BOOK: Introduction to Death and Life Studies for Medical and Social Care, edited by SHIMIZU Tetsuro and AIDA Kaoruko, University of Tokyo, 2017. （清水哲郎・会田薫子編『医療・介護のための死生学入門』東京大学出版会、2017年）
This textbook is a product by a most authoritative research center for thanatology in Japan, even though they avoid the term “thanatology.” The term “death and life studies” is a literal translation for the Japanese word synonymous with thanatology.
Thanatology has no distinct methodology or standard, so the table of contents may be one of useful information to grasp the general situation of the discipline in Japan:
1．What are Death and Life Studies?
2．The Outlook of Clinical Thanatology (Life and Death Studies) : in order to “live your own life until the end”
3．Supporting Decision-making: cooperative decision and ACP
4. Phenomenology of Caring Death and Life
5. Religious Psychology of Death and Caring Dying: connection between death of oneself and one of others
6. Supporting Grief by a Community: community-cooperative support for bereaved people
7. End-of-life Care and Legal Problems: in comparison with America
8. Spiritual Care: the concept and historical perspective
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