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Book Review

“Death and Dying”

Your final project for this course will consist of a book review on any book related to our course.  The purpose of this book review is to help you become better acquainted with current reading, research, and topics in death and dying.  Books selections are to be preapproved by the instructor to eliminate duplication of selections.  You may select a book on your own.  Many of the books listed below are available in the Learning Resource Centers on each campus.

A book review is a description, critical analysis, and an evaluation on the quality, meaning, and significance of a book, not a retelling. It should focus on the book’s purpose, content, and authority. A critical book review is not a book report or a summary. It is a reaction paper in which strengths and weaknesses of the material are analyzed.  Please write your review in narrative format.  In addition to your analysis of the book, please include the following information:

1. Write a statement giving essential information about the book: title, author(s), copyright date(s), general subject matter, price and ISBN.

2. State the author’s purpose in writing the book.

– Who is the intended audience?  Does it suit the intended audience?

– How did the book affect you? Were any previous ideas you had on the subject changed or reinforced due to this book?

–  How is the book related to your course?

– What personal experiences you’ve had relate to the subject?

3. State your general conclusions about the book. Would you recommend this book to others? Why or why not?

Project Guidelines

All students will present their findings in the following manner:

1. Your book review should be 4-6 pages in length (content). Your review should be double-spaced, using 12-point New Times Roman font.  Using APA format and style, you must include a title page and a reference page (that, at a minimum includes the full citation for the book you are reviewing.)

2. Although there are no requirements for referencing additional resources, you must use APA format for all references and in-text citations used.  (This may only include your book selection, but may also include any additional resources you may have used to guide your understanding, has changed your thinking, or provided you with clarification on topics or terminology used in your book.)  Your text may be used as a reference.

3. Your review will be evaluated using the Book Review Rubric.

4. Book Review due per the course syllabus and semester schedule.

Recommended Reading

Students may select on of the following, or another book related to the course:

– “Dying Well”, “The Four Things that Matter Most:  A Book About Living”, or any other book by Dr. Ira Byock
– “Final Gifts:  Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying” by Maggie Callanan & Patricia Kelley
– “Anatomy of Hope:  How People Prevail in the Face of Illness” by Jerome Groopman
– “Death Foretold” by Christakis
– Books by Alan Wolfelt (“Understanding Your Grief” or others)
– Books by or about Dame Cicely Saunders
– Books by or about Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
– “What Dying People Want” by David Kuhl, M.D.
– “The Conversation:  A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care” by Angelo E Volandes, MD

Please note that this list is not exhaustive of all the books out there on grief/loss, and death and dying.  Feel free to select what interests you!

The goal of this project is for students to explore topics of grief and loss, death, and bereavement through the expansive literature available to professionals and non-professionals alike.  This assessment demonstrates students’ mastery of the following course competencies and their corresponding learning objectives:

Competency #1:  “Investigate attitudes toward death and dying”

Learning Objectives:

– 1a:  “Examine societal attitudes toward death”

– 1b:  “Relate the historical and cultural implications of death in the United States”

– 1c:  “Summarize the meaning and implications of mortality”

– 1d:  “Correlate the theoretical approaches to death and dying (ie biological, psychological, philosophical, anthropological, sociological) with current societal attitudes”

– 1e:  “Explore the emergence of death education in shaping societal attitudes in the United States”

Competency #2:  “Explore the experience of death and dying in the United States”

– 2b:  “Explore the cultural implications of death and dying”

– 2d:  “Analyze the fears and anxieties people have related to death and dying”

– 2e:  “Illustrate the psychological processing individuals experience regarding their own deaths”

Competency #4:  “Summarize the cultural and historical perspectives on death and dying”

– 4b:  “Illustrate the cross-cultural, death-related beliefs and practices”

Competency #5:  “Explore the dying process”

– 5c:  “Contrast the expected and actual behaviors of a dying person”

– 5d:  “Correlate the values and self-meaning that accompany terminal illness”

Competency #6:  “Examine living with dying”

– 6a:  “Examine the physical and mental changes that occur in the dying process”

– 6b:  “Distinguish patterns of coping for persons with life-limiting illness”

– 6c:  “Analyze the benefits and burdens of treatment strategies for persons with life-limiting illness”

Competency #13:  “Explore grief and loss”

– 13a:  “Explain the role of bereavement”

– 13b:  “Compare normal and complicated grief”

– 13g:  “Explore says to support bereaved individuals”

– 13h:  “Summarize how individuals cope with unexpected death”

Competency #14:  “Differentiate grieving throughout the life cycle”

– 14c:  “Differentiate the experiences of grief in adulthood”