 | Chapter Objectives
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- To identify personal and social strategies for reducing the impact of disasters.
- To identify helping strategies for survivors of disasters.
- To identify and explain the cultural standards by which homicidal acts are judged.
- To define homicide and distinguish various categories and types.
- To evaluate the effects of capital punishment.
- To develop an alternative model for punishment.
- To name four approaches to the definition of death and to evaluate the usefulness of each.
- To give an example of a practical definition of death and its application to making a determination of death.
- To describe the history of legislation defining death and the major points of view involved in its evolution.
- To describe the stipulations contained in the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act and to assess its pertinence for oneself.
- To describe the emotional, physical, and ethical components of organ transplantation.
- To identify the features that make death notification difficult and suggest helpful strategies for delivering bad news.
- To describe the functions of the coroner and the medical examiner.
- To identify the functions of the death certificate and the purposes of the autopsy.
- To identify the components of the death system.
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