Death and Dying Spring 2004 Syllabus

General Resources  |  Information, Statistics, and Research | Individual Writers/Thinkers | Narratives/Memoirs |

Special Topics:| Aging/Gerontology | AIDS | Alzheimers/Dementia | Anticipatory Mourning | Art  Therapy | Cancer | Caregiving | Children & Dying | Children & Grief  | Class Issues | Complicated Mourning |  Counseling the Bereaved | Death Penalty | Disasters/Traumas | Domestic Violence | Dying Process/Experience | Ethics/Social Issues in D&D | Gender Issues | Grief/Bereavement | GLBT and Grief  | Historical Death and Dying  |  Hospice | Literature |Loss of a Child| Loss of a Partner/Spouse | Loss of a Parent | Men and Grief | Music and Grief | Nursing Homes/Assisted Living | Palliative Care | Race/Ethnicity Issues |  Rituals/Funerals etc. |Spirituality and Sacred Texts | Sudden Death | Suicide | Violent Death |

General Resources:

Bryant, Clifton D., ed.  Handbook of Death and Dying.  2003.  REFERENCE.  HQ1073 .H36 2003.

DeSpelder, Lynn.  The Last Dance:  Encountering Death and Dying, 6th ed.  McGraw-Hill, 2001.

DeSpelder, Lynn, ed.  The Path Ahead:  Readings in Death and Dying.  McGraw-Hill, 1995.

DeVries, Brian, ed.  End of Life Issues:  Interdisciplinary and Multidimensional Perspectives.  1999.  HQ1073 .E56 1999.

Dudley, William, ed. Death and Dying: Opposing Viewpoints (H31.062 D28 1992)

Kastenbaum, Robert, ed.  Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying.  2003.  REFERENCE HQ1073.M33 2003

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth, M. D. and David Kessler.  Life Lessons: Two Experts on  Death and Dying Teach Us about the Mysteries of Life and Living 2000.  BJ1581.2 K83 2000.

Morgan, Ernest.  Dealing Creatively with Death : A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial.  Jennifer Moran, ed. Hinesburg, Va: Upper Access Book Publishers, 2001.

Muter, Annemarie, ed.  Death and Dying Sourcebook:  Basic Consumer Health: Information for the Layperson About End-of-Life Care and Related Ethical and Legal Issues.  (Ramapo says on order)

Rinpoche, Sogyal.  Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.  BQ7640 .S64 1992

Seale, C. Constructing Death: The Sociology of Dying and Bereavement.  Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Spiro, Howard M., Mary G. McCrea Curnen, and Lee Palmer Wandel, eds.  Facing Death:  Where Culture, Religon, and Medicine Meet.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1996.  

Torr, James D. and Laura K. Egendorf.  Problems of Death:  Opposing Viewpoints.  2000.  H31 .O62 P97 2000.

End of Life Internet Resources:  http://www.qlmed.org/end-of-life/url.html

Death and Dying Resources, Global Ideas Bank:  http://www.globalideasbank.org/death.html

ADEC D&D web links:  http://www.adec.org/links/index.htm

Yahoo Directory to Death and Dying Resources:  http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Death_and_Dying/

National Public Radio Web Resources:  http://www.npr.org/programs/death/resources.html

American Death Education and Counseling:  http://www.adec.org/

Annual Editions, Death, Dying and Bereavement weblinks:  http://www.dushkin.com/online/get-isbn.mhtml?isbn=0072479906#sect_1

PBS Bill Moyers On Our Own Terms site and supplemental resources:  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms/

PBS With Eyes Open series and resources:  http://www.pbs.org/witheyesopen/

Information, Statistics and Research:

Centers for Disease Control: http://www.cdc.gov  

Centers for Disease Control Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report:  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/

Causes of Death Reports (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control): http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus.html

Dept. of Health and Human Services: Measuring Health Care Quality:  http://www.ahcpr.gov/

Virtual Library on Demography and Population Studies:  http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/

Compassion Books: http://www.compassionbooks.com  

Individual Writers and Thanatologists:
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth, M. D. To Live Until We Say Goodbye. Photographs by Mal Warshaw.  Text by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M. D. Ross Medical, 1978.

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth, M. D. The Wheel oof Life:  A Memoir of Living and Dying. NY: Touchstone, 1997.

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth, M. D.   On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families.  1997-1969.  BF789.D4 K8 1997

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth, M. D. and David Kessler.  Life Lessons: Two Experts on  Death and Dying Teach Us about the Mysteries of Life and Living 2000.  BJ1581.2 K83 2000.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross:  http://www.elisabethkublerross.co

Narratives/Memoirs/Autobiographical Accounts

Armstrong, Lance.  It's Not About the Bike.  (Testicular Cancer)

Bennet, Cherie.  Zink.  1999 (fictional account of child with leukemia based on real life.)

DeBeauvoir, Simone.  A Very Easy Death.  1964.  Engl. Trans. 1965 (mother's death from cancer)

Frank, Arthur.  At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness, 2002.  (Heart attack and cancer)

Gunther, John. Death Be Not Proud.  Harper Perennial 1965. (brain tumor)  CT275 .G855 A3 1966.

Hall, Doris and Ken.  Go Out and Live: A 27-Year Journey of Change.  Doris and Ken Hall, 2003 (cancer)

Lorde, Audre.  The Cancer Journals.  1980 (breast cancer)

Nouwen, Henri J. M.  Beyond the Mirror:  Reflections on Death and Life.  1990. (Car accident)

Pulleyblank, F. F. and T. Valva:  My Symptom is Stillness: An ALS Story. (1991) (ALS)

Radner, Gilda.  It's Always Something.  1989 (ovarian cancer)

Schwartz, Morrie.  Morrie: In His Own Words.  Morrie Schwartz, 1996.  (ALS)

Shames, Laurence and Peter Barton.   Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived.  Rodale, 2003.  (Stomach cancer)

Special Topics

Aging/Elderly/Gerontology

Holstein, Martha B.,  Phyllis B. Mitzen, eds.  Ethics in Community-Based Elder Care. 2nd ed.  "No item data available."

Janicki, Matthew P. and Arthur J. Dalton.  Dementia, Aging and Intellectual Disabilities: A Handbook.  1999. RC523 .D455 1999.

Keigher, Saron M. Anne E. Fortune and Stanley L. Witkins, eds.  Aging and Social Work: The Changing Landscapes.   2000.  HV1451 .A32 2000

Koch, Susan and Sally Garratt, eds.  Assesing Older People: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals.  2001.  RC954 .A87 2001.

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

Kosberg, Jordan I. and Lenard W. Kaye, eds.  Elderly Men: Special Problems and Professional Challenges.  1997.  HQ1064.U5 E425 1997.

Martin, Linda G.  and Beth J. Soldo, eds.  Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.  Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Health of Older Americans.  Computer file/electronic book.  Call up record and then click on Linked resources.

Merrill, Deborah M.  Caring for Elderly Parents:  Juggling Work, Family, and Caregiving in Middle and Working Class Families.  1997.  HQ1063.6 .M47 1997

Mezey, Mathy D., Barbara J. Berkman et. al. eds.  Encyclopedia of Elder Care: The Comprehensive Resource on Geriratic and Social Care.  2001.  REFERENCE  RC954.E53 2001.

Nordhus, Inger Hilde, et. al., eds.  Clinical Geropsychology. 1998.  RC451.4.A5 C528 1998.

Olson, Laura Katz.  Not-so-Golden Years; Caregiving, the Frail Elderly and the Long-Term Care Establishment.  2003.  "Pre-order status."

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

Rosswurm, Mary Ann, ed.  Home Care for Older Adults: A Guide for Families and Other Caregivers.  1998.  RC954 .H574 1998.

Silverstein, Nina M., Gerald Flaherty, Terri Salmons Tobin.  Dementia and Wandering Behavior: Concern for the Lost Elder.  2002.  RC521 .S56 2002.

Tomer, Adrian, ed.  Death Attitudes and the Older Adult: Theories, Concepts, and Applications.  2000.  BF724.85.D43 2000.

