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The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America

13 CE Hours
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About the Course

In The Good Death, Ann Neumann charts the social, political, religious, and medical landscape to explore how we die in America today. Neumann weaves personal accounts with a historical exploration of the movements and developments that have changed the ways we experience death. She presents intimate portraits of the nurses, patients, bishops, bioethicists, and activists who are shaping the way we die.

This course is based on the book, The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America created by Ann Neumann in 2017.

Publication Details

Publication Date: First Feb 2017

Course Material Author

Ann Neumann
Ann Neumann is a visiting scholar at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University, where she is a contributing editor to the Revealer. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Book forum, Nation ,Baffler and Guernica.

Ann Neumann authored the material only, and was not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Target Audience

Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Describe the circumstances under which the majority of individuals die in America today.
  2. 2 Discuss the history of hospice care.
  3. 3 List one financial, physical, and emotional cost of futile care.
  4. 4 Summarize the history of the aid in dying movement in America.
  5. 5 Discuss the link between the aid in dying movement and the evangelical narrative in America.
  6. 6 List the major arguments disabled activists pose against aid in dying.
  7. 7 Describe at least two complications with dying in prison.

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Commercial support

There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

$93.60 + materials
Materials are available for free from our library, or may be purchased separately for $20.00 from Amazon.

Course Details

13 CE Hours
Book
Course 103009

Related Topics

Older Adults

Availability

This course is retired. It is no longer available.

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