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

Special Topics:| Aging/Gerontology | AIDS | Alzheimers/Dementia | Anticipatory Mourning | Art  Therapy |Bereavement/Losses | Cancer | Caregiving | Children & Dying | Children & Grief  | Class Issues | Complicated Mourning/Disenfranchised Grief | Counseling the Bereaved | Death Penalty | Disenfranchised Grief  | Disasters/Traumas | Diversity/Equity | Domestic Violence | Dying Process/Experience | Encyclopedias,etc. | Ethics/Social Issues in D&D | Gender Issues |  GLBT: Death, Dying, Grief | Grief/Bereavement  | Historical Death and Dying  | Homicide | Hospice | Humor |Justice System | Life Threatening and Prolonged Illness | Literature |Loss of a Child| Loss of a Friend | Loss of a Partner/Spouse | Loss of a Parent | Loss of a Sibling | Men and Grief | Music and Grief |Neurological/Neuromuscular, etc. | Nursing Homes/Assisted Living | Organ transplants, etc. | Palliative Care | Prisoner's Families | Race/Ethnicity Issues | Respiratory |  Rituals/Funerals etc. | Schools/Education | Spirituality, Meaning Making, Sacred Texts | Stroke | Sudden Death | Suicide | Violence | Work/Employment |

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.  BD444 .P37 1995

Dickinson, George E. and Michael R. Leming.  Annual Editions: Dying, Death and Bereavement.  8th ed. 05/06 2005.

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.

Morgan, John D.  Readings in Thanatology:  Death Value and Meaning Series, ed. John D. Morgan.  1997. 

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. 2000  Reference R726.8 D3785 2000

Palmer, Greg.  Death: The Trip of a Lifetime.  1993.

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

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.  F7268 .F33 1996

Torr, James D. and Laura K. Egendorf, eds.  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/

Encylopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks, Sourcebooks, etc.

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.  Electronic Resouce through Library Catalog

Beresford, Larry.  The Hospice Handbook: A Complete Guide.  Little, Brown, 1993. R726.8 .B36 1993

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

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

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.   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

Albom, Mitch.  Tuesdays with Morrie:  An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson.  1997. (ALS) LD571 .B418 S383 1997.

Armstrong, Lance and Sally Jenkins.  It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life.  2001 (testicular cancer)

Bauby, Jean-Dominique  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.  1997.  ("Locked-in Syndrome")

Blauner, Susan Rose.  How I Stayed Alive when My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me:  One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention.  2002. (Suicide Prevention)   RC569 .B585 2002

Cohen, Richard M.  Blindsided:  Lifting a Life Above Illness.  A Reluctant Memoir.  2004 (Multiple Sclerosis AND Colon Cancer)

Collins, Judy.  Sanity and Grace:  A Journey of Suicide, Survival, and Strength.  2003 (Surviving the loss of her son to suicide)

DeBeauvoir, Simone.  A Very Easy Death.  1985 (Caregiving for mother dying of cancer)

DeFord, Frank.  Alex: The Life of a Child.  1983 (Cystic Fibrosis)  PQ2603 .E362 M613 1973

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)

Korda, Michael.  Man to Man:  Surviving Prostate Cancer.  1996.  (Prostate Cancer)

Lorde, Audre.  The Cancer Journals.  1980 ( Breast Cancer)  RC 280. B8 L58 1987

McCrum, Robert.  My Year Off: Recovering Life After a Stroke.  1998.  (Stroke)

Monette, Paul.  Halfway Home.  1991 (Fictional memoir of brother with AIDS)

Nielsen, Dr. Jerri with Maryanne Vollers.  Ice Bound:  A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole.  2001. (Breast Cancer)  RC280 .B8 N54 2001

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

Propp, Karen.  In Sickness & In Health:  A Love Story.  2002 (Husband with Prostate 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)

Weisman, Jamie.  As I Live and Breathe: Notes of a Patient-Doctor.  2002.  (Asthma)

Special Topics

Aging/Gerontology

Hall, E. Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's Disease:  A Christian Perspective. 2000.

Larson, Dale G.  The Helper's Journey: Working with People Facing Grief, Loss, and Life-Threatening Illness. Champaign, Ill.: Research Press, 1993.

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.

Hall, E. Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's Disease:  A Christian Perspective. 2000.

Hoffman, Stephanie and Constance Platt. Comforting the Confused: Strategies for Managing Dementia.  Springer Publishing Company, NY: 1991.  RC521 .H64 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.  REFERENCE  F131.9.A26 A47.

Nuland, Sherwin.  "Alzheimer's Disease" (Chap. 5) of How We Die:  Reflections on Life's Final Chapter.  Vintage, 1993. BD444 .N85 1995

Shenk, David.  The Forgetting: Alzheimers: Portrait of an Epidemic. First Concord, 2001  BD444 .N85 1995

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

See also Life Threatening and Prolonged Illnesses

Boss, Pauline.  Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief.  1999.

Doka, Kenneth J. ed. and Joyce Davidson, eds.  Living with Grief: When Illness is Prolonged, 1997.  R726 .8L 586 1997

Rando, Theresa.  Clinical Dimensions of Anticipatory Mourning. Theory and Practice in Working with the Dying, Their Loved Ones, and Their Caregivers.  2000.

Art  Therapy

Bertman, Sandra L. , ed. Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity as Therapy.  Amityville, N.Y.:  Baywood, 1999.  BF575 .G7 G726 1999

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

Gallant, Wilfred.  "Music Intervention in Grief Work with Clients Experiencing Loss and Bereavement."  Guidance and Counseling.  16.4 (2001): 115.

Gladding, Samuel T., Ph. D.  Counseling as an Art:  The Creative Arts in Counseling.  2nd ed. 1998.

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.

