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Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
by Joan Halifax
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1570624690
- ISBN 13
- 9781570624698
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Joan Halifax, PhD, is a Zen priest and anthropologist who has served on the faculty of Columbia University and the University of Miami School of Medicine. For the past thirty years she has worked with dying people and has lectured on the subject of death and dying at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Medical School, Georgetown Medical School, and many other academic institutions. In 1990, she founded Upaya Zen Center, a Buddhist study and social action center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1994, she founded the Project on Being with Dying, which has trained hundreds of healthcare professionals in the contemplative care of dying people.
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- Title
- Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
- Author
- Joan Halifax
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1570624690
- ISBN 13
- 9781570624698
- Publisher
- Shambhala
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- BZDB243 Buddhism, religion, care Medicine & Health; Psychology & Psychiatry. Unbranded ISBN: 1570624690 EAN: 9781570624698 Joan Halifax Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
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