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  • Introduction

  • Edited by William E. Engel, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, Rory Loughnane, University of Kent, Canterbury, Grant Williams, Carleton University, Ottawa
  • Book:
    Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England
    Published online:
    06 October 2022
    Print publication:
    13 October 2022, pp 1-22

  • Summary

    The Introduction briefly surveys the individual importance of memory studies and death studies in the lives, literature, and visual imagination of Renaissance England and then makes a case for the benefit and utility of mapping out their specific areas of intersection. Although the cross-pollination between memory and mortality is not strictly reciprocal, the two thematic fields during the period overlap in a range of philosophical, educational, theological, and ceremonial domains so that studying one field requires scholars to investigate and understand the other.

Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England
  • Edited by William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane, Grant Williams
  • Published online:
    06 October 2022
    Print publication:
    13 October 2022
  • Drawing together leading scholars of early modern memory studies and death studies, Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England explores and illuminates the interrelationships of these categories of Renaissance knowing and doing, theory and praxis. The collection features an extended Introduction that establishes the rich vein connecting these two fields of study and investigation. Thereafter, the collection is arranged into three subsections, 'The Arts of Remembering Death', 'Grounding the Remembrance of the Dead', and 'The Ends of Commemoration', where contributors analyse how memory and mortality intersected in writings, devotional practice, and visual culture. The book will appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, book history, art history, and the history of mnemonics and thanatology, and will prove an indispensable guide for researchers, instructors, and students alike.

  • Living with Death: the Need for Rapprochement Between Thanatology and the Sciences of Physical and Mental Health

  • S. Färber, M. Färber
  • Journal:
    European Psychiatry / Volume 30 / Issue S1 / March 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 April 2020, p. 1
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  • Introduction

    In the development of human development, death is part and simultaneously point toward which converge all previous phases. To die is to achieve the full development of existence. Every living organism dies. But only humans can reflect on that dimension of life. Despite being ordered life to death and the human being equipped to rationalize, understand and mean it, culturally death was banned from ruminations and away to the thought; though not always and not everywhere has been so.

    Method

    Interdisciplinary research in articles published in journals and works in the fields of Psychiatry, Psychology, Theology and Thanatology, as well as the literature review Concerning the resolution of mourning resilience through.

    Aim

    To investigate the relevance of the inclusion of the discipline of thanatology and education for death in the curriculum of grades of mental and physical health sciences.

    Results

    Based on the research conducted, we present the need for education for death and the meaning of life, the training of health professionals, and the incorporation of the discipline of thanatology curriculum graduations of Medicine and Psychology.

    Conclusion

    Thanatology is the scientific research on death and dying; contemplates the polysemy of daily losses, and proposes a semiotic exercise about the symbolic deaths; being a tool for the preparation of health professionals for anthropological conflict that arises from contact and living with terminal illness.

  • The Cadre of Death Education Instructors in Paramedic Programs

  • Tracy L. Smith, Bruce J. Walz
  • Journal:
    Prehospital and Disaster Medicine / Volume 13 / Issue 1 / March 1998
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 June 2012, pp. 55-58
    Print publication:
    March 1998
  • Objective:

    This study addresses the paucity of literature on death education offerings in emergency medical services schools. The study examines the cadre of death education instructors in paramedic training programs. Examining death education offerings in paramedic programs can provide insight into how well emergency medical services personnel are prepared when encountering bereaved persons on death related responses.

    Methods:

    In an exploratory study, information was gathered from paramedic programs on the instructors who teach death-related education. A self-administered survey was sent to each (n = 537) paramedic programs in the USA. The survey solicited the number of instructors teaching death education, their backgrounds, and their formal training in death-related instruction.

    Results:

    The response rate was 45.4%. The majority of programs (78%) reported using a paramedic as the primary instructor to teach death-related content. Nurses (66%) and physicians (32%) also were utilized frequently. More than two-thirds (68%) of the responding programs utilize faculty members who have had no formal training in death and dying. Only one-third of the programs utilizes a multidisciplinary staff Less than 40% of responding programs teach all of their death-related curricula with instructors who are trained in death education.

    Conclusion:

    This study indicates that the majority of paramedic programs are not utilizing an instructor cadre that is formally trained in death education, nor are they using a multidisciplinary staff. Reasons for using these instructors to teach death education in paramedic programs are discussed.