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

Bereavement/Losses

See Grief, Loss of a Child, Loss of a Parent, Loss of a Partner, Loss of a Sibling; Prisoner's Families; Rituals;

Cancer

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

Armstrong, Lance and Sally Jenkins.  It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life.  2001 (testicular cancer)

Bearison, David J.  They Never Want to Tell You:  Children Talk About Cancer.  1999 (Childhood Cancers)

Cohen, Richard M.  Blindsided:  lifting a Life Above Illness.  A Reluctant Memoir.  2004 (Multiple Sclerosis AND Colon Cancer)

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)

Janes-Hodder, Honna and Nancy Keene.  Childhood Cancer:  A Parent’s Guide to Solid Tumor Cancers.  2002.  (Childhood Solid Tumor Cancers)

Johnston, Lorraine and Linda Lamb, eds.  Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas:  Making Sense of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Options.  1999 (Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas)

Keene, Nancy.  Childhood Leukemia:  A Guide for Famillies, Friends, and Caregivers. 3rd ed. 2002.  (Childhood Leukemia)

Keene, Nancy, Wendy Hobbie, Kathy Ruccione, and Linda Lamb, eds.  Childhood Cancer Survivors:  A Practical Guide to Your Future. 2nd ed. 2002  (Childhood Cancers)

Korda, Michael.  Man to Man:  Surviving Prostate Cancer.  1996.  (Prostate Cancer)

Lorde, Audre.  The Cancer Journals.  1980 ( Breast Cancer)  RC 280. B8 L58 1987

Nielsen, Dr. Jerri with Maryanne Vollers. Ice Bound:  A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole.  2001.  (Breast Cancer)  RC280 .B8 N54 2001

Propp, Karen.  In Sickness & In Health:  A Love Story.  2002 (Husband with Prostate Cancer)

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

Shiminski-Maher, Maria Sansalone and Patsy McGuire Cullen.  Childhood Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors:  A Guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers.  2001.  (Childhood Brain/Spinal Cord Tumors)

Woznick, Leigh A. and Carol D. Goodheart.  Living with Childhood Cancer:  A Practical Guide to Help Families Cope.  2001.  (Childhood Cancer)

Caregiving

See also Aging; Ethics; Grief; Hospice; Life-Threatening Illnesses; Nursing Homes and Assisted Living; Palliative Care.

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

Ashton, Joyce with Dennis Asthton.  Loss and Grief Recovery:  Help Caring for Children with disabilities, Chronic, or Terminal Illness.  1996.

Baird, Robert M.  and Stuart E. Rosenbaum.  Caring for the Dying:  Critical Issues at the Edge of Life.  2002.  R7268 .C3857 2003

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.

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

Cluff, Leighton E.  and Robert H. Binstock.  Lost Art of Caring: A Challenge to Health Professionals, Families, Communities, and Society.  2001.  RT42 .L67 2001.

Callahan, Maggie and Patricia Kelley.  Final Gifts:  Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying.  1997.  BF787 .O4 C25 1997

Coberly, Margaret, Ph.D., R. N.  Sacred Passage:  How to Provide Fearless Compassionate Care for the Dying. 2003.

Conner, Karen A.  Continuing to Care:  Older Americans and Their Families.  2000.  HV1461 .C666 2000.

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

Doka, Kenneth J. and Joyce D. Davidson, eds.  Caregiving and Loss: Family Needs, Professional Responses.  2001. 

Doka, Kenneth J..  Living with Life-Threatening Illness: A Guide for Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers. Reprint  1998.  R726.5 .D65 1998.

Field, Marilyn J. and Christine K. Cassel, eds.  Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. Washington, D. C.: National Academy Press, 1997.  Electronic book via library catalog.

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

Children and Adolescents and Dying:
See also Caregiving, Children and Grief, Grief, Life Threatening Illnesses; Loss of a Child; Loss of a Sibling; Rituals; Schools/Education.

Adams, David W. and Eleanor J. Deveau. Beyond the Innocence of Childhood. 3 vols. Baywood, 1995.  Vol. 1:  Factors Influencing Children and Adolescents' Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Death.  Vol. 2:  Helping Children Cope with Life-Threatening Illness and Dying.  Vol. 3:  Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Death and Bereavement.

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

Armstrong-Dailey, Ann and Sarah Zarbock, eds.  Hospice Care for Children.  2001.

Ashton, Joyce with Dennis Asthton.  Loss and Grief Recovery:  Help Caring for Children with disabilities, Chronic, or Terminal Illness.  1996.

Bearison, David J.  They Never Want to Tell You:  Children Talk About Cancer.  1999

Bluebond-Langner, Myra.  In the Shadow of Illness: Parents and Siblings of the Chronically Ill Child.  Princeton UP, 1996 BF789 .D4 B635 1996

Carter, Brian S., Marcia Levetown, eds.  Palliative Care for Infants, Children, and Adolescents:  A Practical Handbook. 2004 

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.

DeFord, Frank.  Alex: The Life of a Child.  1983 (Cystic Fibrosis)  PQ2603 .E362 M613 1973

Field, Marilyn and Richard E.  Berhman, eds.  When Children Die:  Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families.  2002.

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

Janes-Hodder, Honna and Nancy Keene.  Childhood Cancer:  A Parent’s Guide to Solid Tumor Cancers.  2002.

Keene, Nancy.  Childhood Leukemia:  A Guide for Famillies, Friends, and Caregivers. 3rd ed. 2002. 

Keene, Nancy, Wendy Hobbie, Kathy Ruccione, and Linda Lamb, eds.  Childhood Cancer Survivors:  A Practical Guide to Your Future. 2nd ed. 2002

Kelly, Katherine and Mark Totten.  When Children Kill:  A Social-Psychological Study of Youth Homicide. 2002.  HV9067 .H6 K42 2002

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth.  On Children and Death. 1983.  BF723 .D3 K827 1985.

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

Peterkin, Allan D.  and Frances Middendorf.  What About Me?  When Brothers and Sisters Get Sick.  1992 Ages 5-8

Reagan, B. The Oregon Death with Dignity Act.  A Guidebook for Health Care Providers.  2000.

Rickgarn, Ralph L. V.  Perspectives on College Student Suicide.  Death, Value and Meaning Series.  1994.

Shiminski-Maher, Maria Sansalone and Patsy McGuire Cullen.  Childhood Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors:  A Guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers.  2001.

Silverman, Phyllis Rolfe.  Never Too Young to Know: Death in Children's Lives.  NY: Oxford UP, 2000.  BF723 .D3 S58 2000

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

Trickett, Penelope K. and Cynthia J. Schellenbach, eds.  Violence Against Children in the Family and the Community.  1998.  HQ784 .V55 V48 1998

Woznick, Leigh A. and Carol D. Goodheart.  Living with Childhood Cancer:  A Practical Guide to Help Families Cope.  2001.

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:

See also Children and Dying; Grief; Rituals; Schools/Education; Sudden Death.

