Theories of Death and Dying

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Fabiƛ, Artur
Klimczuk, Andrzej
Date
2017
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Wiley-Blackwell
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Abstract
Death is a state of the total disappearance of life. Dying is a process of decay of the vital system, which ends with clinical death. In current perspectives there are several approaches to research on death and dying; these are the clinical, the humanistic, the philosophical, the psychological, the anthropological, and the sociological perspective.
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bioethics    death    dying    end-of-life care    sociology of body
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Klimczuk, A., & Fabiƛ, A. (2017). Death and Dying, theories of. In B. Turner (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory (pp. 1–7). London: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118430873.est0084
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https://depot.ceon.pl/handle/123456789/19617
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