Howard M Spiro

Facing Death: Where Culture, Religion, and Medicine Meet Howard M Spiro New edition

Publisher Marketing: While technology for keeping death at bay has advanced greatly, people are less well informed about how to face death and how to understand or articulate the emotional or spiritual need of the dying. This work aims to help medical personnel and patients to view death as a defining part of life. Review Citations:

Library Journal 09/01/1996 pg. 202 (EAN 9780300063493, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Contributor Bio:  Spiro, Howard M Spiro is Professor of medicine at Yale University School of medicine. Contributor Bio:  Wandel, Lee Palmer Lee Palmer Wandel is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. She is the author of 'Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli's Zurich' (1990), and 'Vocacious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel' (1995), and editor of 'Facing Death' (1990), and 'History Has Many Voices' (2003). Her work has been published in the Archive for Reformation History, the Sixteenth Century Journal, The Cambridge History of Christianity and many other journals. Contributor Bio:  Curnen, Mary G McCrea Curnen is clinical Professor of epidemiology and pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine. Contributor Bio:  Callahan, Daniel Daniel Callahan is Director of the International Program at the Hastings Center and Senior Fellow at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of "False Hopes "(1998), "The Troubled Dream of Life "(1993), "What Kind of Life? "(1990), and "Setting Limits "(1987). In 2011, Callahan received the Matteo Ricci, S. J. Award for his contributions to Christian culture.