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Death
and Dying, Life and Living . MMET 31401 Kay Fowler
Spring 2006
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
**Housden: Housden, Maria. Hannah's Gift: Lessons from a
Life Fully Lived. 2003 (Appears on
syllabus as Housden) ISBN 0553381229
Lorde. Lorde, Audre. Cancer Journals. ISBN 1879960265
Didion. Didion, Joan.
The Year of Magical
Thinking.
2005 ISBN 140004314x
Tolstoy. Tolstoy, Leo.
The
Death
of Ivan Illych.
ISBN 0553210351
Boss. Boss, Pauline. Ambiguous
Loss.
ISBN 0674003810
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:
Lynne, Joanne, ed. Handbook
for Mortals .
0195146018
McLeod, Beth Witrogen. And
Thou Shalt Honor. 1579547745
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.
Allende = Isabel Allende.
"And Of Clay Are We Created." The
Stories of Eva Luna, 1989. 319-330.
Alvarez
= Lizette Alvarez. "Farewell, with Love and
Instructions." New York Times.
Oct. 6, 2005.
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.
Barrett =
Ronald Barrett. "Bereaved Black Children." Readings in Thanatology. Ed. John
D. Morgan, 1997. 403-419.
Barringer =
Felicity Barringer. "Patients Needing Care Overwhelm New
Orleans's Hospital System." New York Times. Jan. 23,
2006.
Belkin =
Lisa Belkin. "Sick and Vulnerable Workers Fear for Health and
Their Jobs." Being A Patient Series. New York Times, Dec. 17, 2005.
Belluck = Pam
Belluck "Boston Court
Approves Ending Life Support for Girl in Coma." New
York Times. Jan. 18, 2006.
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.
Book of Job =
Excerpts from "The Book of Job" (ca. 6th C. BCE) The Bible: King James
Version.
Bradshaw = Glenna Bradshaw, Pamela S. Hinds, Shelly Lensing,
Jami S. Gattuso, and Bassem I. Rassouk. "Cancer-Related Deaths in
Children and Adolescents." Journal
of Palliative Medicine. 8:1 (2005): 86-95.
Braun = Kathryn L. Braun. "Using an Interactive Approach
to Teach Nursing Home Workers About End-of-Life Care." Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.
7:5 (Sep/Oct 2005): 280-288.
Bull =
Michael A. Bull. "Structure and Stresses: When a Family Member is
Dying." Readings in Thanatology.
Ed. John D. Morgan, 1997. 167-180.
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
Carey =
Benedict Carey. "In the Hospital, A Degrading Shift from Person
to Patient." Being A Patient Series. New York Times, Aug. 16, 2005.
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.
Cohen =
Judith A. Cohen and Anthony P. Mannarino.
"Treatment of Childhood Traumatic Grief." Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent
Psychology. 33:4 (2004) 819-831.
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.
Dean =
Mervyn Dean, Susan McClement, John B. Bond, Paul J. Daeninck, and Fred
Nelson. "Parental Experiences of Adult Child Death from
Cancer." Journal of Palliative
Medicine. 8 (4) (2005): 751-765.
Dick = Lois Chapman Dick. "Impact on Law Enforcement and EMS Personnel." Doka, Kenneth J. and Hospice Foundation. Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss, Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, 1996. 173-184.
Didion =
Joan Didion. "Afterlife." New York Times. Sep. 25,
2005.
38+
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.
Egan =
Timothy Egan and Adam Liptak. "Fraught Issue but Narrow Ruling in
Oregon Suicide Case." New York
Times. Jan. 18, 2006.
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.
Fielden = Jan. Fielden. "Grief as a Transformative
Experience: Weaving through Different Lifeworlds after a Loved
One Has Completed Suicide." International
Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 12 (2003): 74-85.
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.
Frank = Robert H. Frank,
"ECONOMIC SCENE; Weighing the True Costs and Benefits in a Matter of
Life and Death." New York
Times. Jan. 19, 2006.
Fry = P. S. Fry. "Perceived Self-Efficacy Domains as Predictors of Fear of the Unknown and Fear of Dying Among Older Adults." Psychology and Aging. 18(3) (2003): 474-486.
Gaes = Jason Gaes (Age 8). My Book for Kids With Cansur Illus.
by Tim and Adam Gaes. 1987
Glassman = Roshi Bernard Glassman. "There Are No Words." Shambala Sun. June 1999. 27-30.
Greenhouse = Linda Greenhouse. "Justices Explore
U.S. Authority Over States on Assisted Suicide." New York Times. Oct. 6, 2005.
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
Gross =
Jane Gross. "Alone in Illness, Seeking Steady Arm to Lean On."
Being A Patient Series. New
York Times, Aug. 26, 2005.
Hafner = Katie
Hafner. "Treated for Illness, Then Lost in a Labyrinth of Bills."
Being A Patient Series. New
York Times, Oct. 13, 2005.
Harmon = Amy Harmon. "Young,
Assured and Playing Pharmacist to Friends." Being A Patient
Series. New York Times,
Nov. 16, 2005.
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.
Hoffman1 = Jan Hoffman.
"Awash in Information, Patients Face a Lonely, Uncertain Road." Being A
Patient Series. New York
Times. Aug. 14, 2005.
Hoffman2 = Jan Hoffman.
"Doctor’s Delicate Balance in Keeping Hope Alive." Being A Patient
Series. New York Times, Dec.
24, 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.
Kakutani =
Michiko Kakutani. "The End of Life as She Knew it" New York Times. Oct. 4, 2005.