Adams, David W. and Eleanor J. Deveau. Beyond the Innocence of Childhood. 3 vols. Baywood, 1995.  Vol. 1:  Factors Influencing Children and Adolescents' Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Death.  Vol. 2:  Helping Children Cope with Life-Threatening Illness and Dying.  Vol. 3:  Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Death and Bereavement.

Barrett, Ronald K. .  "Bereaved Black Children." Readings in Thanatology. ed. John D. Morgan, Baywood 1997. 403-420.

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.  LB 3013.32 D43 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. BF723 .G75 C58 2000

Davidson, Joyce and Ken Doka, eds.  Living With Grief: At School, At Work, At Worship.  1999. BF575 .G7 L785 1999.

Doka, Kenneth, Sandra L. Bertman, and Carl Grollman, eds.  Living with Grief: Children, Adolescents and Loss.  2000.  BF723 .G75 L58 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 Child: A Parent's Guide.  Fireside, 1992.

Fitzgerald, Helen.  The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teenagers and their Friends.  Fireside, 2000.  BF724.3 .G73 F58 2000

Flynn, Nanette and Mel Erickson.  Teen Talk:  A Grief Support Group for Teenagers.  A Curriculum in Eight Sessions for Grief Counselors, School Counselors, and other Professionals working with Bereaved Teens.  2nd ed.. 2000.

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

Glick, Liz and Dan Zegart.  Your Father's Voice:  Letter for Emmy About Life with Jeremy -- and without him after 9/11.  2004.

Goldman, Linda.  Breaking the Silence:  A Guide to Helping Children with Complicated Grief -- Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence, and Abuse.  2nd ed. 2001.  BF723 .G75 G64 2001

Goldman, Linda.  Helping the Grieving Child in the School.  2000

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

Gordon, Norma S., Norman L. Farberow, and Carl A. Maida.  Children and Disasters:  The Series in Trauma and Loss.  1999.

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.  BF723 .M35 H37 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.  BF723 .G75 J36 2002

Kroen, William C.  and Pamela Espeland, eds.  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

Liotta, Alfred J. When Students Grieve:  A Guide to Bereavement in the Schools.  1996.

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

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.  BF723 .D3 S58 2000

Smith, Susan C.  Forgotten Mourners:  Guidelines for Working with Bereaved Children, 2nd ed. 1999.  BF723 .G75 P46 1999

Stevenson, Robert G., ed.  What Will We Do?  Preparing a School Community to Cope with Crises.  2nd ed. 2002.

Webb, Nancy Boyd, ed.  Helping Bereaved Children: A Handbook for Practitioners. 2nd ed. NY:   Guilford Press, 2002.  BF723 .G75 H34 2002

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

Wolfelt, A. D.  Healing the Bereaved Child:  Grief Gardening, Growth through Grief and Other Touchstones for Caregivers.  1996.  BF723 .G75 W63 1996

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

Zinner, Ellen S. and Mary Beth Williams, eds.  When a Community Weeps:  Case Studies in Group Survivorship.  1999.

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

Bevan, Denise.  "Poverty and Deprivation."   Loss and Grief: A Guide for Human Services Practitioners, ed. Neil Thompson 2002. 93-110.  BF575.D35 L665 2002

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.  RA418 .H388 2003

Man, Johnathon M., Sofia Gruskin, and George J. Annas, eds.  Health and Human Rights: A Reader.  1998.  RA427 .25 .H42 1999

Marks, Lara V. and Michael Worboys.  Migrants, Minorities and Health: Historical and Contemporary Studies.  1997.  RA553 .M54 1997

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

Purdy, Michael and David Banks.  Health and Exclusion: Policy and Practice in Health Division.  1999.  RA418.3 .G7 H425 1999

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

Complicated Mourning and Disenfranchised Grief.

Boss, Pauline.  Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief.  1999.

Cox, Gerry R., Robert G. Stevenson and Robert Bendiksen, eds.  Complicated Grieving and Bereavement: Understanding and Treating People Experiencing Loss.  2001.  BF575 .G7 C645 2003

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

Danieli, Yael, Nigel S. Rodley, and Lars Weisaeth, eds.  International Responses to Traumatic Stress.  1996.

Doka, Kenneth J., ed.  Disenfranchised Grief:  New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice. 2002. BF575 .G7D56 2002

Doka, Kenneth J. ed. and Joyce Davidson, eds.  Living with Grief: When Illness is Prolonged, 1997.  R726 .8L 586 1997

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

Goldman, Linda.  Breaking the Silence:  A Guide to Helping Children with Complicated Grief -- Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence, and Abuse.  2nd ed. 2001.   BF723 .G75 G64 2001

Lukas, Christopher and Henry Seiden.  Silent Grief:  Living in the Wake of Suicide.  NY: Jason Aronson, 1997.  HV6548 .U5 L85 1997

Rando, Theresa.  Treatment of Complicated Mourning.  Champaign, Ill: Research Press, 1993. RC455.4 .L67 R36 1993

Rando, Theresa.  Clinical Dimensions of Anticipatory Mourning. Theory and Practice in Working with the Dying, Their Loved Ones, and Their Caregivers.  2000.

Counseling the Bereaved

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.  LB 3013.32 D43 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. BF723 .G75 C58 2000

Cox, Gerry R., Robert G. Stevenson and Robert Bendiksen, eds.  Complicated Grieving and Bereavement: Understanding and Treating People Experiencing Loss.  2001.  BF575 .G7 C645 2003

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

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. GT3340 .A84 2003

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Morgan, John D. and Pittu Laungani.  Death and Bereavement Around the World.  Vol. 1:  Death and Bereavement in Europe.  Baywood, 2004. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Death Penalty

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

Bedau, Hugo Adam and Paul G. Cassell, eds. Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both sides Make Their Best Case. 2004. HV8699 .U5 D635 2004

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

Dicks, Shirley.  Death Row: Interviews with Inmates, Their Families and Opponents of Capital Punishment.  2001.

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

King, Rachel.  Capital Consequences: Families Of The Condemned Tell Their Stories. 2005

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 B. Death Penalty. 1998. H31 .O62 D29 1998

Urbina, Martin.  G.  Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences.  2003.  HV8699 .U5 U73 2003

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.

Danieli, Yael, Nigel S. Rodley, and Lars Weisaeth, eds.  International Responses to Traumatic Stress.  1996.

