Death and bereavement

Death and bereavement
REQUIRED TEXT:Corr, C.A. &Corr, D. (2012). Death and dying, life and living (7th ed.).Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth/Cengage Learning.

CHOICE 1: Select a book written for educated adults and pertinent to the subject matter of this course. Your job is to read the book critically and compose an 8-10 page review of the book. Your review should be typed, following APA style guidelines, and be double-spaced.
The format of the review should be:
a. A brief synopsis of the contents of the book, (1 – 1½ pages)
b. Critical analysis of the book (5-7 pages). Critical analysis will come from applying information from the course materials, from this course, from your personal observations and experiences (while I expect you to use your observations and experiences as one source of information to analyze the book, do NOT use personal experiences and observations as the sole or main source of your critical analysis) and from the rest of your college coursework, and
c. An assessment of the value of the book for persons interested in thanatology (1 – 1½ pages). Give reasons to support your assessment.
Some examples of books that are written for educated adults and pertinent to the subject matter of this course are:
Attig, T. (1996). How we grieve: Relearning the world. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bayer, R. & Oppenheimer, G.M. (2000). AIDS doctors: Voices from the epidemic. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Bluebond-Langner, M.A. (1996).In the shadow of illness: Parents and siblings of the chronically ill child.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Bonnanno, G.A. (2009). The other side of sadness: What the new science of bereavement tells us about
life after loss. New York: Basic Books.
Davis, B. (1995). Fading away. The experience of transition in families with terminal illness.Amityville,
NY: Baywood.
Kushner, H.S. (1983). When bad things happen to good people. New York: Knopf.