Trotman, Frances K.  and Claire M. Brody.  Psychotherapy and Counseling with Older Women: Cross-cultural, Family, and End-of-Life Issues.  2001.  "No item data available."

United States.  Congress.  Senate.  Special Committee on Aging.  Suicide and the Elderly: A Population at Risk: Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, UnitedStates Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Wash. D. C. July 30, 1996.  U. S. Documents. (4th Florr) Y4 .AG4:S.HRG/ 104-693.

AIDS

AIDS Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information.  RC606.64 .A337 2003

Aronstein, David M. and Bruce J. Thompson, eds.  HIV and Social Work:  A Practitioner's Guide.  1998.  RA644.A25 H5788 1998.

Bouvard, Marguerite with Evelyn Gladu.  "When Someone We Love Dies of AIDS."  The Path Through Grief: A Compassionate Guide.  Prometheus Books, 1998.

Dane, Barbara and Samuel Miller.  AIDS: Intervening with Hidden Grievers.  Westport, CT.: Auburn House, 1992

Doka, Kenneth J.  AIDS, Fear and Society: Challenging the Dreaded Disease.  1997.

Fan, Hung P.. Ross F. Connor and Luis P.  Villarreal.  AIDS, Science, and Society.  Jones and Bartlett, 2000.

Goodman, Linda.  Breaking the Silence: A Guide to Help Children with Complicated Grief, Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence and Abuse.  (Taylor and Francis, 2002).

Lynch, Vincent.  HIV/AIDS at Year 2000.  Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

Powell, Josh.  AIDS and HIV-Related Diseases; An Educational Guide for Professionals and the Public, 1996.  RC607 .A26 P686 1996.

Pratt, Robert.  H.I.V. and AIDS: A Strategy for Nursing Care, 2003.

Smith, Raymond A.,ed.  Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic.  1998. REFERENCE  RA644 .A25 E5276 1998.

Ungvoski, Peter and Jackqueline Hank Flaskerud.  AIDS: A Guide to Primary Care Management. 1999.  RC607 .A26 H555 1999.

Vernon, Irene S.  Killing Us Quietly: Native Americans and HIV/AIDS.  1991.  RA448.5.I5 2001.

Children with AIDS:  http://www.aidskids.org/.

Alzheimers/Dementia

Allen, S. Rebecaa, Jung Kwak, Kristine L. Lokken, William E. Haley.  "End of Life Issues in the Context of Alzheimer's Disease."  Alzheimer's Care Quarterly.  4.4 (2003): 312-330.

Coon, David W., Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Larry W. Thompson.  Innovative Interventions to Reduce Dementia Caregiver Distress: A Clinical Guide.  2003.  RC521 .C665 2003.

Janicki, Matthew P. and Arthur J. Dalton.  Dementia, Aging and Intellectual Disabilities: A Handbook.  1999. RC523 .D455 1999.

Feil, Naomi, revised by Vicki de Klerk-Rubin.  Validation Breakthrough:  Simple Techniques for Communicating with People with Alzheimer's Type Dementia.  2002.  RC523 .F454 2002.

Gottlieb, B. H. and Wolfe J.  "Coping with Family Caregiving to Persons with Dementia."  Aging and Mental Health.  6.4 (2002): 325-342.

Hoffman, Stephanie and Constance Platt. Comforting the Confused: Strategies for Managing Dementia.  Springer Publishing Company, NY: 1991.

Kumar, Vinod and Carl Eisdorfer, eds.  Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.  1998.  RC523 .A33 1998.

Mace, Nancy L. and Pete V. Robins.  The 36 Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease, Related Dementia, Illness and Memory Loss in Later Life.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1981; revised, 1991.
(Ramapo has 1981 volume at RC522 .m3)

Miesen, Bere.  Dementia in Close-Up: Understanding and Caring for People with Dementia. Routledge: London, 1999.  RC521 .M5413 1999.0

New Jersey, State.  Alzheimer's Disease: A New Jersey Directory of Services for Family Cargivers and Health and Human Service Providers.  REFRENCE  F131.9.A26 A47.

Nuland, Sherwin.  "Alzheimer's Disease" (Chap. 5) of How We Die:  Reflections on Life's Final Chapter.  Vintage, 1993.

Olson, Laura Katz.  Not-so-Golden Years; Caregiving, the Frail Elderly and the Long-Term Care Establishment.  2003.  "Pre-order status."

Shank, David.  The Forgetting: Alzheimers: Portrait of an Epidemic. First Concord, 2001

Silverstein, Nina M., Gerald Flaherty, Terri Salmons Tobin.  Dementia and Wandering Behavior: Concern for the Lost Elder.  2002.  RC521 .S56 2002.

Stehman, Jean M.  Handbook of Dementia Care.  1996.  RC521 .H35 1996.

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

Volicer, Ladislav and Ann Hurley.  Hospice Care for Patients with Advanced Progressive Dementia.  1998.  RC522 .H67 1998.

Anticipatory Mourning

Boss, Pauline.  Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief.  Harvard, 2000.

Doka, Kenneth J. ed. and Joyce Davidson, eds.  Living with Grief: When Illness is Prolonged, 1997.  (Need to order)

Rando, Theresa.  Clinical Dimensions of Anticipatory Mourning.

Art  Therapy

Sandra L. Bertman, ed. Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity as Therapy.  Amityville, N.Y.:  Baywood, 1999.

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

Malchiodi, Cathy A.  Handbook of Art Therapy.  RC489.A7 H365 2003.  On Reserve.

Pratt, Mandy and Amanda Pratt, eds.  Art Therapy in Palliative Care: The Creative Response, 1998.

Cancer

Abrahm, Janet L.  A Physician's Guide to Pain and Symptom Management in Cancer Patients.  Baltimore and London: Johnson Hopkins UP, 2000.

Gunther, John. Death Be Not Proud.  Harper Perennial 1965. (brain tumor)

Hall, Doris and Ken.  Go Out and Live: A 27-Year Journey of Change.  Doris and Ken Hall, 2003 (cancer)

Children and Adolescents and Dying:

Adams, David W.  And Eleanor J. Deveau.  Beyond the Innocence of Childhood.  3 vols.  Amityville, NY: Baywood, 19895.

Anspach, Renee.  Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive Care Nursery.  Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1993.

Bluebornd-Langner, Myra.  In the Shadow of Illness: Parents and Siblings of the Chronically Ill Child.  Princeton UP, 1996

Corr, Charles A. and David E. Balk, eds.  Handbook of Adolescent Death and Bereavement.  NY: Springer, 1996.

Corr, Charles A. and Donna M. Corr, eds.  Handbook of Childhood Death and Bereavement.  NY: Springer, 1996.

Davies, Betty.  Shadows in the Sun:  The Experience of Sibling Bereavement in Childhood.  Washington, D. C.: Taylor and Francis, 1998.

Graham-Berman, Sandra A. and Jeffrey L. Edleson.  Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children. 2001.  HQ784.V55 D65 2001.

Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker.  A Small, Good Thing: Stories of Children with HIV and Those Who Care For Them.  NY: W.W. Norton, 2000.

Hawton, Keith.  Suicide and Attempted Suicide Among Children and Adolescents.  1986.  HV6546.H39 1986

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth.  On Children and Death. 1983

King, Robert A. and Alan Apter.  Suicide in Children and Adolescents.  2003.  RJ506.S9 S86 2003.

Silverman, Phyllis Rolfe.  Never Too Young to Know: Death in Children's Lives.  NY: Oxford UP, 2000.

Sourkes, Barbara M. Armfuls of Time: The Psychological Experience of the Child with a Life-Threatening Illness.  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.

Children with AIDS:  http://www.aidskids.org/

National SIDS Resource Center:  http://www.sidscenter.org

American Academy of Pediatrics/Palliative Care for Children: http://www.aap.org/policy/re0007.html

Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Project:  http://www.yellowribbon.org/

Children and Adolescents and Grief:

Braga, Anthony A., Brenda L. McLaughlin, Mark H. Moore, Carol V. Petrie.  Deadly Lessons: Understanding Lethal School Violence.  Washington, D.C.: The National Academy Press, 2003.

