Confronting death : values, institutions, and human mortality / David Wendell Moller.
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Oxford University Press,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Dying and Historical Context
- 2. The Modern Organization of Death
- 3. The Dying Patient: A Creation of the Modern Organization of Death
- 4. Funerals as Social Facts
- 5. Grief and Individualism: The Decline of Ritual and the Emergence of the Therapeutic Model
- 6. On Dying, Death, and Children
- 7. The Death of Humans by Humans, Part One: Violent Deaths of Suicide
- 8. The Death of Humans by Humans, Part Two: The Holocaust and the Technology of Genocide
- 9. Easing Death's Sting: A Conclusion.