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SZABO Reference • Bibliography—Thanatology Death and Dying will be helpful to students, researchers, academics, caregivers, healthcare professionals, psychologists, social workers, and anyone interested in death, dying, bereavement, or care of the terminally ill. JOHN F. SZABO is director of the Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System. He is the author DEATH AND DYING DEATH AND DYING In Death and Dying: An Annotated Bibliography of the Thanatological Literature, John F. Szabo provides more than 2,200 citations of monographs, many annotated, on the science and study of death and dying. Among the areas addressed are the psychological, philosophical, and attitudinal aspects; coping and dealing with the burdens of caregiving and working in the helping professions; instructional and educational topics for practitioners, primarily healthcare providers; cultural differences in bereavement rituals; and grief, mourning, and loss. In addition, notable titles on or relating to death and dying in popular culture, death themes in literature, methods of death, or specific ethical, policy, or public issues are also included when they contribute important information to subject areas on which the book focuses. AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE THANATOLOGICAL LITERATURE Traced to the 1700s, the term thanatology is defined as the study of the broad and complex topic of death. Because of the breadth of the published material and the challenges of discovery in large bibliographic databases and catalogs, finding and identifying monographic material on death, dying, grief, and bereavement can be extremely challenging. Although several bibliographical resources have been published on thanatology, those titles were incomplete, limited in scope, or leaned heavily toward one area of the field while ignoring others. of Mortuary Science: A Sourcebook (Scarecrow Press, 1993). For orders and information please contact the publisher SCARECROW PRESS, INC. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200 Lanham, Maryland 20706 1-800-462-6420 • fax 717-794-3803 www.scarecrowpress.com DeathDyingPODLITH.indd 1 AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE THANATOLOGICAL LITERATURE JOHN F. SZABO 10/8/09 11:09:33 AM Death and Dying An Annotated Bibliography of the Thanatological Literature John F. Szabo The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Lanham • Toronto • Plymouth, UK 2010 Published by Scarecrow Press, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 http://www.scarecrowpress.com Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PY, United Kingdom Copyright © 2010 by John F. Szabo All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Szabo, John F., 1968– Death and dying : an annotated bibliography of the thanatological literature / John F. Szabo. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8108-7275-2 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8108-7276-9 (ebook) 1. Death—Bibliography. 2. Thanatology—Bibliography. I. Title. Z5725.S93 2010 016.1559'37—dc22 2009029795 ™ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America Contents Introduction v 1 Adolescents 1