Speaking of death
Subtitle: America's new sense of mortality
By: edited by Michael K. Bartalos ; foreword by Robert Belknap.
Contributors: Bartalos, Michael K.
Series: Psychology, religion, and spirituality
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780313364266
Subjects: Death -- United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Robert Belknap; title: Preface: Facing our mortality; title: Introduction: The age of encounter, the new reality; title: Part I: Manifestations of mortality awareness; title: From concealment to recognition : the discourse on death, dying, and grief / Christina Staudt; title: Cancer patients facing death : is the patient who focuses on living in denial of his/her death? / Sherry R. Schachter; title: Afterlife in modern America : the public sentiment / Alan F. Segal; title: Life extension : proponents, opponents, and the social impact of the defeat of death / Kevin T. Keith; title: Covering (up) death : a close reading of Time magazine's September 11, 2001; title: Special issue / Christina Staudt; title: Part II: From awareness to acceptance; title: Acceptance of mortality : what is confirmed, what is denied? / Michael K. Bartalos; title: Death, terror, culture, and violence : a psychoanalytic perspective / Jerry S. Piven; title: When the time is ripe for acceptance : "dying, with a small 'D'" / Thomas Caffrey; title: Alive and content : the art of living with mortality / Michael K. Bartalos; title: Part III: Societal aspects of the acceptance of dying; title: Coping with mortality : a societal perspective / Michael K. Bartalos; title: The quest for permanence : scientific visions of surviving the eventual demise of our universe / Michael K. Bartalos.