(on Didion)
Katha Upanishad: Katha
Upanishad (1400-800 BCE);
Kelly =
Orville Kelly “Make
Today Count” from Make Today Count,
Delcorte Press, 1975.
Klass = Dennis Klass and Robert
E. Goss. "Asian Ways of Grief." Living with Grief: Who We Are; How We
Grieve. Ed. Kenneth J. Doka and Joyce D. Davidson,
1998. 13-26.
Kolata1 = Gina Kolata. "Sick and Scared, and Waiting,
Waiting, Waiting." Being A Patient Series. New York Times, Aug. 20, 2005.
Kolata2 = Gina Kolata.
"When the Doctor is In, But You Wish He Wasn’t." Being A Patient
Series. New York Times,
Nov. 30, 2005.
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.
Lamers =
William Lamers. "Pain Through the Ages." Hospice Foundation
of America, 2004.
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.
Leland = John
Leland. "When Even Health Insurance is No Safeguard." Being A
Patient Series. New York Times,
Oct. 23, 2005.
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.
Miller, D. = Douglas K. Miller,
John T. Chinall, Susan D. Videen and Paul N. Duckro.
Supportive-Affective Group Experience for Persons with Life-Threatening
Illness: Reducing Spiritual, Psychological, and Death-Related
Distress in Dying Patients. Journal
of Palliative Medicine. 8:2 (2005) 333-343.
Miller, J. = James Miller. "When You're the Caregiver of
One Who's Ill" Willowgreen Advice. http://www.willowgreen.com
Moore =
C. L. Moore. "No Woman Born" (1944) from The Best of C. L. Moore, ed. Lester
Del Rey, 1975. 236-238.
Mukherjee
= Bharati
Mukherjee. “The Management of Grief” in The
Middleman and Other Stories, 1988.
Neimeyer =
Robert A. Neimeyer, Holly G. Prigerson, and Betty Davies. "Mourning and
Meaning." American Behaviorial
Scientist. 46:2 (2002): 235-251.
Okie =
Susan Okie.
"Physician-Assisted Suicide: Oregon and Beyond." New England Journal of Medicine
352:16 (Apr. 21, 2005): 1627-1630.
Papyrus of Ani: Papyrus
of Ani:
Egyptian Book of the Dead (240 BCE) 19th C. Translation by E. A.
Wallis Budge
Pick-Me-Ups from Lynne Ann
deSpelder and Albert Lee Strickland. A Journey Through the Last Dance:
Encountering Death and Dying: A
Workbook. 2004.
Piercy = Marge Piercy.
"The Long Death." GUARDIANSHIP
FORUM, On The Responsible Care of Radioactive Materials, 3
(Spring 1994) 13.
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.
Queller = Jessica Queller. "Cancer and the Maiden."
New York Times. Mar. 05,
2005.
Quill = Timothy Quill. "Terri 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
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 = Self Help:
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. (1986) 153-155.
Sacks2 = Oliver
Sacks. “Rebecca” from Man Who
Mistook His
Wife for a Hat. (1986) 178-186.
Saldinger = Amy Saldinger and
Albert C. Cain, Katherine Porterfield and Kelly Lohnes. "Facilitating
Attachment Between School-Aged Children and a Dying Parent." Death Studies. 28 (2004):
915-940.
Satel =
Sally Satel. "Doctors
Behind Bars: Treating Pain is Now Risky Business." New York Times. Occt. 19,
2004.
Saxton =
Marsha Saxton. "Caring for Aunt Alice." Journal of Disability Studies.
16:1 (2005) 61-67.
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
Schweibert = Pat
Schweibert. "What Does Time Have to Do with It?"
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.
Snyder =
Beverly A. Snyder. "Aging and Spirituality: Reclaiming the
Connection through Storytelling." Adultspan Journal. 4(1)
(Spring 2005): 149-55.
Stockdale =
Merren Stockdale. "Is the Complexity of Care a Paradox?" Journal of Advanced Nursing.
31:5 (2000) 1258-1264.
Summers = Jacquelyn
Summers. "Gender, AIDS, and Bereavement: A Comparison of
Women and Men Living with HIV." Death
Studies. 28 (2004): 225-241.
Thomas = Jack
Thomas "Facing a Fatal Disease, Morris Schwartz Teaches How to Live
Until the Last Moment" Boston
Globe
3/9/1995
Tierney = John Tierney.
"Punishing Pain." New York Times.
July 19, 2005.
Treas/Jeffery = Judith Treas. "Older Americans in the 1990's and Beyond" from Population Bulletin. May 1995: 2-10 and Margo Jefferys. "A New Way of Seeing Old Age is Needed." World Health Magazine. Sep/Oct. 1996: 26-27. Reprinted together in from Dickinson, George and Michael R. Leming, eds. Annual Edition: Dying, Death, and Bereavement 98/99 ed, 1998.
Katha 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
Wass =
Hannelore Wass. "A Perspective on the Current State of Death
Education." Death Studies.
28 (2004): 289-308.
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
Ziezula =
Frank R. Ziezula. "The World of the Deaf Community." Living
with Grief: Who We Are; How We
Grieve. Ed. Kenneth J. Doka and Joyce D. Davidson,
1998. 181-198.
Zinner =
Ellen S. Zinner. “Group Survivorship: Effective Mourning Within
the Organization.” 20-21
Zuger = Abigail Zuger.
"For a Retainer, Lavish Care by Boutique Doctors." Being A Patient
Series. New York Times,
Oct. 30, 2005.