Bibliography: End of Life Issues

This is a list of selected titles available at the Brooklyn Campus Library of Long Island University, addressing this most difficult topic that all of us will face either for ourselves or our loved ones. Library call numbers are indicated in boldface.

George J Annas, The Rights of Patients: the authoritative ACLU guide to the rights of patients, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.
Reference KF 3823 .A96 2004

Dorothy S. Becvar, In the Presence of Grief: Helping Family Members Resolve Death, Dying and Bereavement Issues, New York: Guilford Press, c2001.
BF 575.G7 B435 2001

AS Berger, Perspectives on Death and Dying: Cross Cultural and Multi-Disciplinary Views, Philadelphia: Charles Press, 1989.
HQ 1073 .P46 1989

Kathryn Braun, Cultural Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making, Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications, c2000.
HQ 1073.5.U6 C85 2000

Clifton D. Bryant, Handbook of Death and Dying, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, c2003.
Reference HQ 1073. H36 2003

NL Cantor, Advanced Directives and the Pursuit of Death with Dignity, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
R 726. C34 1993

Gerald Dworkin, Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
R 726. D93 1998

Robert Kastenberg, Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, New York: Macmillan, c2003. Reference
HQ 1073. M33 2003

Robert Kastenberg, On our Way: the Final Passage Through Life and Death, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
BF 789. D4 K365 2004

Joanne Lynn, Improving Care for the End of Life: a Sourcebook for Health Care Managers and Clinicians, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Reference: R726.8 .L96 2000

New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, When Death is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context, New York: New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, c2000.
KFN 5619.5A85 N48 2000x

K.R.Overberg, Mercy or Murder? : Euthanasia, Morality and Public Policy, Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1993.
R726.M48 1993

Barry Rosenfeld, Assisted Suicide and the Right to Die: the Interface of Social Science, Public Policy and Medical Ethics, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, c2004.
R726 .R64 2004

Margaret S. Stroebe, Handbook of Bereavement research: Consequences, Coping and Care, Washington, D.C., American Psychological Association, c2001.
Reference BF 575 .G7 H355 2001

M.I. Urofsky and P.E. Urofsky, The Right to Die: A Two-Volume Anthology of Scholarly Articles, New York: Garland Publishers, 1996
KF 3827. E87 R539

Compiled by D. Millman 3/05