Cassini, Kathleen Kidder and Jacqueline L. Rogers.  Death and the Classroom:  A Teacher's Guide to Assist Grieving Students.  1996.  BF724.3 .G73 C37 1996.

Christ, Grace Hyslop.  Healing Children's Grief:  Surviving a Parent's Death from Cancer.  NY: Oxford UP, 2000.

Doka, Kenneth, Sandra L. Bertman, and Carl Grollman, eds.  Living with Grief: Children, Adolescents and Loss.  2000.

Dougy Center, The.  Helping the Grieving Student:  A Guide for Teachers:  A Practical Guide for Dealing with Death in your Classroom.  1998.  BF723 .D3 H48.

Dudley, John.  When Grief Visits School:  Organizing a Successful Response. 1995.  BF724.3.G73 D83 1995

Edelman, Hope.  Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss.  Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. 1994.   BF575.D35 E34 1995

Fitzgerald, Helen.  The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teenagers and their Friends.  Fireside, 2000.

Fox, Sandra.  Good Grief: Helping Groups of Children Deal with Loss When a Friend Dies.  1988.

Goodman, Linda.  Breaking the Silence: A Guide to Help Children with Complicated Grief, Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence and Abuse.  (Taylor and Francis, 2002).

Gootman, Marilyn.  When a Friend Dies:  A Book for Teens about Grieving and Healing.  Minneapolis: Free Spirit, 1994.

Grollman, Earl.  Bereaved Children and Teens: A Support Guide for Parents and Professionals.  1995.  BF723.D3 B465 1995.

Haasl, Beth and Jean Manorcha.  Bereavement Support Group for Children. 1999.

Harris, Maxine, Ph. D.  The Loss That is Forever:  The Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father.  Plume, 1996.

Harshman, Denise Rae.  Remembering My Special Person:  An Activity Book for Grieving Kids.  

Holland, John.  Understanding Children's Experiences of Parental Bereavement.  2003.  BF723.G75 H67 2001

Huntley, Teresa.  Helping Children Grieve: When Someone They Love Dies.  2002.  BF723 .D3 H86 2002

James, John W. and Russell Friedman.  When Children Grieve: For Adults to Help Children Deal with Death, Divorce, Pet Loss, Moving and Other Losses.  2002.

Kroen, William C.  Ed. Pamela Espeland.  Helping Children Cope with the Loss of a Loved One:  A Guide for Grownups.  Free Spirit, 1996.

LaGreca, Annette M., Wendy K. Silverman, Michael C. Roberts, Eric M. Vernberg , eds.  Helping Children Cope with Disasters and Terrorism.  Washington D. C.: American Psychological Association, 2002.   RJ506.P66 H45 2002

Miller, Sally Downham.  Mourning and Dancing for Schools:  A Grief and Recovery Sourcebook for Students, Teachers, and Parents.  Sally Downham Miller, 2000.  

Osofsky, Joy D.  Children in a Violent Society.  1997.  HQ784.V55 C448 1997

O'Toole, Donna.  Facing Change:   Falling Apart and Coming Together Again in the Teen Years.  A Book About Loss and Change for Teens. 1995.  BF637.C4 O88 1995

Rosswurm, Mary Ann, ed.  Home Care for Older Adults: A Guide for Families and Other Caregivers.  1998.  RC954 .H574 1998.

Shapiro, Ester R.  Grief as a Family Process:  A Development Approach to Clinical Practice.  1994.   RC455.4.L67 S373 1994

Silverman, Phyllis R.  Never Too Young to Know: Death in Children's Lives.  NY: Oxford UP, 2000.

Smith, Susan C.  Forgotten Mourners:  Guidelines for Working with Bereaved Children, 2nd ed. 1999.

Webb, Nancy Boyd, ed.  Helping Bereaved Children. 2nd ed. NY:   Guilford Press, 2002.

Webb, Nancy Boyd.  Play Therapy with Children in Crisis:  Individual Group and Family Treatment.  1999.  RJ505.P6 P56 1999.

Wolfelt, Dr. Alan D. Death and Grief: A Guide for Clergy, Helping Children Cope with Grief.

Wolfelt, Alan D.  Healing the Bereaved Child: Grief Gardening, Growth Through Grief, and Other Touchstones for Caregivers.  Fort Collins Co.: Companion Press.

Worden, J. William.  Children and Grief: When a Parent Dies. 1996.  BF723.G75 W67 1996

Dougy Center for Grieving Children:  http://www.grievingchild.org/  

National Association of School Psychologists resources for "Coping with a National Tragedy" at http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/crisis_0911.html  

Class Issues

Farmer, Paul. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.  2003.   HM821 .F37 2003

Hofrichter, Richard, ed.  Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease: A Public Health Reader.  2003.

Man, Johnathon M., Sofia Gruskin, and George J. Annas, eds.  Health and Human Rights: A Reader.  1998.

Marks, Lara V. and Michael Worboys.  Migrants, Minorities and Health: Historical and Contemporary Studies.  1997.

Purdy, Michael and David Banks.  Health and Exclusion: Policy and Practice in Health Division.  1999.

Complicated Mourning.

Cox, Gerry R., Robert G. Stevenson and Robert Bendiksen, eds.  Complicated Grieving and Bereavement: Understanding and Treating People Experiencing Loss.  2001.

Dane, Barbara and Samuel Miller.  AIDS: Intervening with Hidden Grievers.  Westport, CT.: Auburn House, 1992.

Doka, Kenneth J., ed.  Disenfranchised Grief:  New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice. 2002. (Need to order)

Doka, Kenneth J., ed.  Disenfranchised Grief:  Recognizing Hidden Sorrow. 1989.  BF575.G7 D57 1989.

Doka, Kenneth J. ed. and Joyce Davidson, eds.  Living with Grief: When Illness is Prolonged, 1997.  (Need to order)

Goodman, Linda.  Breaking the Silence: A Guide to Help Children with Complicated Grief, Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence and Abuse.  (Taylor and Francis, 2002).

Lukas, Christopher and Henry Seiden.  Silent Grief:  Living in the Wake of Suicide.  NY: Jason Aronson, 1997.

Rando, Theresa.  Treatment of Complicated Mourning.  Champaign, Ill: Research Press, 1993.

Counseling the Bereaved

Christ, Grace Hyslop.  Healing Children's Grief:  Surviving a Parent's Death from Cancer.  NY: Oxford UP, 2000.

Crenshaw, Daviud A., Ph.d.  Bereavement Counseling the Greiving Throughout the Life Cycle.  NY: Crossroad, 1990.

Webb, Nancy Boyd, ed.  Helping Bereaved Children. NY:   Guilford Press, 2002.

Webb, Nancy Boyd.  Play Therapy with Children in Crisis:  Individual Group and Family Treatment.  1999.  RJ505.P6 P56 1999

Wolfelt, Dr. Alan D. Death and Grief: A Guide for Clergy, Helping Children Cope with Grief.

Wolfelt, Alan D.  Healing the Bereaved Child: Grief Gardening, Growth Through Grief, and Other Touchstones for Caregivers.  Fort Collins Co.: Companion Press.

Worden, J. W.  Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner.  3rd ed.  NY: Springer, 2002.  (Ramapo has the 1991 edition at RC455.4.L67 W67 1991 Need to order new one.)

Cross-cultural Death and Dying

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Morgan, John D. and Pittu Laungani.  Death and Bereavement Around the World.  Baywood, 2002.  BL504 .D335 2002

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.

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.

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

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

Trotman, Frances K.  and Claire M. Brody.  Psychotherapy and Counseling with Older Women: Cross-cultural, Family, and End-of-Life Issues.  2001.  "No item data available."

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

Death Penalty

Bedau, Hugo Adam , ed. The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies.  1998.  HV8699.U5 D37 1998

Baldus, David C.  Equal Justice and the Death Penalty: A Legal and Empirical Analysis. Northeastern, 1990.   KFG565 .C2 B35 1990

Banner, Stuart.  The Death Penalty: An American History, 2003.  HV8699.U5 B367 2002

Garvey, Stephen P., ed. Beyond Repair?: America's Death Penalty.  2001  KF9227.C2 B49 2003

O'Shea, Kathleen A.  Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998.  1999.  HV9466. 074 1999.