Erikson, Kai.  A New Species of Trouble: Human Experience of Modern Disasters.  NY: W.W. Norton, 1995. HV553 .E68 1995

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

Glick, Liz and Dan Zegart.  Your Father's Voice:  Letter for Emmy About Life with Jeremy -- and without him after 9/11.  2004.

Gordon, Norma S., Norman L. Farberow, and Carl A. Maida.  Children and Disasters:  The Series in Trauma and Loss.  1999.

Laqueur, Walter.  The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction.  NY: Oxford UP, 2000. On Order

Laqueur, Walter.  No End to War:  Terrorism in the 21st Century.  2003. HV6431 .L354 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. RC552 .P67 H47 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.

Pellegrino, E., P. Mazzarella, and P. Corsi, eds.  Transcultural Dimensions in Medical Ethics.  1992.

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

Stevenson, Robert G., ed.  What Will We Do?  Preparing a School Community to Cope with Crises.  2nd ed. 2002.

Zinner, Ellen S. and Mary Beth Williams, eds.  When a Community Weeps:  Case Studies in Group Survivorship.  1999.

Diversity/Equity

Domestic Violence

Goldman, Linda.  Breaking the Silence:  A Guide to Helping Children with Complicated Grief -- Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence, and Abuse.  2nd ed. 2001.  BF723 .G75 G64 2001

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

Herman, Judith Lewis.  Trauma and Recovery:  The Aftermath of Violence: From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror.  1997. RC552 .P67 H47 1997

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

Trickett, Penelope K. and Cynthia J. Schellenbach, eds.  Violence Against Children in the Family and the Community.  1998.  HQ784 .V55 V48 1998

Dying Process/Experience

See also Caregiving, Children and Dying; Life Threatening and Prolonged Illnesses.

Byock, Ira.  Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life.  Riverhead, 1998. HQ1073 .B96 1998

Callahan, Maggie and Patricia Kelley.  Final Gifts:  Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying.  1997.  BF787 .O4 C25 1997

Coberly, Margaret, Ph.D., R. N.  Sacred Passage:  How to Provide Fearless Compassionate Care for the Dying. 2003.

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

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

Groopman, Jerome. The Measure of Our Days: New Beginnings at Life's End.  NY: Viking, 1997. R726.8 .G77 1997

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

Longaker, Christine.  Facing Death and Finding Hope: A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying.  NY: Doubleday, 1997. BF789 .D4 L664 2001

Lynn, Joanne and Joan Harrold, eds.  Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness.  NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. R726.8 H353 1999

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

Morris, Virginia.  Talking about Death.  2001.

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. R726.8 .T39 1989

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. BF789 .D4 W34 1997

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

Ethics, Patients Rights and Other Social Issues in Death and Dying:

See also Diversity/Equity; Justice System

Anderson, J. R. and B. Barrett, eds.  Ethics in HIV-Related Psychotherapy: Clinical Decision Making in Complex Cases. 2001.  RC607 .A26 E85 2001

Annas, George J. Rights of Patients: the Authoritative ACLU Guide to the Rights of Patients. 2004. KF3823 .A96 2004

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 Pabst. Ethical Issues in Suicide. 1995 HV6545 .B26 1995

Battin, Margaret P., Rosamond Rhodes and Anita Silvers, eds.  Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate.  NY: Routledge, 1998. R726 .P496 1998

Bedau, Hugo Adam and Paul G. Cassell, eds. Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both sides Make Their Best Case. 2004. HV8699 .U5 D635 2004

Beauchamp, T., and J. Childress.  Principles of BioMedical Ethics.  5th ed. 2001. (Ramapo has 1989 edition; need updated edition).

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

Brannigan, Michael C. and Judith A. Boss.  Healthcare Ethics in a Diverse Society.  Mountainview, Calif.: Mayfield, 2001. R724 .B72 2001

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

Caplan, Arthur L. and Daniel Hl Coelho, eds.  Ethics of organ transplants : the current debate. 1998 RD120.7 .E86 1998    

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

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

Cohen-Almager, Raphael. Right to Die With Dignity: An Argument in Ethics, Medicine and Law. 2001 R726 .L635 2001

Curry, Lynne. 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.

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

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

Dranove, David.  What's Your Life Worth?  Health Care Rationing ... Who Lives? Who Dies? And Who Decides?  Financial Times/Prentice Hall Books,  2003. RA410.5 .D73 2003

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hendin, Herbert.  Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients and Assisted Suicide.  WW. Norton, 1998. R726 .H46 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.  R725.5 .E885 2001

Ikeda, Daisaku, Guy Bourgeault, Rene Simard.  On Being Human:  Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge.  2003. BQ4570 .M4 1324 2003

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

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

Jonsen, Albert R., Robert F. Veatch and Leroy Walters, ed. Sourcebook in Bioethics. 1998 R724 .S599 1998

Karp, N. and E. Wood.  Incapacitated and Alone:  Health Care Decision-Making for the Unbefriended Elderly.  2003.

Kleespies, Philip. Life and Death Decisions: Psychological and Ethical Considerations in End-of-Life Care. 2004. R726.8 .K565 2004

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

LaFollette, Hugh, ed. . Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics. 2003 BJ1031 .O94 2003

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

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

Magnusson, Roger S.  Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground.  2002.  R726 .M28 2002

Meisel, A. and K. L. Cerminara.  The Right to Die:  The Law of End-Of-Life Decision-Making.  2004.

Meyer, C. A Good Death:  Challenges, Choices, and Care Options.  1998.

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

Munson, Ronald.  Raising the dead : organ transplants, ethics, and society 2002 RD120.7 .M86 2002

Pellegrino, E., P. Mazzarella, and P. Corsi, eds.  Transcultural Dimensions in Medical Ethics.  1992.

Peppin, J. F., M. J. Cherry, and A. Iltis, eds.  The Annals of Bioethics:  Religious Perspectives in Bioethics.  2004.

Post, S., ed.  Encyclopedia of Bioethics.  3rd ed.  (2004) QH332 .E52 2004

Potts, John T. Non-heart-beating organ transplantation [computer file] : medical and ethical issues in procurement / Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine 1997 Electronic book through Library "Linked Resources"    

Price, David P. T. Legal and ethical aspects of organ transplantation 2000  K3611.T7 P75 2000     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. Reference R726.8 D3785 2000

Randall, Fiona and R. S. Downie.  Palliative Care Ethics: A Companion for All Specialties. NY: Oxford UP, 1999. R726 .R35 1999

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.

