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Title Death, dying and bereavement : a Hong Kong Chinese experience / edited by Cecilia Lai Wan Chan and Amy Yin Man Chow
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 357) : illustrations
Contents Foreword Robert A. NEIMEYER; Foreword Che Hung LEONG; Foreword Vivian Taam WONG; Preface; Contributors; 1. Introduction; PART ONE: DEATH; 2. Our Memorial Quilt: Recollections of Observations from Clinical Practice on Death, Dying and Bereavement; 3. A Personal Journey: The Physician, the Researcher, the Relative, and the Patient; 4. "Letting Go" and "Holding On": Grieving and Traditional Death Rituals in Hong Kong; 5. Making Peace with the Unknown: A Reflection on Daoist Funerary Liturgy; 6. Death from the Buddhist View: Knowing the Unknown
Summary The intention of this volume is to consolidate and disseminate valuable practical wisdom with professionals in the local and international communities who serve Chinese patients and their family members
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-348) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Death -- China -- Hong Kong
Bereavement -- China -- Hong Kong -- Psychological aspects
Palliative treatment -- China -- Hong Kong
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- China -- Hong Kong
Bereavement.
Palliative treatment.
Attitude to Death -- ethnology
Asian People -- ethnology
Bereavement
Palliative Care
mourning.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Bereavement
Bereavement -- Psychological aspects
Death
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Palliative treatment
Sterben
Tod
Volksglaube
SUBJECT Hong Kong (China)
China
Subject China -- Hong Kong
Hongkong
Chinesen.
Form Electronic book
Author Chan, Cecilia L. W.
Chow, Amy Yin Man.
LC no. 2007320498
ISBN 9789882203846
9882203841
1282708538
9781282708532
9786612708534
6612708530