End-of-life stories: crossing disciplinary boundaries

End-of-life experiences are often viewed in terms of only one perspective, such as medicine.

In this volume, a variety of end-of life experiences are presented and each case is analyzed from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

These range across a broad array of the helping professions, and disciplines such as information, law and the social sciences.

The book provides a variety of narratives about end-of-life experiences contributed by members of the Wayne State University End-of-Life Interdisciplinary Project.

Each of the narratives is then analyzed from several different disciplinary perspectives.

These analyses illustrate how specific end-of-life narratives can be viewed from different dimensions, and helps students, researchers and practitioners see the important and varied meanings that end-of-life experiences have at the level of the individual, the family, and the community.

The narratives include end-of-life experiences of individuals from a number of diverse backgrounds.