by Bruce Greyson (Editor), Bruce Greyson (Author), Debbie James (Editor), Debbie James (Author), Janice Miner Holden (Editor), Janice Miner Holden (Author)
A team of international experts presents the history, recent developments, and controversies in the intriguing study of near-death experience.
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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 332
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 22 Jun 2009
ISBN 10: 0313358648
ISBN 13: 9780313358647
Book Overview: A woman entered a hospital clinically dead. After revival, she claimed to have seen a shoe on a ledge outside a sixth floor window of another hospital building. A social worker checked. The shoe was there, not visible from the street, on the opposite side of the campus from where the woman had been brought in by ambulance.
Janice Miner Holden, EdD, is professor of counseling and chair of the Department of Counseling and Higher Education at the University of North Texas, Denton, TX. She is current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Near-Death Studies.
Bruce Greyson, MD, is founder and longtime research director of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, Durham, NC. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and is the Chester R. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, in addition to director of the Division of Perceptual Studies, at the University of Virginia Medical School.
Debbie James, RN/MSN, is senior instructor in the Nursing Education Department at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.