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This engaging and informative resource provides readers with an understanding of the social, cultural, and historical influences that shape our encounters with death, dying, and bereavement-a universal experience across humanity.
[T]he new and updated information and reasonable price of this work make it a worthwhile purchase for academic, public, and workplace libraries.
This valuable publication could serve as an update to the comparable Encyclopedia of Death and Dying . . . easy to read and understand. . . . Professionals in the health care field may want to recommend this publication to patients who are looking for topical overviews. It will be a good purchase for academic and public libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers.
Michael Brennan, PhD, is associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Death Education and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.