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Is God still at the bedside? : the medical, ethical, and pastoral issues of death and dying / Abigail Rian Evans.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011.Description: xvii, 484 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780802827234 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0802827233 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Medical, ethical, and pastoral issues of death and dying
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 236/.1 22
LOC classification:
  • BT825.E93 2011 19146
NLM classification:
  • 2011 B-996
  • BF 789.D4
Contents:
I. Prologue. Reflections on human life -- Contemporary attitudes toward death -- II. Negotiated death. End-of-life choices : distinctions and debate -- The right to die : suicide and physician-assisted suicide -- Organ donation : the last gift of life -- Legal questions : cases and laws addressing end-of-life issues -- III. The experience of dying. when winter enters your life : pain and suffering -- The last days : caring the hospice way -- Good mourning : loss, grief, and bereavement -- IV. God at the bedside. Clergy at the bedside -- Ministry to the dying and their families : faith community nurse and pastor in partnership -- Death is conquered : how Christian faith informs funerals.
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Books Books Oriental Theological Seminary Processing center Non-fiction BT825.E93 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 19146

Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-478) and indexes.

I. Prologue. Reflections on human life -- Contemporary attitudes toward death -- II. Negotiated death. End-of-life choices : distinctions and debate -- The right to die : suicide and physician-assisted suicide -- Organ donation : the last gift of life -- Legal questions : cases and laws addressing end-of-life issues -- III. The experience of dying. when winter enters your life : pain and suffering -- The last days : caring the hospice way -- Good mourning : loss, grief, and bereavement -- IV. God at the bedside. Clergy at the bedside -- Ministry to the dying and their families : faith community nurse and pastor in partnership -- Death is conquered : how Christian faith informs funerals.

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