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CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE & LOSS

THE JAPANESE AND LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS, LOSS & GRIEF
Yasuhiko Taketomo, M.D., et al., Editors

SAMPLE CHAPTERS: Thanatology in East and West; Medicine & Culture in Japan; Death of Individuals and Society; Caring & Caregiving; Prolongation of Life of Muscular Dystrophy Patients; Health Care Research in Japan; End-of-Life Decisions About Why Japan Should Not Adopt; Brain-Death Criteria; Truth-Telling in Contemporary Japan; Search for Peace - A Chaplain's Report from the Bedside; Thanatology in Japan Today.

Dr. Taketomo is Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y. and at Osaka University Medical School, Japan.

2005, ISBN:0-930194-90-X, 130 pp., (Tent.) Paper, $19.95 Download Order Form

FORTHCOMING

GODS, GHOSTS, AND ANCESTORS, The Ching Ming Festival in New York City.
Illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs by Constance Halporn, Jennie Mi Lau, Teresa Menzies, Robert Wright, & stone rubbings.

Chinese precepts of filial piety include the duty "to serve those now dead as if they were living, as its highest achievement." It is these beliefs which are honored in this Spring memorial festival by Chinese world-wide, regardless of their religious denominations. This new book presents the history of their migration to America, their philosophical and religious backgrounds, and shows how this ceremony is carried out here. Possibly the first publication in English to describe this festival.

2005, ISBN 0-93014-53-5, (Tent.), Paper, $22.95 Download Order Form

CHINESE AMERICANS IN LOSS AND SEPARATION: Social, Medical, and Psychiatric Perspectives. Clarence Lee Chen, M.D., et al., Editors Dr. Chen is Professor of Psychiatry, Einstein College of Medicine, N.Y.C.

Chinese Perspectives from China and the American present.

1993 120 pp. ISBN 0-930194-48-9 LC# 92-74036 Paper, $16.95 Download Order Form

CHINESE CUISINE - AMERICAN PALATE
Dr. Jacqueline Newman, Ph.D. and Roberta Halporn, Editors

Medicinal Effects of Common Chinese Foods, The Chinese Influence on Japanese Cuisine; How Chinese Cuisine Impacts on the Changing American Palate; Chinese Student Adaptations and the American Palate; Nutritional Trends in Chinese Restaurant Food; MSG: Myth and Reality; Complexities of Nutrient Analysis of Chinese Foods, The Chinese Influence on Japanese Cuisine

2004 Paper, $29.95 Download Order Form

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