| Description |
xiv, 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"A Blakiston publication." |
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Originally published in 1959 under title: The meaning of death. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Death in contemporary America / Herman Feifel -- Death and development through the lifespan / Robert Kastenbaum -- Meanings of death to children / Myra Bluebond-Langner -- The college student and death / Edwin S. Shneidman -- Death and the physician: mortuis vivos docent / Laurens P. White -- The psychiatrist and the inexorable / Avery D. Weisman -- Nurses and the human experience of dying / Jeanne Quint Benoliel -- Impact of death on the health-care professional / Charles A. Garfield -- Dying they live: St. Christopher's hospice / Cicely Saunders -- |
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Make today count / Orville E. Kelly -- Terminal candor and the coda syndrome: a tandem view of fatal illness / Lois & Arthur Jaffe -- Dying and preparing for death: a view of families / Richard A. Kalish -- Immediate postdeath activities in the United States / Howard C. Raether & Robert C. Slater -- Death education / Daniel Leviton -- The sense of immortality: on death and the continuity of life / Robert J. Lifton -- Law for those who are to die / Thomas L. Shaffer & Robert E. Rodes -- Death and modern poetry / Michael A. Simpson -- Dying to power: death and the search for self-esteem / David L. Gutmann -- Epilogue / Herman Feifel. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Terminal care.
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Death.
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Attitude to Death. (DNLM)D001293
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Death. (DNLM)D003643
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Death. (OCoLC)fst00888613
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Terminal care. (OCoLC)fst01147835
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Dood.
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Sociale wetenschappen.
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Geneeskunde.
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Ethische aspecten.
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| Added Author |
Feifel, Herman, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: New meanings of death. New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1977 (OCoLC)644365390 |
| ISBN |
0070203504 |
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9780070203501 |
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0070203490 (pbk.) |
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9780070203495 (pbk.) |
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