Death and bereavement

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Part one: dying and death

To tell or not to tell the patient/Robert B. Reeves, Jr

Pain relief, addiction, and the dying patient /Thomas A. Gonda

Right to die in dignity/Frederic P. Herter

Child faces his own death/Gilbert Kliman

Death and bereavement in later life/Robert Kastenbaum

Nurse's education for death/Bernard Schoenberg

Nurse reflects/Jean E. Fox

Experiences of persons reprieved from death/Richard A. Kalish

Part two: philosophy

religion

survival

Death and the plowman/Jacob Needleman

Moment of grief/Jacob Needleman

Scientific approaches to the study of survival/Gardner Murphy

References to life and death, tribute and memory/Sidney Nathanson and Walter Debold

Part three: bereavement

Psychiatric implications of bereavement/James P. Cattell

Lindemann's pioneer studies of reactions to grief/Alan Rosell

Jackson's nine areas of concern/Austin Mehrhof

Evidences of normal grief/Paula J. Clayton

Psychiatry: its role in the resolution of grief/Norman Paul

Anticipatory grief/James A. Knight and Frederic Herter

Grief is/Joseph Bess

Mourning/H. Robert Blank

Bereavement/W. Dewi Rees

Guilt/Glenn R. Mosley

Attitudes toward death in our culture/Edgar N. Jackson

Bereavement and the American family/Paul J. Reiss

Part four: practicalities of recovering from bereavement

Funerals, customs, rituals/Paul E. Steward

Serious music selections

Acceptance/Glenn R. Mosley

Condolence call/Regina Flesch

Social service worker can help/Elizabeth R. Prichard

Widowers with teen-age children/Helen Wargotz

Pet and bereavement/Boris M. Levinson and James R. Kinney

Survivor-benefit-rights under social security/Charles S. Ferber

Elementary guide to family financial management/Fred Heller

Part five: care of the bereaved

Physiological aspects of depression/Jerome Steiner, John F. O'Connor, and Lenore O. Stern

Medical care during bereavement/George A. Hyman

Nutrition during bereavement/Frederick Stare

Psychopharmacological treatment of bereavement and its complications/Donald F. Klein and H. Robert Blank

Part six: rebirth of the spirit

Time/Austin H. Kutscher

Renewal/Austin H. Kutscher

Creative grief/Joseph Bess and Gene E. Bartlett

Remarriage/Frederic Herter, Joseph C. Landrud, Elizabeth L. Post, Rose N. Franzblau, Robert Michels, and Ralph Ober

Part seven: selected anthropology of the classical literature

Behind the Veil, a literary mosaic of grief/Sandra Bess

Part eight: references

Grief and bereavement: selected annotated bibliography of behavioral science and psychiatric writings/Richard A. Kalish

Additional references/Dorothy Howard and Lee M. Olson