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Who Dies Well?: Death and Dying as a Social Problem

Contents of This Chapter:

  1. Learning Objectives and Chapter Overview
    1. Learning Objectives
    2. Chapter Overview
    3. Focusing Questions
    4. Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Overview
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
      3. All Rights Reserved Content
  2. Death and Dying as a Social Problem
    1. Beyond the Experience of the Individual
    2. Conflict in Values: Right To Die
    3. Inequality in Life Expectancy
    4. The Social Construction of Death
      1. Clinical Death
      2. Legal Death
      3. Social Death
    5. Interdependent Solutions
    6. Licenses and Attributions for Death and Dying as a Social Problem
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      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
      3. All Rights Reserved Content
  3. Inequality in End of Life and Death
    1. Unpacking Oppression, Living Justice
    2. Cultural Differences in Death and Dying
    3. Unpacking Oppression, Believing Justice
    4. Cultural Differences – Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead
      1. Linda González Tells Her Story
    5. Cultural Differences – Indigenous
    6. Cultural Differences – Hindu
    7. Cultural Differences – RIP T-Shirts and Social Justice
    8. Inequality at End of Life – Rural Challenges
    9. End of Life Care Options in the Country
      1. Palliative Care
      2. Nursing Care and Home Health Care
      3. Hospice
    10. Licenses and Attributions for The End of Life
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
      3. All Rights Reserved Content
  4. Studying Death and Dying
    1. The Philosophical Approach
    2. Biological and Medical Approaches
    3. Anthropological Approach
    4. Psychological Approach
    5. Sociological Approach
    6. Licenses and Attributions for Studying Death and Dying
      1. Open Content, Original
  5. Dying Well is Social Justice
    1. POLST and Advance Directives
    2. Green Burial
    3. Last Words Project: Art as Activism
    4. Licenses and Attributions for Dying Well is Social Justice
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      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
      3. All Rights Reserved Content
  6. Chapter Summary
    1. Essential Ideas
    2. Comprehension Check
    3. Key Terms List
    4. Discuss and Do
    5. Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Summary
      1. Open Content, Original
  7. References

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Inequality and Interdependence: Social Problems and Social Justice Copyright © by Kimberly Puttman; Kathryn Burrows; Patricia Halleran; Bethany Grace Howe; Nora Karena; Kelly Szott; and Avery Temple is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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