A Cross Cultural Look at Death, Dying and Religion

By Joan K. Parry and Angela Shen Ryan

Book Overview

This important collection explores how people of various backgrounds -religious, ethnic, gender, and/or sexual orientation- cope with death, dying, and grieving. It is a guide for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, physicians, nurses, other practitioners, educators, and students who are concerned with helping persons who are dying and families who are grieving, and who must understand why certain groups react as they do to such events.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830413332
• ISBN13: 9780830413331
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.