Spargo, Clifton. The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature. 2004 On Order

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

Torr, James, ed.. Medical ethics. 2000 H31.C97 M48   

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

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. (Ramapo has 1997 edition at R724 .M2927 1997)

Werth, J. L., Jr. and D. Blevins, eds.  Psychosocial Issues Near the End of Life: A Resource for Professional Care Providers.  Forthcoming.

Youngner, Stuart J., Robert Arnold, and Renie Schapiro, eds.  The Definition of Death: Contemporary Controversies.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999. RA1063.D44 1999

Youngner, Stuart J., Robert Arnold, and Renie Schapiro, eds.  Organ Transplantation; Meanings and Realities.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. RD120.7 .0724 1996

Youngner, Stuart J., Renie Schapiro, and Martha W. Anderson, eds.  Transplanting Human Tissue: Ethics, Policy, and Practice, 2003. RD120.75 .T745 2004

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

See also GLBT, Men and Grief

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. RA564 .85 .G4 G53 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.  Electronic Resouce through Library Catalog

Brenner, Claudia and Hannah Ashley.  Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence.  1995.      HV6250.4.H66 B74 1995

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.  Electronic Resouce through Library Catalog

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.  BF692.5 .L48 1998

Martin, Terry and Kenneth Doka, eds.  Men Don't Cry, Women Do: Transcending Gender Stereotypes of Grief, 1999.  BF575.67 M38 2000

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.

Riches, Gordon.  "Gender and Sexism."   Loss and Grief: A Guide for Human Services Practitioners, ed. Neil Thompson 2002. 79-92.  BF575.D35 L665 2002

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

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.

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

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

GLBT: Death, Dying, Grief

Brenner, Claudia and Hannah Ashley.  Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence.  1995.      HV6250.4.H66 B74 1995

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

Loffreda, Beth.  Losing Matt Shepard:  Life and politics in the aftermath of anti-gay murder.  2000.  HV6250.4.H66 L63 2000

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

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.

Grief and Bereavement:

See also Anticipatory Mourning; Bereavement; Children and Grief; Complicated Mourning/Disenfranchised Grief; Counseling the Bereaved;  Loss of a Child, Loss of a Parent, Loss of a Partner, Loss of a Sibling; Men and Grief; Prisoner's Families; Rituals;  Sudden Death

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.

Boss, Pauline.  Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief.  1999.

Brener, Anne.  Mourning & Mitzvah:  A Guided Journal for Walking the Mourner's Path Through Grief to Healing.  2nd. ed. 2001.

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

Butler, Judith. Precarious Life: the Power of Mourning and Violence. 2004. HV6432 .B88 2004

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. BF575 .G7D56 2002

Doka, Kenneth J. and Hospice Foundation.  Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss, Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, 1996.  BF575 .G7 L58 1999

Doka, Kenneth J. ed.  Living with Grief: Children, Adolescents and Loss, 2000.  BF723 .G75 L58 2000

Doka, Kenneth J. ed.  Living with Grief: Loss in Later Life, 2002.  BF723 .G75 L585 2002.

Doka, Kenneth J. ed. and Joyce Davidson, eds.  Living with Grief: When Illness is Prolonged, 1997.  R726 .8L 586 1997

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

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

Gilbert, R. Finding Your Way After Your Parent Dies:  Hope for Adults.  1999.

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

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

Hayslip, B. 1995.  Helping Older Adults Coping with Loss. 1995.

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.  BF692.5 .L48 1998

Lukas, Christopher and Henry Seiden.  Silent Grief:  Living in the Wake of Suicide.  NY: Jason Aronson, 1997.  HV6548 .U5 L85 1997

Martin, Terry and Kenneth Doka, eds.  Men Don't Cry, Women Do: Transcending Gender Stereotypes of Grief, 1999.  BF575.67 M38 2000

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

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

Neimeyer, Robert 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. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Prend, Ashley Davis.  Transcending Loss: Understanding the Lifelong Impact of Grief and How to Make it Meaningful.  Berkley, 1997. BF575 .G7 P74 1997

Rando, Therese.  How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies.  1991 BF575 .G7 R355 1991

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. 1997. BF575 .G7 R69 1997

Schoeneck, T. ed.  Hope for Bereaved.  2002.

Smith, H. Grieving the Death of a Friend.  1996.

Smith, H. L. When Your People Are Grieving:  Leading in Times of Loss. 2001

Smith, H. L.  Finding Your Way to say Goodbye:  Comfort for the Dying and Those Who Care for Them.  2002.

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, A. D.  Healing the Bereaved Child:  Grief Gardening, Growth through Grief and Other Touchstones for Caregivers.  1996.  BF723 .G75 W63 1996

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

GriefNet:  http://rivendell.org

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

Historical Death and Dying

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

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

D'Auria, Sue, Peter 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: Death in Early America.  2003.  HQ1073.5.U6 M67 2003.

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

Laderman, Gary. Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth Century America. 2003 HD999 .U53 U543 2003

MacGregor, Geddes.  Images of Afterlife: Beliefs from Antiquity to Modern Times.  NY: Paragon, 1992. BL535.M23 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

Taylor, John H.  Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt.  2001. BL2450 .D43 T39 2001

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

See also Aging;  Caregiving, Children and Dying; Dying Process; Ethics; Grief; Hospice; Life-Threatening Illnesses; Nursing Homes and Assisted Living; Palliative Care. 

Beresford, Larry.  The Hospice Handbook: A Complete Guide.  Little, Brown, 1993. R726.8 .B36 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.

Cairns, Moira, Marney Thompson, and Wendy Wainwright.  Transitions in Dying and Bereavement: A Psychosocial Guide for Hospice and Palliative Care. 2003   

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. R726 .8 .J34 1997

Lattanzi-Licht, Marcia.  Hospice Choice: In Pursuit of a Peaceful Death.  Simon and Schuster, 1998. R726.8 .L37 1998

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

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

Saunders, Dame Cicely and Robert Kastenbaum, eds.  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. R726.8 .S46 1997

Smith, Douglas C.  Caregiving:  Hospice-Proven Techniques for Healing Body and Soul.  1997.

Smith, Shirley Ann.  Hospice Concepts:  A Guide to Palliative Care in Terminal Illness.  2000.