Stassen, Glen H.  Capital Punishment: A Reader.  1998.  HV8694 .C285 1998

Stewart, Gail.  Death Penalty.  1998.  H31 .062 D29 1998.

Urbina, Martin.  G.  Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences.  2003.  "No item data available"

Vila, Bryan and Cynthia Morris.  Capital Punishment in the United States; A Documentary History.  1997.  HV8699 .U5 C3 1997.

Disasters/Traumas

Clarke, Lee.  Terrorism and Disaster:  New Threats, New Ideas.  2003.  HV6432 .T42 2003.

Erikson, Kai.  A New Species of Trouble: Human Experience of Modern Disasters.  NY: W.W. Norton, 1995.

Garrett, Laurie.  The Coming Plague:  Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance.  NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.  RA651 .G37 1994

Goodman, Linda.  Breaking the Silence: A Guide to Help Children with Complicated Grief, Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence and Abuse.  (Taylor and Francis, 2002).

Laqueur, Walter.  The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction.  NY: Oxford UP, 1999.

Laqueur, Walter.  No End to War:  Terrorism in the 21st Century.  2003.Larrabee, Ann.  Decade of Disaster.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Lattanzi-Licht, and Kenneth J. Doka, eds.  Coping with Public Tragedy. Living with Grief Series.  2003.  BF789.D5 C67 2003.

Herman, Judith Lewis.  Trauma and Recovery:  The Aftermath of Violence: From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror.  1997.

LaGreca, Annette M., Wendy K. Silverman, Michael C. Roberts, Eric M. Vernberg , eds.  Helping Children Cope with Disasters and Terrorism.  Washington D. C.: American Psychological Association, 2002.   RJ506.P66 H45 2002

New York Times.  Portraits 9/11/01 : the collected "Portraits of grief" from The New York times / foreword by Howell Raines ; introduction by Janny Scott.  2002.  HV6432 .P67 2002.

Raphael, Beverley.  When Disaster Strikes:  How Individuals and Communities Cope with Catastrophe.  1986. HV553 .R34 1986.

Domestic Violence

Goodman, Linda.  Breaking the Silence: A Guide to Help Children with Complicated Grief, Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence and Abuse.  (Taylor and Francis, 2002).

Graham-Berman, Sandra A. and Jeffrey L. Edleson.  Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children. 2001.  HQ784.V55 D65 2001.

Lloyd, J. D., ed.  Family Violence. 2001.  H31.C97 F19 2001

Loue, Sandra.  Intimate Partner Violence: Societal, Medical, Legal, and Individual Responses.  2001.  HV6626 .L677 2001

Dying Process/Experience

Brock, Ira.  Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life.  Riverhead, 1997.

Callanan, Maggie and Patricia Kelley.  Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying.  NY: Bantam, 1997.  

Cassel, C. K., K. M. Foley.  Principles for Care of Patients at End of Life:  An Emerging Consensus Among the Specialties of Medicine.  1999.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael.  Right to Die with Dignity: An Argument in Ethics, Medicine and Law.  2001.  R726 .C635 2001

de Hennezel, Marie.  Intimate Death: How the Dying Teach Us to Live. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Foley, Kathleen and Herbert Hendin.  Case Against Assisted Suicide:  For the Right to End-of-Life Car.  2002.  R726 .C355 2002

Groopman, Jerome. The Measure of Our Days: New Beginnings at Life's End.  NY: Viking, 1997.

Keizer, Bert.  Dancing with Mister D.:  Notes on Life and Death.  NY: Doublday, 1997

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth .  On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families.  1969.  BF789.D4 K8 1997

Kuhl, David.  What Dying People Want:  Practical Wisdom for the End of Life.  Public Affairs, 2002.

Lawton, Julia.  Dying Process:  Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care.  2000.  R726.8 .L39 2000.

Lynn, Joanne and Joan Harrold, eds.  Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness.  NY: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Morris, David B.  The Culture of Pain, 1991.  RB127 .M67 1991.

Nouwen, Henri J. M.  Beyond the Mirror:  Reflections on Death and Life.  1990.

Nuland, Sherwin B.  How We Die:  Reflections on Life's Final Chapter.  1994.  BD444 .N85 1994.

Rinpoche, Sogyal.  Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.  BQ7640 .S64 1992

Taylor, Joan.  In the Light of Dying: The Journals of a Hospice Volunteer.  Crossroad, 1993.

Weenolsen, Patricia, Phd.  The Art of Dying: The Only Book for Persons Facing Their Own Death:  A Comprehensive Guide to Your Physical, Emotion, and Spiritual Concerns.  NY: St. Martin's, 1996.

Last Chapters (on-line sharing and resources):  http://www.lastchapters.org/index.cgi?id=73

Ethics and Social Issues in Death and Dying:

Anspach, Renee.  Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive Care Nursery.  Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1993.

Ball, Howard.  Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans: Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childbearing, and Death.  2002.  KF3760 .B35 2002.

Battin, Margaret P., Rosamond Rhodes and Anita Silvers, eds.  Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate.  NY: Routledge, 1998.

Behuniak, Susan M.  and Arthur G. Svenson.  Physician-assisted suicide: The Anatomy of a Constitutional Law Issue.  2003.  KF3827 .E87 B44 20003.

Blank, Robert H.  The Price of Life.  Columbia UP, 1997.

Brannigan, Michael C. and Judith A. Boss.  Healthcare Ethics in a Diverse Society.  Mountainview, Calif.: Mayfield, 2001.

Brogden, Michael.  Geronticide:  Killing the Elderly.  2001.  HV6250.4.A34 B77 2001

Curry, Lynn.  Human Body on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents. 2002.  KF390.5 .H85 C87 2002

DeVries, Brian, ed.  End of Life Issues:  Interdisciplinary and Multidimensional Perspectives.  1999.  HQ1073 .E56 1999.

Dranove, David.  What's Your Life Worth?  Health Care Rationing ... Who Lives? Who Dies? And Who Decides?  Financial Times/Prentice Hall Books,  2003.

Dubose, E. R.  Physician Assisted Suicide:  Religious and Public Policy Perspectives.  Chicago: Park Ridge Center, 1999.

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

Fox, Elaine.  Come Lovely and Soothing Death:  The Right to Die Movement in the United States.  1999.  R726 .F69 1999.

Hawkins, Gail, ed.  Physician-assisted Suicide 2002. H31.062 P70.

Health Care Financing Administration.  Medicare Program Manual and State Medicare Manual and Statistics.  Washiington D. C.: Health Care, 1997.

Hendin, Herbert.  Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients and Assisted Suicide.  WW. Norton, 1998.

Hendrick, Judith.  Law and Ethics in Nursing and Health Care.  2000.  RT42 .F64 2000.

Holstein, Martha B.,  Phyllis B. Mitzen, eds.  Ethics in Community-Based Elder Care. 2nd ed.  "No item data available."

Jonsen, Albert R.  The Birth of Bioethics.  NY: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Jonsen, Albert R., Robert M Veatch, and LeRoy Walters, ed. Source Book in Bioethics, 1998.

Ikeda, Daisaku, Guy Bourgeault, Rene Simard.  On Being Human:  Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge.  2003.

Kuhoe, H. and P. Singer, eds.  Bioethics: An Anthology.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.

Kung, Hans and Walter Jens.  Dying with Dignity: A Plea for Personal Responsibility.  1995.  R726 .K8613 1995.

Jamison, Stephen.  Final Acts of Love:  Families, Friends, and Assisted Dying.  1995.  R726 .J36 1995.

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

Magnusson, Roger S.  Angels of death : exploring the euthanasia underground.  2002.  "No item data available."

Monagle, J. F. and J. C. Thomasina, eds.  Medical Ethics: Policies, Protocols, Guidelines and Programs.  Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen, 1996.

