- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Moller, David Wendell.
- Published
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
- Contents
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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.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-295) and index.
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.
