://www.donatelife.net
Dwinnell = Jane
Dwinnell "7 Final Chapters" from Dickinson, George and
Michael R. Leming, eds. Annual
Edition: Dying, Death, and Bereavement 04/05 7th ed,
2004, 2-5.
Epic of Gilgamesh:
Epic of
Gilgamesh (3000 BCE);
Epstein = Arnold M. Epstein. "Health Care in America --
Still Too Separate, Not Yet Equal." New England Journal of Medicine.
351:6 (Aug. 5, 2004) 603-605.
Filipovic = Zlata Filipovic “Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in
Sarajevo.” The Path Ahead:
Readings in Death and Dying,
ed. Lynne Ann deSpelder and Albert Lee Strickland.
175-178
Forester-Miller
= Holly Forester-Miller, Ph. D. and Thomas Davis, Ph.
D.
"A Practitioner's Guide to Ethical Decision Making" American Counseling
Association, 1996.
Glassman = Roshi Bernard
Glassman. "There Are No Words." Shambala Sun. June 1999. 27-30.
Grollman =
Earl A.
Grollman. “What You Always Wanted to know About Your Jewish
Clients’
Perspectives Concerning Death and Dying – But Were Afraid to Ask.” Living with Grief: Who We Are; How We
Grieve. Ed. Kenneth J. Doka and Joyce D. Davidson, 1998.
27-38
Henig =
Robin Marantz Henig. "Will We Ever Arrive at the Good
Death." New York Times.
Aug. 7, 2005.
Herbert = Bob
Herbert. "Black, Dead, Invisible."
New York Times.
Apr. 8, 2005.
Hogan = Linda Hogan.
“Making Do” from The Woman That I
Am:
The Literature and Culture of Contemporary Women of Color,
ed.
Soyini Madison. NY: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1994: 200-206.
Hurston = Zora Neale
Hurston. "Wandering" Chap. 6 Dust
Tracks on a Road. 1942. 63-71.
Kelly =
Orville Kelly “Make
Today Count” from Make Today Count,
Delcorte Press, 1975.
Kubler-Ross: Elisabeth
Kubler-Ross. “What is it Like to be
Dying?” (1971) Understanding Death
and Dying: An Interdisciplinary
Approach. Ed. Sandra Galdieri Wilcox and Marilyn Sutton.
3rd ed.
Palo Alto, Ca: Mayfield, 1985. 114-123.
Lattanzi-Licht = Marcia
Lattanzi-Licht. "Hospice as a Model for Caregiving." Caregiving and Loss: Family
Needs, Professional Responses ed. Kenneth J. Doka and Joyce
Davidson, eds. 2001. 19-31.
Levine = Carol Levine.
"Introduction: Nature of Caregiving." Caregiving and Loss: Family Needs,
Professional Responses ed. Kenneth J. Doka and Joyce Davidson,
eds. 2001. 5-18.
Lord = Janice H Lord.
“America’s Number One Killer: Vehicular
Crashes. Living
With Grief After Sudden Loss: Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart
Attack, Stroke, ed. Ken A. Doka, Hospice Foundation of America
1996. 25-40.
Mathews = Jennie Mathews. "The
Grieving Child in the School Environment." Living
With Grief A School, Work, Worship, ed. Joyce Davidson and Ken
A. Doka, Hospice Foundation of America
1999. 95-113.
Mukherjee
= Bharati
Mukherjee. “The Management of Grief” in The
Middleman and Other Stories, 1988.
Okie = Susan Okie.
"Physician-Assisted Suicide: Oregon and Beyond." New England Journal of Medicine
352:16 (Apr. 21, 2005): 1627-1630.
Quill = Timothy Quill. "Terry Schiavo: A Tragedy
Compounded." New England
Journal of Medicine. 352:16 (Apr. 21, 2005): 1627-1630.
Quotes:
= Reflections on
Death and Dying
http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~kfowler/d&dquotes.html
Papyrus of Ani: Papyrus
of Ani:
Egyptian Book of the Dead (240 BCE)
Pick-Me-Ups from Lynne Ann
deSpelder and Albert Lee Strickland. A Journey Through the Last Dance:
Encountering Death and Dying: A
Workbook. 2004.
Plato: Death of Socrates:
Plato’s Apology (4 BCE) and
from Crito
Poetry: = Poems on Death and Dying
http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~kfowler/d&dpoetry.html WS
Price = David M.