Moody, H. R. Ethics in an Aging Society.  Baltimore: Johns Hopokins, 1993.

Munson, Ronald.  Health and Human Rights: a Reader, 1998.

Munson, Ronald.  Intervention and Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics. 7th edition 2003.   R724 .I57

Muth, Annemarie, ed.  Death and Dying Sourcebook:  Basic Consumer Health: Information for the Layperson About End-of-Life Care and Related Ethical and Legal Issues.  (Ramapo says on order)

Otlowski, M. Voluntary Euthanasia and the Common Law.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Randall, Fiona and R. S. Downie.  Palliative Care Ethics: A Good Companion. NY: Oxford UP, 1996.

Scherer, Jennifer and Rita J. Simon.  Euthanasia and the Right to Die: A Comparative View.  1999.  R726 .S336 1999.

Snyder, Lois and Arthur L. Caplan.  Assisted Suicide: Finding Common Ground.  2002.  R726 .A855 2002.

Torr, James D., ed.  Euthanasia: Opposing Viewpoints. 2000. H31.062 E91 2000

Uhlmann, M., ed.  Last Rights, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Debate.  1998.  Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Urofsky, Melvin I.  Lethal Judgments:  Assisted Suicide and American Law.  2000.  KF3827 .E87 U755 2000.

Veatch, Robert F., ed. Medical Ethics. 2nd ed. Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 2002.

Younger, Stuart J., Robert Arnold, and Renie Schapiro, eds.  The Definition of Death: Contemporary Controversies.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.

Younger, Stuart J., Robert Arnold, and Renie Schapiro, eds.  Organ Transplantation; Meanings and Realities.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.

Youngner, Stuart J., Renie Schapiro, and Martha W. Anderson, eds.  Transplanting Human Tissue: Ethics, Policy, and Practice, 2003.

Brain Injury and Brain Death Sources: http://www.changesurfer.com/BD/Brain.html

Euthanasia and End of Life Decisions:  http://ethics.acusd.edu/Applied/Euthanasia/

Social Issues:  http://mel.lib.mi.us/social/SOC-death.html

Not Dead Yet: Americans with Disabilities:  http://www.notdeadyet.org/

Soros on Assisted Suicide etc.:  http://www.soros.org/death/links/pas.html  

Gender Issues

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

Annandale, Ellen and Kate Hunt, eds.  Gender Inequalities in Health.  2000.

Baird, Karen L.  Gender Justice and the Health Care System.  1998.

Barnett, Elizabeth, Michele L. Casper, Joel A. Halverson, Zainal A. Majeed, and Amy S. Bloom., eds. Men and Heart Disease:  An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality.  2000.

Canetto, Silvia Sara and David Lester, eds.  Women and Suicidal Behaviors.  1995.  HV6545.9 .W66 1995.

Casper, Michele L.  Atlas of Stroke Mortality: Racial, Ethnic and Geographic Disparities in the United States.  2003.

Kosberg, Jordan I. and Lenard W. Kaye, eds.  Elderly Men: Special Problems and Professional Challenges.  1997.  HQ1064.U5 E425 1997.

Laurence, Leslie and Beth Weinhouse.  Outrageous Practices: How Gender Bias Threatens Women's Health.  1997.   R692 .L38 1997

Levang, Elizabeth, Ph.D.  When Men Grieve:  Why Men Grieve Differently and How You Can Help.  1998.

Moss, Kary L., ed.  Man-Made Medicine:  Women's Health, Public Policy and Reform.  1996.   RA564.85 .M36 1996

O'Shea, Kathleen A.  Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998.  1999.  HV9466. 074 1999.

Rosser, Sue V.  Women's Health Missing from U. S. Medicine.  1994.   Electronic book.  Search Potter catalog and then click on Linked Resources.

Sabo, Donald and David Frederick Gordon, eds.  Men's Health and Illness:  Gender, Power and the Body.  1995.  RA 564. 83 .M46 1996.

Trotman, Frances K.  and Claire M. Brody.  Psychotherapy and Counseling with Older Women: Cross-cultural, Family, and End-of-Life Issues.  2001.  "No item data available."

Grief and Bereavement:

Altemus, Barbara.  The Gift of Pain: Transforming Hurt into Healing.  Stories of Inspiration and Hope... Perigee, 2003.

Archer, John.  Nature of Grief:  The Evolution and Psychology of Reactions to Loss.  1999.  BF575. G7 A73 1999.

Attig, T.  How We Grieve:  Relearning the World.  NY: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Bouvard, Marguerite with Evelyn Gladu.  The Path Through Grief: A Compassionate Guide.  Prometheus Books, 1998.

Bowlby, John.  Loss: Sadness and Depression.  NY: Basic, 2000.

Davidson, Joyce D.  and Kenneth J. Doka, eds.  Living with Grief: At Work, At School, at Worship.  1999.  BF575.G7 L785 1999.

Doka, Kenneth J., ed.  Disenfranchised Grief:  New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice. 2002. (Need to order)

Doka, Kenneth J., ed.  Disenfranchised Grief:  Recognizing Hidden Sorrow. 1989.  BF575.G7 D57 1989.

Doka, Kenneth J. and Hospice Foundation.  Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss, Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, 1996.  (Need to order)

Doka, Kenneth J. ed.  Living with Grief: Children, Adolescents and Loss, 2000.  (Need to order)

Doka, Kenneth J. ed.  Living with Grief: Loss in Later Life, 2002.  (Need to order)

Doka, Kenneth J. ed. and Joyce Davidson, eds.  Living with Grief: When Illness is Prolonged, 1997.  (Need to order)

Doka, Kenneth J. ed. and Joyce Davidson, eds.  Living with Grief: Who We Are; How We Grieve, 1998.  (Need to order)

Doka, Kenneth J. and Hospice Foundation.  Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss, Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, 1996.  (Need to order)

Doka, Kenneth J. ed.  Men Don't Cry, Women Do: Transcending Gender Stereotypes of Grief, 1999.  (Need to order)

Figley, Charles R.  Traumatology of Grieving:  Conceptual, Theoretical and Treatment Foundations.  1999. RC455.4 .L67 T7 1999.

Harvey, John, ed.  Perspectives on Loss.  1998.  BF575.D35 P47 1998.

Klass, D., P. R. Silvermkan and S. L. Nickman, eds.  Continuing Bonds:  New Understanding of Grief.  Washington, D. C.: Taylor and Francis, 1996.

Lattanzi-Licht, and Kenneth J. Doka, eds.  Living with Grief: Coping with Public Tragedy. Living with Grief Series.  2003.  BF789.D5 C67 2003.

Levang, Elizabeth, Ph.D.  When Men Grieve:  Why Men Grieve Differently and How You Can Help.  1998.

Lukas, Christopher and Henry Seiden.  Silent Grief:  Living in the Wake of Suicide.  NY: Jason Aronson, 1997.

Miller, Sally Downham.  Mourning and Dancing for Schools:  A Grief and Recovery Sourcebook for Students, Teachers, and Parents.  Sally Downham Miller, 2000.  

Nedau, Dr. Janice Winchester.  Families Making Sense of Death.  Sage, 1998.

Neeld, Elizabeth Harper, PhD.  Seven Choices:  Finding Daylight After Loss Shatters Your World.  3rd ed. , rev. 1997.

Neimeyer, R. A. Lessons of Loss: Guide to Coping.  2000.

New York Times.  Portraits 9/11/01 : the collected "Portraits of grief" from The New York times / foreword by Howell Raines ; introduction by Janny Scott.  2002.  HV6432 .P67 2002.

Parkes, Colin Murray.  Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life.  New York: Routledge, 2001.

Prend, Ashley Davis.  Transcending Loss: Understanding the Lifelong Impact of Grief and How to Make it Meaningful.  Berkley, 1997.

Raphael, Beverley.  The Anatomy of Bereavement.  NY: Jason Aronson, 1995.  BF575.G7 R36 1983

Rosenblatt, Paul. C.  Parent Grief:  Narratives of Loss and Relationship.  2000.  BF575.G7 R673 2000.

