Death and Bereavement Across Cultures: Second edition

A practical guide explaining the religious and other differences commonly met with in multi-cultural societies when someone is dying or bereaved.

Author: Colin Murray Parkes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/03/2015
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780415522328

About the Author

Colin Murray Parkes, OBE, MD, FRCPsych, DL, is Consultant Psychiatrist Emeritus at St Christopher's Hospice and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist to the Royal London Hospital and the Tavistock Clinic, London. He is Life President of Cruse Bereavement Care and in 1996 was awarded an OBE for services to bereaved people.

Pittu Laungani was Reader in Psychology at South Bank University until his retirement in 2001. He died in 2007.

Bill Young is former Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at St Christopher's Fellowship, London.