HUMANITIES: Death & Afterlife Created by D. Rogenmoser

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FINDING BOOKS IN EUREKA EUREKA is a catalog of items owned by the CSUS Library.  Books can be searched for in EUREKA by title, author, keyword and Library of Congress Subject Headings. Keyword Searching: Use Keyword searching to locate for books on topics such as:     death and social aspects     death and religious aspects     death and religion     death and meaning,     death and attitude     mourning customs     future life     euthanasia     terminally ill Browsing: Some locations and Call Numbers for browsing the shelves for books on Death & Afterlife are:     2 South BL 504 for Death (religion)     2 South BL510-540 for Reincarnation, Immortality, Future Life     2 South BF1228-1389 for Spiritualism     2 South GT3150 for Funeral Customs     2 South HQ1073 for Thanatology, Death, Dying     4 North R723-726 for Medical Ethics Juvenile Collection: Materials for children can be found by and Advanced Search using the keywords death or dying and limiting the search to the LOCATION: Juvenile Fiction/Nonfiction.

GENERAL Death and the Afterlife: a Cultural Encyclopedia   Ref GT 3150 T25 2000 Death the Last Taboo  http://www.deathonline.net/ End of Life Issues/Medline Plus     http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/endoflifeissues.html Encyclopedia of Afterlife Beliefs and Phenomena.   Ref BF 1311 F8 L48 1994 Encyclopedia of Death and Dying.   Ref HQ 1073 E543 2001 Encyclpedia of Religion.  BL 31 .E46 1987 Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics. v.1-10  Ref BL 31 E4 Handbook of Death and Dying v.1-2  HQ 1073 H36 2003 Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, v.1-2 HQ 1073 M33 2003 Means to a Better End: a Report on Dying in America Today   Ref R 726.8 M42 2002 Sociology of Death and Dying  http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/death.html Yahoo Directory - Death & Dying      http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Death_and_Dying/

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RELIGION & CULTURE Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire     in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer GT 497 U6 S53 2007 Cultural Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making HQ 1073.5 U6 C85 2000 Death and Afterlife. BL 504 D33 1991b Death and Bereavement Around the World BL 504 D335 2002 Death, Burial, and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity BL 504 D295 1999 Death is That Man Taking Names: Intersections of American Medicine, Law,      and Culture. R 726.8 B875 2002 Facing Death: Where Culture, Religion, and Medicine Meet R 726.8 F33 1996 How Different Religions View Death and Afterlife BL 504 E53 1998 International Association for Near-Death Studies  http://www.iands.org/ Near Death Experience Research Foundation  http://www.nderf.org/ Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife  http://www.near-death.com/ Older Adults' Views on Death. BF 724.85 D43 C53 2002 Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in EWE Voodoo. BL 2480 E96 R67 1998 Religion Online/Death and Dying     http://www.religion-online.org/listbycategory.asp?Cat=86 Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life. BL 625.9 S53 A63 2002 Sociology of Death and Dying  http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/death.html

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MORAL & ETHICAL ASPECTS Center for Death Education & Bioethics   http://www.uwlax.edu/sociology/cde&b/page3.html Death and Dying, Who Decides? R 726 W39 2003 End of Life Issues: Interdisciplinary and Multidimensional Perspectives     HQ 1073 E56 1999 End of Life Issues/Medline Plus     http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/endoflifeissues.html The Good Death: the New American Search to Reshape the End of Life      HQ 1073.5 U6 W43 1997 Hospice or Hemlock?: Searching for Heroic Compassion R 726.8 P88 2002 Is There a Duty to Die? R 724 B493 2000 Journalism in a Culture of Grief PN 4877 K578 2008 The Right to Die Debate: a Documentary History R 726 R498 1999 Univ. of Penn. Center for Bioethics  http://www.med.upenn.edu/bioethic/

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GRIEF AND MOURNING Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire     in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer GT 497 U6 S53 2007 Death, Mourning and Caring. HQ 1073 M365 1997 Death the Last Taboo  http://www.deathonline.net/ Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways we Grieve HQ 1073 G54 2006 End of Life Issues/Medline Plus     http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/endoflifeissues.html Giving a Voice to Sorrow: Personal Responses to Death and Mourning     BF 575 G7 Z45 2001 Grief and Mourning a Cross-Cultural Perspective DN 486 R76 Handbook of Bereavement Research: Consequences, Coping, and Care     BF 575 G7 H355 2001 The Social Symbolism of Grief and Mourning GT 3150 G73 1998 Sociology of Death and Dying  http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/death.html

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DATABASES & INDEXES Unless noted otherwise; electronic indexes are restricted to CSUS students, faculty, and staff. Instructions for off-campus access are available at Off-Campus Access to Library E-Resources Print Indexes & Bibliographies Religion Index One 2 North Index Area BLZ 7753 .A5 (Library cancelled in 2001) Databases America: History and Life (EBSCO) History of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present Anthropological Index Online  (1957-current) The journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (Museum of Mankind) ATLA Religion Database (EBSCO) Religious and theological literature Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)  (1985-current) Multi-subject database; articles from magazines, scholarly journals, trade publications, newspapers. Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) History of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada) JSTOR   Full text archive of scholarly journals; most recent years not included MLA (EBSCO) (1920s-current) From the Modern Language Association, indexes critical literary and language scholarship. Philosopher's Index (1940-current) Author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy. Project MUSE Scholarly articles in humanities and social science. PsycINFO (EBSCO) (1887-current) From the American Psychological Association, includes scholarly articles, abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters ranging in date from 1887 to the present.

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RELATED CSUS RESEARCH GUIDES Anthroplogy Research Guide Philosophy Library Resources Religion: Christianity Religion: Eastern Religion & Philosophy Religion in America Religions of the World Religion: Islam Religion: Judaism

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Questions/comments to: Debbie Rogenmoser , Reference Librarian; CSU, Sacramento; drogenmoser@csus.edu Created 9/03 Last Updated 6/08