Rothman, Juliet Cassuto.  Bereaved Parent's Survival Guide.  Continuum 2002.

Shapiro, ester R.  Grief as a Family Process.  1994 (New edition forthcoming)

Thompson, Neil.  Loss and Grief: A Guide for Human Services Practitioners, 2002.  BF575.D35 L665 2002

Welshons, John.  Awakening From Grief:  Finding the Way Back to Joy.  Inner Ocean, 2003.  BF575.G7 W46

Wolfelt, Dr. Alan D. Death and Grief: A Guide for Clergy, Helping Children Cope with Grief.

Ziaook, Sidney, ed.  Biopsychosocial Aspects of Bereavement, 1987.

GriefNet:  http://rivendell.org

Practical Grief Resources:  http://www.indiana.edu/~hperf558/res_prac.html

Dane, Barbara and Samuel Miller.  AIDS: Intervening with Hidden Grievers.  Westport, CT.: Auburn House, 1992.

Walter, Carolyn Amber.  Loss of a Life Partner: Narratives of the Bereaved.  2003.  BF575.G7 W3435 2003

Gay Widows -- the Journal Literature.  Bibliography from 2001.  http://www.domani.net/richard/gaywidows-bib.html.

McFadden, Stephen.  Coping After a Lover's Death.  AIDS Info. NYC http://www.aidsinfonyc.org/pwac/9511/coping.html

Pyeatt,Matt.  Survivors of Terroerist Victims Granted Domestic Partnership Benefits.  Cybercast News Service. 4 October 2001  http://www.cnsnews.com/viewculture.asp?Page=\culture\archive\2001\cul2001100.  

Health Care and Death and Dying: Economics, Policies, Government

Anspach, Renee.  Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive Care Nursery.  Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1993.

Ball, Howard.  Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans: Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childbearing, and Death.  2002.  KF3760 .B35 2002.

Blank, Robert H.  The Price of Life.  Columbia UP, 1997.

Curry, Lynn.  Human Body on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents. 2002.  KF390.5 .H85 C87 2002

DeVries, Brian, ed.  End of Life Issues:  Interdisciplinary and Multidimensional Perspectives.  1999.  HQ1073 .E56 1999.

Dranove, David.  What's Your Life Worth?  Health Care Rationing ... Who Lives? Who Dies? And Who Decides?  Financial Times/Prentice Hall Books,  2003.

Health Care Financing Administrtion.  Medicare Program Manual and State Medicare Manual and Statistics.  Washiington D. C.: Health Care, 1997.

Munson, Ronald.  Health and Human Rights: a Reader, 1998.

Muth, Annemarie, ed.  Death and Dying Sourcebook:  Basic Consumer Health: Information for the Layperson About End-of-Life Care and Related Ethical and Legal Issues.  (Ramapo says on order)

Office of Inspector General, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.  Hospice and Nursing Home Contractual Relationships.  Washington DC: Office of Inspector General 1997.

Younger, Stuart J., Robert Arnold, and Renie Schapiro, eds.  Organ Transplantation; Meanings and Realities.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.

Youngner, Stuart J., Renie Schapiro, and Martha W. Anderson, eds.  Transplanting Human Tissue: Ethics, Policy, and Practice, 2003.

Historical Death and Dying
Barley, Nigel.  Grave Matters: A Lively History of Death Around the World.  NY: Henry Holt, 1997.

Binsky, Paul.  Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation.  London: British Museum Press, 1996.

D'Auria, Sue, Petr Lacovara and Catharine H. Roehrig.  Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt.  1992.  DT59.B6 M86 1992.

Fairchild, Louis.  Death and Revival on an American Frontier.  2002.  F391 .F26 2002

Geary, Patrick J.  Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages.  Ithaca: Cornell, 1994.

Habenstein, Robert W. and William M. Lamers.  The History of American Funeral Directing.  Milwaukee: Bulfin Printers, Revised, 2001.

Harding, Vanessa.  Dead and the Living in Paris and London 1600-1670.  2002.  GT3244.L66 H37 2002.

Isenberg, Nancy, ed. Mortal Remains: Deah in Early America.  2003.  HQ1073.5.U6 M67 2003.

Jalland, Patricia.  Death in a Victorian Family.  NY: Oxford, 1996.

MacGregor, Geddes.  Images of Afterlife: Beliefs from Antiquity to Modern Times.  NY: Paragon, 1992.

Nichols, Elaine, ed.  The Last Miles of the Way: African-American Homegoing Traditions. 1890-Present.  Collumbia; South Carolina State Museum, 1989.

Pratt, Colin.  King Death: The Black Death and Its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England.  London: University College of London Press, 1996.  

Prothero, Stephen.  Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.   GT3330 .P76 2000

Watson, James L. and Evelyn S. Rawski, eds.  Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Ancient World Cultures:  http://eawc.evansville.edu/nepage.htm

International Social History:  http://www.iisg.nl/index.html

Interpreting the Irish Famine 1848-1850 (A Collection of Documents): http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~eas5e/Irish/Famine.html  

Hospice

Beresford, Larry.  The Hospice Handbook: A Complete Guide.  Little, Brown, 1993.

Bornstein, Robert F. and Mary A. Languirand.  When Someone You Love Needs Nursing Home, Assisted Living, or In-Home Care.  Newmarket Press, 2001.

Buckingham, Robert W.  Handbook of Hospice Care.  1996.  R726.8 .B824 1996.

Connor, Stephen R.  Hospice: Practice, Pitfalls and Promise.  1998.  R726.8 .C686 1998.

Jaffe, Carolyn and Carol J. Ehrlich.  All Kinds of Love: Experiencing Hospice.  Beaywood, 1997.

Lattanzi-Licht, Marcia.  Hospice Choice: In Pursuit of a Peaceful Death.  Simon and Schuster, 1998.

Modly, Doris.  Home Care Nursing Services: International Lessons.  1997. RA645.3 .H644

National Hospice Organization Medical Guidelines Task Force.  Medical Guidelines for Determining Prognosis in Selected Non-Cancer Diseases.  Arlington, VA: National Hospice Organization, 1990.

Office of Inspector General, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.  Hospice and Nursing Home Contractual Relationships.  Washington DC: Office of Inspector General 1997.

Office of Inspector General, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.  Hospice Patients in Nursing Homes.  Washington DC: Office of Inspector General 1997.

Rice, Robin.  Home Health Nursing Practice:  Concepts and Application.  1996.  RT120.H65 R55 1996

Saunders, Dame Cicely.  Hospice Care on the International Scene. 1997.  RA1000 .H67 1997

Sendor, Virginia F. and Patrice M. O'Connor.  Hospice and Palliative Care: Questions and Answers. Lanham, Md.: Scarecroww Press, 1997.

Taylor, Joan.  In the Light of Dying: The Journals of a Hospice Volunteer.  Crossroad, 1993.

Volicer, Ladislav and Ann Hurley.  Hospice Care for Patients with Advanced Progressive Dementia.  1998.  RC522 .H67 1998.

Hospice Foundation of America:  http://www.hospicefoundation.org  

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine:  http://www.aahpm.org/

Growth House/Improving End of Life Care:  http://www.growthhouse.org/

Last Acts Organization:  http://www.lastacts.org/

National Prison Hospice Association:  http://www.npha.org/

Zen Hospice Project:  http://www.zenhospice.org/

Last Chapters (on-line sharing and resources):  http://www.lastchapters.org/index.cgi?id=73

Trinity Hospice Foundation:  http://www.trinityhospicefoundation.org/thanatology.htm  

Literature

Altemus, Barbara.  The Gift of Pain: Transforming Hurt into Healing.  Stories of Inspiration and Hope... Perigee, 2003.

Meltzer, David, ed.  Death: An Anthology of Ancient Texts, Songs, Prayers, and Stories.  San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984.

Moffat, Mary Jane, ed.  In the Midst of Winter: Selections from the Literature of Muorning.  NY: VIntage, 1992.

Loss of a Child

Loss of a Parent

Akner, Lois F.  How to Survive the Loss of a Parent.  NY: William Morrow, 1993.

