Facing death: where culture, religion, and medicine meet

Attending to dying : limitations of medical technology (a resident's perspective) / Eric L. Krakauer

Before their time : a clinicians's reflections on death and AIDS / Peter A. Selwyn

The doctor's role in death / Sherwin B. Nuland

Thoughts on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Alan B. Astrow

Learning to care for the dying / Alan C. Mermann

Thoughts on witnessing death / James D. Kenney

The changing face of death in children / Diane M. Komp

When children mourn a loved one / Morris A. Wessel

The emergence of hospice care in the United States / Florence S. Wald

Caring for those who die in old age / Joanne Lynn

Living in the maelstrom / Alvin Novick

An ars moriendi for our time : to live a fulfilled life ; to die a peaceful death / Arthur E. Imhof

The art of dying in Hindu India / Sylvia Vatuk

Reflections on mortality from a Jewish perspective / James E. Ponet

Catholic theology's main thoughts on death / Harald Wagner

The law of the spirits : Chinese popular beliefs / Valerie Hansen

The meaning of death in Islam / Ira M. Lapidius

From this world to the next : notes on death and dying in early America / John Demos

Ars memoriandi : the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt / Peter S. Hawkins

Bearing the spirit home / Frederick J. Streets

Witnessing death versus framing death / William B. McCullough

Conclusion : retrospect and prospect / William J. Bouwsma.