In this masterfully written text, Moller powerfully critiques how modern technology and bureaucracy, along with professionalization, have come to dehumanize the experience of death for both the dying and their survivors. Beginning with an historical overview of traditional patterns of death and dying, Moller examines the technological advances of the medical profession and the effects, both social and individual, that modern medicine has had on our perception of death, including pain and suffering, the expanding gap between clinical and spiritual death, and how our traditional social apparatuses help us to respond to death and dying. Chapters on funerals, grief, suicide, the death of children, the holocaust, and a critique of therapeutic models illustrate how doctors have come to control the process of dying, how professional funeral directors dominate funerals, and how professional therapists channel the grief of survivors. Invaluable for psychology, nursing, and religion courses in death and dying, this text offers a penetrating synthesis of the complex personal and social issues surrounding our mortality.
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"This book breaks new ground. It is an encyclopaedic, thoughtful, well-crafted analysis of the American way of death, and should be regarded as a landmark in the future."--Vern Bengtson, Director, Social Sciences Division, Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California
"This book is a rich source of information and offers thoughtful reflection which can serve as a valuable text for a course exploring death and dying."--Maureen Muldoon, University of Windsor
"This book breaks new ground. It is an encyclopaedic, thoughtful, well-crafted analysis of the American way of death, and should be regarded as a landmark in the future."--Vern Bengtson, Director, Social Sciences Division, Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California
"This book is a rich source of information and offers thoughtful reflection which can serve as a valuable text for a course exploring death and dying."--Maureen Muldoon, University of Windsor
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David Wendell Moller is at Indiana University.
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The condition of the book was just as they described it. I am pleased with the condition, and the book is really interesting. It's not the easiest thing to read, however, if you have recently experienced death in your life. The thanatology snapshots are great, but you might want to keep some tissues handy.
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The idea of death, whether it evokes images of peace, fellowship, beauty, fear, or loneliness, is a product of culture and society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thanatology Snapshot, New York, Tame Death, Ivan Ilych, Compassionate Friends, Death of the Self, Item Number Question, United States, Third Reich, Danse Macabre, Geoffrey Gorer, Peter Ivanovich, Baywood Press, Comforting Shepherd, First Nurse, Pessimistic Griever, Shanti Nilaya New!
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The idea of death, whether it evokes images of peace, fellowship, beauty, fear, or loneliness, is a product of culture and society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thanatology Snapshot, New York, Tame Death, Ivan Ilych, Compassionate Friends, Death of the Self, Item Number Question, United States, Third Reich, Danse Macabre, Geoffrey Gorer, Peter Ivanovich, Baywood Press, Comforting Shepherd, First Nurse, Pessimistic Griever, Shanti Nilaya New!
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- Death and Dying by B. Marvis on 5 pages
- Death, Grief, and Mourning (The Literature of death and dying) by Geoffrey Gorer on 5 pages
- American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford on 4 pages
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Social Organiation of Medical Work by Carolyn L. Wiener in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition & Spectatorship (Film Studies Intellect) by Therese Davis on page 70, and Back Matter
- Life's End: Technocratic Dying in an Age of Spiritual Yearning by David Wendell Moller on page 4
- Write to Death: News Framing of the Right to Die Conflict, from Quinlan's Coma to Kevorkian's Conviction by Elizabeth A. Gailey in Back Matter
- Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America by Gary Laderman in Back Matter
- The Impossibility of Religious Freedom by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan in Back Matter
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