Christ, Grace Hyslop.  Healing Children's Grief:  Surviving a Parent's Death from Cancer.  NY: Oxford UP, 2000.

Edelman, Hope.  Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss.  Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. 1994.

Gilbert, Kathleen R. and Laura S. Smart.  Coping with Infant or Fetal Loss: The Couple's Healing Process.  NY: Brunner/Mazel, 1992.

Harris, Maxine, Ph. D.  The Loss That is Forever:  The Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father.  Plume, 1996.

Holland, John.  Understanding Children's Experiences of Parental Bereavement.  2003.   BF723.G75 H67 2001

Klass, Dennis.  The Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents.  Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel, 1999.

Krementz, Jill.  How It Feels When a Parent Dies.  NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1981.

Levy, Alexander.  Orphaned Adult:  Understanding and Copying With Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents.  1999.  BF575.G7 L495 1999.

Rosenblatt, Paul. C.  Parent Grief:  Narratives of Loss and Relationship.  2000.  BF575.G7 R673 2000.

Secunda, Victoria.  Losing Your Parents: Finding Yourself the Defining Turning Point of Adult Life. NY: Hyperion, 2000.

Umberson, Debra.  Death of a Parent:  Transition to a New Adult Entity.  2003.  BF789.D4 U48 2003

Worden, J. William.  Children and Grief: When a Parent Dies. 1996.  BF723.G75 W67 1996

Loss of a Partner/Spouse
Lopata, Helena Znaniecka.  Current Widowhood: Myths and Realities.  Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996.

Moore, Alinde J. and Dorothy C. Stratton  Resilient Widowers: Older Men Speak for Themselves.   2002.  HQ1058.5.U5 M68 2002

Walter, Carolyn Amber.  Loss of a Life Partner: Narratives of the Bereaved.  2003.  BF575.G7 W3435 2003

Men and Grieving

Palliative Care:

Abrahm, Janet L.  A Physician's Guide to Pain and Symptom Management in Cancer Patients.  Baltimore and London: Johnson Hopkins UP, 2000.

Cassel, C. K., K. M. Foley.  Principles for Care of Patients at End of Life:  An Emerging Consensus Among the Specialties of Medicine.  1999.

Institute of Medicine.  Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End-of-Life.  Washington National Academy Press, 1997.

Kuhl, David.  What Dying People Want:  Practical Wisdom for the End of Life.  Public Affairs, 2002.

Lawton, Julia.  Dying Process:  Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care.  2000.  R726.8 .L39 2000.

McDonald, N., ed.  Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1993.

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine:  http://www.aahpm.org/

Growth House/Improving End of Life Care:  http://www.growthhouse.org/

Last Acts Organization:  http://www.lastacts.org/

American Academy of Pediatrics/Palliative Care for Children: http://www.aap.org/policy/re0007.html  

Race/Ethnicity Issues

Barnett, Elizabeth, Michele L. Casper, Joel A. Halverson, Zainal A. Majeed, and Amy S. Bloom., eds. Men and Heart Disease:  An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality.  2000.

Brathwaite, Ronald L. and Sandra E. Taylor.  Health Issues in the Black Community.  2001.  RA448.5.NY H395 2001.

Byrd, W. Michael, Linda A. Clayton.  An American Health Dilemma: Race, Medicine, and Health Care in the United States 1900-2000.  2001.

Casper, Michele L.  Atlas of Stroke Mortality: Racial, Ethnic and Geographic Disparities in the United States.  2003.

Casper, Michele L., ed. Women and Heart Disease:  An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality.  2001.

Early, Kevin E.  Religion and Suicide in the African-American Community.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.

LaViest, Thomas, ed.  Race, Ethnicity and Health: A Public Health Reader. 2002.

Marks, Lara V. and Michael Worboys.  Migrants, Minorities and Health: Historical and Contemporary Studies.  1997.

Martin, Linda G.  and Beth J. Soldo, eds.  Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.  Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Health of Older Americans.  Computer file/electronic book.  Call up record and then click on Linked resources.

Mui, Ada C., Namkee G. Choi and Abraham Monk.  Long-Term Care and Ethnicity.  1998.  HV1465 M84 1998.
New Jersey.  Legislature.  General Assembly.  Health and Human Services Committee.   Committee meeting of Assembly Health and Human Services Committee : testimony concerning racial and ethnic disparities in health care : [September 19, 2002, East Orange, New Jersey] / meeting recorded and transcribed by the Office of Legislative Services, Public Information Office, Hearing Unit.   Trenton, N.J. : The Unit, [2002]   New Jersey documents (fourth floor).   F131.99 .H434 2002d.

Nichols, Elaine, ed.  The Last Miles of the Way: African-American Homegoing Traditions. 1890-Present.  Collumbia; South Carolina State Museum, 1989.

Poussaint,  Alvin.  Lay My Burden Down:  Unraveling Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans.  2000.  E185.625 .P68 2000

Roberts, Dorothy.  Killing the Black Body: Race, Repoduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. 1998.

Smedley, Brian D., Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson, eds..  Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethic Disparities in Heathcare.  Institute of Medicine.  2003.  "No item data" in process

Smith, David Barton.  Health Care Divided.  1999.

Urbina, Martin.  G.  Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences.  2003.  "No item data available"

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

Vernon, Irene S.  Killing Us Quietly: Native Americans and HIV/AIDS.  1991.  RA448.5.I5 2001.

Wailoo, Keith.  Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health.  2001.  RA645.S53 W35 2001

Rituals, Funerals, Cremation, Cemeteries, Ceremonies, etc.:

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

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

Carlson, Lisa.  Caring for the Dead:  Your Final Act of Love.  Hinsley, Vt: Upper Access, 1998.

Cronin, Xavier A.  Grave Exodus:  Tending to Our Dead in the 21st Century.  NY: Barricade, 1996.

D'Auria, Sue, Petr Lacovara and Catharine H. Roehrig.  Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt.  1992.  DT59.B6 M86 1992.

Habenstein, Robert W. and William M. Lamers.  Funeral Customs the World Over.  REv. ed. Milwaukee: Bulfin Printers, 1974.

Habenstein, Robert W. and William M. Lamers.  The History of American Funeral Directing.  Milwaukee: Bulfin Printers, Revised, 2001.

Howarth, Glennys.  Last Rites: The Work of the Modern Funeral Director.  Amityville, NY: Baywood, 1996.

Jackson, Kenneth J. and Camilo Jose Vegara.  Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American Cemetery.  NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.

Keister, Douglas.  Going Out in Style: The Architecture of Eternity.  NY: Facts on File, 1997.

Laderman, Gary.  Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883.  1996.  BR525 .L25 1996.

Lynch, Thomas.  The Undertaking:  Life Studies from the Dismal Trade.  NY: Norton, 1997.

Metcalf, Peter.  Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual.  1991.  GN486 .M48 1991.

Nichols, Elaine, ed.  The Last Miles of the Way: African-American Homegoing Traditions. 1890-Present.  Collumbia; South Carolina State Museum, 1989.

Prothero, Stephen.  Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.   GT3330 .P76 2000

Funeral and Memorial Societiesof America  http://www.funerals.org

Spirituality and Death and Dying, Sacred Texts, Ancient Texts:

Boerstler, R. and H. Kornfeld.  Life and Death: Harmonizing the Transition: A Holistic and Meditative Approach for Caregivers and the Dying.  Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 1993.

Bregman, Lucy.  Death and dying, spirituality, and religions : a study of the death awareness movement.  2003. BL504 .B74 2003

Byock, I.  Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life.  New York: Riverhead, 1997.

Chodron, Pema.  When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times.  1997.  BQ5410 .C434 1997

General Assembly of Unitarian Universalists.  The Right to Die with Dignity.  Proceedings of General Assembly.  Boston, MA: Unitarian Universalist Association, 1988.

Ikeda, Daisaku, Guy Bourgeault, Rene Simard.  On Being Human:  Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge.  2003.

Klass, Dennis.  The Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents.  Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel, 1999.