Price. "Hard Choices in Hard Times: Helping
Families Make Ethical Choices in Prolonged Illness." in Caregiving and Loss: Family Needs,
Professional Responses, ed. Kenneth J. Doka and Hoyce D.
Davidson, eds. 2001, 272-286.
Raad = Shukria Alimi
Raad. “Grief: A Muslim Perspective” Living with Grief: Who We Are; How We
Grieve. Ed. Kenneth J. Doka and Joyce D. Davidson, 1998.
47-56.
Rando = Outlined notes on
Bereavement Self Help from Talk at 2004 ADEC Conference.
Rinpoche 2/3.
Rinpoche 2/3 = Sogyal Rinpoche: Ch. 2 “Impermanence” and Ch. 3
“Reflection and
Change” in Tibetan Book of Living
and Dying. 7-40
Rinpoche 11.
Rinpoche11 = Sogyal Rinpoche: Ch. 11 “Heart Advice on Helping the
Dying”
in Tibetan
Book of Living and Dying 173-186.
Sacks1 = Oliver Sacks. “A Passage to India”
from Man Who
Mistook His Wife for a Hat. 153-155.
Sacks2 = Oliver
Sacks. “Rebecca” from Man Who
Mistook His
Wife for a Hat. 178-186.
Satel = Sally Satel. "Doctors
Behind Bars: Treating Pain is Now Risky Business." New York Times. Occt. 19,
2004.
Schulman,
et. al. = Kevin A..
Schulman, M. D. et. al.
"The Effect of Race and Sex on Physician's Recommendations for Cardiac
Catherization" New England Journal
of Medicine 340:618-626 (Feb. 25, 1999), Selection
Schwartz =
Morrie Schwartz. Morrie:
In His Own Words
(formerly Letting Go) 1996
Silvera = Janmarie
Silvera. “Crossing the Border” The
Path Ahead: Readings in Death and Dying,
ed. Lynne Ann deSpelder and Albert Lee Strickland. 301-302. HO
Simon
= Rachel Simon. "January: The Journey" excerpt from Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life
Journey. 2002.
Thomas = Jack
Thomas "Facing a Fatal Disease, Morris Schwartz Teaches How to Live
Until the Last Moment" Boston Globe
3/9/1995
Tibetan Book of the Dead,
extract: http://reluctant-messenger.com/Tibetan-Book-Dead_Evans-Wentz.htm
Tierney = John Tierney.
"Punishing Pain." New York Times.
July 19, 2005.
Treas/Jeffery = Judith Treas. "Older Americans in the 1990's and Bey0ond" from Population Bulletin. May 1995: 2-10 and Margo Jefferys. "A New Way of Seeing Old Age is Needed." World Health Magazine. Sep/)ct. 1996: 26-27. Reprinted together in from Dickinson, George and Michael R. Leming, eds. Annual Edition: Dying, Death, and Bereavement 98/99 ed, 1998.
Upanishad: Katha
Upanishad (1400-800 BCE);
Walters = Anna Lee Walters
"Buffalo Wallow Woman" (1992) in Walking
the
Twilight II: Women Writers of the Southwest, ed. Kathryn Wilder.
Flagstaff: Northland, 1996, 229-243 or in Reinventing the Enemy's
Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America
;
Ed. Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird, NY: Norton, 1997, 533-548
Welford = J. Mack Welford,
“American Death and Burial Custom:
Derivation from Medieval European Culture” (1992) from Dickinson, George and
Michael R. Leming, eds. Annual
Edition: Dying, Death, and Bereavement 04/05 7th ed,
2004, 1.4:17-20
Wilder = Ron E. Wilder.
“Sexual Orientation and Grief” Living
with Grief: Who We Are; How We
Grieve. Ed. Kenneth J. Doka and Joyce D. Davidson, 1998.
47-56.
Worden = J. William Worden and
James R. Monahan. “Caring for
Bereaved Parents: Interaction Goals” excerpted from
Caring for Bereaved Parents by J. William
Worden and James R. Monahan in Armstorng-Dailey, A. and Goltzer, S.
Hospice Care for Children. NY: Oxford 1993
16-19
Ziegler = Jan Ziegler How
Corporations Cope When Death Intrudes. Business and Health. Nov. 1996
31-42
Zinner =
Ellen S. Zinner. “Group Survivorship: Effective Mourning Within
the Organization.” 20-21