Taylor, Joan.  In the Light of Dying: The Journals of a Hospice Volunteer.  Crossroad, 1993. R726.8 .T39 1989

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  

Humor

Klein, Allen.  The Courage To Laugh:  Humor, Hope and Healing in the Face of Death and Dying.  1998.
Klein, Allen.  The Healing Power of Humor:  Techniques for getting through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All That Not-So-Funny Stuff.  1989.

Justice System, Crime, Police, Prisons, etc.

See Death Penalty; Diversity/Equity; Domestic Violence; Ethics; Homicide; Prisoner's Families; Violence

Life-Threatening and Prolonged Illnesses

See AIDS; Alzheimers/Dementia; Anticipatory Mourning; Cancer; Caregiving; Children and Dying; Dying Process; Hospice; Narratives, Neurological/Neuromuscular, Palliative Care; Respiratory, Stroke,

Literature

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

Bamforth, Iain, ed. Body in the Library: A Literary Anthology of Modern Medicine. 2003. PN6071 .M38 B64 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.

Spargo, Clifton. The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature. 2004 On Order

Loss of a Child

Allen, Marie, PhD and Shelly Marks, MS.  Miscarriage:  Women Sharing from the Heart.  John Wiley, 1993. R6648 .A55 1993

Bramblett, J.  When Goodbye is Forever: Learning to Live Again After the Loss of a Child.  NY: Ballantine, 1991.

Collins, Judy.  Sanity and Grace:  A Journey of Suicide, Survival, and Strength.  2003 (Surviving the loss of her son to suicide)

Davis, Deborah.  Empty Cradle, Broken Heart:  Surviving the Death of Your Baby.  1996.

Finkbeiner, Ann K.  After the Death of a Child: Living with Loss Through the Years.  NY: Free Press, 1996. BF575 .G7 F55 1998

Fritsch, Julie with Sherokee Ilse .  The Anguish of Loss. 2nd ed.  1988.

Gilbert, Kathleen R. and Laura S. Smart.  Coping with Infant or Fetal Loss: The Couple's Healing Process.  NY: Brunner/Mazel, 1992. R6631 .656 1992

Hinton, Clara.  Silent Grief:  Miscarriage.  Finding Your Way Through the Darkness. 2001.

Horchler, Joani Nelson and Robin Rice Morris.  The Sids Survival Guide:  Information and comfort for Grieving Family and FrieNDs and Professionals who Seek to Help Them. 1997.

Ilse, Sherokee and Arlene Applebaum, eds..  Empty Arms:  Coping with Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death.  2002.

Klass, Dennis. Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents. 1999. BL625.9 B48 K53 1999.

Kohn, Ingrid, Perry-Linn Moffitt, and Isabelle A. Wilkins.  Silent Sorrow: Pregnancy Loss: Guidance and Support for You and Your Family. 2000.

Lafser, Christine O'Keefe.  Empty Cradle, a Full Heart: Reflections for Mothers and Fathers after Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death.  199

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

Loss of a Friend

Smith, H. Grieving the Death of a Friend.  1996.

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. BF575 .D35 E34 1995

Gilbert, R. Finding Your Way After Your Parent Dies:  Hope for Adults.  1999.

Glick, Liz and Dan Zegart.  Your Father's Voice:  Letter for Emmy About Life with Jeremy -- and without him after 9/11.  2004.

Harris, Maxine, Ph. D.  The Loss That is Forever:  The Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father.  Plume, 1996.  BF723 .M35 H37 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.

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. HQ755.86 .S43 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

Campbell, Scott and Phyllis R. Silverman.  Widower:  When Men Are Left Alone.  Death Value and Meaning Series.  1996. 

Felber, M. Finding Your Way After Your Spouse Dies.  2000.

Ginsberg, Genevieve Davis.  Widow to Widow:  Thoughtful, Practical Ideas for Rebuilding your Life.  1995.

Lopata, Helena Znaniecka.  Current Widowhood: Myths and Realities.  Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996. HQ1058 .L64 1996

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

Propp, Karen.  In Sickness & In Health:  A Love Story.  2002 (Husband with Prostate Cancer)

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.

Loss of a Sibling

Barber, Erica.  Letters From a Friend: A Sibling's Guide for Coping and Grief. 2003.

Bluebond-Langner, Myra.  In the Shadow of Illness: Parents and Siblings of the Chronically Ill Child.  Princeton UP, 1996 BF789 .D4 B635 1996

See also Aging;  Caregiving, Children and Dying; Dying Process; Ethics; Grief; Hospice; Life-Threatening Illnesses; Nursing Homes and Assisted Living; Palliative Care.

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

Cairns, Moira, Marney Thompson, and Wendy Wainwright.  Transitions in Dying and Bereavement: A Psychosocial Guide for Hospice and Palliative Care. 2003    

Carter, Brian S., Marcia Levetown, eds.  Palliative Care for Infants, Children, and Adolescents:  A Practical Handbook. 2004  BF789 .D4 B635 1996

Faull, Christina and Richard Woof.  Palliative Care: An Oxford Core Text. 2002.   

Hallenbeck, James L.  Palliative Care Perspectives.  2003.

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.

Matzo, Marianne Laporte and Deborah Witt Shermann.  Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life, 2001,   

McDonald, N., ed.  Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. 3rd ed. New York:  Oxford University Press, 2004. R726.8 .09 2004

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  

Prisoner's Families

Arditti, Joyce.  “Locked Doors and Glass Walls:  Family Visiting at a Local Jail."  Journal of Loss & Trauma.  8:2 (Apr. 2003): 115-139.

Bakker, Laura J. L.  “Hidden Victims of Crime”  Social Work.  23:2 (Mar. 1978): 143-9.

Beatty, Cynthia and Cynthia B. Seymour.  Parents in Prison: Children in Crisis, an Issue Brief (Series of CWLA Issue Briefs). 1997.

Boswell, Gwyneth.  Imprisoned Fathers and Their Children. 2001.

Braman, Donald.  Doing Time on the Outside: Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America. 2004.

Browning, Sandra Lee, Robin R. Miller and Lisa M. Spruance.  “Criminal Incarceration Dividing the Ties that Bind: Black Men and their Families.”  Journal of African American Men; 6:1 (Summer 2001): 87-103.

Cain, Sandra.  Dad's in Prison. 1999.

Canfield, Jack, Mark Victor Hansen and Tom Lagana.  Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Hope, Healing and Forgiveness.  2002

Edenfield, Ann.  Family Arrested: How to Survive the Incarceration of a Loved One. 2002

Dicks, Shirley.  Death Row: Interviews with Inmates, Their Families and Opponents of Capital Punishment.  2001.

