Title: Death : current perspectives /
Authors: Shneidman, Edwin S.
Publisher: Mayfield Publishing Co.,
Year: 1984
Subjects: Attitude to Death; Death; Death Psychological aspects; Terminally ill Psychology; Suicide; Bereavement Psychological aspects; Nuclear warfare Psychological aspects; Grief; Psychology
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 --^