These books are all available through Holman Library on the topic of "death." But you can see that the subject/discipline they fall into means they have very different approaches to this general topic!
Disciplines ask different questions about a subject. They use different methods to analyze a subject. They use different language to discuss a subject.
| Discipline | Psychology ("How individual people think") |
Sociology ("How large groups/societies react") |
Medicine / Health ("What Doctors/Nurses/Medical Professionals discuss") | Religion ("What people of different faiths believe") |
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Topic: "Death"
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Morris, Virginia. Talking About Death Won't Kill You. New York: Workman, 2001. |
Warrach, Haider. Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life. S.l.: GRIFFIN, 2018. |
Belkin, Gary S. Death Before Dying. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. |
Sumegi, Angela. Understanding Death: An Introduction to Ideas of Self and the Afterlife in World Religions. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2014. |
Use reference articles to understand the general view of what is happening with an issue, what defines it, who is involved, and why there is debate over it.
You will find reference sources in all disciplines; use the encyclopedia title as a clue to the perspective of that source on your topic.
Reference articles are also a good place to find important words or ideas on a topic. You can use those words as keywords, or search terms, to build more focused or related searches. (See the highlighted words in the examples below.) (click on images to enlarge)
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