Title Statements
- Full title :Death : current perspectives / edited by Edwin S. Shneidman.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©1984.
- Edition:3rd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Mayfield Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Palo Alto, Calif
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1984.
Notes
Includes indexes.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 489 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- oclc:ocn564132972
- LC Classification:BF789.D4
- Dewey Decimal:155.9/37
Table of Contents
The relations between life and death, living and dying / Arnold Toynbee -- The terror of death / Ernest Becker -- The pornography of death / Geoffery Gorer -- Appropriate and appropriated death / Avery Weisman -- The social inequality of death / Calvin Goldscheider -- When, why, and where people die / Monroe Lerner -- Five variations on four themes / Philippe Aries -- Various ways in which human beings have sought to reconcile themselves to the fact of death / Arnold Toynbee -- Illness as metaphor / Susan Sontag -- Human dissatisfactions / John Fowles -- Death / Robert Nisbet -- Brain death / Robert M. Veatch -- Model legislation and statutes on the definition of death / President's commission for the study of ethical poblems in medicine and biomedical and behavioral research -- The lost theme / Robert Jay Lifton -- Speaking of death with the dying / John Hinton -- The ritual drama of mutual pretense / Barney G. Glaser, Anselm L. Strauss -- Lies to the sick and dying / Sissela Bok -- Death, uses of a corpse, and social worth / David Sudnow -- Malignancy: dialogues with life-threatening illnesses / Edwin S. Shneidman -- Common fallacies about dying patients / Avery Weisman -- Child…
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