The many ways we talk about death in contemporary society
Subtitle: interdisciplinary studies in portrayal and classification
By: edited by Margaret Souza and Christina Staudt ; with a foreword by Lesley A. Sharp.
Contributors: Souza, Margaret.; Staudt, Christina.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773446885
Subjects: Death; Death -- Psychological aspects; Death -- Religious aspects; Death -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: Foreword
title: Lesley A. Sharp, PhD
pagenum: i; label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: v; label: Chapter 1
title: Introduction...Christina Staudt
pagenum: 1; label: Part I
title: The New Mediated Death
pagenum: 43; label: Chapter 2
title: Witnessing Death on the Modern Stage...Angela Belli
pagenum: 45; label: Chapter 3
title: Steven Spielberg's Flesh Fair: Film, Fantasy, and Death Denied...David Sterritt
pagenum: 55; label: Chapter 4
title: Unburied Mothers: The Death of the Maternal in Simone de Beauvoir's Une mort tres douce and Sophie Calle's Pas pu saisir la mort...Marcelline Block
pagenum: 71; label: Chapter 5
title: Ethic of Death and Photography: Korean Funerary...Jeehey Kim
pagenum: 89; label: Chapter 6
title: Death in Cyberspace: Bodies, Boundaries, and Postmodern Memorializing...Sayantani DasGupta and Marsha Hurst
pagenum: 105; label: Chapter 7
title: Death in Cyberspace: Psychoanalysis and the Internet...Mikita Brottman
pagenum: 121; label: Chapter 8
title: From Black Crepe to Blue Ink: Mourning Tattoos and the Practice of Embodied Bereavement...Lauren F. Winner
pagenum: 135; label: Part II
title: Violent, Politicized Death
pagenum: 149; label: Chapter 9
title: Assassination Discourse and Political Power: The Death of Alexander Litvinenko...Ronald F. White
pagenum: 151; label: Chapter 10
title: From Mass Graves to Public Cemetaries: The Recent and Historic Treatment of Unidentified Bodies in Colombia's Conflict...Ana Maria Gomez Lopez
pagenum: 163; label: Chapter 11
title: Death in the Psychology of Terrorism and Genocide...J. Harold Ellens
pagenum: 191; label: Chapter 12
title: The Mind that Writes: Observing the Concept of 'Revelation' in Religious Literature in Light of the Fear of Death...David Greene
pagenum: 207; label: Chapter 13
title: Terrorism, Death, and Sexuality...Jerry S. Piven
pagenum: 223; label: Chapter 14
title: Mass Violence and Adaptation: A New Frame of Reference...Michael K. Bartolos
pagenum: 241; label: Part III
title: The Good Death Revisited
pagenum: 257; label: Chapter 15
title: The Changing Cultures of Dying in Medical Institutions...John Fox
pagenum: 259; label: Chapter 16
title: How We Let People Die...Miriam Piven Cotler
pagenum: 277; label: Chapter 17
title: The Irregular Pulse of Death...Margaret Souza
pagenum: 285; label: Chapter 18
title: The Empty Chair: A Psychodynamic Formulation of a Dialysis Unit Death...Maureen O'Reilly-Landry
pagenum: 297; label: Chapter 19
title: Medical Futility Statues: Can They Be Resuscitated?...Thaddeus Mason Pope
pagenum: 309; label: Chapter 20
title: Dead But Animate...James M. Hitt
pagenum: 319; label: Chapter 21
title: Facilitating 'Grief Work': The Behaviorist...John Eric Baugher
pagenum: 331; label: Chapter 22
title: The Influence of Buddhism on Western Death Attitudes...Alan Pope
pagenum: 347; label: Chapter 23
title: Language Matters! Support for Using Emotionally Neutral Language when Discussing End-of-Life Choices...Judith Schwartz
pagenum: 355; label: Chapter 24
title: The Psychotherapeutic Relationship When Clients Approach Death...Herbert G. Gingold and Ruth Mutzner
pagenum: 365; label: Chapter 25
title: The Behavioral Turn and the Refashioning of American Death...Philip Alcabes
pagenum: 379; label: Afterword
title: Margaret Souza
pagenum: 395