Dicks, Shirley. Victims of Crime and Punishment: Interviews with Victims, Convicts, Their Families, and Support Groups. 2000.

Enos, Sandra.  Mothering from the Inside: Parenting in a Women's Prison.  2001 HV9471 .E5 2001

Ferraro, Kathleen J., John M. Johnson, Stephen R. Jorgensen, and F. G. Bolton, Jr. “Problems of Prisoners' Families: The Hidden Costs of Imprisonment.”   Journal of Family Issues; 4:4 (12/1/83): 575-592.

Fishman, Susan Hoffman “Losing a Loved One to Incarceration: The Effect of Imprisonment on Family Members.”   Personnel & Guidance Journal; 59: 6 (Feb. 1981):372-6.

Gabel, Katherine and Denise Johnston.  Children of Incarcerated Parents. 1995.

Howarth, Glennys and Paul Rock. “Aftermath and the Construction of Victimisation: `The Other Victims of Crime'.” Howard Journal of Criminal Justice;  39:1 (Feb. 2000): 58-79.

 “It Hurts So Bad: Comparing Grieving Patterns of the Families of Murder Victims with Victims of Crime” King Criminal Justice Policy Review. 15 (2004): 193-211.

King, Rachel.  Capital Consequences: Families Of The Condemned Tell Their Stories. 2005

Martin, Jamie S.  Inside Looking out: Jailed Fathers' Perceptions about Separation from Their Children. 2001.    

Martone, Cynthia.  Loving Through Bars: Children with Parents in Prison. 2005.

Mazza, Carl.  “And Then the World Fell Apart: The Children of Incarcerated Fathers.” Families in Society; 83:5/6 (Sep-Dec. 2002):521-530.

Miller, R. Robin, Sandra Lee Browning and Lisa M. Spruance.   “An Introduction and Brief Review of the Impacts of Incarceration on the African American Family.”   Journal of African American Men; 6:1 (Summer 2001):3-13.

Mumola, Christopher J. Incarcerated Parents and Their Children. 2000. No data.

Nurse, Anne M.  Fatherhood Arrested: Parenting from within the Juvenile Justice System. 2002.

Perkins-Dock, Robin E. and Shaila K. Dewan.  “Family Interventions With Incarcerated Youth: A Review of the Literature.”    International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology; 45:5 (Oct.  2001): 606-626

Seymour, Cynthia and Creasie Finney Hairston.  Children With Parents in Prison: Child Welfare Policy, Program, and Practice Issues. 2001. HV8886 .U5 C55 2001

Showalter, David.  “Marital and Family Counseling in Prisons.  Social Work.  25:3 (Mar. 1980) 224-9.

Stevens, Margaret.  Families of the Jailed. 2001

Weymouth, Toni D.  Outsiders Looking in: How to Keep from Going Crazy When Someone You Love Goes to Jail. 1998.

Wright, Lois M. and Cynthia Seymour.  Working with Children and Families Separated by Incarceration: A Handbook for Child Welfare Agencies.  2000.

Yaffe, Rebecca M.  When A Parent Goes To Jail : A Comprehensive Guide for Counseling Children of Incarcerated Parents. 2000.

http://www.centerforce.org/families/support.cfm

http://www.prisonersoflove.com/

http://www3.sympatico.ca/cfcn/cfcneng.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.  Electronic Resouce through Library Catalog

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

Browning, Sandra Lee, Robin R. Miller and Lisa M. Spruance.  “Criminal Incarceration Dividing the Ties that Bind: Black Men and their Families.”  Journal of African American Men; 6:1 (Summer 2001): 87-103.

Byrd, W. Michael, Linda A. Clayton.  An American Health Dilemma: Race, Medicine, and Health Care in the United States 1900-2000.  2001. RA448.5 N4 B97 2000

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

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

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

Desai, Suki and Denise Bevan.  "Race and Culture."   Loss and Grief: A Guide for Human Services Practitioners, ed. Neil Thompson 2002. 65-78.  BF575.D35 L665 2002

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

Henirch, Janet. Health Care: Approaches to Address Racial Disparities. 2003 (Electronic resource through library)

LaViest, Thomas, ed.  Race, Ethnicity and Health: A Public Health Reader. 2002. RA563 .M56 R325 2002

Marks, Lara V. and Michael Worboys.  Migrants, Minorities and Health: Historical and Contemporary Studies.  1997.  RA553 .M54 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.  Columbia; 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, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. 1998. HO766.545 R58

Smedley, Brian D., Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson, eds..  Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Heathcare.  Institute of Medicine.  2003.  RA563 .M56 U53 2003 (Book and CD formats)

Smith, David Barton.  Health Care Divided: Race and Healing a Nation.  1999. RA448.5 N4 563

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

Urbina, Martin.  G.  Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences.  2003.  HV8699 .U5 U73 2003

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

Respiratory conditions

Hedrick, Hannah L.  and Austin H. Kutscher, eds.  The Quiet Killer:  Emphysema/Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.  2002.

Weisman, Jamie.  As I Live and Breathe: Notes of a Patient-Doctor.  2002.  (Asthma)

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

See also Diversity/Equity; Grief; Spirituality

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

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

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

Colman, Penny.  Corpses, Coffins and Crypts:  A History of Burial.  1997.

Cronin, Xavier A.  Grave Exodus:  Tending to Our Dead in the 21st Century.  NY: Barricade, 1996. HD9999 .U54 U526 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. Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth Century America. 2003 HD999 .U53 U543 2003

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. BD444 .L96 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

Roach, Mary.  Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.  2003.

Rogak, Lisa.  Death Warmed Over:  Funeral Food, Rituals and Customs from Around the World.  2004.

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

Schools/Education/Teaching and Death/Dying/Bereavement:

See Children and Dying; Children and Grief; Counseling the Bereaved; Disasters/Traumas; Grief; Sudden Death; Violence

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.  LB 3013.32 D43 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.

Davidson, Joyce and Ken Doka, eds.  Living With Grief: At School, At Work, At Worship.  1999. BF575 .G7 L785 1999.

Doka, Kenneth, Sandra L. Bertman, and Carl Grollman, eds.  Living with Grief: Children, Adolescents and Loss.  2000.  BF723 .G75 L58 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

Flynn, Nanette and Mel Erickson.  Teen Talk:  A Grief Support Group for Teenagers.  A Curriculum in Eight Sessions for Grief Counselors, School Counselors, and other Professionals working with Bereaved Teens.  2nd ed.. 2000.

