Table of contents for Final days : Japanese culture and choice at the end of life / Susan Orpett Long.

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 
Culture and Choice at the End of Life			
Chapter 2 
Anthropology and the Study of Dying				
Chapter 3 
 Structuring the Options for Dying: Japan as a Postindustrial Society	
		
Chapter 4
 Structuring the Options for Dying: Metaphors and Scripts for the Good 
Death	
Chapter 5
 Who Decides? Social Roles and Relationships			
Chapter 6
 Deciding to Treat or Not to Treat					
Chapter 7 
 	Life-and-Death Decisions and Cultural Stereotypes 
Chapter 8
 New Scripts and Culture Change 
Chapter 9
	Choice and the Creation of a Meaningful Death 
Notes
Bibliography 
Index

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Death -- Social aspects -- Japan.
Terminally ill -- Japan.
Life and death, Power over.
Ethnopsychology -- Japan.