DEATH BIBLIOGRAPHY

Copyright © 2010 by James Park

    Selected and reviewed by James Park.
Organized in the order of quality, beginning with the best.
Comments in red are the views of this reviewer.

5. Gere B. Fulton, PhD., JD. & Eileen K. Metress, PhD.
Perspectives on Death and Dying

(Boston, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 1995)       505 pages
(Library of Congress call number: BF789.D4F974p 1995)

    A comprehensive textbook on death and dying.  The themes:
1. defining death.
2. withdrawing treatment & life-supports.
3. advance directives.
4. euthanasia.
5. defective newborns.
6. abortion.
7. the process of dying.
8. bereavement.
9. children & death.
10. suicide.
11. organ donation.
12. funerals, etc.

    This book breaks no new ground,
but it does summarize all these issues up to the middle of the 1990s.
It was developed as a college text for a course on death and dying.

Created January 25, 1999; revised 2-26-2009; 5-30-2010; 9-11-2010

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