Longaker, Christine.  Facing Death and Finding Hope: A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying.  NY: Doubleday, 1997.

MacGregor, Geddes.  Images of Afterlife: Beliefs from Antiquity to Modern Times.  NY: Paragon, 1992.

McLeod, Beth Witrogen.  Care giving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal.  John Wiley, 1999.

National Conference of Catholic Bishops.  Ethical and Religious Directive for Catholic Health Care Services.  Washington, DC: U S Catholic Conference, 1994.

Neeld, Elizabeth Harper, PhD.  Seven Choices:  Finding Daylight After Loss Shatters Your World.  3rd ed. , rev. 1997.

Prend, Ashley Davis.  Transcending Loss: Understanding the Lifelong Impact of Grief and How to Make it Meaningful.  Berkley, 1997.

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

Ring, Kenneth and Evelyn Elsaesser.  Lessons from the Light: What We Can Learn from the Near-Death Experience.  NY: Plenum/Insight, 1998.

Russell, Jeffrey Burton.  A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence.  Princeton UP, 1997.

Singh, Kathleen Dowling.  Grace in Dying: How We Are Transformed Spiritually As We Die: A Message of Hope, Comfort, and Spiritual Transformation.  HarperCollins, 1998.

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

Spiro, Howard M., Mary G. McCrea Curnen, and Lee Palmer Wandel, eds.  Facing Death:  Where Culture, Religon, and Medicine Meet.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1996.  

Taylor, Richard.  Death and the Afterlife: A Cultural Encyclopedia.  2000.  GT3150 .T25 2000

Tibetan Book of the Dead (written down 8th c. AD).0:  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/dead/foreword.html
and http://reluctant-messenger.com/tibetan-book-of-the-dead.htm
Sacred Texts Archive:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

Native American sacred texts:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/index.htm

Aboriginal Sites (Australia):  http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AborigPages/History.htm

Sacred texts of Australia:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/aus/index.htm

Paleolithic Cave Paintings:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/nel/index.htm

Legends of the Maui (Polynesian/Hawaiian) (as recorded in 1910): http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/maui.htm

Mythology of the Maori of New Zealand (as recorded in 1854):  http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/grey.htm

Kalevala (Finnish National Epic) 1st appeared in print early 19th c.: http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/kaleva.html
Summary of Kalevala's contents:  http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/kaleva7.html

Confucius:  The Great Learning 500 B. C.:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/conf2.htm

 The Song Celestial or Baghavad Gita (400 B. C. )

Sudden Death

Doka, Kenneth J. and Hospice Foundation.  Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss, Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, 1996.  (Need to order)

Eisenberg, Mickey. Life in the Balance: Emergency Medicine and the Quest to Reverse Sudden Death.  NY: Oxford UP, 1997.

Goodman, Linda.  Breaking the Silence: A Guide to Help Children with Complicated Grief, Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence and Abuse.  (Taylor and Francis, 2002).

Lord, Janice Harris.  No Time For Goodbyes:  Coping with Sorrow, Anger and Injustice After a Tragic Death.  5th ed. Pathfinder, 2000.

Noel, Brook and Pamela D. Blair.  I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing after the Sudden Death of a Loved One.  Champion 2000.

Suicide

Bailey, S. E., M. J. Kral an K. Dunham.  "Survivors of Suicide Do Grieve Differently: Empirical Support for a Common Sense Proposition."  Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.  29.3 (1999): 256-271.

Canetto, Silvia Sara and David Lester, eds.  Women and Suicidal Behaviors.  1995.  HV6545.9 .W66 1995.

Doka, Kenneth J. and Hospice Foundation.  Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss, Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, 1996.  (Need to order)

Early, Kevin E.  Religion and Suicide in the African-American Community.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.

Fine, Carla.  No Time to Say Goodbye:  Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One.  Main Street Books, 1999.

Goldsmith, S. K. et. al., eds.  Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative.  Committee on Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide.  2002.  HV6548.U5 R43 2002.

Goodman, Linda.  Breaking the Silence: A Guide to Help Children with Complicated Grief, Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence and Abuse.  (Taylor and Francis, 2002).

Hawton, Keith and Kees van Heeringen, eds.  The International Handbook of Suicide and Attempted Suicide.  NY: Wiley, 2000.

Hawton, Keith.  Suicide and Attempted Suicide Among Children and Adolescents.  1986.  HV6546.H39 1986

Hendin, Herbert and J. John Mann.  Clinical Science of Suicide Prevention.  2001.  RC569 .C55 2001

Hollinger, Paul C.  Suicide and Homicide Among Adolescents.  1994.  HV6546 .S833 1994.

Jamison, Kay R.  Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, NY: Knopf, 1999.  RC569 .J36 1999.

Jordan, J. R..  "Is Suicide Bereavement Different?  A Reassessment of the Literature."  Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.  31.1 2001): 91-102

King, Robert A. and Alan Apter.  Suicide in Children and Adolescents.  2003.  RJ506.S9 S86 2003.

Leenars, Antoon A., ed.  Suicidology: Essays in Honor of Edwin Schneidman.  Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1993.

Lord, Janice Harris.  No Time For Goodbyes:  Coping with Sorrow, Anger and Injustice After a Tragic Death.  5th ed. Pathfinder, 2000.

Marcus, Eric.  Why Suicide:  Answers to 200 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Suicide, Attempted Suicide, and Assisted Suicide.  Harper, 1996.

Maris, Ronald M., Alan L. Berman, Morton M. Silverman.  Comprehensive Textbook of Suicidology.  2000.  RC569 .M37 2000.

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

Poussaint,  Alvin.  Lay My Burden Down:  Unraveling Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans.  2000.  E185.625 .P68 2000

Roleff, Tamara L.  Suicide: Opposing Viewpoints 2000. H31.062 S94.

Roleff, Tamara L.  Teen Suicide: Opposing Viewpoints 2000. H31.062 T4.

Schneidman, Edwin.  Comprehending Suicide Landmarks in 20th Century Suicidology.  2001.  RC569 .S3848 2001.

Stillion, Judith, Eugene McDowell, and Jacque May.  Suicide Across the Life Span: Premature Exits.  2nd ed. Washington, D. C.: Taylor and Francis, 1996.

Thomerson, Julie.  "Violent Acts of Sadness:  The Tragedy of Youth Suicide." State Legislatures.   28.5: 30 (May 2002)

United States.  Congress.  Senate.  Special Committee on Aging.  Suicide and the Elderly: A Population at Risk: Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, UnitedStates Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Wash. D. C. July 30, 1996.  U. S. Documents. (4th Florr) Y4 .AG4:S.HRG/ 104-693.

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behaviors.  A Journal published by the American Association of Suicidology. website:  http://www.suicidology.org

Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Project:  http://www.yellowribbon.org/

Violent Death

Baumeister, Roy F.  Evil:  Inside Human Violence and Cruelty.  NY: W. H. Freeman, 1997.  BF789.E94 B38 1997

Braga, Anthony A., Brenda L. McLaughlin, Mark H. Moore, Carol V. Petrie.  Deadly Lessons: Understanding Lethal School Violence.  Washington, D.C.: The National Academy Press, 2003.   LB3013.32 .D43 2003

Doka, Kenneth J. and Hospice Foundation.  Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss, Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, 1996.  (Need to order)

Erikson, Kai.  A New Species of Trouble: Human Experience of Modern Disasters.  NY: W.W. Norton, 1995.

Goodman, Linda.  Breaking the Silence: A Guide to Help Children with Complicated Grief, Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence and Abuse.  (Taylor and Francis, 2002).

Grossman, Dave.  On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society.  Boston: Little Brown, 1995. On order

Herman, Judith Lewis.  Trauma and Recovery:  The Aftermath of Violence: From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror.  1997.

LaGreca, Annette M., Wendy K. Silverman, Michael C. Roberts, Eric M. Vernberg , eds.  Helping Children Cope with Disasters and Terrorism.  Washington D. C.: American Psychological Association, 2002.

Shafii, Mohommad, and Sharon Lee Shafii.  School Violence -- Assessment, Management, Prevention.  Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association, 2000.