Confronting death : values, institutions, and human mortality / David Wendell Moller

Publication | Library Call Number: HQ1073 .M6 1996

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Moller, David Wendell.
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-295) and index
Language: English
External Link: Publisher description
Table of contents only

Physical Description: x, 305 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Contents: 1. Dying and Historical Context
2. The Modern Organization of Death
3. The Dying Patient: A Creation of the Modern Organization of Death
4. Funerals as Social Facts
5. Grief and Individualism: The Decline of Ritual and the Emergence of the Therapeutic Model
6. On Dying, Death, and Children
7. The Death of Humans by Humans, Part One: Violent Deaths of Suicide
8. The Death of Humans by Humans, Part Two: The Holocaust and the Technology of Genocide
9. Easing Death's Sting: A Conclusion.
ISBN: 0195042956
9780195042955 (clothbound : acid-free paper)
0195042964 (paperbound : acid-free paper)
9780195042962 (paperbound : acid-free paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-295) and index.
Subjects: Death--Social aspects.
Thanatology.
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