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

Goldman, Linda.  Breaking the Silence:  A Guide to Helping Children with Complicated Grief -- Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence, and Abuse.  2nd ed. 2001.  BF723 .G75 G64 2001

Goldman, Linda.  Helping the Grieving Child in the School.  2000

Gordon, Norma S., Norman L. Farberow, and Carl A. Maida.  Children and Disasters:  The Series in Trauma and Loss.  1999.

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.

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

Liotta, Alfred J. When Students Grieve:  A Guide to Bereavement in the Schools.  1996.

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

Silverman, Phyllis R.  Never Too Young to Know: Death in Children's Lives.  NY: Oxford UP, 2000.  BF723 .D3 S58 2000

Smith, Susan C.  Forgotten Mourners:  Guidelines for Working with Bereaved Children, 2nd ed. 1999.  BF723 .G75 P46 1999

Stevenson, Robert G., ed.  What Will We Do?  Preparing a School Community to Cope with Crises.  2nd ed. 2002.

Webb, Nancy Boyd, ed.  Helping Bereaved Children: A Handbook for Practitioners. 2nd ed. NY:   Guilford Press, 2002.  BF723 .G75 H34 2002

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

Zinner, Ellen S. and Mary Beth Williams, eds.  When a Community Weeps:  Case Studies in Group Survivorship.  1999.

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

Spirituality and Meaning Making in Death and Dying, Sacred Texts, Ancient Texts

See also Diversity/Equity; Grief; Rituals;
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.

Brener, Anne.  Mourning & Mitzvah:  A Guided Journal for Walking the Mourner's Path Through Grief to Healing.  2nd. ed. 2001.

Bregman, Lucy.  Death and Dying, Spirituality, and Religions : A Study of the Death Awareness Movement.  2003. BL504 .B74 200

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

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

Cox, G., R. Bendiksen and R. Stevenson, eds.  Making Sense of Death: Spiritual, pastoral, and Personal Aspects of Dying and Bereavement. 2003.

Cutliffe, John R. Inspiration of Hope in Bereavement Counseling.  2004 No Data

Davidson, Joyce and Ken Doka, eds.  Living With Grief: At School, At Work, At Worship.  1999. BF575 .G7 L785 1999.

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

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

Gilbert,  R.  Healthcare and Spirituality:  Listening, Assessing Caring.  2002.

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

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

Guntzelman, J.  God knows You're Grieving:  Things to Do to help You Through.  2001.

Hall, E. Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's Disease:  A Christian Perspective. 2000.

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

Ikeda, Daisaku, Guy Bourgeault, Rene Simard.  On Being Human:  Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge.  2003. BQ4570 .M4 1324 2003

Jewell, A., ed.  Spirituality and Ageing.  1999.

Klass, Dennis. Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents. 1999. BL625.9 B48 K53 1999

Longaker, Christine.  Facing Death and Finding Hope: A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying.  NY: Doubleday, 1997. BF789 .D4 L664 2001

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

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

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

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

McLeod, Beth Witrogen.  Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal.  John Wiley, 1999. R726 .8 M39 1999

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

Miller, J. Autumn Wisdom:  Finding Meaning in Life's Later Years.  1995a.

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

Moss, Bernard.  "Spirituality: A Personal View."   Loss and Grief: A Guide for Human Services Practitioners, ed. Neil Thompson 2002. 34-44.  BF575.D35 L665 2002

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

Neimeyer, Robert.  "Meaning Reconstruction Theory."   Loss and Grief: A Guide for Human Services Practitioners, ed. Neil Thompson 2002. 45-64.  BF575.D35 L665 2002

O'Rourke, K. and P. Boyle.  Medical Ethics:  Sources of Catholic Teachings.  3rd ed.  1999.

Peppin, J. F., M. J. Cherry, and A. Iltis, eds.  The Annals of Bioethics:  Religious Perspectives in Bioethics.  2004.

Prend, Ashley Davis.  Transcending Loss: Understanding the Lifelong Impact of Grief and How to Make it Meaningful.  Berkley, 1997. BF575 .G7 P74 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. BF1045 .N4 R556 2000

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

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. BL504 .S56 1998

Smith, Jane Idleman and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad.  The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection.   Oxford UP, 2002. BP166.8 .S55 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.  F7268 .F33 1996

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

Tibetan Book of the Dead (written down 8th c. CE):  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 E..:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/conf2.htm

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

Stroke

Sudden Death

See also Complicated Mourning, Disasters/Traumas; Domestic Violence; Homicide; Prisoner's Families; Stroke; Suicide

Doka, Kenneth J. and Hospice Foundation.  Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss, Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, 1996.  BF575 .G7 L58 1999

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

Lord, Janice Harris.  No Time For Goodbyes:  Coping with Sorrow, Anger and Injustice After a Tragic Death.  5th ed. Pathfinder, 2000. BF575 .G7 L66 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 BF789 .D4 N63 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.

Battin, M. Pabst. Ethical Issues in Suicide. 1995 HV6545 .B26 1995

Blauner, Susan Rose.  How I stayed Alive when My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me:  One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention.  2002. (Suicide Prevention)  RC569 .B585 2002

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

Collins, Judy.  Sanity and Grace:  A Journey of Suicide, Survival, and Strength.  2003 (Surviving the loss of her son to suicide)

Doka, Kenneth J. and Hospice Foundation.  Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss, Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, 1996.  BF575 .G7 L58 1999

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. HV6565 .F525 2000

Goldman, Linda.  Breaking the Silence:  A Guide to Helping Children with Complicated Grief -- Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence, and Abuse.  2nd ed. 2001.  BF723 .G75 G64 2001

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.

Hawton, Keith and Kees van Heeringen, eds.  The International Handbook of Suicide and Attempted Suicide.  NY: Wiley, 2000.  Reference HV6545 .J59 2002

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.

Kolf, June Cerza.  Standing in the Shadow:  Help and Encouragement for Suicide Survivors.  2002

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

Lester, D. and M. Tallmer, eds.  Now I Lay Me Down:  Suicide in the Elderly.  1994.

Lord, Janice Harris.  No Time For Goodbyes:  Coping with Sorrow, Anger and Injustice After a Tragic Death.  5th ed. Pathfinder, 2000. BF575 .G7 L66 2000