Dying and death : inter-disciplinary perspectives / edited by Asa Kasher.

Includes bibliographical references.

Embalming the American body : sentimental mourning on the cusp of the Civil War / Ashley Byock -- Collective emotions and national mourning / Asa Kasher -- Issues of death and dying for adult children of Holocaust survivors / Paula David -- Death and images of womanhood and manhood : the case of Serbian epic poetry / Mira Crouch -- Extreme makeovers and reciprocal relations between the living and the dead / Kathleen Z. Young -- Death of a friend : some themes in Jacques Derrida's The Work of Mourning / Gary Peters -- Death and the other : the ambivalence of mourning / Havi Carel -- Grace towards the dead / Dana Freibach-Heifetz -- Death and mourning : logistics and mystery / Marguerite Peggy Flynn -- For fear of what the neighbours might say : social networks and suicide in early modern Holland / Laura Cruz -- When a young woman dies : gender, youth and the meaning of suicide in the jazz age / Kathleen Jones -- "Voluntary death" in Japanese history and culture / Lawrence Fouraker -- Medics facing terminal diagnosis? / Angela Armstrong-Coster -- Between organizations, family and death : caring creatively within the hospice organization / Elizabeth Gill -- Reflections on the needs of palliative patients and being on the receiving end of care / Anna Wreath Taube.