'This second edition, which has also been edited by Samson Katz, utilizes around half of the original text, of which a significant portions has been revised and updated. The remainder comprises new material reflecting both the changes in attitudes generally towards death and dying, and also designed to meet the needs of students undertaking the revised curriculum of the K260. This book will stimulate thinking and challenge the personal views of both academics and those in practice. …[A] valuable tool for both those new to the area of palliative and cancer care and those experienced professionals searching for a new angle on several key topics in relation to ethical issues occurring in this speciality… [A]n excellent balance of theoretical contents and moving prose… [T]his book is directed towards all professionals working in health and social care. …This book is a must for pre-registration students wishing to gain greater understanding of the psychosocial issues faced by those with a terminal illness and their significant others' - Nurse Education Today

Introduction to Second Edition - Jeanne KatzPART ONE: LIFE AND DEATHIntroduction - Jeanne KatzDeath in Staithes - David ClarkDeath Denied - Philippe Ari[ac]esDeath in the News - Tony Walter, Jane Littlewood and Michael Pickering The Public Invigilation of Private EmotionApproaches to Death in Hindu and Sikh Communities in Britain - Shirley FirthDemographic Change and the Experience of Dying - Clive SealeHealth Policy and Services for Dying People and Their Careers - Christina R VictorSudden Death from Suicide - Stella RidleyThe Dream - T R SThe Good Death? - Mary BradburyLittle Henry; or, God Will Take Care of Me - H M BensonDeath Be Not Proud - John DonneAubade - Philip LarkinDo Not Go Gentle into That Good Night - Dylan ThomasThe Prophet - Kahil GibranDoctor¿s Mask on Pain - Jane MartinSpiritual Care of Dying People - Alyson PeberdyDeath and the Meaning of Life - Leo TolstoyPART TWO: CARING FOR DYING PEOPLEIntroduction - Jeanne KatzExtending Specialist Palliative Care to All? - David Field and Julia Addington-HallThe Case for Palliative Care in Residential and Nursing Homes - Moyral Sidell, Jeanne Katz and Carol KomaromyComplementary Medicine - Patrick C Pietroni Its Place in the Care of Dying PeopleSpeaking Out - Sarah PalmerCaring for Mother - Susan Leifer Plus PostscriptLiving with MS - Richard WereSaturday Times Column 3.10.98 - John DiamondThe Alphabet - Jean-Dominique BaubyCommunication in Palliative Care - Robert Buckman A Practical GuideSaturday Times Column 23.1.99 - John DiamondCommunicating with Dying Children - Dorothy JuddJewish Perspectives on Death, Dying and Bereavement - Jeanne Samson KatzThe Syllabus - Mitch AlbomDying Trajectories, the Organization of Work and Expectations of Dying - Anselm StraussSitting It Out - Elizabeth DeanA Very Easy Death - Simone de BeauvoirTeach Me to Hear Mermaids Singing - Clare VaughanPART THREE: DILEMMAS AND DECISIONS AT THE END OF LIFEIntroduction - Jeanne KatzLearning the Hard Way - Clare WilliamsSomebody Loves Me - Anthony MastersThe Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo TolstoyIntimacy and Terminal Care - Judy GilleyThe Use of Deception in Nursing - Kevin Teasdale and Gerry KentDo-Not-Resusciate Decisions - Johannes J M van DeldenThe ¿Blue-Spotted¿ Patient - Basiro Davey Do-not-resuscitate decisions in the acute surgical wards of a district general hospital.The Main Tradition - Fiona Randall and R S DownieRight to Die or Duty to Live? - William Grey The Problem of EuthanasiaEuthanasia and Assisted Suicide - Luke Gormally Seven Reasons Why They Should Not be LegalizedA Student¿s Story - AnonymousBetting Your Life - Christopher James Ryan An Argument against Certain Advance DirectivesPalliative Care and the Doctrine of Double Effect - Stephen WilkinsonPalliative Care and the Ethics of Resource Allocation - Eve GerrardOn Withholding Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill - Gillian M Craig Has Palliative Care Medicine Gone Too Far?On Withholding Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill - R J Dunlop, J E Ellershaw, M J Baines, N Sykes and C M Saunders Has Palliative Medicine Gone Too Far? A ReplyPART FOUR: BEREAVEMENT: PRIVATE GRIEF, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITYIntroduction - Jeanne KatzBereavement as a Psychosocial Transition - Colin Murray Parkes Processes of Adaptation to ChangeThe Social Distribution of Sentiments - Lindsay PriorCross-Cultural Perspectives on Bereavement - Shirley FirthI Desperately Needed to See My Son - Sheila Awooner-RennerA Single Parent Confronting the Loss of an Only Child - Evelyn GillisEpitaph of Libby Dickenson, 1798-1818 - AnonymousCare of the Suddenly Bereaved - D W Yates, G Ellison and S McGuinessPregnancy Loss and the Death of a Baby - Nancy Kohner Parents¿ ChoicesWhen a Baby Dies - Gavin Fairbairn A Father¿s ViewGay and Lesbian Bereavement - Dudley CaveThe Grief That Does Not Speak - Maureen OswinPersonal and Medical Memories from Hillsborough - Tom HellerRuth - Lesley Moreland Death by MurderEssays upon Epitaphs - William WordsworthDecember - Douglas Dunn